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NPM Fails Worldwide With "ERR! 418 I'm a Teapot" Error

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday May 30 2018, @01:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the short-and-stout dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow3941

Users of the NPMJavaScript package manager were greeted by a weird error yesterday evening, as their consoles and applications spewed a message of "ERR! 418 I'm a teapot" whenever they tried to update or install a new JavaScript/Node.js package.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/npm-fails-worldwide-with-err-418-im-a-teapot-error/

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Wednesday May 30 2018, @04:57PM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday May 30 2018, @04:57PM (#686343) Journal

    The resulting entity body MAY be short and
          stout.

    Also may be in orbit around the sun be between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, obvious reference to Russell's teapot, and dubious ontologies in computer systems.

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