Was just on phone with someone who works for FB who described employees unable to enter buildings this morning to begin to evaluate extent of outage because their badges ...
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I just picked up the P-51 from a local Glass Blower Check these out
Going to add it to the store with the new CUI stickers..
Excited to try and support local artists through #cmmc lnkd.in/eKRPvuhw
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Facebook created internal CDOs out of its tech debt and now there’s a wave of defaults
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No, THIS is how you do "hybrid" events, Cisco-Webex! 😏😏
(yes, this is part subtweet, part sh*tpost, but just as much a friggen' HALLELUJAH! for internalizing that when you have fans in the four corners of the world catering for them, pandemic or not, might be a good idea 👀)
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Entertainment industry goes on strike, FB properties down amidst whistleblower shockwaves, women across the U.S. are marching en masse for reproductive rights — feels like revolution is in the air. 💪
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Not kidding around when I say the facebook malware platform is ubiquitous
So the #facebookoutage appears to have messed with the @ScienceBasedMed blog. The main page loads, but none of the individual posts are loading. It appears that our socia...
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Instagram may be down, but my photo grid on my website is looking sharp! aaronparecki.com/photos #indieweb
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move fast and break stuff
Source at Facebook: "it's mayhem over here, all internal systems are down too." Tells me employees are communicating amongst each other by text and by Outlook email.
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Oh no, has anyone checked on the metaverse?
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you know what's *not* down right now?
my personal site & blog ⬇
tantek.com
#indieweb
(copied from @aaronpk aaronparecki.com/2021/10/04/9/m… )
https://t.co/9TP4hnRb1s
tantek.com/t5F41
you know what's *not* down right now?
my blog ⬇
aaronparecki.com
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anyone wanna team up with me?!?
1 more day before the #SnykCon #CTF!
/ \ __
( ◠ \ __ 💜
/ ▼ #FetchTheFlag
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Facebook outrage quickly followed by outage.
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Nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Someone nuked the DNS A and AAA records for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp 🤭
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You should stop what you're doing and back this project. kickstarter.com/projects/chris…
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"Cloudflare senior vice president Dane Knecht notes that Facebook’s border gateway protocol routes — BGP helps networks pick the best path to deliver internet traffic...
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"html": "<img alt=\"\" src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/mariposta/image/upload/w_1200,c_limit,q_65/mthood_adoleh.jpg\" /><h2>I wasn\u2019t given a blueprint for this. I never expected to be Married-No-Longer. But now, after my divorce, I have to decide what comes next.</h2>\n\n<p>\u201cI climb to greet the war in which I have no heart but only<br />That one dark I owe my light,<br />Call for confessor and wiser mirror but there is none<br />To glow after the god stoning night<br />And I am struck as lonely as a holy marker by the sun\u201d</p>\n\n<p><em>Dylan Thomas</em></p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wow. Has it really been two years and change since <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/articles/oh-that-kind-of-new-year\">I wrote that my life had been turned upside down</a>? I confessed I had opened up a new \u201cprivate office and art studio\u201d near downtown Portland, and it actually sounded like a upbeat and glamorous development. In some ways, sure, it was\u2026yet if I also seemed cagey, it was due to the fact I couldn\u2019t let the real cat out of the bag.</p>\n\n<p><strong>My wife of nearly ten years and I had separated.</strong> Ouch. My new studio in Portland was\u2026my new home as well. It was a radical shift in my lifestyle, one I hadn\u2019t expected until right up to the point of it happening. (That, I suppose, is the nature of breakups.)