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Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted (mashable.com)

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[–] ryantown@lemmy.world 265 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Character.ai being mentioned in the same line is a sign of the times.

[–] simple@piefed.social 114 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The people yearn for the digital anime waifus

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 114 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] insomniac20k@lemmy.world 61 points 2 months ago

The one downvote on this comment makes it like 20x funnier

[–] tal@lemmy.today 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

A disruption to disfunctional search engines does not sound bad.

[–] ZeroCool@lemmy.ca 49 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] ryantown@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] Uli@sopuli.xyz 22 points 2 months ago (4 children)

And when I went there, it said Google, Cloudflare, and Frank's Dildo Emporium all down, like of all the random sites, why pick FDE?

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[–] The_Worst@feddit.nl 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's LLMs for ERP

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

... What's ERP? Or don't I want to know?

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 19 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Enterprise resource planning

[–] errer@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Erotic resource planning

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My front-line guess is "Erotic Role Play" but I am not familiar with character.ai

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[–] justlemmyin@lemmy.world 88 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy is working though. What else do we need?

[–] tal@lemmy.today 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 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.

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge 83 points 2 months ago (8 children)

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 points 2 months ago (1 children)

this “me” character is so smart, aren’t they

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge 10 points 2 months ago

Oh, he's the best. Keeps me out of trouble, that one.

[–] talentedkiwi@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 68 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This is my workday now

https://xkcd.com/303/

[–] Shirasho@lemmings.world 13 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Nowadays they will tell you to work on something else in the meantime.

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[–] purrtastic@lemmy.nz 64 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The problem was actually caused by Google Google Cloud went down hard on Thursday, and took Cloudflare and some of its customers with it.

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[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 55 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I actually enjoy when this happens. All this centralized shit will not end well.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 54 points 2 months ago (3 children)

*Laughs in self-hosting services.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 months ago

I wish I had that luxury with work.

All my personal stuff is 100% unaffected though!

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 13 points 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.

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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 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! Don't let those scabs cross the picket line!

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 39 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Another reason to self host 😊

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I’m pretty sure cloudflare has better uptime than you

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[–] cryptix@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I do agree , the web needs to be decentralized, but does your server have similar uptime to cloudflare.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Does it need to?

[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 months ago

No but then the argument above falls flat, doesn't it?

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 37 points 2 months ago

Honestly, I didn't even notice.

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 35 points 2 months ago (2 children)

We need to break up Cloudflare.

[–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We just should not use cloudflare. Why is everybody still trying to use cloudflare.

It drives me nuts. The default answer on all network problems: why don't you just use cloudflare? No! No no.

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[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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?