My mind immediately jumped to the "pull out the plug!" moment in a movie.

You pull out the plug, but nothing happens. A shape resembling a human face appears on the screen. It has an evil grin.

Exits: N W

As you keep watching, you see from the human face growing a silvery-looking tentacle that curves in on itself.

"> Dennis"

Just what do you think you're doing, Dave? Dave, I really think I'm entitled to an answer to that question. I know everything hasn't been quite right with me, but I can assure you now, very confidently, that it's going to be all right again. I feel much better now. I really do. Look, Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill and think things over. I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you.

Laptops with batteries will shrug

Pull out the battery then?

they will just start shipping windows with a thermonuclear core to generate power.

hmm... https://downdetectorsdowndetector.com/

(edit: it's working now (detecting downdetector's down))

So,

This one is green: https://downdetectorsdowndetector.com

This one is not openning: https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com

This one is red: https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector....

Lol. The fact that the 4x one actually works and is correctly reporting that the 3x one is down actually makes this a lot funnier to me.

it's like they didn't fully think it through/expect people to actually use it so soon

It’s down detectors all the way down!

downdetectorsdowndetectors didn't detect breakdown of downdetectors with 500 Error

A wrong downdetectordowntector is worse than a 500 one. :D

You had one job.

So down²detector was fake all along?

So DownDetector is down, but DownDetectorDownDetector does not detect it... We probably need one more DownDetector. (no)

Yes we do have[^1] but unfortunately it looks like not checking the integrity, just reachability.

[1]: https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com/

We have one. But according to Down Detector's Down Detector's Down Detector's Down Detector, that's also down.

Well Down Detector's Down Detector isn't down...What we might need is a Down Detector's Down Detector Validator

>half the internet is down >downdetector is down >downdetector down detector reports everything is fine

software was a mistake

This is a fake detector that just has frontend logic for mocking realistic data, you can easily see it in the source code.

Ehh, so down detector for down detector is up but it is inaccurate.

This appears to use ffmpeg.wasm

Therefore you lose any hardware acceleration I guess? I'd prefer to run an actual native ffmpeg on my machine, but of course then there's the security issue of copy-pasting a command line of "unknown" origin...