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

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[–] troed@fedia.io 107 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 109 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 49 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 1 points 1 day ago

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

[–] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 days 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

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They didn't have a failover setup??

[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 11 points 2 days ago

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

[–] troed@fedia.io 8 points 2 days ago

The biggest ad Matrix/Element has ever gotten.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 11 points 2 days ago

Toot toot! I still think it's hilarious that this what they are called on mastodon. Great choice