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Re: Gmail Services Global Outage

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post #15

Semi-related, but can anyone suggest good open source email client? I'm working on several computers with macos/linux and Gmail isn't slow only on my deep learning rig, so I'm looking for something to replace it.

I can definitely recommend Mailspring[0]. It has occasional quirks, but very stable. [0] https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring

But this requires a Mailspring account right? At least it did when I tried it a while back.

Re: Gmail Services Global Outage

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Global does not mean "affecting absolutely everyone around the globe (or disc, for the flatearthers out there)". Affecting a "significant subset of users" that are spread around every continent is global and it shows it's not one specific DC, link, or ISP that was affected.

The fact that you didn't experience the disruption means absolutely nothing and it's ridiculous to even suggest it does. Especially since there are other reports from Switzerland flagging downtime. See the map in the link.

Re: Gmail Services Global Outage

#35
post #27

Well Microsoft had their annual mail outage the other day... I guess they could have coordinated a bit better to get them done and out of the way at the same time.

Microsoft has had at least 2 major Azure outages that affected their SSO product. My system was unreachable by anyone but admins. Our systems engineer couldn’t do anything but wait on Microsoft to fix the issue on their end.

Re: Gmail Services Global Outage

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post #33

Global does not mean "affecting absolutely everyone around the globe (or disc, for the flatearthers out there)". Affecting a "significant subset of users" that are spread around every continent is global and it shows it's not one specific DC, link, or ISP that was affected. The fact that you didn't experience the disruption means absolutely nothing and it's ridiculous to even suggest it does. Especially since there a…

>or disc, for the flatearthers out there

I mean, seriously? :)

Re: Gmail Services Global Outage

#37
post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, I would say that the complexity of complexity is exponential. In the aerospace industry, to get that last percent of a percent, 2 completely independent implementations of everything are used. Then to get another decimal, you add 2 more implementations and a consensus algorithm. Then of course you add static/unit/api/integration/stress/fuzz test suits for each implementation. Then test the tests. Then have a hu…

> After a while you can spend the entire GDP of the world and you wont be able to add another availability decimal point. And in a couple decades, when the world GDP is a bit higher, formal methods will become practical in real-life situations.

This work needs to happen on both sides. Format methods need to become much cheaper and more accessible.

Re: Gmail Services Global Outage

#38
post #15

Semi-related, but can anyone suggest good open source email client? I'm working on several computers with macos/linux and Gmail isn't slow only on my deep learning rig, so I'm looking for something to replace it.

I can definitely recommend Mailspring[0]. It has occasional quirks, but very stable. [0] https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring

I have correspondence with various Chinese and Cyrillic alphabet symbols and their closed source string\decoder processor mysteriously fails on "complex" symbols and I cannot debug it! Otherwise is an excellent client.

Re: Gmail Services Global Outage

#39
post #33

Global does not mean "affecting absolutely everyone around the globe (or disc, for the flatearthers out there)". Affecting a "significant subset of users" that are spread around every continent is global and it shows it's not one specific DC, link, or ISP that was affected. The fact that you didn't experience the disruption means absolutely nothing and it's ridiculous to even suggest it does. Especially since there a…

I bet you're fun at parties.

Re: Gmail Services Global Outage

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post #15

Semi-related, but can anyone suggest good open source email client? I'm working on several computers with macos/linux and Gmail isn't slow only on my deep learning rig, so I'm looking for something to replace it.

I've been happily using Thunderbird for 10+ years. Supports Windows, Mac, and Linux natively. https://www.thunderbird.net

In my experience it crashes a few times a week and have abandoned feel. Is there any modern fork?
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