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 2 months 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 2 months ago
floo@retrolemmy.com 2 months ago
Cloudflare is a cancer
Xylight@lemdro.id 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
this “me” character is so smart, aren’t they
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Oh, he’s the best. Keeps me out of trouble, that one.
talentedkiwi@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
I use it for DNS and domain hosting, but that’s it, none of their proxying stuff.
Joeffect@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why though? You have other options less detrimental to the internet than using and supporting them…
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
By self-hosted you mean you have hardware geographically distributed? Like… boxes at friend’s houses or…?
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I used Cloudflare tunneling for a while, then started to have similar thoughts. I’m off Cloudflare now.
justlemmyin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lemmy is working though. What else do we need?
tal@lemmy.today 2 months 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 2 months ago
This is my workday now
Shirasho@lemmings.world 2 months ago
Nowadays they will tell you to work on something else in the meantime.
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Yep
purrtastic@lemmy.nz 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
I actually enjoy when this happens. All this centralized shit will not end well.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Centralized is control. Control is profit. It’s already not “well”, that’s why we’re here discussing it.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
*Laughs in self-hosting services.
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I wish I had that luxury with work.
All my personal stuff is 100% unaffected though!
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 months 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 2 months ago
Same. Feeling pretty good about using Anubis instead of Cloudflare for our dinky systems.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Honestly, I didn’t even notice.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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 2 months ago
An AI chatbot that pretends to be a character and you roleplay with it.
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Back in my day, we just told Cleverbot to suck our dicks
Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Had to include something AI because of the craze, probably picked at random
skrlet13@feddit.cl 1 month 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 2 months ago
c/selfhosted having a field day rn
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Yeah, wonder how those cloudflare(d) tunnels werd keeping up.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The answer always seems to be: Cloudflare is fucking up again. This isn’t the first time.
tal@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Google Cloud status page:
jimmy@feddit.org 2 months ago
Thanks I have updated the downdector link to this instead.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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 2 months ago
Uh huh, just before a major democracy attacked an evil, evil country. Must be coincidence.
Oderus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
So tell me, how does the world work? We all hold hands and hug and cry together?
Almacca@aussie.zone 2 months ago
You’re funny.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And that other huge democracy ongoing attacks on its own cities and economy.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
realize you’re addicted to social media like a drug
Lemmy included.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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 2 months ago
I think pkg.go.dev is down too
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
npm is having issues as well. Fun fun day.
lena@gregtech.eu 2 months ago
Time to relax
floo@retrolemmy.com 2 months ago
atlien51@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Good, we have a reason to touch grass now
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well that was fun!
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
??? My shit is working.
arararagi@ani.social 2 months ago
Strangely enough, twitch streams and chat were working fine but everything else was broken, had an empty following list.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 months 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 2 months ago
Character.ai being mentioned in the same line is a sign of the times.
simple@piefed.social 2 months ago
The people yearn for the digital anime waifus
tal@lemmy.today 2 months 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 2 months ago
Well, the actual headline is:
Character.ai is only mentioned in the lengthy list of services that are down.
ryantown@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It even swapped in Twitch when I read it at the time. Headlines be changing.
The_Worst@feddit.nl 2 months 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 2 months ago
It’s LLMs for ERP