</p>\n\n<p>Even amidst the chaos, I was optimistic my then-wife and I could manage that idealized \u201clet\u2019s stay friends\u201d scenario and slowly work towards divorce in a reasonably amicable fashion\u2014<em>for the sake of the children</em> of course. That\u2019s what is expected of us, right? That\u2019s what we\u2019re supposed to strive for, right? For a time, it did work out like that. HOWEVER\u2026</p>\n\n<p>2020 reared its ugly head, and even prior to the pandemic kicking into high gear, a series of events were foisted upon me which were utterly devastating. I\u2019m not at liberty to go into the details right now. But suffice it to say, whatever you might imagine concerning how ugly and gut-wrenching and debilitating divorce can be\u2014well, that\u2019s essentially what happened. I wouldn\u2019t wish it on my worst enemy.</p>\n\n<p>Yet, some good (all things considered) news as I write this. <strong>My divorce is finalized. It is done.</strong> I am, once again, single. Not as it was before to be sure\u2014I\u2019ll never stop being a loving dad to two <em>amazing</em> children who are my pride and joy.</p>\n\n<p>Nevertheless, it\u2019s a simultaneously familiar yet alien feeling. I had entered into the marriage covenant with the most earnest of intentions. <strong>Get married and stay married, at all costs.</strong> The idea of divorce was anathema. It was, quite literally, against my religion. So you begin to understand why everything which has occurred in my personal life over the past two years has been quite the mental jolt.</p>\n\n<h3>So, Now What?</h3>\n\n<p>The question before me now is: what does one <em>do</em> when one is divorced and single again? More to the point, what does one do when one finds themselves in that strange in-between limbo of \u201cToo Old to Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll: Too Young to Die\u201d \u2026? Everything I\u2019ve heard about the dating scene these days indicates it\u2019s absolutely bonkers, so you can imagine my reluctance to jump headfirst into those shark-infested waters. To a certain extent, I\u2019m genuinely enjoying my singleness now\u2014in a way I never did before I fell in love and got married. It\u2019s an opportunity some souls spend years pining for: the chance to \u201cdo it right this time.\u201d</p>\n\n<p>And yet\u2026the thought of being \u201calone\u201d (time spent with kids aside) and that possibility stretching far into the distance is certainly frightening. I\u2019m not sure what bothers me more: the literal aloneness of it all, or the notion that I\u2019ll degenerate into a total loser: a grumpy old man who lives alone because he\u2019s too grumpy and, well, too old. I\u2019ve spent too much of my life feeling like a weirdo, an outsider\u2014and in our modern culture you\u2019re considered a bit of a weirdo if you\u2019re single, especially as the years roll by. People are <em>supposed</em> to be coupled. And if you are not, surely there must be something wrong with you.</p>\n\n<p>Clearly I need to get <strong>that</strong> narrative out of my head. If I\u2019m ever to fall in love again and enjoy a serious romantic relationship, it can\u2019t come from a place of desperation and lack. In a truly healthy relationship, a more-or-less healthy person comes alongside another more-or-less healthy person, and they forge a bond which encourages an even healthier and mutually beneficial way of life. It\u2019s foolhardy to attempt a recreation of the typical romantic comedy plot. That might make for entertaining TV, but it\u2019s a terrible way to live.</p>\n\n<p>All that to say, I <em>want</em> to remain open to the possibility of leaving singleness behind once again and drinking from the fountain of enduring love. But for now, I\u2019ve embraced the solo lifestyle. (In a very real sense, I\u2019ve had to.)</p>\n\n<p>Thus concludes my little update on what\u2019s been going on behind the scenes. As far as what comes next\u2014well, if there were ever the perfect moment to trot out the following phrase to wrap up an essay, is it now:</p>\n\n<p><strong>To Be Continued\u2026</strong></p>\n\n<p><br /></p>\n\n<p><em>Photo credit: <a href=\"https://unsplash.com/photos/H1coe5Fpe1M\">Zach Lezniewicz on Unsplash</a></em></p>\n\n\n\n <br /><p>\n \n <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/marriage\">#marriage</a>\n \n <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/divorce\">#divorce</a>\n \n <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/family\">#family</a>\n \n </p>",
