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Comment by erik_seaberg | Hacker News Reader

5 is often broken down to “rain fade” and “backhoe fade.”

My favorite can’t-restart story is “the shared password manager is down, we need a hardware crypto key to restart it, the key is in the safe, and the safe’s combination was in the shared password manager.”

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I was going to link a related comment but you're actually the author of it!

Here it is anyway: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22316230

Coincidentally, I'm in the same predicament with Facebook, itself.

I can't log in to Facebook because Facebook wants approval from the Duo Mobile 2FA app. The 2FA app won't approve the login because it wants a code that can only be obtained by logging in to Facebook.

Solution: Deleted both Duo Mobile and Facebook apps. Moved on with my life.

isn't that like throwin the baby out with the bath water? i've never had problems with duo mobile, but then i don't use FB so i've never seen how it behaves with FB. so dump FB, but why dump duo mobile?

Because the only thing I used it for was to login to Facebook. All of my other 2FA is through other methods.

In a similar vein, the alternative option for 7 was a cyclical dependency introduced since last restart

I heard a story that Google SRE had to up a sacrificial Bigtable in any new zone before they could up enough services to finally up a real Bigtable for the zone.

Please, please tell me this is a true story. It's amazing.

I can only verify being unable to get the wi-fi password. Otherwise it’s all secondhand, I wasn’t on call.

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