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- X, the former Twitter, has experienced a worldwide outage as of 12PM on Monday CAT.
- This is likely the first major outage of the company since Musk took ownership in 2022.
- The outage seems to have only lasted for about half an hour.
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Let’s gooooo. Take that garbage site out
Half an hour is still pretty huge for a site like Xitter.
This was bound to happen, someone was going to attack the Nazi propaganda platform formerly known as Twitter at some point.
Oh no. So anyway, tonight we’re having a stereotypical American meal that takes 25 minutes off your life; Sloppy joes, macaroni and cheese, and potato salad. It’s quite good, everything made from scratch since I don’t have a job anymore. How about you?
Im going to have a meal of a block of cheddar cheese with melted cheese on top, with grated permesan sprinkled on top, basted with a 5lb tub of butter.
Murica
This sounds as delicious as 64 slices of American cheese.
You might consider adding a couple eggs to that. Since you can afford “permesan” and butter, I feel like it’s possible you might even be able to afford the eggs without having to take out a small personal loan.
Permesan is just fancy Parmesan.
I cant afford TWO whole eggs though. Thats just silly now.
A small loan of 1 million dollars.
That’s not really an authentic American meal unless you deep fry it in HFCS.
Is that pepper? Nope… gunpowder.
Freedom powder.
Ah yes. Americas original pop rocks.
We had a nice homemade Thai curry here (and no, I don’t live on Thailand)
Elon’s blaming DDOS. You know I heard that the people who bulit Twitter did a great job figuring out how to handle those. Gosh, I wonder what ever happened them?
Everyone knows that the best way to address DDOS is to unplug random servers until things either stop working, or start working again.
Don’t you unplug it and plug it back in again?
In unrelated news, hate is reduced across the world.
Remember when Russia had all those cyber attacks and suddenly, a huge chunk of Reddit stopped spewing hate?
That place is just flabbergasting nowadays. Click almost anywhere and you’re greeted with colorful descriptions of jews and any other kind of bat shit overt comicbook bad guy levelf of absurd racism. Anywhere. What is Twitter’s utillity even?
- This is likely the first major outage of the company since Musk took ownership in 2022.
Didn’t Twitter go down multiple times for similar periods of time not long after Musk fired everybody? Or am I just hallucinating wishful thinking.
Yeah I seem to remember quite a few “oh so that’s what that wire does” situations that unfolded already.
Do we know if that was real or if the media was just exaggerating things
I dunno about going down entirely, but bits and pieces (like SMS verification) definitely broke while they were undoing work and cutting “expenses” (like office leases)
DDoS attacks are illegal, but what is the legal amount of times a person can call a website? I’m sure enough people doing just a few calls per second couldn’t get a person into too much trouble. Has the law even defined the difference?
The legal difference would be intent; are you trying to access the website, or are you trying to bog it down? Proving intent can of course be difficult, but OTOH I don’t know how much longer American courts are going to care about silly things like proof
So, exactly what must a person avoid doing to keep from exacerbating X’s DDos problem today?
No, don’t ever organize like this. We are on the left. We are smart and we are righteous. We do not plan and coordinate and work together in this behavior. This would be sneaky and take social skills and foresight. No we need to gather in downtown Chicago with signs and megaphones. Protest in the streets. Only protest. We’re not animals like trumpets who do this stuff and get away with it and never let up. They don’t know the power of chaining themselves to a fence. They don’t get the rush and mighty feeling when the crowd boos you and tells you to go home and throws things at you. No they don’t understand. They don’t understand we do it for them.
The most illegal part of a DDoS is usually the hacking / exploiting of thousands or millions of devices to make them all request twitter.com
I’m not entirely sure what rules it would fall under if you somehow performed a DDoS using entirely your own hardware and Internet connections. It might even be legal, just against the ToS of basically every ISP. I’m pretty sure if Google or ChatGPT take down a site by sending too many crawlers there’s no legal consequences.
