Wesley Moore on Nostr: Remember when software used to ask if it could use the internet? Actual text from ...
Remember when software used to ask if it could use the internet?
Actual text from GitHub incident report:
"Delayed replies to a single internal endpoint triggered a latent retry bug in VS Code that amplified traffic by approximately 10x and caused delayed recovery for the Copilot Token Service."
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx 
Published at
2026-08-19 05:51:15 UTCEvent JSON
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