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.

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

there should be some special kind of badge for that frankly

unbelieveable take

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

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.

here is ours (@DA0_DA0) docs.google.com/document/d/1…

greatest tweet of all time

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.

i've written about this at length. i'd be happy to be on it. nickmerrill.substack.com/p/i…

most predictable shit book recs of lifetime

woof

you may want to talk to @zbisch !

gave you a shout out in the acknowledgments (:

we did some noodling on this! nickmerrill.substack.com/p/w…

an interesting question...

this is finally the big moment for URLs

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