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They haven’t updated their external status page, but the incidents page in the GCP console reports that “Google Cloud multi-product customers are experiencing elevated packet loss and errors to/from us-centrall-b.”

It’s not even a government service. It’s a private business they have entrusted with authentication for the government.

Would be interested to see something like this to simulate VHS effects

You can still play with those outside your age groups, you just can’t communicate.

Please please try to read a post before commenting on it

It’s not really obfuscation. It goes back to when Android OS’s used to be named after desserts. While in development they would be referred to just by the letter as the dessert name wasn’t usually finalized

RIP to the USDS, an inspiring government department to someone like me.

I believe that was the joke.

When I worked at a podcast host I was tasked to implement WebPubSub support to our podcast feeds. This introduced a “push” updates rather than requiring an indexer to constantly recheck the xml file. The idea seeems to not have caught on. At the time I think Google was the only indexer supporting the feature and I’m not sure if that has continued with the switch to YouTube for podcasts

Was at a rest stop and heard talking coming from a box on a pole. It was reading out the weather in TTS voice, guessing it was the transmitter for one of these stations.

For the record, since I’m seeing it a lot in this thread:

Green names = new account

I have an actual question about the implementation of this. It currently seems like there is no way to maintain your location history if you switch device platforms. Your on device history seems to be synced to iCloud, but if you switch from iOS -> Android, it seems like your SOL?