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Facebook, Threads, WhatsApp, Instagram stumble on and offline in global outage
Meta's techies are likely having a bad day as the internet titan's Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and Instagram are suffering some degree of downtime globally. Services started dropping off around 0900 PT (1700 UTC). As you might expect from a huge distributed system, some people can or could get through to Meta's apps and sites …
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Thursday 12th December 2024 03:02 GMT BinkyTheMagicPaperclip
They also have an ongoing issue with lockouts of Meta accounts
Currently five days into being locked out of my Meta account used only for my Oculus Rift CV1, request has been escalated to a 'specialist team' and acknowledgement this is a known issue.
Without a Meta account the VR headset is a brick; the joys of one of the most proprietary technologies out there. There's some open source support, mostly for non Meta products, but even there it's unfortunately in a sorry state compared to Windows.
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Thursday 12th December 2024 10:08 GMT Bebu sa Ware
Re: And for a while..
".. Earth's average IQ shot up, except in the US"
Average IQ probably a bit redundant here. The test scores are apparently rank ordered and scaled to a normal distribution with and arbitrary mean of 100.0 and standard deviation of 15.0 so I imagine if you extinguished all the Einsteins or Trump supporters (or both) and applied the tests to the population the average IQ would be unchanged.
Given this inbuilt futility of the IQ one would imagine it's an american invention but it is apparently German.
I am not sure the US has a monopoly on idiots as idiocy is a pretty universal deficiency but the US most assuredly has the monopoly on imbeciles with guns.
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Thursday 12th December 2024 14:45 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: And for a while..
The US spectrum of intelligence seems to spread a bit further at each end. Lots of incredibly smart people, lots of morons.
Well, to be fair, there's a lot of us USAians. I'm just grumpy that the real idiots put down their beer cans, slithered out from under rocks, and voted to screw us all. My passport renewal is in the works and I hope to be a temp resident somewhere else for a while.
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Thursday 12th December 2024 17:01 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: And for a while..
Well, you say "a lot", but: USA < EU << India < China
(And there are definitely smart - and stupid - people in all of the above, but in some of these if you are poor you definitely have a very hard time of it (and in some, even if you're not initially quite-so-poor, if serious ill-health or injury afflicts you - ouch!).)
[Different AC]
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Thursday 12th December 2024 17:09 GMT Philo T Farnsworth
"Thanks for bearing with us," the biz xeeted. "We’re 99 percent of the way there - just doing some last checks. We apologize to those who’ve been affected by the outage."
Translation: We apologize to all of our advertisers for a momentary interruption in the unremitting vacuuming up of personal information and tracking of every move of everyone, everywhere. Be assured we will return to fleecing the suckers as soon as possible.
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