AOL outages and service status in Schertz, Texas

Problems in the last 24 hours in Schertz, Texas

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Schertz, Texas and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

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AOL Issues Reports Near Schertz, Texas

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Schertz and nearby locations:

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  Scott Erickson (@xkot) reported 7 minutes ago from Schertz, Texas

  Companies dragging their feet on deplatforming bigoted harassment is deja vu. I worked at AOL when they were slow to act on child porn trading. It took @crimmins testifying to Congress about their negligence to get them to act. Let me tell you what that was like.

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  Rob in the 21O (@Robinthe21Ou) reported 25 minutes ago from Converse, Texas

  @BlaiseInKC ... IF you got reports, that ponderosa is still operating in those areas, they must’ve used a dial up service like AOL or EarthLink

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Crosby Tatum (@crosbyt123) reported 5 minutes ago

  @Kev1743 @TheOVW5 I’ll never forget it. I took a flyer on a ticket. I had an AOL Instant Messenger communicator back in the day with a sprint pcs phone. Drove down from Boston in my beat up 89 Toyota Camry. Best night of my life.

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  🄾🅃🅃🄾 🅃🄾🄿🄲🄸 for Congress (@OttoTopci) reported 9 minutes ago

  @cecsquared @craasch @3YearLetterman That’s quite an admission of guilt. Cancel yore AOL account.

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  Kenny Evitt (@KennyEvitt) reported 10 minutes ago

  @bayesiandroll Wow – that's early! I'm sure there was probably at least one BBS local to me, but I never knew of any until AOL and CompuServe were enough of a thing.

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  Dr. David Burkus (@davidburkus) reported 11 minutes ago

  WSJ profiled Bending Spoons this week — the Milan company that owns AOL, Evernote, and Vimeo, run by executives in their 30s and staffed by people who are sometimes younger than the software they've been hired to fix. It's actually a story about why so many applicants never make it through the door. Hundreds of thousands apply every year — enough that the rejection rate makes Harvard look like an easy yes — and most of them are optimizing for the wrong thing: credentials, polish, a great answer to "tell me about yourself." Almost anyone can be gracious to the person deciding their future. It's how they treat someone who can't do anything for them that's hard to fake. Last year: roughly 800,000 applications, 286 hires, an acceptance rate near 0.04% — tighter than Citadel's famously selective quant recruiting (0.36%), something like a hundred times harder than Harvard. That selectivity isn't a gut call. A dedicated team inside the company grades every interview against fixed criteria, then tracks how each hire performs months and years later, feeding the results back into the model. CEO Luca Ferrari has said the signal his team weights hardest is exactly this — how a candidate treats the people who have zero power over the outcome: the assistant, the receptionist. Not decency theater. Data: how you act in front of power is a performance; how you act in front of none is closer to the truth. That gap gets coded straight into the model, right alongside the interview scores. I'd bet you've done the reverse of this in the last week without noticing — warm with your boss, a little short with someone who couldn't do anything for you either way. Most companies say they hire for character. Very few test it anywhere the candidate isn't being watched by someone who can help them. Worth trying on your own team — just notice who's kind to the person who can't do anything for them.

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  alty (@altyalternative) reported 13 minutes ago

  @Forsakencov one good thing about the older emotes is that they were something i never heard off i never knew about sinister minds, redseas nobody until i saw those emotes in forsaken nor did i know what the AOL Guy was i think more emotes should be very ver yniche

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  Argos Trades (@argos_trades) reported 15 minutes ago

  @RetiredLifeNC @pokey_chi @Ashton_1nvests The problem is finding winners in hindsight always looks like a mistake. Imagine holding and never selling AOL.

