I don't know what's crazier here: that the website was hosted on the same server as their smart home platform or that we live in a dystopia where mask demand ddos'd an air conditioner theverge.com/2020/4/21/21229…

Demand for Sharp’s face masks crashes website and smart home gadgets

Online store goes down, taking air conditioners with it

theverge.com

Apr 21, 2020 · 4:46 PM UTC

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They say in the article it's the user authentication service that both things share, still dumb but more understandable
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Somehow even worse in my mind lol
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LOL. Of course theverge linked the site in the article, so all their readers can help out!
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this must be an insanely cool dystopia for shit like that to happen...
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you see why there's still juice in the cloud business even when AWS has 30% margins
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Centrist Centralizing in Central Ohio @EndTax
16 Apr 2020
I’d be curious to see investigative reporting on efficacy of #masks: Do women in #Arabia have lower infection & transmission rates than men or than women in other non- #veiled countries such as Kuwait, Qatar or Lebanon before mandatory #StayHome orders? @nntaleb @yaneerbaryam
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LMAO who puts their production servers on the same network of their smart home?
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It's especially ironic considering how much air filtration air conditioners do.
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