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Downdetector spiking hard overnight (www.the-independent.com)

submitted 1 year ago by butterycroissant@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Lots of big names down at once (a whole page), what's happening?

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[–] troed@fedia.io 101 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Meredith just tooted that Signal is down due to an AWS outage.

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 107 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Travel back in time 20 years and that sentence makes you sound like a crazy person.

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 49 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Even now it mostly sounds like the sort of line someone in a Black Mirror episode would say

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[–] lena@gregtech.eu 1 point 1 year ago

I sometimes catch myself saying programmer-nerdy stuff past me would be incredibly confused about

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[+] TheBat@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 year ago

It's more like a dependency of a dependency doesn't and that breaks all relying systems.

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[–] troed@fedia.io 9 points 1 year ago

The biggest ad Matrix/Element has ever gotten.

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[–] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

Signal uses AWS, fuck ! That's deceiving, Where is security if it runs on Besos hardware ?

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[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

Unless they broke encryption as we know it, it's fine. Ethically/morally who knows, is it more important to have a reliable e2ee messaging tool constantly? Probably

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