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Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted

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Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted

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Users are reporting widespread errors at popular apps and websites.

Archive of cloudflare status

Google status

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    278•2 months ago

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

    • simple
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      121•2 months ago

      The people yearn for the digital anime waifus

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

        • @[email protected]
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          64•2 months ago

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

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        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.

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          16•2 months ago

          A disruption to disfunctional search engines does not sound bad.

    • @[email protected]
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      51•2 months 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.

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        36•2 months 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.

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          23•2 months 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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            Oh shit, a fellow FDE-head in the wild… What do you think of the latest Bad Dragons they just got in? I got one for 50% off, and it was only slightly used by Frank.

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            1•2 months ago

            Ai? Or a catch headline

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              9•2 months ago

              It’s a joke. I don’t think there’s really a website called Frank’s Dildo Emporium. But if there is, lmk.

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                9•2 months ago

                You could just google it-

                oh wait

      • melroy
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        Still a very important service for many people who are alone.😢

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          10•2 months ago

          Self host your desperation.

          https://huggingface.co/Sao10K/L3-8B-Stheno-v3.2

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      26•2 months 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?

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        24•2 months ago

        It’s LLMs for ERP

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          … What’s ERP? Or don’t I want to know?

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            44•2 months ago

            I put on my robe and wizard hat

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              2•2 months ago

              Is that a bash reference? Jesus im old

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            21•2 months ago

            Enterprise resource planning

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              18•2 months ago

              Erotic resource planning

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              9•2 months ago

              That’s how I read it too at first- and as bad as ‘erotic role play’ with a LLM chatbot sounds, the other one is so much horribly worse.

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                deleted by creator

          • Snot Flickerman
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            18•2 months ago

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

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              I had guessed the nature of the site and “roleplay.” It is a tad silly on my part to not have guessed “erotic”; thanks for getting me there (and not in an erotic way).

              edit: Had left out the word “there.”

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