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[Resolved] Is anybody else having issues with DuckDuckGo and StartPage? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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screenshot of searching "test" in start page that doesn't return any results

EDIT: looks like they're back.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Yes. It even interrupted a flashing procedure of a device of mine and almost bricked it

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How does a search engine being offline interrupt a device flashing?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Its quite embarrassing you've asked this, tbh. Obviously you've never run

dd if=$(while :; do curl bing.com/q=$RANDOM; done) of=/dev/sda1

and I think that's sad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I want to do this now

[–] invisiblegorilla 1 points 3 months ago

Holy fuckshits. You crazy motherfucker.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Saving it!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Is this secure drive erasure 🤔🤔🤔

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Idk why it happened. Maybe the program uses that API to find new firmware versions. It was stuck at the beginning of the procedure

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wait what?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The flashing app detected the device. The next step was downloading firmware and it was stuck on it for minutes (usually it takes a second or two). I almost ended up rebooting the device (which could absolutely brick it) but fortunately it found the firmware. Then I tested DDG to see if it was up. I don't really remember if it was but I think it was working for a few seconds

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Why was it pulling firmware from Bing? That's seems strange