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Seems like a fair bet that Amazon Web Services is having some problems?
I really appreciate that the commercial internet runs on like three service providers. Would love to see it crash and burn.
Meredith just tooted that Signal is down due to an AWS outage.
Travel back in time 20 years and that sentence makes you sound like a crazy person.
Even now it mostly sounds like the sort of line someone in a Black Mirror episode would say
I sometimes catch myself saying programmer-nerdy stuff past me would be incredibly confused about
Signal uses AWS, fuck ! That's deceiving, Where is security if it runs on Besos hardware ?
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
They didn't have a failover setup??
It's more like a dependency of a dependency doesn't and that breaks all relying systems.
The biggest ad Matrix/Element has ever gotten.
Toot toot! I still think it's hilarious that this what they are called on mastodon. Great choice
It was much better with rack space leading the way. We never had outages. Ever.