I guess it's time for all the Google engineers to put their LeetCode skills to the test.
Google services have a good track record of uptime. You don't complain on the countless hours of uptime. HN hate at it again
Google Calendar Is Down
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#182Earlier 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?
Much of my family uses Google Calendar. Mostly because it's integrated into Android itself.
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This is not "advertising and deception from Google", it's a spam/scam/phishing campaign. https://www.wired.com/story/phishing-links-google-calendar-i... Similar attacks have been directed at iCloud users, too.
Plausible, but unlikely 1) This occurred in exactly the same set of minutes since the email direct from the airline arrived and Google parsed it and posted the flight info to my calendar 2) The hotel locations and dates for the fake reservation were exactly matched to the airline travel dates. It is also possible to win the lottery, but to post such an exactly targeted advertisement is for all practical purposes impo…
Ok, three parties... And it wasn't a shady link in the airline's email?
https://support.google.com/calendar/forum/AAAAd3GaXpEb0_0F6e...
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#184Writing your own little personal-use web apps can be really nice - not sure how common this is, but I highly recommend it. I did it for tasks, time tracking, invoicing, and personal finances, partly because Google and others kept "upgrading" and screwing up the UI & performance of the tools I was relying on. Each took about a day to write, and is customized exactly the way I like it; if I need a shortcut key, a weird…
I totally concur with the approach of building your own internal tools like this. There is a lot of technical value (and also some unique risks) with DIY tooling that is not usually apparent to the business owner. Being able to expose new APIs and interface things together with other parts of your business in new and open ways is a very powerful and compelling capability. Just knowing that you can do these things in the future is a powerful tool, as it keeps developers' minds more open to consider new integration and automation possibilities. Sure, most turn-key solutions offer some degree of an API and integration options, but if you control the source and CI/CD pipeline of your tools, it's a completely different ball game. I am sure most of us are acutely aware of the downsides of relying on 3rd party APIs at this point.
Also, Sqlite is a database engine to be seriously reckoned with if you know how to run a few magic PRAGMAs on your initial connection. I am still in awe of what can be achieved in terms of throughput and latency by a single connection on a WAL-journaled Sqlite db. If you don't need your app or service to scale beyond a single process per logical deployment, I cannot see any justification for using another engine.
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#185I hope it’s not the work of bughunters
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They provide updates to customers, but I'm under NDA with them.
I think you meant "paid customers". Pretty much all the people wrote here are "customers" one way or the other. By "updates" if you meant the message in GSuite Admin account notification section, it's no more insight than what's describing here: https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=2&iid=cc...
Yeah, paid customers. Not sure why I've been downvoted.
The engineers there obviously have info before the public status page gets updated.
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#187Writing your own little personal-use web apps can be really nice - not sure how common this is, but I highly recommend it. I did it for tasks, time tracking, invoicing, and personal finances, partly because Google and others kept "upgrading" and screwing up the UI & performance of the tools I was relying on. Each took about a day to write, and is customized exactly the way I like it; if I need a shortcut key, a weird…
That's a cool project, and it's a cool trick to avoid a dependency on a large company's app. Buuut There's always going to be a dependency on your ISP, your web hosting provider's internet access and their hardware uptime/backup schedule, your neighborhood's telephone poles and wires, your utility company, your hosting company's utility company, etc. etc. etc. We all stand on the shoulders of giants, and I try not to…
To circumvent this, you could host something on your LAN using, for example, a Raspberry Pi. To get access from outside that network, you could use some sort of VPN/proxy/tunneling, or you could host another instance with a hosting provider and sync the two.
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
> they provide a nice web interface (Horde) Beauty is in the eye of the beholder :) https://www.horde.org/apps/webmail/screenshots
It's not beautiful, but it actually looks nice IMO.
I swapped out Horde for Roundcube as my default for customers (who didn't want/need groupware, those are M$ and Zimbra), much easier on the eyes. Just as functional IMO.
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#189I 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…
While self-hosting is a good start, I believe that everyone should be end-to-end encrypting their data. Servers can be hacked and snooped on, and I cringe at the thought of leaving my personal information in the clear on a server, even if it's mine.
That's why I created EteSync[1] a secure, end-to-end encrypted, and privacy respecting sync solution that seamlessly integrates with existing apps and feels just like a Google account.
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#190I 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…
Wow you are so cool