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Ring is having a major outage
- kulor 3y agoUsers are kinda mad https://twitter.com/ring/status/1685049112306262016 https://twitter.com/ring/status/1685049112306262016. I’ll give them credit and say this is the first time in 3 years I’ve had any issues
- silisili 3y agoI get being mad when a service is down, but some people seem to be like, melting down. Humans have lived for millenia (and really into the what, mid 2000s) without doorbell cameras, but some of those people are acting like they're going to get murdered now that it's down.
- JohnFen 3y agoA huge part of Ring's marketing involved making people so fearful that they felt they needed it to help them be safe. I'm willing to bet a lot of that anger comes from them feeling afraid. It's marketing in action.
- skeeter2020 3y ago"I actually feel very vulnerable not being able to check my cameras before I go to bed" "I am missing many moments at home now !!" "I have no clue if someone is breaking in now" "The one time we decide to put the puppy downstairs on his own, we can’t even make sure he’s ok. Never mind our doorbell picking up people who have no business being there" "Would have been great to at least have a view of the robbers if they came to my house, u know. What a 'Ring' is supposed to be used for." Do ya think? I'm suprised and saddened by these reactions.
- JohnFen 3y agoI'm saddened, but not even a little surprised. Ring's marketing is one of the many things that are contributing to the increasing isolation and alienation of people from each other.
- AlotOfReading 3y agoI don't know, it really enhances the sense of community I feel when every third house says "Hi, you're being recorded" as I walk by.
- vic-traill 3y agoThat, mon ami, gets a doubleplusgood[0] rating all day long. It's got understated irony that somehow tends to sarcasm at the same time. It's very hard to unpack yet delicious. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak
- Elixier22 3y agoBeliever or not I'm sure you can use your ears if someone's breaking into your house and sure you will hear it,
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- Kon-Peki 3y agoAnd people still say "land of the free, home of the brave" very un-ironically.
- femiagbabiaka 3y agoThis is the world we live in now, yikes. Citizen app feels like another tendril of the same beast.
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- rcurry 3y agoI kind of dig when things go down, I sort of like sitting around the gas fireplace and listening to my ham radio in a dark house for a few hours. If shit really hits the fan then it’s time for the tabletop gas burner and some beef and shrimp with veggies. Jira can wait until the power comes back on.
- wembledon 3y agoDude yes. I understand that it's a serious event, but when the background hum of electricity dies the world feels so different and real. I love it.
- ecf 3y ago24/7 news cycle constantly highlighting every single kidnapping or crime that happens across the country has instilled a culture of fear in most people. I grew up riding my bike completely across town by myself, before cell phones were pervasive. Parents these days are afraid of letting their kid walk 5 minutes to the neighborhood park…
- sefrost 3y agoKind of off topic: do you need to be signed in to Twitter to see replies now?
- skeeter2020 3y agoPeople are losing their minds. This person sounds like many software developers: " I’m debating on setting up a home DVR system because I can’t trust Ring will stay online 24/7." - good luck with that. I mean, I get the frustration but you outsourced a core service to the internet, then are shocked when it's not available all the time? All the comments about "must be 24/7" and "don't you have backups?" etc... How can we possibly expect people to consider subtle things like privacy when they don't get the fundamentals?
- dataflow 3y ago"They" and "people" includes a surprising fraction of software engineers themselves. So many engineers design their systems assuming every customer has internet 24/7.
- LapsangGuzzler 3y agoAnd what are the odds that they’ve never experienced an outage while on the job? Shit happens, I stopped freaking out about outages after I started my software career because every time one happens, my first thought is “I’m just glad it’s not me dealing with it”
- teeray 3y agoIf this was the 90s and a telephone pole crash took down an alarm system monitoring center nobody would bat an eyelash. It’s inconvenient, but it happens. The digital equivalent—dropping the prod DB or something—draws the ire of millions. Consumer expectations changed when we put a computer in their pocket screaming OUTAGE.
