I know the official stance is that Facebook's outage illustrates the dangers of centralization, but it is much healthier for the internet globally if the stuff that is never, ever supposed to go down does fail once in a while.
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Any sysadmin who has tried to figure out the function of a mystery server that hasn't been turned off since 2005 can tell you there is nothing scarier than a highly reliable component in a complex system.
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I remember reading this on my RSS reader
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Man — Salon, Nerve, Fark.. been a very long time since I thought about any of those
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Actually, no, turns out I thought of Salon still two years ago. When Glenn Greenwald ranted about "super-cool edgy-irony Brooklyn leftish media" and, pressed for examples, linked to an Aaron Mate thread citing... Slate, Salon, Alternet and Mother Joneshttps://twitter.com/almodozo/status/1111110841041072133 …
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