We’re watching the old internet fall apart.
It never occurred to me before now but from here on out, there will probably always be some old part of the internet, crumbling and sparse, moldering and broken, populated by far fewer denizens than it was designed for.
I wonder if that’ll just be the ever-fading “old folks” internet.
You mean sourceforge?
Oh sure, there will always be museums and monuments with little slices of the internet that was, but for the most part, the urge to repurpose old resources to new endeavors means that some parts of the internet will always fade away. I don’t know if we’ll ever start preserving it perfectly but we certainly aren’t there yet.
We are Flowers for Algernoning our technology.
If I use my phone (not android Auto), I can no longer say, “Navigate to <place>”. It flat out does not work.
Navigate to Local Bakery Xyz.
I’m sorry I can’t do that.
(It tries to open the non-existent app for the local bakery).
If I’m in the car that has android auto, it refuses to let me type while in drive (fair enough) and it recognizes the “Navigate to…” Instructions, but if I click on the Maps nav bar for voice and say my destination (it literally says, no text while driving speak your destination)… It tries to open the app.
This shit used to work, it’s getting actively dumber.
This morning I got fed up and asked,
“Can I use you to navigate somewhere?”
Sure! Where would you like to go?
“Dutch Bros”
(Opens the Dutch Bros app)
I once tried to ask my phone to set an alarm. It said it did.
I checked the app. No alarm set.
I tried again, but with a timer. It said it was set.
Again, nothing.
I gave up on digital assistants after that. They took them out back and shot them, and what we see now is their rotted corpse puppeted by Shareholder Value™️ gone wrong. This was 2022.
Oh my god, i’m not the only one!! Thank you for confirming i’m not incapable of using android auto. Such a stupid fucking bug
We’re watching Microsoft ruin another company. Its like if EA or IBM buys something, its enshittified and rent seeking occurs for shareholders.
Once this Windows monopoly has passed due to the abysmal quality it will hopefully be over, and hopefully AI helps remove barriers to file portability to hasten their demise.
I think that’s how a lot of the internet is dying right now because buying an IP then wringing every drop of value out of its dying corpse before dropping it is a good way to make money right now. This is very much a thing that happens outside of the internet too, and happened long before the internet existed. I think one of the cool things about the internet is how quickly word can spread about this kind of compromised company / product / whatever thing, though I think we need to get better at it. I’m not exactly sure how to accomplish that, it seems like an overwhelming problem, but I think about it a lot.
It’s like all companies forgot that reliability is a core feature…
“Users will completely understand the increased outages if we just eliminate the point-and-click UI that we’ve spent the last 30+ years getting them used to and instead give them a chat bot that they have to repeatedly type detailed instructions to for marginal results at best.”
– Vibe CEO’s Everywhere
I’m colorblind, but I’m curious to know what is being represented here.
Server / service downtime. For a well managed company, you would expect these to be almost uniformly green, meaning that all servers are responding correctly almost all of the time. This graph has a lot of yellow and red, indicating severe instability in their services.
Not being able to keep servers running is something that typically happens to smaller companies that grow too fast for them to manage. Established companies are (or, IMO, should be…) expected to have near perfect (>99.99%) uptime, and this is indicative of some expertise loss for the company broadly.
99.99%
TBF, no, established companies tend to have something between 99.9% and 99.99% of uptime. It only increases if the company is explicitly focused on it, at a large cost that usually needs to be paid by some customer.
But Github pretends to be one of those companies that focus on uptime. And it’s also less than 99% right now. So yeah, the main point stands.
Yeah that’s fair. It’s part of the advertising in some sectors, but not all. A lot of the companies I’ve bought products from tend to advertise their uptime, and that’s the type of company I think about when I think about uptime stats. However, a lot of the companies I’ve sold products to tended to not talk about it, and their uptime was often in the 2 nines to 3 nines, if not a lot worse. Somehow they still managed to keep going lol. Some of them anyway.
Thanks. I was thinking it was something biological, or some sort of light spectrum and was getting confused.
They have always reminded me of bright line spectrographs. Now that you mention it I see the resemblance to DNA tests too.
I actually manage servers and network services, and am familiar with the importance of five nines uptime. It seems like this kind of an interface is a failure in that it provides quick information to most people but doesn’t include information for people with disabilities. I think it would be beneficial to have that visual interface with color information but to also include information that showed bars of different heights and widths.
I understand that the direct inclusion of all of the numbers could clutter the interface and make it less easy to immediately tell uptime, but even without the numbers it seems that significant improvements could be made to the way this information is presented with this layout.
yeah it’s not a great design. It could easily be a line graph where the the vertical axis is a log scale representation of each day’s uptime . You’d still be able to tell at a glance which services are stable (top marks across the board) and which services have dips. you could even still have the line change colors when it dips below a certain range if you just really wanted colors on it. it would even zoom infinitely* since the horizontal axis can be arbitrary buckets of time, and the vertical axis is always 0%-100% uptime
- down to whatever your health check interval is, at which point the graph would just alternate between 0% and 100%, and up to the full lifetime of the service. still, it could be nice for analyzing some service failures.
Worst sorting algorithm ever.
https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ offers a slightly more honest version with aggregate numbers
90% uptime is abysmal
Any other company would be asked refunds from most clients
LMAO 1 nine of reliability.
At one place I worked we had a service that had been part of an acquired company that, as far as I could tell, had no one responsible for maintaining it, and it either zero or almost zero users, so it would go down for weeks at a time before somebody noticed and did something about it, usually because it needed a security patch. To this day I have no idea why it wasn’t shut down but AFAIK it’s still out there causing problems for whoever works there now.
We came up with a bunch of ways to describe its uptime: a service has one fortnine of reliability if it stays up for at least one continuous fortnight of the year, for instance. An absolute nine is nine days per year. Fractional nines were invented: a “quarter nine” was 25% of 90%uptime, or 22.5% total uptime.
Lol I legit thought
whoa a gel electrophoresis meme, I wonder if anyone recognises the sequence.
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https://status.claude.com/ not much better
380b
Two 9’s, the pinnacle of reliability.
Five 9s with an 8 in front.
At least their status bars are, presumably, somewhat honest. It’s pretty common for the status server being used to track various Lemmy instances to show all green even when the site has clearly been down several hours or even for days.
Probably pings the servers instead of checking web server works
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Github users right now: I don’t care, I’ll depend on it harder now!
Harder daddy
“Lets buy shit, then fire everyone, and balk when it fails”
“Brilliant gambit sir”
Considering their policy for the majority of their existence has been that open-source is cancer, it might as well be viewed like that. Just buy the central open-source exchange platform and slowly make it worse to hurt all of open-source.
Nobody says “yea”. Unless they’re voting. Or talking about the size of something.
You are correct. It is yeah, not yea or nay. It isn’t a vote. Most people are stupid.
lol I’m about to kill my copilot subscription. Why have baby autocomplete when you have big daddy Claude now? I don’t even type anything anymore. The whole point of agentic swe is you don’t code by hand. If the ai does something wrong correct it so it doesn’t happen again.
Gitlab is pretty much the same
*yeah, not yea or nay. Do people no longer attend school?
Cocksure. Look it up.
