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[โ€“] zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nobody should ever apologise for taking down X and ChatGPT ๐Ÿ˜†

[โ€“] No1@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I wonder how much compute time, electricity and CO2 it saved!

[โ€“] Obi@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I like how this post is phrased like they specifically apologized for the aussie.zone downtime.

[โ€“] maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They did. In a handwritten letter. Delivered by messenger pigeon.

[โ€“] Salvo@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Obligatory reminder that this is a legitimate way to send IP packets.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2549

[โ€“] tombruzzo@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago

Even worse, they took down the itch.io launcher so I couldn't play Niota last night

[โ€“] Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago

I first noticed the outage because of aomstats.io being offline. Then I noticed Matrix was down. And then I went to Lemmy to complain, and couldn't ๐Ÿ˜ญ

[โ€“] Nbard@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

I'd be extremely interested in seeing what sort of SLAs popped up in regards to this!

[โ€“] zurohki@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Thousands of users began reporting issues with the sites, as well as other services, to outage monitoring site Downdetector shortly after 11:30 GMT.

Presumably this wasn't one of the many downdetector sites that were down because they use Cloudflare's captcha.