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xkcd #3170: Service Outage

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Now, if it were the Canon wiki, it's possible to imagine someone with a productivity-related reason for consulting it, but no one's job requires them to read that much about Admiral Daala.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3170/

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Also these things are often cascading failures to some extent in that it takes a short while before the bad config or release has been fully propagated.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 12 hours ago

Good point, even more so if you depend on something that depends on the original thing but have no clue about the original thing at all.