Computer Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread II

Sorry, I don't understand anything in that Wiki article, and "BICBW" looks like alphabet soup.

 

Is Discord down for anyone else?

 

Not right now, but it's not displaying images.

 

A random shot in the dark: is anyone here familiar with CMake and Visual Studio? I’ve got a fairly elementary project-setting-up problem…

 

Is there some widespread outage/hack going on? The list of sites down seem pretty diverse:

• https://www.opendemocracy.net/
  
• https://web3isgoinggreat.com/
  
• https://discord.com/channels/<a channel>
  
• https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/
  
• https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/

 

I guess this is the answer. If you are going to rely on third parties they are always going to let you down.

Cloudflare explains how it managed to break the internet

A large chunk of the web (including your own Vulture Central) fell off the internet this morning as content delivery network Cloudflare suffered a self-inflicted outage.
The incident began at 0627 UTC (2327 Pacific Time) and it took until 0742 UTC (0042 Pacific) before the company managed to bring all its datacenters back online and verify they were working correctly. During this time a variety of sites and services relying on Cloudflare went dark while engineers frantically worked to undo the damage they had wrought short hours previously.​