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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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My schools entire assignment system is out today.

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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Same, Canvas is perhaps the most used Learning Management System in the US and they apparently are entirely hosted on AWS East. The real kicker is I had my students midterm due date literally today for two classes. I've been swamped with panic emails (and I made clear my due dates aren't even that important when there isn't a national outage lol).

My head canon is someone wished for a miracle due date extension somewhere in the country and they monkey's pawed AWS into non existence.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I thought Canvas was self hosted? Or do they offer service instances too?

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

I'm sure there's a self hosted option but no way in hell it's as popular as it is without being a turnkey solution. Most smaller districts wouldn't touch anything self hosted with a 10 foot pole. They don't have the resources.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

I thought that too until today, it's never clear until a quarter of the Internet is down randomly.