Google Meeting dial-ins aren't working for this reason, I suppose. Had a meeting this morning and no one could dial in or use Hangouts.
Google Calendar Is Down
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#102Well I get that shit happens, but what is strange about these recent google incidents is actual downtime. 5 hours for google cloud, and almost 1 hour already for calendar.
I thought google can do better.
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#103404s here in Maine at 11:02a.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's amazing how many of these status pages don't actually work in many situations.
Wasn't there that time AWS had some outage, but the red-circle picture (for failure) was itself hosted on the unavailable AWS service, so their status page didn't show it as being unavailable? Or am I mis-remembering something/repeating an urban legend?
Nah, you're remembering correctly, this happened. The failure icon was hosted on S3, but S3 was down. It was a great moment.
Here's their tweet about it: https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's amazing how many of these status pages don't actually work in many situations.
Wasn't there that time AWS had some outage, but the red-circle picture (for failure) was itself hosted on the unavailable AWS service, so their status page didn't show it as being unavailable? Or am I mis-remembering something/repeating an urban legend?
Yep, the icons were hosted on S3, which was unavailable
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#106Thought something was wrong with Fantastical. It was Google then.
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#107I moved off to Radicale years ago: https://radicale.org/ I use it with Thunderbird, and DavDroid (now DavX) to handle all my events and contacts (SMS contacts even show up correctly in Hangouts on Android phones) I realize GCal is rarely ever down, but they do harvest all your data to sell you shit. Here's a basic Dockerfile for Radicale if you want to try it out: https://github.com/sumdog/bee2/tree/master/dockerfile…
There is also Nextcloud which provides for most self-hosting needs in a single package (calendar, tasks, file storage, notes, music, photos, device tracking, etc.)
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wasn't there that time AWS had some outage, but the red-circle picture (for failure) was itself hosted on the unavailable AWS service, so their status page didn't show it as being unavailable? Or am I mis-remembering something/repeating an urban legend?
Nah, you're remembering correctly, this happened. The failure icon was hosted on S3, but S3 was down. It was a great moment. Here's their tweet about it: https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656
Thank you for confirming, and the citation!
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Has Google made any public statements about whether or not calendar data is used for ad targeting? Gmail was used for ad targeting until mid-2017[1] but I haven't seen anything about calendar. [1] https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in...
Afaik, it was never used for ad targeting so there was no announcement to make. Just think about it for minute. What percentage of people actively use Google Calendar? Out of those what percentage put useful information in there? How much commercial value does this information have?
Google has to process this data first to know that it's not worth it. Unless you can blind guess?
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#110OP: Might be worth removing the link URL from this post so that we don't hammer their servers while they're trying to fix it for us.
Well, that's quite an insulting comment for the calendar team at G. I'm sure they are fine, this product is not a personal page with guestbook for your 20 friends and gifs on shared hosting plan.
Today, I imagine it's the mildest insult they're receiving.