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Hmm why youtube does not work but google.com does. Now I'm wondering if you rely on OCSP in a TLS client and the pki is Google does it still works?
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It's not inevitable, it's essentially impossible. There are a few things that can cause tremendously widespread outages , essentially all of them network configuration changes. Actually deleting customer data is dramatically more difficult to the point of impossible - there are so many different services in so many different locations with so many layers of access control. There is no "one command" that can do such a…
Ah, but you fail to account for Google's incredible knack for building tools designed to do things at scale. Or put AI in things that don't need it. The possibility Google will either manage to unleash a malicious AI on their infrastructure and/or develop a way to destroy a lot of data at scale quite efficiently or some combination of the two is far from zero. Bear in mind, this "Little Oops" should also have been im…
"We deployed this private cloud with a missing parameter and it wasn't caught" is as different from "we wiped out all customer data" as hello world is from Kubernetes.
No one promised this "should be impossible". Did you confuse "we'll take steps to ensure this never happens again"?
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Congratulations! You’ve successfully avoided YouTube Shorts.
Personally, I just scroll through them. They break the feed into well defined "chapters" at the end of what I can decide to look into the next one or go somewhere else because there's nothing good there today. Also there's this woman that makes very funny shorts about software development and good long videos that aren't as good. I look for her shorts too.
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For one, Cloudflare uses four different CAs almost interchangeably. Caddy also makes it easy to configure ACME failover if you're self-hosting, and defaults to using two different CAs if you don't specify any. Frankly even with no CA redundancy, downtime would have to drag on for weeks to actually disrupt renewals. ACME certs usually get rotated after about 2/3rds of their duration has expired, so the upcoming 45 day…
They aren't all drop in replacements for each other though. For example, Let's Encrypt offers free wildcard certs (with dns verification), but for ZeroSSL, it requires a paid subscription.
https://zerossl.com/documentation/acme/
> By using ZeroSSL's ACME feature, you will be able to generate an unlimited amount of 90-day SSL certificates at no charge, also supporting multi-domain certificates and wildcards.
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Ah, but you fail to account for Google's incredible knack for building tools designed to do things at scale. Or put AI in things that don't need it. The possibility Google will either manage to unleash a malicious AI on their infrastructure and/or develop a way to destroy a lot of data at scale quite efficiently or some combination of the two is far from zero. Bear in mind, this "Little Oops" should also have been im…
.....no? "We deployed this private cloud with a missing parameter and it wasn't caught" is as different from "we wiped out all customer data" as hello world is from Kubernetes. No one promised this "should be impossible". Did you confuse "we'll take steps to ensure this never happens again"?
You contend there's no global rm rf for a global cloud provider, but clearly a missing parameter can rm rf a customer in an irrecoverable manner.
The only half you're missing is... how every major cloud outage happens today... a bad configuration update. These companies have hundreds of thousands of servers, but they also use orchestration tools to distribute sets of changes to all of them.
You only need a command to rm rf one box, if you are distributing that command to every box.
Now sure, there are tons of security precautions and checks and such to prevent this! But pretending it's impossible is delusional. People do stupid stuff, at scale, every day.
The most likely scenario is a zero day in an environment necessitating an extremely rapid global rollout, combined with a plain, simple error.
> A fix to resolve the issue will roll out in about 8 hours oof
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Never see these. Skill issue?
I'm inundated with them. YT has become borderline unusable. The homepage is nightmarish. Can't search for anything without being overwhelmed with shorts in the results, many unrelated to what I'm searching.
It is a well-known fact that the moment YouTube goes down, the collective productivity of Earth increases by approximately 4,000%, which is immediately squandered by everyone going to Hacker News to read comments about YouTube being down. I myself have taken to podcasts… an ancient medium in which people simply talk at you for ninety minutes without a single sponsorship for a mobile game, and this is considered a fai…
They've begun injecting obnoxious ads into the downloadable mp3s on a lot of podcasts I've found. Hyperlocal ads for tire shops and bakeries. I don't want to buy tires, I want to learn about ______. The ads don't even make sense because they're irrelevant.
Give it another 10-20 years and your 2 hour podcasts will be 30 minutes of morning zoo DJ banter, 10 minutes of guests, and 1.5 hours of ads.
We’ll have reached peak 90s all over again. With any luck we’ll avoid recreating the conditions for another Nickelback and can stay in the weird zone where Trip Hop and pop punk could chart at the same time.
Ah, so that’s probably why YouTube is also down (at the time of this comment)
I am playing a YouTube video (since the time of this comment) and it has not been interrupted.
So you're using snakeoil certificates and MITM proxies at work?