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Re:Facebook Down? by erik_seaberg on Thursday April 08, 2021 @06:35PM (#26744652)
5 is often broken down to “rain fade” and “backhoe fade.”

My favorite can’t-restart story is “the shared password manager is down, we need a hardware crypto key to restart it, the key is in the safe, and the safe’s combination was in the shared password manager.”

Re:Facebook Down? by spondyl on Thursday April 08, 2021 @06:45PM (#26744741)
I was going to link a related comment but you're actually the author of it!

Here it is anyway: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22316230

Re:Facebook Down? by reaperducer on Thursday April 08, 2021 @06:43PM (#26744722)
Coincidentally, I'm in the same predicament with Facebook, itself.

I can't log in to Facebook because Facebook wants approval from the Duo Mobile 2FA app. The 2FA app won't approve the login because it wants a code that can only be obtained by logging in to Facebook.

Solution: Deleted both Duo Mobile and Facebook apps. Moved on with my life.

Re:Facebook Down? by dylan604 on Thursday April 08, 2021 @06:51PM (#26744793)
isn't that like throwin the baby out with the bath water? i've never had problems with duo mobile, but then i don't use FB so i've never seen how it behaves with FB. so dump FB, but why dump duo mobile?
Re:Facebook Down? by reaperducer on Friday April 09, 2021 @11:58AM (#26752215)
Because the only thing I used it for was to login to Facebook. All of my other 2FA is through other methods.
Re:Facebook Down? by lovedswain on Thursday April 08, 2021 @06:36PM (#26744671)
In a similar vein, the alternative option for 7 was a cyclical dependency introduced since last restart
Re:Facebook Down? by erik_seaberg on Thursday April 08, 2021 @06:46PM (#26744754)
I heard a story that Google SRE had to up a sacrificial Bigtable in any new zone before they could up enough services to finally up a real Bigtable for the zone.
Re:Facebook Down? by neura on Thursday April 08, 2021 @06:48PM (#26744774)
Please, please tell me this is a true story. It's amazing.
Re:Facebook Down? by erik_seaberg on Thursday April 08, 2021 @08:39PM (#26745522)
I can only verify being unable to get the wi-fi password. Otherwise it’s all secondhand, I wasn’t on call.