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I love bingo cards as commentary. I became 'well known' in the nuclear industry for passing out 'Nuclear Renaissance Bingo' cards at a national meeting during a keynote whilst pretending it was official.

Since then I've recently revived my bingo card generator. It defaults to nuclear things but you can actually write your own options and then share the URL with your custom options encoded into the URL. Fun for zoom meetings for sure.

https://whatisnuclear.com/bingo.html

That's very cool, thanks for sharing your story :)

If you find a way to monetize it, you can become the next patio11, eventually get hired by Stripe (or whatever is the cool finance startup in about 10 years) and start ranting about how the new financial ecosystem being built at the time is nothing like $NextStripe.

I have strategically picked my card and all I need is a major DNS provider and reddit to go down. Hopefully I get a real prize and not just my data being leaked.

https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=69420

https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=39919 is similar. Either reddit+dns or apple by itself would be enough

My first spin has bingo already: https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=81405

I got a bingo after checking 5 seeds: https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=47392

Aww, no confetti and BINGO! popup or marquee?

Oh that's a great idea! I've written it down ^^ https://github.com/queer/outage.bingo/issues/7

"Written it down"

Just got added, with a little secret in case the tech world starts on fire and we fill the whole card

I've also got bingo. https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=86425

Bingo. https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=46935

That saved me from clicking another few hundred times, thanks.

I read this as Outrage Bingo. Now I want that. If you build it, we will come. You could auto-generate squares with the Twitter API. Twitter, the Outrage Propagation As A Service platform. Mark the square if its term appears in a headline on the HN front page.

The number of bingos will be inversely correlated with the quality of the HN feed. It could be used for QA.

Same. The Bingo tld is clearly under utilized in playful and or sarcastic applications. Now there's a place I to put my corporate townhall bingo cards..

Twitter: Platform (for) Outrage Optimisation (and) Propagation or "POOP"

Ooh that sounds like a fun idea :D Maybe soon.

Have we seriously not already had a major VPN leak? We must have had one by now, right?

I vaguely feel like more of these cards should already be blue? But maybe I'm just quibbling over what "major" means or how long in the past we should go to look.

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Regardless, fun project, I like the idea a lot. I'll also add my vote alongside other commentors that I'd love to be able to use names as seeds.

Edit: hah, looks like a pull request is already merged (https://github.com/queer/outage.bingo/pull/9/files).

Cards are per-month; see ex. last month's card here https://outage.bingo/?month=0&seed=26316

Thanks, that makes a lot more sense.

It would be cool if we could use alphanumerical seeds, so we can use our username instead of picking a seed "randomly" (or strategically)

It's open source! I'm open to PRs ^^ https://github.com/queer/outage.bingo

Thanks for adding this :D <3

> A major code hosting service (Github, PyPI, NPM, etc.)

Looks like there's two free spaces on these sheets

If AWS goes down, taking Slack out then I get a bingo. There's gotta be an Amazon employee who can help me out. :)

https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=34828

psst, i know a guy. meet me by the bicycle racks at 3pm

lol which ones

Some of these TLDs are insane. This is about as obscure as ".horse"

Shouldn't the FBI's email vulnerability over the last weekend count for "A government entity"?

Yes it should! Thanks for the catch :D

Edit: This has been added!

https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=79313

Just need Apple to go down :)

Centralisation hell on a bingo card.

I would love to be able to set this up by submitting some group of statuspages as a data source.

That'd be a cool longer-term goal :D Right now it's all manual to allow for changing the cards month-to-month.

If you build it, don't forget to make a ShowHN post!

No Netflix? Not sure if I should be proud or insulted. :)

Its right there in the middle - labeled Free Space

Wouldn't Twitch also count for the breach?

You can see previous months by changing the `month` querystring param, see ex. https://outage.bingo/?month=0&seed=26316 for last month

Twitch was last month! New cards are made for each month.

I didn't even realise it was in October.

This is going to be Internet Gold right here.

Just needs some integration with InTrade....

Reminds me: Dyn is now under Oracle.

Did anyone get Roblox last month?

Cute, but

Comcast was 5 days ago

GCP was 4 days ago

Facebook was 13 days ago

Robinhood was 7 days ago (and seriously strains "a major cryptocurrency service." it's a retail stock trading platform that happens to trade crypto.)

The card is for all of November '21

Yup! Cards are monthly (and created manually so we can adjusted based on previous months of outages/breaches)

Robinhood probably still earns more than half of its transaction based revenue from crypto, with the rest being options and stocks. I think it actually does qualify as a major cryptocurrency service.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/18/robinhood-crypto-revenue-jum...

That 50% of Robinhoods revenue comes from crypto does not make Robinhood a major service in the cryptocurrency space. Could be that they have way higher margins on cryptocurrency, that cryptocurrency fans spend more or anything else. But compared to other exchanges or trading platforms in cryptocurrency, Robinhood is basically non-existing.

Robinhood was one that we (me + friends) were a bit on the fence about, since it does -- as you say -- get really close to the edge, but it seemed close-enough.

GCP was today actually.

There was a GCP outage a few days ago, which is what Outage Bingo has linked. It sadly doesn't currently support multi-links per-card.

It used to have outages all the time. It still does but it used to too

WHERE THE FUCK IS @PATIO11 ON THIS MATTER!!!??

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I love this!

WEhat would be really awesome would be:

ANTI-PATTERN-OUTAGE-BINGO-DDOS-VOTE :

"Who should the botnet go after?"

And have users bot-vote the target of whatever version of LOIC they can muster...

(And a BLUE version - which is users dedicated to protecting such site)

Im smelling a click-game here... Anyone? A N Y O N E ?> ? ?

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