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  Sue 🇺🇸🐊🌴🌺🦩✌🏼 (@FloridaSueK) reported 17 minutes ago

  @justinkallhoff @RonDeSantis Not anti AI, just cautious AI. Perhaps AI should not be widely available. Perhaps it should be geared toward business use, like the Adobe software suite or Microscoft Office suite of business software. Like any tool, it has potential for both good and bad. We don’t let 13 year olds drive cars and drink beer for a reason… perhaps AI should not be so readily available to young minds. They can learn to use AI under a teacher’s guidance ( to use in a later career- it’s an essential skill). And for the record, I would completely shove the Internet back in a box… life was so much more simple in the late 80s and early 90s before PCs and AOL brought the Internet to anyone who could afford it. Same with cell phones. And the irony is not lost on me I am discussing this with strangers on the Internet 🤓

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  AcePorkins (@AcePorkins) reported 18 minutes ago

  @SarahSevans2000 19, somehow never had an AOL address. I think I skipped straight to yahoo or Hotmail.

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  Paul Walsh (@Paul__Walsh) reported 20 minutes ago

  I hate digging into my credentials, but in the context of online child safety and child exploitation, they matter because governments and child safety lobbyists are railroading everyone with personal opinions based on dangerous ideology. Being a parent doesn't qualify me to say what actually works, what' doesn't, and what the cost is in relation to privacy. I've spent more years building standards, API services, filtering technologies, and content moderation techniques than just about anyone. Very few experts sit at the intersection of internet infrastructure, telecommunications, app security, child exploitation detection technology, and content classification and filtering; I'm one of them. People with my background are being entirely ignored by policymakers for a reason. We know what's technically possible, what's not, and the catastrophic costs of getting it wrong. Security isn't just at odds with convenience, it's almost always fundamentally at odds with privacy. I built my first website 30 years ago, and was introduced to online child safety and content moderation that same year, in 1996, when I joined AOL. At the time, I helped launch new technologies and ran global testing for the launch of AIM, AOL's instant messenger and the internet's first consumer instant messaging app. I co-founded the W3C standard for content labelling and web classification, and in 2004, co-invented the concept of classifying internet accounts (labelling them by risk, identity, or purpose). I foresaw that the future of online trust and safety required filtering accounts, not just websites and web pages. Features like Twitter's verified checkmark and LinkedIn's verification are implementations of this very idea - they just got it wrong. I've run operational calls with The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and the US Department of Justice on the automation of monitoring, detection and reporting, and I signed an MOU with NCMEC to help combat exploitation through browser software and mobile security services that my teams built for online child safety. The keyword tracking list Thorn shared with partners came from me over 15 years ago, inherited from a colleague who built it for CEOP while seconded from AOL. I also advised IWF. My team built the first child safety API service for mobile device OEMs, an even deeper kind of device-level scanning than Chat Control. Samsung was set to embed it in every device they sold, and Apple planned to put it in the settings of every iPhone, iPad, and Mac, around 1.3 billion devices between them. So I know what this kind of technology can and can't do on a phone, and I know what it costs in terms of end user privacy. Both deals drifted away because we were too early, one of the hardest things about being a tech founder. Years later, Samsung and Apple built parental controls so good that a parent can now block any app or website on a child's phone in a couple of minutes. When I was interviewed on BBC Newsnight 14 years ago, it was to demonstrate how bad parental controls were. Now I'm telling you they're as good as I could possibly hope for. Most leading security companies license my patents for in-app security, covering more than 50 categories of classification, including anti-phishing, malware, child abuse, pornography, and disinformation. Chat Control 2.0 mandates client-side scanning of links for apps like Signal. Luckily of Signal, they require my permission or face infringing in my patents. I'm *extremely* unlikely (read that as never) to license my patents for the purpose of government mandated censorship. I have declined governments in the past and I will do it again in the future.

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  MychaelP (@MP_InTheMoney) reported 20 minutes ago

  @KrisPatel99 Nothing. It's desperation as they lose valuable advertising $ from teens no longer using the service. The age of fake ai may be the new turn just like how AOL and Myspace once ruled