Facebook are evil

[ohmyliver]

rolling out an update, which then prevents rolling out the fix, and being able to tell people who could fix that, and locks people out from the physical computers is chef's kiss

 

[spitfire]

Looks like they may be near fixing it going by the last sentence in this blog.

"Undoubtedly Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram services will take further time to come online but as of 22:28 UTC Facebook appears to be reconnected to the global Internet and DNS working again."

https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/

 

[Mogden]

they did when i was there, but all their transmission facilities have been outsourced to Red Bee (at the BBC buildings in White City) since 2010/2011, and they had fewer backup procedures than the old C4 transmission facilities at Horseferry Road.

Had a feeling you would know and I'm not surprised at the squashing into outsourcing but am at the continued outages. At least when I worked for an internet bank the systems were so botched and sodded that we could barely link them together, never mind them dominoing the entire set of websites, buildings, and electronic communications.

 

[spitfire]

FB fixed for me, Insta and WA still fucked.

 

[moochedit]

Not bothered about faceache but whatsapp not working is a bit of a pain
Must be really fucked if it's taking this long to sort out

 

[Crispy]

Do they all really have no business backup strategies?

No business does until the first time they need them.

 

[Ax^]

can we just keep it down forever

then i would never have another conversation about why a relative its either loonspud or mentality unstable

 

[ohmyliver]

yup, FB is up... mixed emotions tbh... it's really useful for ADHD support groups, and I was involved in a disussion about a link containing photographs of people from the mid '90s mod/punk/goth subcultures in Brighton (including one of me looking amphetamine-thin in dark glasses with a handful of flyers for a mate's psych night notable for 2 middle aged builders who would regularly come down, drop a trip, and do things like try to climb in the, err, colourful backdrops)... but I'd quite like it to be replaced with somethign less toxic

 

[Mogden]

No business does until the first time they need them.

Nothing at all? Is this just me being a natural future-proofer when it comes to company tech? These days would someone not say "do we have a delayed cloud copy of all our code?" That's day one of a new company logic

 

[krtek a houby]

Have to rely on Line which don't really like using. FB and Twitter can do without (although the former helps keep in touch with family/friends).

 

[hitmouse]

FB fixed for me, Insta and WA still fucked.

Just checked and insta's working for me now.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

all timestamps seem wrong to me on FB seeing post from yesterday dated 7 to 11 hours ago
e2a: it'll probably get fixed later

 

[pesh]

Shame. 100,000 social media influencers retraining as truck drivers would have been interesting

 

[Saul Goodman]

Shame. 100,000 social media influencers jumping off cliffs would have been interesting

CFY.

 

[two sheds]

Rolling out an update like this without a plan for reverting if it went wrong? Oops.

In other news, the same organisation has 2 billion peoples personal data.

A few less now (or at least fewer private ones):

1.5 Billion Facebook Users' Personal Information Allegedly Posted for Sale

The information posted by hackers appeared to be legitimate, but there is reason to suspect that it might have been a scam.

www.newsweek.com

Eta: looks like it might have come from scraping already publicly available information.

 

[magneze]

Imagine if Facebook and Instagram could be hacked. All that info up for grabs.

 

[AverageJoe]

Ooh get me!

 

[ruffneck23]

 

[hitmouse]

Facebook cleaners balloting for strike action, protests planned for Friday 8th and 15th:

 

[skyscraper101]

Press keep reporting that Facebook/Whatsapp/IG were down for 6 hours but it was way longer for me, from at least early afternoon til after I fell asleep around midnight so I reckon maybe 9 hours at the very least?

 

[A380]

Shame. 100,000 social media influencers retraining as truck drivers would have been interesting

"You will never guess what's in the back of the truck!!'

 

[paul mckenna]

TikTok, Snapchat, etc etc. The tech industry is littered with companies that thought they were invincible. Facebook certainly don't think they are - see the purchases of Instagram & WhatsApp.

In other news:

Facebook whistleblower to claim company contributed to Capitol attack

Former employee is set to air her claims and reveal her identity in an interview airing Sunday night on CBS 60 Minutes

www.theguardian.com

Nick Clegg says it's 'misleading'. So probably 100% true.

They made those purchases over three years ago now? Facebook have a dominant position in social media and that isn't changing anytime soon

Internet businesses are all about who had the biggest "moat" - a defensible aspect of the business. The inertia of 2 billion highly active users and the connections between is just enormous

 

[paul mckenna]

I spent a happy year or two working alongside the BBC R&D bods, and they do some very interesting stuff. This sounds like a bit of a departure, though...

I worked on the iPlayer team at the beeb and there was some great stuff coming out of there at the time. They missed the mobile bus though pretty horribly

 

[paul mckenna]

The long term solution is obvious: Blockchain DNS

 

[magneze]

The long term solution is obvious: Blockchain DNS

What will that achieve?

 

[magneze]

They made those purchases over three years ago now? Facebook have a dominant position in social media and that isn't changing anytime soon

Internet businesses are all about who had the biggest "moat" - a defensible aspect of the business. The inertia of 2 billion highly active users and the connections between is just enormous

This has just been published.

Facebook misled investors about shrinking user base, ex-employee alleges

Complaint to SEC: Facebook mishandling of duplicate accounts was "extensive fraud."

arstechnica.com

Declining usage in under 25s and they seem to have been fiddling the overall numbers too.

 

[paul mckenna]

The answer is obvious - Blockchain DNS

What will that achieve?

Wealth creation for a bunch of blaggers

It was a joke

 

[paul mckenna]

This has just been published.

Facebook misled investors about shrinking user base, ex-employee alleges

Complaint to SEC: Facebook mishandling of duplicate accounts was "extensive fraud."

arstechnica.com

Declining usage in under 25s and they seem to have been fiddling the overall numbers too.

I hope they get it in the neck I really do but folks are being naive if they think competitors will win out in any meaningful way

Remember that Google went full charge at them, restructuring huge resources onto GooglePlus. Facebook left them for dust

 

[hitmouse]

This has just been published.

Facebook misled investors about shrinking user base, ex-employee alleges

Complaint to SEC: Facebook mishandling of duplicate accounts was "extensive fraud."

arstechnica.com

Declining usage in under 25s and they seem to have been fiddling the overall numbers too.

Tbf, not sure how much that means if it's just a shift from yoofs using the facebook portion of the facebook empire to using the instagram portion instead.

 

[2hats]

More details about the October 4 outage

Now that our platforms are up and running as usual after yesterday’s outage, I thought it would be worth sharing a little more detail on what happened and why — and most importantly, how we’re lear…

engineering.fb.com