Spotify, Discord, AWS - bets are on, do you think the timing is a coincidence or is Vlad's cyber offensive finally kicking into gear, two weeks in?
Both Spotify and Discord are not on AWS
Spotify was down
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#122The painful bit was that I got automatically logged out with all of those "offline" songs. Is it a feature or a bug? IMO if there was no logout then many clients would just keep playing the cached songs, and people would not notice a disruption that much.
You didn't buy these songs, so they won't let you enjoy them if you can't log in. What a wonderful world!
We rent our entertainment now, it won't be possible to own all the songs average listener consumes at $100-200/year outlay that streaming apps charge.
The trade off for that very cheap renting model instead of owning it, is you can get kicked out anytime for any reason.
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#123Spotify, Discord, AWS - bets are on, do you think the timing is a coincidence or is Vlad's cyber offensive finally kicking into gear, two weeks in?
Both Spotify and Discord are not on AWS
Yet they're experiencing outages at the same time. If they don't share a platform then that actually makes it look less like a coincidence I'd say, no? (still not saying it means anything, maybe they have some joint dependencies that are down for completely unrelated reasons)
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used Spotify for free a few times and the interface is terrible . like from the early 2000s. no attempt at modernization or improvement. Compare it to YouTube.
Which interface are you using? I use the android app and I'm pretty happy with it. My use case is primarily playing content on Sonos and cast devices.
desktop
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#125Is there a minor irony that they recently rejected me without an interview for an SRE role, despite matching 1:1 in my experience to the role they had open?
I'm not bitter, but something is probably wrong when they're turning down qualified candidates without even speaking to them first.
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#126A suspected BGP leak https://bgpstream.com/event/287678 happened at 17:52 in the Netherlands. Downdetector (roughly) shows the graph start to spike around https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/ 17:55.
Could be coincidence, of course.
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
As I've said before: Spotify / Tidal / YouTube Music is great for discovery, IMO. Just not consumption. I use them for checking out new artists, or albums by artists that I haven't heard before. But once I've passed from the "Huh, that was interesting" stage to "Yeah, I think I'm gonna listen to this album again in the future", it's time to buy it, rip it to MP3/FLAC(if I bought a physical copy), and get it into my m…
> rip it to MP3/FLAC Alas that's illegal in the UK
To be fair, piracy was always illegal - it didn't stop it.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is downdetector reliable at all? I feel every time something is down, a lot of unrelated sites also are reported as having problems. E.g. at the moment it reports AWS, GCP, Azure, Cloudflare and Facebook among others having issues.
downdetector just uses search trends from google and twitter and other social apps, its definitely not checking if the site is 'down' on its own.
How do they know what people are searching? I've never seen an api for that
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
As I've said before: Spotify / Tidal / YouTube Music is great for discovery, IMO. Just not consumption. I use them for checking out new artists, or albums by artists that I haven't heard before. But once I've passed from the "Huh, that was interesting" stage to "Yeah, I think I'm gonna listen to this album again in the future", it's time to buy it, rip it to MP3/FLAC(if I bought a physical copy), and get it into my m…
The whole point of music streaming services is to avoid doing this. Maybe it works for you, but that does not sound like a sustainable strategy for someone who listens to 100+ albums a year.
I don't see why. Maybe for those like me who still buy physical CD's and rip them, okay--but let's assume you buy all of your music, just digitally, meaning you purchase MP3 albums in full from Amazon/iTunes/Bandcamp, etc. Most of the work is already done for you, since the services themselves already function as sort of a "cloud backup"; your computer or smartphone fries, you can always sign into the service again from your new device and pull everything down once more. The only remaining piece is to have your own offline backup of all the stuff you purchased, in case Epic were to shut Bandcamp's doors tomorrow. It's even less likely that Amazon or iTunes would go away quickly.
And FWIW, I do personal rips when I have to, but I'm also as lazy as the next guy. Best case scenario is I buy a physical disk from the artist directly on Bandcamp which automatically includes a digital version as well. Next best, Amazon albums that include AutoRip. Finally, physical copies from private storefronts or used markets, and I'll do the rip myself.
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#130Is there a minor irony that they recently rejected me without an interview for an SRE role, despite matching 1:1 in my experience to the role they had open? I'm not bitter, but something is probably wrong when they're turning down qualified candidates without even speaking to them first.
> something is probably wrong when they're turning down qualified candidates without even speaking to them first
Maybe I've only worked at bad companies, but this is the norm where I have been. Literally anything in your resume could have triggered someone to nix an interview. Interview culture is very "best of the best" in ways that make completely backwards sense.