Ohh that’s why everything is slow and this is my sanity check
Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted
Submitted 3 weeks 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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Mwa@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
floo@retrolemmy.com 3 weeks ago
Cloudflare is a cancer
Xylight@lemdro.id 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
this “me” character is so smart, aren’t they
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Oh, he’s the best. Keeps me out of trouble, that one.
talentedkiwi@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I use it for DNS and domain hosting, but that’s it, none of their proxying stuff.
Joeffect@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Why though? You have other options less detrimental to the internet than using and supporting them…
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
By self-hosted you mean you have hardware geographically distributed? Like… boxes at friend’s houses or…?
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I used Cloudflare tunneling for a while, then started to have similar thoughts. I’m off Cloudflare now.
justlemmyin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Lemmy is working though. What else do we need?
tal@lemmy.today 3 weeks 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.
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
This is my workday now
Shirasho@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
Nowadays they will tell you to work on something else in the meantime.
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Yep
purrtastic@lemmy.nz 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I actually enjoy when this happens. All this centralized shit will not end well.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Centralized is control. Control is profit. It’s already not “well”, that’s why we’re here discussing it.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
*Laughs in self-hosting services.
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I wish I had that luxury with work.
All my personal stuff is 100% unaffected though!
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Same. Feeling pretty good about using Anubis instead of Cloudflare for our dinky systems.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
It’s like cloud strike again
When The Cloud goes on Strike. Damn it they’re just asking for more power, Scotty!
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Honestly, I didn’t even notice.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
An AI chatbot that pretends to be a character and you roleplay with it.
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Back in my day, we just told Cleverbot to suck our dicks
Revan343@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Had to include something AI because of the craze, probably picked at random
skrlet13@feddit.cl 3 weeks ago
It is very used actually. There’s a lot of lonely people… :(
(I don’t use it tho, I just yell at the void on Fedi)
axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
c/selfhosted having a field day rn
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Yeah, wonder how those cloudflare(d) tunnels werd keeping up.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The answer always seems to be: Cloudflare is fucking up again. This isn’t the first time.
tal@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Google Cloud status page:
jimmy@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Thanks I have updated the downdector link to this instead.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks 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…
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Uh huh, just before a major democracy attacked an evil, evil country. Must be coincidence.
Oderus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
So tell me, how does the world work? We all hold hands and hug and cry together?
Almacca@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
You’re funny.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And that other huge democracy ongoing attacks on its own cities and economy.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks 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!
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
realize you’re addicted to social media like a drug
Lemmy included.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks 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.
lena@gregtech.eu 3 weeks ago
I think pkg.go.dev is down too
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
npm is having issues as well. Fun fun day.
lena@gregtech.eu 3 weeks ago
Time to relax
floo@retrolemmy.com 3 weeks ago
myrrh@ttrpg.network 3 weeks ago
atlien51@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Good, we have a reason to touch grass now
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well that was fun!
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
??? My shit is working.
arararagi@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Strangely enough, twitch streams and chat were working fine but everything else was broken, had an empty following list.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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.
ryantown@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Character.ai being mentioned in the same line is a sign of the times.
simple@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
The people yearn for the digital anime waifus
tal@lemmy.today 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Well, the actual headline is:
Character.ai is only mentioned in the lengthy list of services that are down.
ryantown@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It even swapped in Twitch when I read it at the time. Headlines be changing.
The_Worst@feddit.nl 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
It’s LLMs for ERP