Your diagnostics have come along! 
On the outage, it ain't you! It's Stanford. You can compare here to there if you want, here they sent me a zero-byte gpus.txt file on one machine and on another that file wasn't empty but it was apparent garbage because neither of them ran folding.
I'm up running again by dl'ing new gpus.txt file from Stanford and installing manually. I had to apply the -beta flag too to get work but that's ok because it turns out the points are generous on the Core_21 work I'm getting.
The delay here believe it or not was connecting to the Stanford page I needed. I can save you that grief by sending you the gpus.txt file by e-mail (it's relatively small) if you want, but let's make sure you can find it on your machine first. Go into your folding folder to look, or use the Windows search function by inputting GPUs (no .txt extension)
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