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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 278 points 1 year ago

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

[-] simple@piefed.social 119 points 1 year ago

The people yearn for the digital anime waifus

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 118 points 1 year ago

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

[-] insomniac20k@lemmy.world 64 points 1 year ago

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

[-] tal@lemmy.today 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 16 points 1 year ago

A disruption to disfunctional search engines does not sound bad.

[-] ZeroCool@lemmy.ca 51 points 1 year ago

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 36 points 1 year ago

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 23 points 1 year ago

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 26 points 1 year 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 24 points 1 year ago

It's LLMs for ERP

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

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

[-] drspod@lemmy.ml 44 points 1 year ago

I put on my robe and wizard hat

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[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago

Enterprise resource planning

[-] errer@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Erotic resource planning

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[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] Mwa 132 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ohh that's why everything is slow and this is my sanity check.

But its scary how if Cloudflare went down most popular websites will go down with it

[-] justlemmyin@lemmy.world 94 points 1 year ago

Lemmy is working though. What else do we need?

[-] tal@lemmy.today 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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@infosec.pub 91 points 1 year 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 22 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 10 points 1 year ago

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

[-] talentedkiwi@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year 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.

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[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 70 points 1 year ago

This is my workday now

https://xkcd.com/303/

[-] Shirasho@lemmings.world 13 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] purrtastic@lemmy.nz 66 points 1 year 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.

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[-] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 59 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 57 points 1 year ago

*Laughs in self-hosting services.

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago

I wish I had that luxury with work.

All my personal stuff is 100% unaffected though!

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year 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 40 points 1 year 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 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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!

[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 38 points 1 year ago

Honestly, I didn't even notice.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 32 points 11 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 11 points 11 months ago

An AI chatbot that pretends to be a character and you roleplay with it.

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[-] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 31 points 11 months ago

c/selfhosted having a field day rn

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[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

The answer always seems to be: Cloudflare is fucking up again. This isn't the first time.

[-] tal@lemmy.today 12 points 1 year ago

Google Cloud status page:

https://status.cloud.google.com/

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[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year 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!

[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 months ago

Uh huh, just before a major democracy attacked an evil, evil country. Must be coincidence.

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