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Perhaps because Freenode has about 0.25% the number of users of Github - ~100,000 vs 40 million?

megous 7y ago
No, it's just the US tech bubble. When my whole country and some was suddenly denied all google services for several hours, including CDNs, DNS, all cloud, gmail, android app store, gdocs, all everything, it didn't make any news here either, despite being much more disruptive, affecting 10+ million people, and being a much more intersting reminder of how much techies make other people and themselves dependent on this megacorp. All kinds of stuff broke, including "the entire internet" for people who were made to use 8.8.8.8 by their ISPs. E-shops that load jQuery from google stopped working, for no real reason whatsoever, people getting lost because they couldn't navigate anymore in the real world, etc. Since then I try to flag all this repetitive nonsense about slack/github going down for a few minutes, to no avail. It keeps comming back to the first page of HN. :D
- cameronbrown 7y ago
  > When my whole country and some was suddenly denied all google services > didn't make any news here either Denied by government by any chance? Makes sense why it din't hit the news.
  - megous 7y ago
    Denied by google engineers making a mess with router misconfiguration. The internet traffic at key points went down by ~30% just by google taking itself offline. Also what was fun was everyone being blocked from all services that use reCAPTCHA.
    - johnisgood 7y ago
      God... reCAPTCHA needs to die. I refuse to use any websites that use it!
- marcinzm 7y ago
  People care about what impacts or relates to them. That's human nature. Even your example was "my country" which is something that relates to you.
  - megous 7y ago
    That being said, being dependent on Google is not unique to my country, and almost everyone should relate to that, at this point in history. And the scale of dependence only shows when it's truly completely shut down.
- joncrane 7y ago
  Did you post about that incident when it happened?
  - megous 7y ago
    Yes.

No, it's just the US tech bubble. When my whole country and some was suddenly denied all google services for several hours, including CDNs, DNS, all cloud, gmail, android app store, gdocs, all everything, it didn't make any news here either, despite being much more disruptive, affecting 10+ million people, and being a much more intersting reminder of how much techies make other people and themselves dependent on this megacorp. All kinds of stuff broke, including "the entire internet" for people who were made to use 8.8.8.8 by their ISPs. E-shops that load jQuery from google stopped working, for no real reason whatsoever, people getting lost because they couldn't navigate anymore in the real world, etc. Since then I try to flag all this repetitive nonsense about slack/github going down for a few minutes, to no avail. It keeps comming back to the first page of HN. :D

cameronbrown 7y ago
> When my whole country and some was suddenly denied all google services > didn't make any news here either Denied by government by any chance? Makes sense why it din't hit the news.
- megous 7y ago
  Denied by google engineers making a mess with router misconfiguration. The internet traffic at key points went down by ~30% just by google taking itself offline. Also what was fun was everyone being blocked from all services that use reCAPTCHA.
  - johnisgood 7y ago
    God... reCAPTCHA needs to die. I refuse to use any websites that use it!
marcinzm 7y ago
People care about what impacts or relates to them. That's human nature. Even your example was "my country" which is something that relates to you.
- megous 7y ago
  That being said, being dependent on Google is not unique to my country, and almost everyone should relate to that, at this point in history. And the scale of dependence only shows when it's truly completely shut down.
joncrane 7y ago
Did you post about that incident when it happened?
- megous 7y ago
  Yes.