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How often are there outages? Is there a significant outage every week to do simulations for? The problem with our organization is that outages are so rare that weekly we have nothing to discuss.
Posted by
fastest963 on Thursday September 03, 2026 @05:46PM
from the self-post dept.
Both of GCP's recent outages were caused by "fiber optic maintenance". On August 20th when us-west1 went down they said [1]:> The disruption originated during scheduled fiber optic maintenance, which unexpectedly compromised network capacity between data centers within the us-west1 region.Then on September 1st when us-central1-b (and collateral affects in other zones) went down they said...
Posted by
fastest963 on Thursday August 27, 2026 @06:21PM
from the status.cloud.google.com dept.
It's now been updated to 13 products and still nothing on the public status page.
The user still needs to provide proof that they own the passkey in order to login. It's not like someone could hack the website, steal the "string" and use it to login.
Posted by
fastest963 on Thursday June 25, 2026 @07:39PM
from the island.io dept.
Rezoning land is extremely difficult and likely requires changes to the Master plan for the city/county. If a citizen is unhappy with a zone nearby do not move there.
If an area is zoned for industrial and someone wants to build a datacenter there without variances I don't see why anyone should be able to say no. Same thing for building condos or single-family homes in areas zoned for those. There's almost always variances though which is why there is even an opportunity to say no.
This is what zoning is for. If you live near land zoned for industrial or commercial then you can't fight it when someone wants to develop the land. If you don't want to live near something like that you shouldn't have bought/rented next to that zone.
Depends. Is the alternative a loud, obnoxious factory? Or a warehouse with a constant stream of trucks? If you live near land zoned for industrial buildings then something is going to go there eventually.
Datacenters bring millions in tax revenue (I oppose giving them tax breaks, that's a politician issue not an issue inherent to DCs) and are much less of a nuance than factories or warehouses. The increased cost of electricity is a concern but can be helped by an upfront investment, a bond for future grid maintenance, or separate utility infrastructure.
Are the datacenter concerns actually AI fears and they somehow think that stifling datacenter construction will save their jobs from AI? I understand the fear but if there's money to be made, datacenters will get built somewhere, and another municipality will reap the benefits.
Coinbase claimed multiple AZs were down but the AWS statement was that only a single AZ was affected. Does anyone have more details?
For the last 3 months I've been trying to get support from Google/gRPC/GCS teams to fix an issue with gRPC which results in thousands of connections and constant connection churn. The underlying issue appears to be a constant backend priority rotation with the endpoints for the client to connect to. The gRPC team seems unwilling to address why the gRPC client is opening several hundred connections when I'm not even using the client.
I was told to open a GCP support ticket and after many messages back and forth the ticket was closed because the discussion would continue on GitHub only for the issue to be closed a few weeks later.
I'm not the only one experiencing this issue either as a related issue was just posted in the google-cloud-go repo: https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/issues/14538.
Posted by
fastest963 on Friday May 08, 2026 @11:17AM
from the github.com dept.
Posted by
fastest963 on Thursday May 07, 2026 @08:13AM
from the span.io dept.
Yeah, but this still gives any employee RCE on the GHES server right?
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fastest963 on Sunday April 26, 2026 @11:17PM
from the twitter.com dept.
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fastest963 on Saturday April 11, 2026 @03:50PM
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fastest963 on Thursday April 02, 2026 @06:57AM
from the cloud.google.com dept.
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fastest963 on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @12:42PM
from the cloud.google.com dept.
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fastest963 on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @08:16AM
from the android-developers.googleblog.com dept.
RateRudder:
https://raterudder.comI've been working on a solution to automate solar+battery use to arbitrage the market. I'm on a real-time utility plan but even if you're on TOU it can save you $1+ per day by strategically planning when to use the battery and when to conserve or charge the battery. So far it's limited to a few providers and only FranklinWH batteries but I'm eagerly looking for someone to help me get Powerwall support working and other ESS. It's open-source on GitHub as well.
On Mac binaries need to be signed and notarized and Apple could stop the spread of the malware once it's identified or even detect it before notarizing it.
I wouldn't say it's without pay. It's in the job description when you're hired and the pay should compensate for that. SREs are typically paid very well.
I'm not sure there's a realistic alternative. If you need to generate a key then it has to happen somehow on unsupported platforms. You can check Enabled() if you need to know and intend to do something different but I assume most of the time you run the same function either way you'd just prefer to opt into secret mode if it's available.
Posted by
fastest963 on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @11:52AM
from the cloud.google.com dept.
It can be more complicated depending on your environment but I'd prefer instead to use a Pub/Sub pattern instead. You can have a generic topic if you want to model it like the generic table but it handles retries, metrics, scaling, long-running, etc all for you. If you are running in the cloud then Pub/Sub is something you don't need to maintain and will scale better than this solution. You also won't need to VACUUM the Pub/Sub solution ;)