@dkub My recent favorite is a security component that is curved to a specific version for reasons, and will downgrade itself if you upgrade it… even if this puts it into job-functional state and breaks VPN posture tests. Because using the version we tell you is better than things working. 🤦‍♂️

This is further enhanced by WiFi only in corp offices, where WiFi requires VPN to function. Good luck downloading a component upgrade to access VPN! 🤣

#SecurityTheater #corporate #policy #failwhale

There was a *lot* of schadenfreude going around #Twitter X earlier this month about #cloudcomputing outages. I guess what goes around comes around. Where's the #failwhale when you need it... 🐳

@Moore I'm talking about all languages with standards bodies, but yes, TC39 is particularly #failwhale adjacent. There are lots of reasons, but the post-ES4 explosion of veto players at the hands of strict consensus sealed the deal:

https://infrequently.org/2025/08/how-do-committees-fail-to-invent/

GPUs and Fail Whales - OpenAI Podcast #gpus #chatgpt #failwhale #openai

„Fehler im Nachrichtenstream“ ist der neue #FailWhale… .#ChatGPT

@kboyd @mcc

Early Twitter users made the #FailWhale a meme.

It used to be a common thing, and people kept going back…

Um mich in #whalebird bei openbiblio.social anzumelden, kam ich bis zum o.
Dann konnte ich nicht mehr tippen.
Früher - also früher!! - gab es dafür einen #failwhale

⬆️ @ZhiZhu

>> "This is amongst the longest #X / #Twitter #outages we've tracked in terms of duration, and the pattern is consistent with a denial of service attack targeting X's infrastructure at scale," says #Musk.

So, from #FailWhale to #CrashX 🤔

Can't wait for it to #Xpire.

#FailWhale #FTW
https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/114139511710660686

@jwildeboer Long time no see.

#Failwhale

#failwhale Vibes im Jahr 2025! Wilde Spekulation: Mit diesem Aufsehen haben sie nicht gerechnet.

Oh internet mens. Why? Get a random ping from a rather hot guy. I try not to get too excited. You know how these things go. And there it is. One of his opening shots is him taking a hit off a crack pipe. Sigh. Sorry, internet d00d. No #PNP here. Says so in my profile, if you’d looked.

#sniffies #partying #drugs #ReadingIsFun #ReadingIsFundamental #FailWhale #blocked

Gleich ist es soweit.... seit 2009 dabei. viele #failwhale in der zeit gesehen. aber jetzt ist schluss. #twoff

#FailWhale #Fediverse #LiftingADreamer #Mastodon #MastodonMascot #SocialMedia

In honor of Xitters recent falling usage numbers, I think it's time for the Fall Whale! #FailWhale #FallWhale

zomg. Hello, old friend. I haven't seen you in a long time. #failwhale

"Lifting A Dreamer" (2009) by Yiying Lu

(Also known as the "Fail Whale".)

https://www.yiyinglu.com/?portfolio=lifting-a-dreamer-aka-twitter-fail-whale

#FailWhale #LiftingADreamer #Twitter

Wow, @bsky.app really gives you (positive) Twitter 2012 vibes at the moment. Welcome to all emigrants, nice to have you here. #Bluesky #Twitter #Retro #FailWhale 🦋

I find it funny & lame how much people forgotten that #FailWhale was actually a fun part of OG Twitter and nowadays detractors celebrates when Blue sky gets a hiccup as it is a crime that people are looking for Twitter-like vibe.

Wuss generation everywhere.

FailWhale Hat
A hat made to look like the Twitter "Fail Whale" image that used to appear when the site was overloaded.

#Twitter #hats #FailWhale