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Snapchat is also having issues, I believe they are also on GCP.

And 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'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.

Interesting, this should be a good post-mortem about what happened and why the errors weren't showing up on the status dashboard.

Looks like a GCP-wide outage. And you can't tell them because their ticketing system at https://cloud.google.com/support/ is down too :-)

Google's G Suite Status Dashboard is here: https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status

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).

I don't know what I was expecting to happen

https://imgur.com/a/7Rc3WsQ

My code is having some trouble with Firestore as well. I was getting 503s ten minutes ago but now it's just really slow.

So is youtube: https://downdetector.com/status/youtube

Nest is also down. My apartment is burning hot, help! :/

Not familiar with Nest. Does your thermostat not work if your internet doesn't work?

Not from my phone. I have to get up and change it, but it's too hot and I don't wanna move

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.

Hopefully we never lose internet...

Ability to control your thermostat from anywhere in the world > remote control

Why do you have to control the temperature in places you aren't in?

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.

> To prevent your pipes from exploding

Seems like a thermostat could do that.

How did people keep their pipes from exploding before Nest?

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.

[1]: https://twitter.com/internetofshit

Tone it down.

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 don't be a jerk on HN.

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

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?

My IPs on GCE inaccessible for more than 30 mins already

Another post is saying youtube is down as well

Videos played for me, but none of the surrounding text (comments, playlist, etc) was there.

19:30 UTC and while several services appear to be back up IMAP logins to gmail are still timing out (UK, on BT).

Gitlab has been super slow too

That was related to the GCP issues, but there should be no more errors.

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

Finally got time to try out Flutter but couldn't download the SDK for a while from storage.googleapis.com

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.

Why is it so popular elsewhere?

It's free, easy to use, and normally fast and reliable.

What's popular in Germany?

Probably anything else.

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.

I am curious too about what's popular in Germany. I hope it's something better than ISP-provided emails.

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.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemail

Why do people in Germany unnecessarily use a Gmail address to register their Android devices?

Lazyness or not knowing better and probably because Google will make it very easy to set this address up when activating your phone.

But most people will then install the mailbox app from their provider and just use that.

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.

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