I'm having issues with the GCP console, but all our GCP services are working without issue. Lots of errors related to spanner popping up in the console.
I have seen some reports of Cloud pub/sub not working.
Imagine taking the time to write this as a response to a light-hearted comment on the high-profile failings of other mega-corporations in a similar vein over the past several months/years. Rather, you take some perceived offense on behalf of your associates at Alphabet who refused to learn from the missteps of others :/
Sure, though, as parting words of advice:
flagging posts simply because you do not agree with them does not serve to assist with the Orwellian reputation of this site.
It’s funny. I have this little thing on my desk that lets me adjust the air conditioning, and it doesn’t rely on wifi or internet access or any “clouds”... it’s called a “remote control”.
If you’re silly enough to rely on internet access to change the temperature in your house you deserve to be hot.
The doors at my work open with an app. It connects through the internet.
My phone switches from mobile data to wifi as I get near the door, causing a several second wait. Now I hit the button before I reach the wifi and then run to the door to try to get it before it locks again.
To prevent your pipes from exploding or other equipment breaking. To have your home at a suitable temperature when you get back from an extended stay away.
It seems like some people are in denial about the benefits of using an internet connected device to control things. Here are a couple use cases that I find useful:
1. Automatically set the temperature cooler when you're home
2. Turn off your AC remotely if you forget (or automatically because of 1)
3. Change the temperature from your bed
Of course there are drawbacks: multiple points of failure. This is early tech, but it makes sense. For a really funny satire of how early these things are, follow [1].
I personally like to be in control so I disable the "learning" features.
Please do "respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." The parent was absurd enough that it was probably a joke.
The timing of this is interesting, one day after the DoJ announcement. A reminder of how important Google is to us, and how we shouldn't be jeopardizing it with anti-trust probes /s.
I wonder why everyone seems to be using Gmail. Nobody I know (mostly in Germany) really uses a Gmail-address except for registering their Android device.
GMX, web.de, T-Online are the biggest that come to my mind. They offer free mailboxes just like Gmail does, but are here since the early day. I think I registered with GMX in something like 2000 or so.
If Telekom/T-Mobile/T-Online is your internet provider, you'll automatically have a mailbox with them, too. Some people use it, some don't, I think it's most often ease of use and installation so it's popular with older people or small companies.
As mentioned above, we have several services for free mailboxes. Obviously you can have a @t-online.de address, not only if you are a customer of the Magenta giant.
Wikipedia lists some [1] providers and I think I have seen addresses from all of those providers in the wild or my mailbox.
Dark pattern. You can register an Android device with a non-Gmail address if you know what you're doing, but that's not where the UI takes you by default.
My parents, both in their 80s, figured out how to create a Google account without using a non-Gmail address so I find the idea that it is somehow difficult hard to accept.
For historical reasons Germans understand better than many others that big brother is a bad thing.
Firefox has a bigger market share in Germany than many other countries. Germans were so much against Google streetview that Google gave up and has never rolled it out to anywhere else than a couple of pilot regions. Many people seem to use startpage for web search. In Berlin local activists hindered Google from opening a new office. So not using gmail is just in line.
Disclaimer: I am German but haven't lived there for decades and wonder why in other countries many people still seem to like Google.
Weird, I'm able to use Gmail on desktop, but my iPhone hasn't been able to sync since messages 1:44pm Central US time (18:44 UTC), even after restarting. Is this related?
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[ 0.20 ms ] story [ 114 ms ] threadAnd as of this post, https://status.cloud.google.com/ shows no problems.
Edit: 1:31 mountain, now it shows an issue with the Compute Engine. https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/19003
I have seen some reports of Cloud pub/sub not working.
If you’re silly enough to rely on internet access to change the temperature in your house you deserve to be hot.
My phone switches from mobile data to wifi as I get near the door, causing a several second wait. Now I hit the button before I reach the wifi and then run to the door to try to get it before it locks again.
Hopefully we never lose internet...
Seems like a thermostat could do that.
How did people keep their pipes from exploding before Nest?
1. Automatically set the temperature cooler when you're home
2. Turn off your AC remotely if you forget (or automatically because of 1)
3. Change the temperature from your bed
Of course there are drawbacks: multiple points of failure. This is early tech, but it makes sense. For a really funny satire of how early these things are, follow [1].
I personally like to be in control so I disable the "learning" features.
[1]: https://twitter.com/internetofshit
I'm pretty sure the parent comment was, while grounded in reality, expressed in a humorous tone.
As he said, he can just get up and change the air conditioning.
Please do "respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." The parent was absurd enough that it was probably a joke.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://imgur.com/a/7Rc3WsQ
Why is it so popular elsewhere?
What's popular in Germany?
GMX, web.de, T-Online are the biggest that come to my mind. They offer free mailboxes just like Gmail does, but are here since the early day. I think I registered with GMX in something like 2000 or so.
If Telekom/T-Mobile/T-Online is your internet provider, you'll automatically have a mailbox with them, too. Some people use it, some don't, I think it's most often ease of use and installation so it's popular with older people or small companies.
Wikipedia lists some [1] providers and I think I have seen addresses from all of those providers in the wild or my mailbox.
[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemail
But most people will then install the mailbox app from their provider and just use that.
Firefox has a bigger market share in Germany than many other countries. Germans were so much against Google streetview that Google gave up and has never rolled it out to anywhere else than a couple of pilot regions. Many people seem to use startpage for web search. In Berlin local activists hindered Google from opening a new office. So not using gmail is just in line.
Disclaimer: I am German but haven't lived there for decades and wonder why in other countries many people still seem to like Google.
Google Cloud has resolved the issue as of 23:00 UTC yesterday. Any further information can be found on the issue at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/issues/862
Shows Gmail, Calendar and Hangouts with service disruptions.
EDIT: 3 minutes later, and now Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides and Voice are showing disruption too. Cascading.
EDIT2: 21:07 UTC - All above services plus Google Sync are now showing service outage (red).