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Re: Incident with Actions and Pages

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Post by coldpie »

onion2k wrote: post #282
neya wrote: post #255

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's an eye opener. Think about it - today, it was a mistake. But, what if it really happened? What if you really lost access to all your years of hard work? It's a wake up call. A blessing in disguise to store what matters to you the most locally, backed up offline. Never trust any single provider. Be it MS or Google or Apple. RAID is the way.

People should use something that keeps a local copy of their code and just copies it to Github and to other contributors with a sync process to push and pull changes. Some sort of 'distributed source control system' maybe. Then people would only need a 'hub' to connect to people, and it'd be easier to move somewhere else.

This gets tiresome. Github is a lot more than a host for Git repositories. If you want to suggest that people use something else, you need to suggest a replacement that has the features people use Github for.

Re: Incident with Actions and Pages

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Post by hxii »

At this point it's as if the team there went "fuck it, let's just watch it all burn down" or something.

With all the recent negativity – how are they not even TRYING to fix the damn thing?

Re: Incident with Actions and Pages

#295

Post by ornornor »

coldpie wrote: post #291
onion2k wrote: post #282

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People should use something that keeps a local copy of their code and just copies it to Github and to other contributors with a sync process to push and pull changes. Some sort of 'distributed source control system' maybe. Then people would only need a 'hub' to connect to people, and it'd be easier to move somewhere else.

This gets tiresome. Github is a lot more than a host for Git repositories. If you want to suggest that people use something else, you need to suggest a replacement that has the features people use Github for.

Increasingly less and less so as they “upgrade” their offering and have more and more downtime.

Re: Incident with Actions and Pages

#296

Post by lokar »

hnlmorg wrote: post #266
lokar wrote: post #239

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Even a synthetic probe needs a few failures to trigger an alert. You should not alert on cpu, ram, etc

> Even a synthetic probe needs a few failures to trigger an alert. It doesn't "need" that. That just how most people set it up because it’s an easy sane default that allows for network jitter without inexperienced engineers thinking about different conditions triggering different types of responses. If you’re measuring internal APIs from an observablity solution that’s has nodes already inside you’re network enclave,…

Ah, yes, I misunderstood. And I have seen cases where a direct CPU alert makes sense, but 99 times out of 100 times I see it, it's nothing but trouble. Worse, I tend to see the cpu alert when there are no end to end synthetic alerts, 500 alerts, queue depth alerts, etc.

If your requests are fast and cheap, you can probe frequently relative to your goals, but often that's not really possible (think, long SQL queries, or scheduling a container/pod). There you need several datapoints, or possible fewer augmented with other signals.

Re: Incident with Actions and Pages

#297

Post by PokemonNoGo »

corvad wrote: post #287
neya wrote: post #255

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's an eye opener. Think about it - today, it was a mistake. But, what if it really happened? What if you really lost access to all your years of hard work? It's a wake up call. A blessing in disguise to store what matters to you the most locally, backed up offline. Never trust any single provider. Be it MS or Google or Apple. RAID is the way.

RAID is not a backup.

They... Didn't describe RAID? More 3-2-1.

Re: Incident with Actions and Pages

#298

Post by mpaco »

neya wrote: post #255
a10c wrote: post #19

My action failed with "Unexpected error fetching GitHub release for tag refs/heads/master: HttpError: Sorry. Your account was suspended" Which certainly made me shit myself, briefly.

It's an eye opener. Think about it - today, it was a mistake. But, what if it really happened? What if you really lost access to all your years of hard work? It's a wake up call. A blessing in disguise to store what matters to you the most locally, backed up offline. Never trust any single provider. Be it MS or Google or Apple. RAID is the way.

I recently got my GitHub account suspended for 4 months. When it was finally reinstated, their support just said it was a "mistake".

Proudly self-hosting Forgejo since then.

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