"text": "I wasn\u2019t given a blueprint for this. I never expected to be Married-No-Longer. But now, after my divorce, I have to decide what comes next.\n\n\u201cI climb to greet the war in which I have no heart but only\nThat one dark I owe my light,\nCall for confessor and wiser mirror but there is none\nTo glow after the god stoning night\nAnd I am struck as lonely as a holy marker by the sun\u201d\n\nDylan Thomas\n\n\n\nWow. Has it really been two years and change since I wrote that my life had been turned upside down? I confessed I had opened up a new \u201cprivate office and art studio\u201d near downtown Portland, and it actually sounded like a upbeat and glamorous development. In some ways, sure, it was\u2026yet if I also seemed cagey, it was due to the fact I couldn\u2019t let the real cat out of the bag.\n\nMy wife of nearly ten years and I had separated. Ouch. My new studio in Portland was\u2026my new home as well. It was a radical shift in my lifestyle, one I hadn\u2019t expected until right up to the point of it happening. (That, I suppose, is the nature of breakups.)\n\nEven amidst the chaos, I was optimistic my then-wife and I could manage that idealized \u201clet\u2019s stay friends\u201d scenario and slowly work towards divorce in a reasonably amicable fashion\u2014for the sake of the children of course. That\u2019s what is expected of us, right? That\u2019s what we\u2019re supposed to strive for, right? For a time, it did work out like that. HOWEVER\u2026\n\n2020 reared its ugly head, and even prior to the pandemic kicking into high gear, a series of events were foisted upon me which were utterly devastating. I\u2019m not at liberty to go into the details right now. But suffice it to say, whatever you might imagine concerning how ugly and gut-wrenching and debilitating divorce can be\u2014well, that\u2019s essentially what happened. I wouldn\u2019t wish it on my worst enemy.\n\nYet, some good (all things considered) news as I write this. My divorce is finalized. It is done. I am, once again, single. Not as it was before to be sure\u2014I\u2019ll never stop being a loving dad to two amazing children who are my pride and joy.\n\nNevertheless, it\u2019s a simultaneously familiar yet alien feeling. I had entered into the marriage covenant with the most earnest of intentions. Get married and stay married, at all costs. The idea of divorce was anathema. It was, quite literally, against my religion. So you begin to understand why everything which has occurred in my personal life over the past two years has been quite the mental jolt.\n\nSo, Now What?\n\nThe question before me now is: what does one do when one is divorced and single again? More to the point, what does one do when one finds themselves in that strange in-between limbo of \u201cToo Old to Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll: Too Young to Die\u201d \u2026? Everything I\u2019ve heard about the dating scene these days indicates it\u2019s absolutely bonkers, so you can imagine my reluctance to jump headfirst into those shark-infested waters. To a certain extent, I\u2019m genuinely enjoying my singleness now\u2014in a way I never did before I fell in love and got married. It\u2019s an opportunity some souls spend years pining for: the chance to \u201cdo it right this time.\u201d\n\nAnd yet\u2026the thought of being \u201calone\u201d (time spent with kids aside) and that possibility stretching far into the distance is certainly frightening. I\u2019m not sure what bothers me more: the literal aloneness of it all, or the notion that I\u2019ll degenerate into a total loser: a grumpy old man who lives alone because he\u2019s too grumpy and, well, too old. I\u2019ve spent too much of my life feeling like a weirdo, an outsider\u2014and in our modern culture you\u2019re considered a bit of a weirdo if you\u2019re single, especially as the years roll by. People are supposed to be coupled. And if you are not, surely there must be something wrong with you.\n\nClearly I need to get that narrative out of my head. If I\u2019m ever to fall in love again and enjoy a serious romantic relationship, it can\u2019t come from a place of desperation and lack. In a truly healthy relationship, a more-or-less healthy person comes alongside another more-or-less healthy person, and they forge a bond which encourages an even healthier and mutually beneficial way of life. It\u2019s foolhardy to attempt a recreation of the typical romantic comedy plot. That might make for entertaining TV, but it\u2019s a terrible way to live.\n\nAll that to say, I want to remain open to the possibility of leaving singleness behind once again and drinking from the fountain of enduring love. But for now, I\u2019ve embraced the solo lifestyle. (In a very real sense, I\u2019ve had to.)\n\nThus concludes my little update on what\u2019s been going on behind the scenes. As far as what comes next\u2014well, if there were ever the perfect moment to trot out the following phrase to wrap up an essay, is it now:\n\nTo Be Continued\u2026\n\n\n\n\nPhoto credit: Zach Lezniewicz on Unsplash\n\n\n\n \n\n \n #marriage\n \n #divorce\n \n #family"
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you know what's *not* down right now?
my blog ⬇
aaronparecki.com
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For one, shining moment, the world was free.
#FacebookSucks
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"text": "For one, shining moment, the world was free.\n\n#FacebookSucks",
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