There is also the Hug of Death, I don’t think that’s illegal
He’s claimed DDoS before right after the purge. I’m pretty sure it was just the platform being crushed by normal traffic. I’m skeptical this isn’t just operating as funded.
I believe this is one of those things where intent matters, and may vary by location. Willing to bet hitting F5 a few times is safe, even a few hundred times as long as it’s in the realm of just checking if it’s up yet. The moment you have something scripted, you’re at least in the realm of having to explain it to a judge who probably knows fuck all about tech.
Now you will tell me that it’s illegal to spam my own F5 key?
Can we get a permanent outage of that goddamned website, pretty please? For the sake of humanity?
There have been so many instances where i wanna see replies of a post or more stuff about a person, but then that mandatory account log in wall kicks in.
Add “cancel” after the X in the url for workaround access. Like any other workaround, this will only work until it doesn’t anymore
Reddit was like this, even way before the enshittification.
It happened so often on Reddit, it wasn’t even news.
It would be poetic if the cyber attacks would be coming from Ukrainian hackers.
Funny enough, Anonymous is claiming it was them.
If we’re lucky it’s forever.
They’re busy, collapse the data center support columns.
Says it was only 30 minutes in the description. Kinds weird they’re telling us about it and not including thst bit in the title.
Who the fuck is still on that nazi shithole
Even the porn creators and erotic artists have left.
When you’ve lost the porn it’s game over man.
The Tumblr Effect
Since you seem to know what platform have they moved to generally?
Most of them have gone to BlueSky. A few are on Mastodon but rarely as their primary (sadly). A lot of artists have gone to places like FurAffinity, Pixiv, and to a lesser extent DeviantArt.
Unfortunately a lot of them have just resorted to being on Patreon, which is unfortunate.
Asking for a friend…
Nazis, I imagine.
Remember kids, only nazis support nazis.
I was just talking to a friend who’s very anti-nazi (at least, that’s what he says), told him that by staying there, he’s feeding the nazis. He says that he’s the resistance working from within lol. People would tell themselves all kinds of stories for convenience.
Ask him if he’d go to a nazi bar, and start a fist fight.
I mean, there’s no comparison. Punching Nazis is always cool, Twitter is just talking to them, which never is. You and fifty friends go on Twitter and dunk on Nazis all day and you’re still just at a table talking with the enemy. Take fifty friends to a Nazi bar and throw punches, you’ve just improved the neighbourhood.
And bots
My government emergency alerts :(
I actually emailed my local National Weather Service station awhile back asking if they’d post on Mastodon and even offered them a BlueSky invite and they wrote back saying only Twitter and Facebook were allowed and they’d be everywhere if it was approved by higher ups.
Someone made a BlueSky bot a few months ago for NWS notices and I’m pretty sure they covered every local one. I remember the person who made it asking people to request any missing stations. Not sure if there’s a Mastodon equivalent but you could use a bridge. It won’t help with transit delays or other local government announcements but the weather service stuff is available (via an AtProto <-> ActivityPub bridge if nothing else; it’s not like you interact with the posts so it’d be ideal for a bridge).
Make a bot that listens to those and posts them here.
It’s behind a paywall and I’m not paying that Nazi.
Or on Blue Sky or Mastadon
Hell reach put to your reps and tell them that they should have a Blue Sky and Mastodon for if something like this happens in the future.
Ain’t no better time than now due to the Twitter outage.
Nazis, people who aren’t bothered enough that a Nazi owns it to leave it for Bluesky, and bots, lots of bots.
Nazi’s
Everyone strives for 5 9s, but musk aims for two 8s.
Don’t forget the 14 words! Someone screenshotted this at just the right time:
I don’t get it
I don’t know the 5 9s reference, but the two 8s is 88, a Nazi dog whistle for Heil Hitler, as H is the 8th letter of the alphabet.
5 9s means 99.999% uptime, which translates to a site only being down for ~0.86 seconds per day. This is the golden standard for online services
Oh okay, thank you ☺️
I see what you did there…
We don’t have 5 9s, but we do have 9 5s.
