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This complaint needs to be passed to European regulators at either BEREC, ACER or DG Connect, since using a loginwalled site is a violation of EECC directive 2018/1972. Ideally they can just designate 1 approved site that all utilities should harmonize on using for their status updates.

boxed11mo ago

Is this a joke? Because that seems like exactly the wrong thing, and such a system would itself be a bottleneck for downtime issues.

Using twitter has the huge advantage that spikes in users in Spain for checking this stuff is a rounding error in the normal traffic so is very unlikely to take down the status page.

ABS11mo ago

no one would/should prevent companies from using also private channels like X, FB, Instagram, etc but enforcing a public channel that doesn't require private citizens to register, accept T&S and share their private data with 3rd party, unrelated private corporations to be informed of critical, public safety information would be helpful.

matthewdgreen11mo ago

Aside from the login issue, Twitter has outages too. It really isn't really that hard to replicate posts across multiple services in 2025.

teekert11mo ago

They may not be aware. We had Dutch fire depts do the same, it used to be possible to see tweets without logging in.

gchamonlive11mo ago

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api11mo ago

It's not Musk fetishism. It's network effects. Most people hate X and hated Twitter but people use them because people use them.

This should show people just how powerful network effects are. They are legitimately a force of nature.

frank_nitti11mo ago

I strongly agree, and to me this supports the argument for heavier regulation (or any really)

brohee11mo ago

They did post on BlueSky, but not every update so I assume someone is cut and pasting manually...

https://bsky.app/profile/redelectricare.bsky.social

scarlehoff11mo ago

While I don't particularly like twitter (X), in a situation like this it probably has a better reach than the website of REE.

That said, twitter should allow for official profiles and organizations to have their tweets (xs?) made public.

deanc11mo ago

You’re kidding right? The overwhelming majority of people do NOT use X or have accounts there. We are in a bubble. (Not making a Musk point here as it was the same before the “exodus”)

belter11mo ago

They probably did not patch their firmware in years and have their SCADA systems live on Shodan with default passwords...allegedly...

api11mo ago

I remember years ago someone scanned the Internet IPv4 space for open unpassworded VNC servers. Many of them looked disturbingly like industrial control systems.

cafeinux11mo ago

Just take a look at https://infosec.exchange/@shodansafari. A lot still look like that.

belter11mo ago

Even the water control system for a big French Dam:

"115 batshit stupid things you can put on the internet in as fast as I can go by Dan Tentler" - https://youtu.be/hMtu7vV_HmY

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OgsyedIE11mo ago

boxed11mo ago

Is this a joke? Because that seems like exactly the wrong thing, and such a system would itself be a bottleneck for downtime issues.

Using twitter has the huge advantage that spikes in users in Spain for checking this stuff is a rounding error in the normal traffic so is very unlikely to take down the status page.

ABS11mo ago

matthewdgreen11mo ago

Aside from the login issue, Twitter has outages too. It really isn't really that hard to replicate posts across multiple services in 2025.

teekert11mo ago

They may not be aware. We had Dutch fire depts do the same, it used to be possible to see tweets without logging in.

gchamonlive11mo ago

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api11mo ago

It's not Musk fetishism. It's network effects. Most people hate X and hated Twitter but people use them because people use them.

This should show people just how powerful network effects are. They are legitimately a force of nature.

frank_nitti11mo ago

I strongly agree, and to me this supports the argument for heavier regulation (or any really)

brohee11mo ago

They did post on BlueSky, but not every update so I assume someone is cut and pasting manually...

https://bsky.app/profile/redelectricare.bsky.social

scarlehoff11mo ago

While I don't particularly like twitter (X), in a situation like this it probably has a better reach than the website of REE.

That said, twitter should allow for official profiles and organizations to have their tweets (xs?) made public.

deanc11mo ago

You’re kidding right? The overwhelming majority of people do NOT use X or have accounts there. We are in a bubble. (Not making a Musk point here as it was the same before the “exodus”)

belter11mo ago

They probably did not patch their firmware in years and have their SCADA systems live on Shodan with default passwords...allegedly...

api11mo ago

I remember years ago someone scanned the Internet IPv4 space for open unpassworded VNC servers. Many of them looked disturbingly like industrial control systems.

cafeinux11mo ago

Just take a look at https://infosec.exchange/@shodansafari. A lot still look like that.

belter11mo ago

Even the water control system for a big French Dam:

"115 batshit stupid things you can put on the internet in as fast as I can go by Dan Tentler" - https://youtu.be/hMtu7vV_HmY

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse