c/selfhosted having a field day rn
Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted
Submitted 1 day ago by jimmy@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://mashable.com/article/google-down-cloudflare-twitch-character-ai-internet-outage
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axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 11 hours ago
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
Yeah, wonder how those cloudflare(d) tunnels werd keeping up.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Dafuq is a character.ai and why is it in the same list as google and cloudflare? Like yea my local grocery store had some issues should that be on the list too?
skrlet13@feddit.cl 10 hours ago
An AI chatbot that pretends to be a character and you roleplay with it.
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
Back in my day, we just told Cleverbot to suck our dicks
Revan343@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
Had to include something AI because of the craze, probably picked at random
Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
Ohh that’s why everything is slow and this is my sanity check
floo@retrolemmy.com 1 day ago
Cloudflare is a cancer
Xylight@lemdro.id 1 day ago
Most people who dislike cloudflare do so for their centralization of the internet, rightly so.
Me? I HATE THE STUPID “VERIFYING YOUR REQUEST” PROMPTS. THEY TAKE WAYYY TOO LONG AND DONT WORK WITH MY USER AGENT SWITCHER. STUPID WEBSITES WITH 3 MONTHLY USERS ARE TURNING ON ADVANCED “DDOS PROTECTION” JUST TO MAKE EVERY FUNCTION OF THEIR APP TAKE 18 MONTHS
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 1 day ago
I remember the day I went why are we all selfhosting and still relying on a site like Cloudflare?.
I’m glad I agreed with me on it.
anas@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
this “me” character is so smart, aren’t they
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 20 hours ago
Oh, he’s the best. Keeps me out of trouble, that one.
talentedkiwi@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I’ve migrated about half of my services off of cloudflare DNS proxy. Guess which half still worked this afternoon. (Self hosting pangolin with CrowdSec as replacement). I wasn’t even using the cloudflare tunnel. Just their proxy for some bot mitigation.
SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 1 day ago
been really enjoying pangolin so far! i got scared and ended I’ll not installing crowdsec.
am i missing out? how hard would that be to add after the fact?
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
I used Cloudflare tunneling for a while, then started to have similar thoughts. I’m off Cloudflare now.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I use it for DNS and domain hosting, but that’s it, none of their proxying stuff.
Joeffect@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Why though? You have other options less detrimental to the internet than using and supporting them…
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 day ago
still hard. most projects still CDN online instead of packaging into a single application.
it’s one of the most infuriating things about self-hosting. so I made my own self-hosted CDN and have rewrite rules that replace most public cdb domains and reroute them to my own local.
it would be great if I could just have something in the middle that would download once and cache locally on request, but it’s effort that would be taken from my time afk.
iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 17 hours ago
By self-hosted you mean you have hardware geographically distributed? Like… boxes at friend’s houses or…?
justlemmyin@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Lemmy is working though. What else do we need?
tal@lemmy.today 1 day ago
I think that at least some instances use CloudFlare for various things, so depending upon what and how much stuff at CloudFlare is broken, some lemmy instances may be impacted.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
Honestly, I didn’t even notice.
purrtastic@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
The problem was actually caused by Google Google Cloud went down hard on Thursday, and took Cloudflare and some of its customers with it.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I’ve been looking everywhere for somebody to explain it. Like, there are dozens of articles outlining exactly what happened. Which I don’t need because I was there. I know what happened. I just have been wondering why and finally you have provided a link that actually gives me a reason.
So, thank you kind stranger.
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
This is my workday now
Shirasho@lemmings.world 1 day ago
Nowadays they will tell you to work on something else in the meantime.
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Your code can compile while you’re in a retro, retrospectively looking back at the action items raised in a previous retro but not assigned any sprint time in the current sprint so you just raised a "what went wrong about it not being planned and now you have more non-sprint work to do because every problem should be presented with a solution and if you could have that for the next retro they’ll review this retro’s action items and see if you have a proposal for fixing retro action items
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
As someone who hasn’t worked anywhere with a profit-motive in over a decade, I don’t know how you guys do it.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 day ago
Yep
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I actually enjoy when this happens. All this centralized shit will not end well.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Centralized is control. Control is profit. It’s already not “well”, that’s why we’re here discussing it.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
*Laughs in self-hosting services.
