What a day...
Readit Newskennysmoothx commented on GitHub: Git operation failures githubstatus.com/incident... · Posted by u/wilhelmklopp
kennysmoothx commented on Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal bbc.com/news/live/c9wpq8x... · Posted by u/lleims
This sounds big enough to require a black start. Unfortunately, those are slow and difficult.
If an entire nation trips offline then every generator station disconnects itself from the grid and the grid itself snaps apart into islands. To bring it back you have to disconnect consumer loads and then re-energize a small set of plants that have dedicated black start capability. Thermal plants require energy to start up and renewables require external sources of inertia for frequency stabilization, so this usually requires turning on a small diesel generator that creates enough power to bootstrap a bigger generator and so on up until there's enough electricity to start the plant itself. With that back online the power from it can be used to re-energize other plants that lack black start capability in a chain until you have a series of isolated islands. Those islands then have to be synchronized and reconnected, whilst simultaneously bringing load online in large blocks.
The whole thing is planned for, but you can't really rehearse for it. During a black start the grid is highly unstable. If something goes wrong then it can trip out again during the restart, sending you back to the beginning. It's especially likely if the original blackout caused undetected equipment damage, or if it was caused by such damage.
In the UK contingency planning assumes a black start could take up to 72 hours, although if things go well it would be faster. It's one reason it's a good idea to always have some cash at home.
Edit: There's a press release about a 2016 black start drill in Spain/Portugal here: https://www.ree.es/en/press-office/press-release/2016/11/spa...
This is literally like Factorio.
If your Factory uses too much power, theres not enough energy to run the power plants generation, which decreases your power production. Death spiraling until theres no power.
You have to disconnect the factory, and independently power your power plants back up until you have enough energy production to connect your factory up again.
I'm in Florida so it must be pretty major.
Seems to be all of Xfinity experiencing these issues.
This is a bigger more widespread issue affecting multiple websites such as: twitter, github, battle.net, xfinity.com.
There appears to be major issues, either with ISP or with DNS for particular websites.
xfinity customer here.
github twitter battle.net
to name a few domains I'm having problems accessing.
Works fine on my mobile device so it seems to be ISP related for me
For me what keeps me on iOS vs Android is app quality. No matter how many times I try to switch to Android completely, the lack of quality apps on the Play store always bums me out.
The best apps on the App Store are unique to iOS, and Android apps always feel like an after thought, and many of the best iOS apps do not have Android counterparts.
Apollo for reddit, CoPilot for money management, Flighty for flight tracking, Foreflight for aviation, Halide for camera, Things/Muse for notes and todos, Overcast/Castro for podcasts, Tweetbot/Twitterific twitter, even Spark for email use to be iOS only for years.
I challenge you to compare the quality of iOS only vs Android only apps.
The iOS dev community seems vibrant, and I wish I could say the same for Android.
kennysmoothx commented on Issues with upstream DNS provider status.heroku.com/inciden... · Posted by u/bfirsh
We just deployed a workaround that brought our site back up.
1. Find your DNS Target in heroku. It should end with .herokudns.com
2. Lookup the historical DNS record to get the IP addresses. You can find historical DNS records here: https://securitytrails.com/dns-trails
3. Replace your CNAME record in your DNS provider with A records that point to the IP addresses you just found.
Your site should come back up shortly. We plan to revert back to CNAME records once Heroku gets their DNS issues sorted.
This worked for us, thank you.
And for those using Cloudflare, this method works.
kennysmoothx commented on Issues with upstream DNS provider status.heroku.com/inciden... · Posted by u/bfirsh
Production outage here as well.
Is this isolated to Heroku?
Edit: ugh... if you rely on GH Actions for workflows though actions/checkout@v4 is also currently experiencing the git issues, so no dice if you depend on that.