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Status.github.com: “We're failing over a data storage system”

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Re: Status.github.com: “We're failing over a data storage system”

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Post by Jedi72 »

Tecuane wrote: post #31
platinium wrote: post #30

This has been super frustrating, as people have deadlines and are working to finish projects before Monday morning. What are the (good) alternatives to Github? Gitlab supposedly is Google-backed, so I don't want to have my private code there. Is Bitbucket the only one left? I don't mind paying monthly, which I already do for GitHub.

> Gitlab supposedly is Google-backed, so I don't want to have my private code there. This strikes me as odd. May I ask why usage of GCP is a deal-breaker for you? While I can understand not wanting to use Google products directly as a consumer, I believe it would be - for lack of a better term - platform suicide for Google to intercept and perform its usual analytical shenanigans on the data content of transmissions…

Nobody trusts Google for any reason any more as they have proven unworthy of our trust.

Re: Status.github.com: “We're failing over a data storage system”

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Post by ObsoleteNerd »

danielhlockard wrote: post #29
Memosyne wrote: post #21

Anyone know if this could be related to the Youtube outage? It's been a while since I've seen these big websites go down.

I'm not sure how you could postulate that they're related

Targeted attacks on specific aspects/assets of a major websites infrastructure? Eg target a specific service that both sites have in common in their back end?

Not even sure if that's feasible but it's an idea.

Re: Status.github.com: “We're failing over a data storage system”

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Post by cmroanirgo »

platinium wrote: post #30

This has been super frustrating, as people have deadlines and are working to finish projects before Monday morning. What are the (good) alternatives to Github? Gitlab supposedly is Google-backed, so I don't want to have my private code there. Is Bitbucket the only one left? I don't mind paying monthly, which I already do for GitHub.

If you've a server of your own (and even if you don't, you can self host for a few $/mo), gitea is an easy choice: https://gitea.io

Re: Status.github.com: “We're failing over a data storage system”

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Post by toomanybeersies »

platinium wrote: post #30

This has been super frustrating, as people have deadlines and are working to finish projects before Monday morning. What are the (good) alternatives to Github? Gitlab supposedly is Google-backed, so I don't want to have my private code there. Is Bitbucket the only one left? I don't mind paying monthly, which I already do for GitHub.

You can self-host Gitlab, as well as Gogs, Gitea, and a handful of other solutions.

Re: Status.github.com: “We're failing over a data storage system”

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Post by olingern »

Local to Tokyo, Github has been down for most of the day. I never realized how much of my day centers around it: pr review, creating / commenting on issues, etc.

Looking forward to the write-up. I'm also curious as to how this significant outage lines up with their SLA for enterprise users.

Re: Status.github.com: “We're failing over a data storage system”

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Post by hactually »

Jedi72 wrote: post #41
Tecuane wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Gitlab supposedly is Google-backed, so I don't want to have my private code there. This strikes me as odd. May I ask why usage of GCP is a deal-breaker for you? While I can understand not wanting to use Google products directly as a consumer, I believe it would be - for lack of a better term - platform suicide for Google to intercept and perform its usual analytical shenanigans on the data content of transmissions…

Nobody trusts Google for any reason any more as they have proven unworthy of our trust.

That's a silly statement. By saying 'nobody' - a single point of data invalidates your assertion.

I use gmail, I'm quite happy to trust that contract.

Re: Status.github.com: “We're failing over a data storage system”

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Post by patrickg_zill »

platinium wrote: post #30

This has been super frustrating, as people have deadlines and are working to finish projects before Monday morning. What are the (good) alternatives to Github? Gitlab supposedly is Google-backed, so I don't want to have my private code there. Is Bitbucket the only one left? I don't mind paying monthly, which I already do for GitHub.

I have been meaning to evaluate fossil-scm.org for a while...

Re: Status.github.com: “We're failing over a data storage system”

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Post by jammygit »

hactually wrote: post #47
Jedi72 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nobody trusts Google for any reason any more as they have proven unworthy of our trust.

That's a silly statement. By saying 'nobody' - a single point of data invalidates your assertion. I use gmail, I'm quite happy to trust that contract.

You're saying that you trust that contract today, or are you saying that you have always trusted that contract?

Its only recently that gmail's contract involved keeping out of your data. I think they also only say they abstain from using your data for targeted advertising, not that they don't use it for other purposes. I haven't read the terms in quite a while though and I could be mistaken.

Great products though. I really do wish I could pay for them in exchange for a real, trustworthy, comprehensive privacy promise.

Re: Status.github.com: “We're failing over a data storage system”

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Post by hiccuphippo »

Fuzzwah wrote: post #32
keyle wrote: post #20

I don't know if they keep changing the text updates with a slightly different version to - prove it's a human that typed it - there is code the prevents repeating twice the same message either way it's entertaining... But it's Monday morning in Australia and we need to release! (yep we do this via pr/tagging etc.)

It is to ensure that the updates get mirrored onto twitter, where exact duplicates can't be posted.

Isn't it enough to delete the older tweet? Or maybe just add a timestamp to the message.

Off-Topic: If it's not possible to write a twit with the exact text from a deleted twit, then a way to prove someone wrote a twit and then deleted it would be to have them try to write it again.

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