- contravariant 3y agoThey wouldn't expect any redundancy in an alarm system monitoring centre? Also there's a very brief instance in time where such a system would not be basically digital. I think a lot of systems have lost a lot of reliability and resilience as they are replaced by (centralized, virtual) digital equivalents. Having a doorbell that fails because someone made a typo in a DNS entry (or whatever it is this time) is silly and people have every right to be angry. Though it would help if they direct some of that anger towards themselves for subjecting themselves to a doorbell that they don't control and sends surveillance on its immediate surrounding to some third party (who may send it back, for a price).
- whalesalad 3y agoReminds me that I keep meaning to order the license plate "5NINES" for my car but not sure many will get the reference hehe.
- sva_ 3y agoFor those with no ~~Twitter~~ X account: https://nitter.net/ring/status/1685049112306262016 https://nitter.net/ring/status/1685049112306262016
- technick 3y agoIt's time to go do crime against houses with Ring security systems.
- aardshark 3y agoI doubt they actually do much anyway.
- sakopov 3y agoAre you implying Ring won't dispatch police when you have a break-in?
- 8organicbits 3y agoLooks like an add on to me. https://ring.com/professional-monitoring https://ring.com/professional-monitoring
- bdcravens 3y agoYes, but anyone with the alarm system and not just the doorbell usually gets it. It's only $10/mo, far less than the $40-60 you pay for ADT etc.
- bastard_op 3y agoIt's still light out in the US. /me plays Beastie Boys - Rhymin & Stealin
- abawany 3y agoOr just take a walk in a Ringed-up neighborhood with the knowledge that your pictures are not being sent to the local police department in the name of 'pre-crime'.
- somat 3y agoI never thought about it before but these things are all wifi based right. What happens when you show up with your 2.4GHz jammer in the kilowatt range that you uhhh, liberated from a common cooking appliance. I mean besides making all the hams in the neighborhood mad at you.
- bastard_op 3y agoI got an odd logout message, was wondering if they broke (again).
- muppetman 3y agoOdd. My ring camera and Livestream etc are all working fine. I'm in New Zealand though.
- vic-traill 3y agoWait until yesterday. Then you'll really get hammered. :)
- 89vision 3y agoFWIW, mine is working fine
- LASR 3y agoReminds me of the time when the MyQ garage opener back-end went down. I got locked out of my house for about 4 hours. I set up a whole Mac-mini home assistant thing totally local. Then I lost my phone and I couldn’t get in to the house to even call it. Thankfully it was just in my wife’s car and she came home with it. Now there is a physical key under a rock.
- jedberg 3y agoI have digital locks on my front and back door, but they have no external connectivity (something I specifically looked for). No wifi, no bluetooth. So far the only failure mode has been the battery running out, but it gives you plenty of warning. And if you're super lazy like me, you just go in the other door when the battery runs out. :)
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- nucleardog 3y agoYeah I’ve slowly built out some smart home kit, but literally every single piece is a “nice to have” for exactly this reason. My door lock is wirelessly controllable via zwave. It also has a keypad so you can just enter a code instead. It also has a keyhole. For my key. That is with me. Similarly… I have some controllable light switches. If anything fails… they are just normal light switches and I can still turn my lights on. I’ve spent too long in IT to have any faith whatsoever in any of this stuff.
- bdcravens 3y agoEven though we have MyQ and have integrated it into Alexa (and was part of the Resideo system we got when we bought the house), my wife and I still use the old school remotes in our car, and we have keypad access as well (which is the same technology Liftmaster has used for 20+ years)
- alphabettsy 3y agoThis is why I went with HomeKit devices only where possible. The door lock is HomeKit and does Bluetooth so it works when the power is out and internet is down, has a key and PIN code for backup. Garage door opener requires the WiFi to be up, but it will work without internet if you’re close enough to connect to home WiFi. HomeKit is far from perfect but I like that it doesn’t require internet for the core functions to work. Thread and Matter devices have made it even better.
- js2 3y agoUse scrypted with an Amcrest AD410 or some other camera under your control: https://github.com/koush/scrypted https://github.com/koush/scrypted I mirror my camera locally and also send it to HomeKitSecureVideo.
- BrianHenryIE 3y agoHave the cameras been jailbroken? I have a "Ring stick up cam battery" that I don't want to connect to the cloud.
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- giardiniere9 3y agoRing is having a major outage