This should not have happened. Google Cloud has identified the events that led to this disruption and taken measures to ensure this does not happen again.”
Our AI golem destroyed something important again, but we’re too big to fail so our mistakes don’t matter.
We promise it won’t happen again, but when it does happen again, it still won’t matter.
We’re a totally safe and responsible company and should be trusted with most of the world’s data management.
We promise it won’t happen again, but when it does happen again, it still won’t matter.
Rest assured that when it does, we will make every effort to promise once more that it won’t happen again.
AI golem
immediately pictured a living stolen golem roaming the data centre smashing stuff, while google engineers try and reason with it
That’s Elon at Twitter. He was the one yanking cables.
Good thing Twitter only hosts useless garbage.
No no no, they’re right, it won’t happen again.
…but something with a very similar outcome due to a very similar, but not identical, root cause…well, no guarantees I guess.
Sympathies to whoever it was at the pension fund that had to work with Google’s “customer service”.
I bet the support was like nah thats not possible we’re Google. And then they looked into it and their world crashed down around them
Customer support when you are a paying customer is great.
Customer support at Google? Most you can get is a chat with a bot that doesn’t recognize your account because it has been deleted
When you pay a lot, the support is a lot better…
Exactly the sort of thing that should NEVER be on a 3rd party system. Ever. Ever ever.
Grumpy old sysadmin. Get offa my lawn!
“This is an isolated, ‘one-of-a-kind occurrence’ that has never before occurred with any of Google Cloud’s clients globally,”
“Accidentally”
“Deleted”
That too.
Wondering if they maybe divested Google, lol.
“A”
“274”
wait, shit…
“Reaped” is the word Google are using.
I think that people will start learning this the hard way about the cloud. Some things are too important to trust to store on someone else’s computer.
Man, this fuckup is such a gift to salespeople at AWS, Azure, to anyone selling on-prem solutions, or any kind of redundancy/backup plans.
This is the most Google headline I read in a while
sorry for the question, I’m not a native english speaker… do you mean this as in “this is the Googlest thing ever” or “I have never read so many Google news in a week”?
first one m8. the second one would require an s - “headlines”, although you’re right in thinking sometimes that gets dropped too, and then it’s just down to context and probability ;)
thank you!!
The googlest thing ever. Typically English words that are borrowed from French and would take “the most” as a modifier because that’s how it’s done in French whereas English or other borrowed words take “est”. It means the same thing. With words like Google, you could do it either way but as a native speaker the most sounds better with this particular word to me.
To say the second meaning it would be phrased more like “this is the most Googlest news week” or “this is the most Google news week”.
ah man, just when I thought I had a good grasp of English… The examples of how you’d phrase the second meaning are very helpful, thanks!
People will understand you no matter how you phrase it though! It’s just a matter of making sure you understand us since there can be some nuance that isn’t totally obvious.
Agree except tbe French qualifier. It is just as likely someone might say “The most Microsoft thing”, which isn’t French-inherited.
Now I’m wondering if they can recover this from a backup or archive OR if that’s going to be an awkward call to their insurance company.
Well, if you bothered reading into the second paragraph, you’d have more info:
UniSuper had a backup account with another cloud provider, and service was restored May 2.
So Google doesn’t keep (unpaid) backups for it’s clients, and the ones UniSuper paid for were deleted along with everything else.
Reading an article ! How dare you sir !
Ain’t nobody got time for that!
Amazing how Google doesn’t get product management right
It was restored a week ago. All it did was prevent people from logging into their accounts for a few days.
Only because they restored from a separate backup with a different provider, not Google restoring a backup.
From the article, “UniSuper had a backup account with another cloud provider, and service was restored May 2.”
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They’re already back online, and they managed to do it without missing a pension payment.
All this does is highlight best practice for data backups. Accidents happen, be prepared.
“accidentally”
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And im going, so how much of the pension fund is missing?
why do we allow tech companies to hold money. I feel like thats only going to be a bad idea.
How do you find out that someone didn’t actually read the article? Oh, right. Look at the comments.
in my defense, 90% of articles written these days are 80% filler text, 70% not talking about the fucking thing in the headline, and about 50% AI generated… So uh.
Too true, my friend. :)
it’s so fucking weird, because everytime i obviously don’t read an article, people shit on me immediately, but then the second i point out that all articles are ass these days, except for technical write ups, everybody seems to immediately like me again, and i don’t understand why.
Do people are masochistic for shitty article? Or do most people just treat articles like they do social media, and immediately throw shit around the second it gets big, or thrown out. It’s a weird environment, i’ll say that much.
