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Re: Google outage – resolved

#476

Given the blast radius of this (all regions appear to be impacted) along with the fact that services that don't rely on auth are working as normal, it must be a global authN/Z issue. I do not envy Google engineers right now.

yeah, not working in Europe

Re: Google outage – resolved

#478

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same for me - and then I tried logging in to gmail in an incognito window and got "Couldn't find your Google account" which really scared me.

Time to stop postponing that large Google Takeout for me!

Clicking the stupid download links is so tedious...

Re: Google outage – resolved

#479

Gmail said my account was "temporarily" unavailable... had a moment considering if it wasn't temporary. Good reminder to remove my reliance on gmail especially.

I started this[1] the last time something similarly scary happened.

It's very comforting to have a local copy of everything important in situations like this one.

[1] https://wiki.emilburzo.com/backing-up-your-google-digital-li...

Re: Google outage – resolved

#480
These rare events help make extremely visible how much of our general basic infrastructure we've farmed out to a small handful of companies, centralizing something that was supposed to avoid the problems of centralization.
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