Nick Merrill

Extremely offline internet researcher. I do not use or check this account. Please do not message me here - I will not see it.

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as far as structural outages go, this FB thing is relatively minor. a few hundreds of millions of dollars lost at most. if a similar outage hit AWS, cloudflare, akamai, etc, no one's credit card would work. i expect the losses would be in the billions if not trillions.

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@mitar_m https://t.co/yfKocvTgp0

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@vv1lder occam's razor: the simplest answer is usually that the 5G towers---

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@JakeMGrumbach @IDoTheThinking there should be some special kind of badge for that frankly

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@mycoliza unbelieveable take

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@jvitak @kingjen SMS 2fa is bad, but removing SMS 2fa without forcing those users to switch to (say) TOTP is extremely irresponsible.

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@jvitak @kingjen the supposed reason is that tier-2 telcos were doing early termination scams to bill twitter. removing SMS saves money at the expense of user safety.

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@rachaelplz here is ours (@DA0_DA0) https://t.co/pFpdfpxHwM

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@dummmmmmmmy greatest tweet of all time

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@JakeHartnell yes. now is the time to use the community pool. excellent developers are looking around for good projects. it's the perfect time to do a bit of spending.

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@owocki i've written about this at length. i'd be happy to be on it. https://t.co/z4x5HYjseB

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@TBSocialist most predictable shit book recs of lifetime

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@MeowDaoofficial woof

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@rapsca11ion you may want to talk to @zbisch !

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@bmorphism

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@htmlenergy https://t.co/tRc9cXsDNs

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@chimpdaiz @DA0_DA0 @JunoNetwork @_JunoMint gave you a shout out in the acknowledgments (:

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@chimpdaiz @DA0_DA0 @JunoNetwork @_JunoMint we did some noodling on this! https://t.co/6zXy6xJ5UB

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@arulmabr an interesting question...

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@holobody this is finally the big moment for URLs

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@ubiquity75 in light of this news, @LondonBreed must now take all of her paychecks in ape NFTs. this is the only way for SF's tech industry to remain competitive. i will not elaborate further at this time