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Re:GitHub was down by oceaniity on Thursday July 28, 2016 @01:28AM (#12178484)
I did the same. I spent a solid minute trying different things and googling to figure out what was wrong. Checked the status page and bam!

It's still down. :(

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Re:GitHub was down by antoineMoPa on Thursday July 28, 2016 @01:31AM (#12178508)
Now there is a human Denial of Service attack because everyone is refreshing their pages like theres no tomorrow.
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Re:GitHub was down by eyelidlessness on Thursday July 28, 2016 @01:46AM (#12178574)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundering_herd_problem
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Re:GitHub was down by wckronholm on Thursday July 28, 2016 @01:32AM (#12178510)
All DOS are because of humans?
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Re:GitHub was down by antoineMoPa on Thursday July 28, 2016 @01:44AM (#12178562)
When used as an attack, the efficient method is to buy servers or to have a botnet to do it for you.
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Re:GitHub was down by wckronholm on Saturday July 30, 2016 @11:39AM (#12193412)
But a human sets it in motion.
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