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not sure how I managed to find it, I think it was because I scrolled back in time. But apparently, I was member 3323 to join and that was probably on the day after Coso's inception.

I still need to get "There's an unequal amount of good and bad in most things. The trick is to figure out the ratio and act accordingly." tattooed on me.

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You'd think after last year when meta physical couldn't gain access to it's data centers when they made an oopsie they'd move important things outside of the "pearly blueish gates" but no their status page metastatus.com just refuses to load any outage information

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Also, I really should be here more. I feel like everything I say here is seen.

Someone remind me to do a data takeout once meta is backup and running

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Looks like Meta's AI just went sentient and closed off access to FB.

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With Facebook currently down, I can only imagine the incomparable panic that my conservative family members are experiencing since the pages they get their “information” from are all unavailable.

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Since I'm a data engineer by daytime I'm a little confused about this as well, why didn't this raise any kind of automated flags for review considering an account center contained an account on the east coast (utc-5)
And an Instagram account at or around UTC +7
Where the two accounts were always used in vastly different geographical places, timezones, and IP address space, which I highly doubt ever overlapped and maybe that's the root of the problem

6/?
I also looked at all the emails sent to him by Facebook and only the two this morning said anything about him being disabled.
You'd think if this was some kind of trend towards disablement or rule breaking there'd be emails, you'd think if there was suspicious logons or account activity there would be emails.
But no it was a bunch of receipts and messages about his ads on Facebook

Interestingly when we try forgot password on the Instagram account username we receive a no users found message

5/?

The ips, geoip data, browser fingerprinting, timestamps provided in the data download for the last two weeks we looked at
All line up with it being him on either an app on his phone, his laptop or mobile browser.

Everything we've tried to do to get passed this checkpoint screen to ask for a review or just a general re-enablement of his account has failed. We can't even attempt meta verified to contact a human being

4/?
Doesn't appear to be a fully complete data take out as it was only 8megs and was more contextual data like session tracking, account security information, the actual "post" data was just profile pictures.
Having looked at some of the files in the data download itself the only thing I can think of is this Instagram account was linked shortly after made the account center live and was dormant until they Instagram account creator decided to pull the switch and get the account banned

3/? Of the world from us. We've never heard of that persons name before, looking up the specific account name mentioned, returns zero results, removing the number at the end of the name returns hundreds of not thousands of zero follower, zero following, zero post accounts likely unknowingly tied to other Facebook users.

Looking through the little user data download provided by it's only been him in the account on his cell phone or laptop.

Oddly enough the data download

2/?

He currently cannot appeal the disablement at all
The little checkpoint after login directs him to appeal the disablement to "his" linked Instagram account which via the account center is the account that received the ban.

The thing is this man doesn't have Instagram, doesn't want Instagram, and Instagram community probably wouldn't care for the hunting photos he would post.
The Instagram account name also heavily suggests heavily of someone in Asia creating it, which is on the other side

This is probably gonna be a huge long shot
But does anyone here know of anyone at Meta that can hit the re-enable account button?

Neighbor/small biz owner/ friend woke up this morning & immediately on trying to comment in our local town Facebook group was instantly deactivated, his profile is gone, his business page & 5 years of business social media is entirely gone.

The entire situation is a little odd as well
1/?

It's passed my normal bedtime by 47 minutes...

it's 41.4f outside.

it's 68.7f inside.

I'm not going downstairs to start the pellet stove.
I'm going to snuggle my gf in bed & wake up once or twice in the night cussing the dog out for being a bed hog and or to reclaim the blankets the gf has stolen from me.

goodnight

Also, chatting to copilot is absolutely insane for me.

I've always learned more by doing.
Being able to dive headfirst into a project or getting my hands dirty has always been my preferred learning experience.

Being able to open any software project and being fully supported in my tinkering with it.

IS. ABSOLUTELY. INSANE.

I settled on Hugo as the static site generator for a blog I want to write.
Copilot has helped me tweak the site to my specific liking in only 7ish questions.

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Job Interviewer: Says you went to Harvard here on your resume?

Me: Yes for my cousin's birthday party.

Totally not over here talking to and politely suggesting feedback and thanking it for the help or anything.

I will probably not even bother filling and starting the pellet stove tonight.
I'll let my furnace kick on at 60F if it gets so cold overnight or 64F around 5 am if it gets so cold.
Heck I might not even start the pellet stove tomorrow I may tell the furnace to raise the house temp to 66/67f and then let mother nature do the rest.

This whole week is supposed to be very warm. I dread what could happen to trees and vegetation with multiple 40-degree temp swings.

To continue this.
last year I bought 4 TONS(8000lb) of PELLETS and had 20 BAGS(ish) remaining + dropped my oil tank from 1/2 to just under a 1/4th.

I Again BOUGHT 4 TONS and FILLED THE TANK UP TO JUST ABOVE 3/4ths

THE TANK IS BARELY BELOW 3/4TH, AND I HAVE SLIGHTLY OVER 2 TONS(4000LB) OF PELLETS LEFT + LAST YEARS 20(ish) BAGS (1000lb)

THIS IS NOT NORMAL.

I SHOULD BE BURNING MY "COLD DAYS" pellets right now.
I was burning my "NOT SO COLD DAYS" pellets & even that is too much.

MY HEAT IS OFF.
(all temps interior)
Oil Heat is currently set to run AT 64F
Pellet stove settings were reduced twice yesterday when it hit 70F & at 74F

It hit with the pelletstove & my gf cooking us a hearty meal for datenight 76F in my house.
The pellet stove ran out around 6:30 am this morning; when I checked the house temp at 7 am it was 70F.

The lowest my house has got today was 69.4F

MY HEAT IS OFF.
IT IS 50.9F outside
IT IS 70.5F inside
I LIVE IN MAINE
ITS MARCH 3RD

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