I always love it when some massive piece of web infrastructure goes down but most websites I use are self-hosted so the only real effect is I see lots of news stories that cloudflare is down.

  • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
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    20 days ago

    Is there any meta analysis on these major outages?

    They seem to be occuring more and more regularly.

      • UsedLinuxDealer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        20 days ago

        I saw people speculating about this, but it’ll be interesting to see if that’s really what it was (and if so, if they’d admit it).

        • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          19 days ago

          I’m sure it was, and I’m sure they will not admit it.

          So I’ll throw this into the “conspiracy theory, but probably true” pile; and I’ll try to remember to check snopes.com in 20 years to see if I was somehow wrong.

          “Did Vibe coding really routinely break half the Internet is the 2020s?” …assuming the Internet and I are still both around by then…

          Edit: I’m already wrong. It sounds like it was computers being stupid is old tried and true ways; not computers being stupid in new trendy ways.

      • Subscript5676@lemmy.caEnglish
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        20 days ago

        Please don’t remind me. Had a colleague with a senior title who just vibecoded on our CI pipeline and it ended up blocking deployments for half a day.

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      20 days ago

      As far as major outages, I can only think of around 10 going back 5 years. Sure there have been minor hiccups and glitches, but gosh, that’s life on the internet.

      • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        19 days ago

        It does feel like the major outages are growing closer together.

        I want to blame plugging AI where it doesn’t belong, but I suppose that putting everything into the same couple of server closets could be the primary root cause.

      • BremboTheFourth@piefed.caEnglish
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        20 days ago

        Yeah I have issues with my home setup at least that often. I can only think of two occasions where the solution took more effort than a reboot. Maybe we’re all just old enough for “every 6 months” to feel like every 5 mins

        • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          20 days ago

          I don’t know how old you are brother, but it feels like I’m in one of those Star Trek warps where all the stars are just whizzing by.