Curious that minutes ago I was listening music on YT. BTW not all services are down.
Me too.
But it started playing ads because apparently I wasn't logged in anymore... So it works but without "using" your account.
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#452So, anybody still feel like arguing that 'the cloud' is a viable back-up? Or is that a sore point right now? Just for a moment imagine: what if it never comes back again? Of course it will, - at least, it better - but what if it doesn't? And if it does, are you going to take countermeasures in case it happens again or is it just going to be 'back to normal' again?
Whatever data I have backed up in the cloud is synced across multiple devices that I use. Even if the cloud disappeared altogether, I still have it. The cloud allows me to keep an up to date copy across various devices.
You don't need 'the cloud' to do that. Look into Syncthing. It does depend on an outside "discovery server" by default to enable syncing outside of your LAN, but you can run your own.
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#453Even Google Sign In service is down. Sites like Airbnb, Duolingo, etc that uses Google Sign In can't log in their users.
Re: Google outage – resolved
#454So, anybody still feel like arguing that 'the cloud' is a viable back-up? Or is that a sore point right now? Just for a moment imagine: what if it never comes back again? Of course it will, - at least, it better - but what if it doesn't? And if it does, are you going to take countermeasures in case it happens again or is it just going to be 'back to normal' again?
Of course it's viable as a backup. Availability != realibility. My data is still reliably saved in the cloud even if there is an outage for a few hours. The key point is backup, e.g. Dropbox. When you use Google Docs, it becomes a single source of truth and a SPOF.
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#455Whataya know Youtube didn’t work and I came to HN to check what happened.
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#456Hmm. My magical spell works.
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#457Just got a text from my kids' school saying GMail is down and to use the school's direct email. Immediate reaction was "Google isn't down you idiots, the problem is on your end", go to check GMail, yep it's down.
yeah this is like saying it must be a compiler bug
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#458Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whatever data I have backed up in the cloud is synced across multiple devices that I use. Even if the cloud disappeared altogether, I still have it. The cloud allows me to keep an up to date copy across various devices.
What's annoying is that synchronisation does't work for google slides or google docs. They are just synchronized as links to the webpage on my computer.
Not 100% on that, but I think you can save these documents on Google Drive, and then they're treated (and synced) just like any other files.
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#459Seems to be back up (Europe/NL).
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#460Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the point of having a status page when it can't reliably tell you the factual status?
It's red already.
No -- it needs to be red when it's having the outage for people to have confidence in it as an indicator. The reality is Google have no real incentive to provide an actual external status page that is accurate -- to do so is an admission of not upholding SLAs. These status pages are updated retrospectively. Use a third party one like DownDetector.