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He will trace the DDoS to Ukraine and shut down Starlink there.

pre-acquisition there were frequent Twitter outages. I remember one particular lengthy outage during my brief tenure as a moderator in the Twitter subreddit. I'll state the obvious but it's not entirely unexpected for complex systems to encounter failures.

example from 2021:

https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/twitter-down-outage-12...

Yes, it's certainly not unheard of; early Twitter featured the "failwhale" pretty regularly.

There was a massive time period between the failwhale era and the acquisition. Like 15 years or a bit under?

I'm not talking about Early Twitter though. I specifically bring up an outage in an era with competent organizational ops or SRE capacity.

2021 was well beyond the growing pains in the "failwhale" period.

BlueSky is still working great.

It had a pretty massive outage on Feb 26 FWIW. And Feb 19.

I don't recall seeing it on HN though.

Unfortunately I got banned on BS.

Why?

RussianDriveByMalware.exe has encountered an error and needs to close

Musk says it's DDoS. [1]

It's been in and out today.

[1] https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Ky6zydYw5QPEfVKV4UT7j9-970...

If Musk says it's DDOS then it's almost certainly not DDOS.

I wouldn't have believed this a few years ago but I do now. If you sell your soul to the biggest liar on Earth, then you are complicit and probably have similar neurological patterns.

"Tracing" a DDoS?

I wouldn't call it tracing, but the usual mitigation is block IPs.

Depending on the nature of the DDoS, you may block it at other parts of the stack.

Good.

DDoS?

Seems like it. Page loads occasionally succeed.

No Doge. Similar denial of servuce.

I expect Musk to blame Ukraine and use this as an excuse for sanctions against them.

I think they a powercable of the wrong server

Pardon?

They cut the power cable from the wrong server

(Referring to when Elon used bolt cutters in the datacenter)

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