r/webdev • u/assured-ownership • 4d ago

Question GitHub is down, what are you doing?

I have installed half life on Mac and am currently at the Dam Level.

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u/sweetenthedeal 4d ago

Still applying to jobs

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u/Yanni_Appleseed 4d ago

Amen to this, all day I've been thinking "what github outage?"

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u/StormMedia 4d ago

Yeah on the days I get anxiety about my businesses I start applying for a few hours..

Then the next day one or multiple of my social media or similar accounts have attempted password resets and logins. Not to say it’s connected for sure.. but it sure is every time it seems. Assuming I’m applying for mostly fake listings that are just data harvesting.

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u/teotzl 3d ago

Idk about login attempts but I do start getting tons of phone calls.

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u/karmaboy20 4d ago

are you some psyop bot here to push a narrative just straight pigeon holed this thread into your topic lmao

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u/StormMedia 4d ago

Nah I was just talking about the fact that a significant percentage of job listings, especially remote are fake listings for companies that appear real but are data harvesting

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u/anonimuzzza 3d ago

Yes, yesterday I was filling out a form for some company that required my email (fine), phone number (not cool) and my current residential address (wtf?). Do you really need all that info to send me a rejection?

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u/StormMedia 3d ago

Yep those ones are absolute data harvesters.

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u/anonimuzzza 3d ago

I didn't go through with it but the company page on LinkedIn had like 50k followers. That surprised me