Everything appears to be down as of 18:43 UTC... https://downdetector.com/
Wait, it's all Google?
all cloud
GCP Outage
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#452If Google Chat is down per https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/ , the ability for Google engineers to communicate among themselves impaired, despite SREs having IRC as a backup.
it at least used to be standard and fairly well known practice for non-sres to use the irc bridge.
the much more disastrous situation would have been the irm fallback.
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Google is 10 minutes late updating their status page. "So shady" It's really, really hard to make a status page realtime.
What makes you think it’s hard? We have AI generating songs and writing code, but setting up basic health checks is too much?
What makes you think it’s easy?
Re: GCP Outage
#454If Google Chat is down per https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/ , the ability for Google engineers to communicate among themselves impaired, despite SREs having IRC as a backup.
They have irc services internally (or at least did when I was there 10-ish years ago).
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Devs before June 12, 2025: "Ai? Pfft, hallucination central. They'll never replace me!" Devs during June 12, 2025 GCP outage: "What, no AI?! Do you think I'm a slave?!"
100% agree... I even thought "ok maybe I'll clean up the backlog while I wait" but I'm so used to even using AI to clean up my JIRA backlog (using the Atlassian MCP), so even that feels weird to click into each ticket, just the way I used to do it TWO MONTHS AGO. This is a good wake-up call on how easily (and quickly) we can all become pretty dependent on these tools.
local llm's would work
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"clearing cache and cookies"? what is this, 1997?
First, check that nobody else in your family is making a call on the phone line that your modem is connected to, then make sure to disable your Internet Explorer add-ons before trying again.
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I'm not sure any single company could have an outage that would take out SMS globally, but RCS is presumably more centralized.
SMS is pretty much decentralized, although there's a few companies with a lot of reach. I don't remember any Global SMS outages, but it wasn't uncommon for a whole carrier to have an SMS outage and especially for inter-carrier SMS to be broken from time to time (sometimes for days). I've certainly seen some stuff with SMS aggregators: almost all of them claim a majority of direct links, but when you have accounts wit…
> recently iOS started using it although I don't know what server they attach to.
According to Wikipedia, only the carrier's RCS server is used [1]
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services#So...