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   Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2023 06:32:47 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

   • Casey Newton

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   Fascinating article.

   https://www.platformer.news/p/how-a-single-engineer-brought-down

   And so I updated the xcxd classic.

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     Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2023 06:43:46 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

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     • Rob ⬛👁️⬛

     @SimpleRobC @caseynewton It's not mine; I edited the text. The original is from XCXD, a classic cartoon series ; link below.

     He probably put this together with reference to some small bit of Linux code maintained by someone and mostly forgotten about.

     https://xkcd.com/2347/

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     Rob ⬛👁️⬛ (simplerobc@masto.ai)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2023 06:43:47 JST Rob ⬛👁️⬛

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     • Casey Newton

     @jimcarroll @caseynewton
     That twitter jenga is EPIC

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     Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2023 07:15:23 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

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     • Benjamin Metzler

     @benjaminmetzler @caseynewton Here in Canada, that happened and 10 million cell and Internet users lost access > 24 hours because of a blown network routing change.

     Organizations really need to do better. On the other hand, all of this is entirely predictable with Twitter at this point.

     https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/public-explanation-of-rogers-outage-has-lots-of-blanks/494150

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     Benjamin Metzler (benjaminmetzler@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2023 07:15:24 JST Benjamin Metzler

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     • Casey Newton

     @jimcarroll @caseynewton Nothing quite like the feeling of being an engineer, pushing a "minor" change, and then watching everything fall apart.