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coliver

It was a massive global outage apparently. Wonder if Google will post a postmortem.

jmoore

@coliver I don't understand how that even happens with someone as big as they are.

coliver

@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@coliver I don't understand how that even happens with someone as big as they are.

Someone oopsed with Ansible and took down their media distribution servers? Just a guess.

jmoore

@coliver That would be a serious oops

Dashrender

@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@coliver I don't understand how that even happens with someone as big as they are.

Someone oopsed with Ansible and took down their media distribution servers? Just a guess.

LOL - I'm guessing someone stole their IPs - mass redirection of traffic - ok not really.

coliver

@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@coliver I don't understand how that even happens with someone as big as they are.

Someone oopsed with Ansible and took down their media distribution servers? Just a guess.

LOL - I'm guessing someone stole their IPs - mass redirection of traffic - ok not really.

Possible but the traffic wasn't redirected it was just dropped. You could still access the Youtube interface just no videos, subscriptions, or anything was there.

bnrstnr

@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Legal questions around border agents using your face to unlock your iPhone.

And to answer Scott’s statement, legal precedents on one form of biometrics, fingerprints, are that it is perfectly legal.

This is why I reboot my iPhone immediately when entering customs or an situation with police.

You are, currently, legally protected from being forced to divulge a password.

I didn't read every followup post here, but if you spam your power button (hit it 5 times), it forces passcode unlock and also dials for emergency services. This could be easier to do if you just reach your hand in your pocket or maybe you dont have time to hold the buttons and swipe the screen to turn off your phone.

nadnerB

@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@coliver I don't understand how that even happens with someone as big as they are.

Someone oopsed with Ansible and took down their media distribution servers? Just a guess.

Like Cisco deleting all their VMs?

StuartJordan

Anyone seen the new features of Chrome OS. starting to look impressive, glad they have finally have the play store..

Youtube Video

black3dynamite

elementary OS 5.0
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/10/16/elementary-os-5-0-juno-just-released-here-are-the-best-new-features/amp/

scottalanmiller

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

elementary OS 5.0
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/10/16/elementary-os-5-0-juno-just-released-here-are-the-best-new-features/amp/

Nice, will update that this weekend!

scottalanmiller

@stuartjordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Anyone seen the new features of Chrome OS. starting to look impressive, glad they have finally have the play store..

Youtube Video

Yeah, I've been on 70 for a week or so. They've really updated it a lot.

DustinB3403

For anyone who uses Discord, their new ToS revokes your right to sue. You can opt out of this clause by sending an email to [email protected]

Read the brief posted to Reddit.

Discord has changed their Terms of Service!

Unfortunately, this change comes with a revocation of your legal rights. Discord has revoked your right to sue (you must go through an arbitrator) and to congregate as a class action lawsuit.

Luckily, there is an opt-out for the clause, in which you must email [email protected], but you must do it within 30 days or you can no longer opt-out.

YOU CANNOT DELETE OR DEACTIVATE YOUR ACCOUNT TO OPT-OUT OF THE ARBITRATION CLAUSE

You can see the added clauses for yourself here: https://gist.github.com/Rapptz/c93697c9d59ec2f0d8071b7d0e907632

I will attempt to answer some common questions.

Is this enforceable?

In the United States, yes. This was decided by the Supreme Court in 2011. See https://gc.gy/7538114

In Europe, no. There are many clauses, a relevant one is Article 77 of the GDPR ("Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority").

Why does this matter?

Without the ability to congregate for a class action lawsuit, if Discord ever leaks your data or does something catastrophically bad to a large portion of the population you have no way to representatively sue together without each of you individually suing via the arbitrator.

Please see the following article: https://gc.gy/7538130

Essentially:

Your right to file a complaint in the court of law is removed.

The arbitration system tends to heavily favour the company rather than the consumer.

Since your right to pool similar complaints together is taken away, the amount of damage you can do to a company that has wronged you significantly is limited to those who are willing to arbitrate.

Why should I care? Other companies do it too!

By learning about this I hope that you will be more conscious about these arbitration clauses and how anti-consumer they are. You can't change the past, but you surely can't predict the future either.