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I wish I had that luxury with work.
All my personal stuff is 100% unaffected though!
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
You’re not wrong. The gangly stacks of orchestrated black-box containers at a pubcloud beholden to shareholder whim is going to be a huge factor. Sorry grandma can’t get her pills, but - phew - the number will still go up.
grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Same. Feeling pretty good about using Anubis instead of Cloudflare for our dinky systems.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 day ago
At work just about all major services are super slow or down. It's like cloud strike again.
Oh well I still get paid. But it's crazy how much centralization affects the world wide web.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
It’s like cloud strike again
When The Cloud goes on Strike. Damn it they’re just asking for more power, Scotty!
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
Uh huh, just before a major democracy attacked an evil, evil country. Must be coincidence.
Oderus@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
So tell me, how does the world work? We all hold hands and hug and cry together?
Almacca@aussie.zone 5 hours ago
You’re funny.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
And that other huge democracy ongoing attacks on its own cities and economy.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The answer always seems to be: Cloudflare is fucking up again. This isn’t the first time.
myrrh@ttrpg.network 11 hours ago
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
??? My shit is working.
tal@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Google Cloud status page:
jimmy@feddit.org 1 day ago
Thanks I have updated the downdector link to this instead.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Holy shit, goddamn near everything is down, nearly everywhere.
Fucking Tracer Tong ending from Deus Ex, hope somebody has a save file they can reload from soon, otherwise… yeah…
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Oh no, not Cloudflare!
Oh right I use NextDNS, so anyway…
Oh, its also Google, Twitch, Discord and Etsy?
Ah dang, sucks for those users I guess.
Ahem, annnyyyywaaaayyyy…
NeilBru@lemmy.world 1 day ago
realize you’re addicted to social media like a drug
Lemmy included.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Speaking as someone who managed to quit smoking, but still uses a vape, who is focusing on doing daily PT from being maimed a while back…
A step in the right direction is a step in the right direction.
Lemmy ain’t corporate like Reddit, it ain’t parasocial, only a very small number of users actually directly link their real identity to their psuedonym, and it doesn’t have a worldclass algo perfecting what content to feed to specifically you.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Was trying to order food online and that was apparently affected.
Gotta love having all our eggs in one basket, eh? We learned something from the big ass east coast AWS outage!
lena@gregtech.eu 1 day ago
I think pkg.go.dev is down too
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
npm is having issues as well. Fun fun day.
lena@gregtech.eu 1 day ago
Time to relax
floo@retrolemmy.com 1 day ago
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Well that was fun!
arararagi@ani.social 16 hours ago
Strangely enough, twitch streams and chat were working fine but everything else was broken, had an empty following list.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
It’s seen tech talks by Twitch’s engineering team. Some of those folks are scary smart.
Not that it takes that much cleverness to avoid using CloudFlare, of course.
But might be related. Twitch had some clever fallbacks and work-arounds for slow Internet, in that tech talk.
atlien51@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Good, we have a reason to touch grass now
ryantown@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Character.ai being mentioned in the same line is a sign of the times.
simple@piefed.social 1 day ago
The people yearn for the digital anime waifus
tal@lemmy.today 1 day ago
When you stop using a search engine and use AI-generated responses for everything, I guess it could qualify as having a disruptive functional impact.
ZeroCool@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Well, the actual headline is:
Character.ai is only mentioned in the lengthy list of services that are down.
ryantown@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It even swapped in Twitch when I read it at the time. Headlines be changing.
The_Worst@feddit.nl 1 day ago
What is character.ai? Have I been living under a stone? When I visit the page I have to log in just to learn what it is?
match@pawb.social 1 day ago
It’s LLMs for ERP