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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by chasd00 on Monday October 04, 2021 @01:39PM (#28749956)
Another Monday morning at a boring datacenter job, i bet they weren't even there yet at 830 when the phones started ringing.
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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by bink on Monday October 04, 2021 @02:11PM (#28750276)
You mean the VOIP phones that could no longer receive incoming calls?
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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by steelframe on Monday October 04, 2021 @03:44PM (#28751182)
Assuming anyone can actually look up the phone numbers to call.
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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by CydeWeys on Monday October 04, 2021 @03:48PM (#28751226)
There should be 24/7 on-site rotations. I wonder if physical presence was cut on account of COVID?
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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by mro_name on Monday October 04, 2021 @01:46PM (#28750037)
phones? how lame.
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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by radomir_cernoch on Monday October 04, 2021 @02:10PM (#28750259)
It certainly wasn't the Messenger.
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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by pmlnr on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @04:29AM (#28756763)
Phones - the old, analogue, direct cable ones - were self-sustaining, and kept running even when there was a power cut in the house.
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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by mro_name on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @12:13PM (#28761431)
yes, indeed. Reliability. That's so 20th century. #lame.

(Actually not lame at all in my eyes)

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