Tinfoil hat theory: Big-Tech and the Orange Dickkktator are testing how to blackout most of the web, for this weekend potentially...

Google Cloud status page:

Google Cloud Service Health

(status.cloud.google.com)

I think https://pkg.go.dev/ is down too

When you stop using a search engine and use AI-generated responses for everything, I guess having your LLM backends go down could qualify as having a disruptive functional impact.

npm is having issues as well with publish and installs. Fun fun day.

Time to forget about code and relax

Well, the actual headline is:

Massive internet outage: Google services, Cloudflare, Spotify all down, users report

Character.ai is only mentioned in the lengthy list of services that are down.

Lemmy is working though. What else do we need?

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.

Cloudflare is a cancer

ahem

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.

Thanks I have updated the Google link to this instead of downdector.

If you're not running your waifu on a local machine she's just a digital prostitute.

Massive internet outage reported:
Google, Cloudflare, Twitch all down

It even swapped in Twitch when I read it at the time. Headlines be changing.

It sucks because up until the "sales team" rugpull, they're the cheapest (and closest to reality) for bandwidth cost, virtually all the other CDN providers charge astronomical prices and their margins are hundreds to thousands of percentage.

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!

tell me more

If the costs are mostly variable in how much they serve up, and uptime is sufficiently important, maybe have two CDNs and use the other one as a fallback when things start going tits-up?

A disruption to disfunctional search engines does not sound bad.