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Re:Meta outage by qeternity on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @03:09PM (#39608587)
> do you really think there are masses of people who can’t tell the difference between a single sign on service being down and individual sites being down and reporting it to downdetector?

Absolutely without a doubt.

99.9% of people don’t know what single sign on means or how it works.

Sometimes I wonder what world HN lives in.

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Re:Meta outage by GabrielTFS on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @11:15AM (#39617440)
A world where people on HN are statistically extremely likely to be at least in the top 5% of the population in terms of skill at using a computer.

See also https://xkcd.com/2501/

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