> When you proceed to access our site, the companies listed in the Cookie Consent Tool will use cookies and other technologies. This is further explained in our Cookie Notice.
None of those are links, and the only button is "Agree and access site". How do I find the Cookie Consent Tool and the Cookie Notice, without having to click "Agree"?
Interestingly, that has a link to a cookie policy that links to speedtest.net's cookie policy (https://www.speedtest.net/de/about/cookie-policy). I think downdetector is offered by Ookla, so that probably is their cookie policy?
speedtest.net's cookie policy leaves something to be desired. In the english translation it has:
> If you prefer that we do not collect information that will help us determine which advertisements we are best serving you, click this icon.
But I don't see an icon there, or anything clickable. In case it's a mistranslation here's the original german:
> Wenn Sie es vorziehen, dass wir keine Informationen erfassen, mit deren Hilfe wir ermitteln können, welche Werbung wir Ihnen am besten anzeigen, klicken Sie auf dieses Symbol.
Based on that, I have no idea how you can manage your cookie preferences to express a desire not to be tracked.
It seems to be an absolutely flagrant violation of GDPR, and I would encourage a German citizen to bring a case to the German data protection authorities.
Downdetector [1] shows some problems with other websites including Twitter and Microsoft as well. Doesn't seem like a cloud provider being down though.
quite rare on HN yes. there are loads depending on the region. if you have no use for them it's a good idea to block them with dnscrypt-proxy[1] or nfq[2] to avoid getting bitten by homograph attacks.
These companies build for redundancy. Not in the sense of "we need 10 servers, let's have 10 more for redundancy" (that gets expensive when you have millions of hosts) but by scaling out across multiple regions/DCs/clusters/etc such that there is enough slack in the system to absorb failure of 1 or 2 resource units (DCs, fiber, whatever).
Also, widespread outages like this are seldom the result of insufficient capacity. They are almost always a perfect storm of several failures within systems that are individually build to handle adverse conditions. An example might be a bug within a task scheduling system that inadvertently scales down some critical service which in turn leads to something else failing to reach consensus or read configuration or who knows what. The point is that each of these components is designed and built to handle failure but something the holes in the cheese line up and the whole thing fails.
In this case since IG, WA and FB were affected it's reasonable to guess the failure was in some shared component like load balancing or task placement, though (as hinted at above) the origin of the fault is not necessarily in that component directly.
It's not just about adding redundancies. Redundancies don't protect you against bugs, and they're itself very complex, so they introduce more opportunity for errors. Even with best redundancy, you'll have incidents from time to time.
This isn't the panacea you think it is. For example, on iOS all server notifications for an app must be proxied via Apple and have to come from the app developer's push certificate.
This means that even with Element (the matrix client) all of your notifications when your phone is locked are going from your server to the centralized dev push system run by the Element devs, then to another centralized system run by Apple.
Either could have an outage, although I think APNS (the apple side) has close to 100% uptime since launch, which is quite a feat.
And no. The same people won't flock to Signal after all of this, even though it is much more friendlier than Element.
On the other hand, at least Element is decentralised thanks to Matrix, but unfortunately suffers from a naming dilemma and is unfriendlier than the rest of the chat alternatives.
We need an alternative that is a mixture of both: Open source, Decentralised (Likely uses Matrix underneath) and is extremely user friendly and competes on security and features.
[+] [-] zarq|5 years ago|reply
> When you proceed to access our site, the companies listed in the Cookie Consent Tool will use cookies and other technologies. This is further explained in our Cookie Notice.
None of those are links, and the only button is "Agree and access site". How do I find the Cookie Consent Tool and the Cookie Notice, without having to click "Agree"?
[+] [-] ncallaway|5 years ago|reply
I found their privacy page here: https://xn--allestrungen-9ib.de/privacy.html.
Interestingly, that has a link to a cookie policy that links to speedtest.net's cookie policy (https://www.speedtest.net/de/about/cookie-policy). I think downdetector is offered by Ookla, so that probably is their cookie policy?
speedtest.net's cookie policy leaves something to be desired. In the english translation it has:
> If you prefer that we do not collect information that will help us determine which advertisements we are best serving you, click this icon.
But I don't see an icon there, or anything clickable. In case it's a mistranslation here's the original german:
> Wenn Sie es vorziehen, dass wir keine Informationen erfassen, mit deren Hilfe wir ermitteln können, welche Werbung wir Ihnen am besten anzeigen, klicken Sie auf dieses Symbol.
Based on that, I have no idea how you can manage your cookie preferences to express a desire not to be tracked.
It seems to be an absolutely flagrant violation of GDPR, and I would encourage a German citizen to bring a case to the German data protection authorities.
[+] [-] qwertox|5 years ago|reply
Do they need to specify these other technologies, which they are and how they are being used?
[+] [-] MauranKilom|5 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] adrianb|5 years ago|reply
[1] https://downdetector.com/
[+] [-] cratermoon|5 years ago|reply
[+] [-] DyslexicAtheist|5 years ago|reply
[1] https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy
[2] https://gitlab.com/jbauernberger/nfq/
[+] [-] sneak|5 years ago|reply
[+] [-] sodality2|5 years ago|reply
edit: push notifs came through. inbox not loading however
edit 2: seems to be fully restored. all my homies are responding to messages
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Also, widespread outages like this are seldom the result of insufficient capacity. They are almost always a perfect storm of several failures within systems that are individually build to handle adverse conditions. An example might be a bug within a task scheduling system that inadvertently scales down some critical service which in turn leads to something else failing to reach consensus or read configuration or who knows what. The point is that each of these components is designed and built to handle failure but something the holes in the cheese line up and the whole thing fails.
In this case since IG, WA and FB were affected it's reasonable to guess the failure was in some shared component like load balancing or task placement, though (as hinted at above) the origin of the fault is not necessarily in that component directly.
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[+] [-] justin4all|5 years ago|reply
No, let's continue relying on a single centralized service for the whole world.
[+] [-] sneak|5 years ago|reply
This means that even with Element (the matrix client) all of your notifications when your phone is locked are going from your server to the centralized dev push system run by the Element devs, then to another centralized system run by Apple.
Either could have an outage, although I think APNS (the apple side) has close to 100% uptime since launch, which is quite a feat.
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[+] [-] rvz|5 years ago|reply
On the other hand, at least Element is decentralised thanks to Matrix, but unfortunately suffers from a naming dilemma and is unfriendlier than the rest of the chat alternatives.
We need an alternative that is a mixture of both: Open source, Decentralised (Likely uses Matrix underneath) and is extremely user friendly and competes on security and features.
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