AOL outages and service status in Newbury, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Newbury, England

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Newbury, England and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

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  🔥 PALANTARD 🔥 (@cidman00) reported 4 minutes ago

  @thinkReal AOL was the **** back then

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  Spiritually Seeking (@Seeking72) reported 4 minutes ago

  19. I never had an AOL address.

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  RianReese333 (@RReese333) reported 5 minutes ago

  @Matt_Pinner 19, I never had an AOL address

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  Carlos Ferrero (@IHave3Chickens) reported 7 minutes ago

  @Matt_Pinner I never had an AOL address. All the rest? Yep.

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  Millie Marconi (@MillieMarconnni) reported 7 minutes ago

  A programmer built a database because software on a US Navy destroyer could not afford to lose its connection. Today that tiny database sits inside every iPhone, Android phone, Chrome, Safari, and Firefox, and most people have never heard his name. His name is D. Richard Hipp. The database is SQLite. In 2000, Hipp was helping build software for the USS Oscar Austin, a guided-missile destroyer. The program helped sailors respond when the ship was damaged. If a pipe burst, it could find the valves sailors needed to close, the other valves they needed to open, and exactly where each one was located. During a real attack, this could mean smoke, flooding, broken pipes, and people trying to keep the ship alive. All that information was stored inside an Informix database. When the database server worked, everything was fine. But sometimes the server went down. Sailors would open the damage-control program and get a message saying it could not connect to the database. Hipp’s team did not control the server. They still got blamed because their software showed the error. Hipp started asking a simple question: Why did the program need a database server at all? It only needed to read information from the ship’s computer. Why could it not pull that data directly from the disk? Then government funding paused, leaving Hipp without contract work for a few months. So he built the database himself. SQLite had no separate server to connect to. No administrator had to keep it running. The entire database could live inside one file, and the application could read that file directly. If the computer was working, the database was working. The Navy kept Informix as its official system, but Hipp’s team began using SQLite for development and testing. Then Hipp released it on the internet. Someone managed to run a full SQL database on a Palm Pilot. Motorola called and paid him to improve it for a new phone operating system. AOL wanted it because it needed a database small enough to fit on its installation CDs. Then Mozilla, Symbian, Adobe, Google, and countless other companies followed. When Android began shipping SQLite on millions of phones, users found bugs Hipp had never seen before. So he spent about a year working 60-hour weeks to bring it up to aviation-style testing standards. Today SQLite estimates that more than one trillion active databases may exist across the world. They store browser history, messages, settings, contacts, app data, and countless other pieces of our digital lives. The database created because a warship could not trust a server became the database billions of devices trust when no server exists.

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  ［ object Object ］ (@lucaswiman) reported 7 minutes ago

  Plausible paths for Google: 1. They will also start falling behind in TPU design. TPUs will cease to even notionally be a realistic competitor to big players. Maybe they'll sell the IP and TSMC allocation to OpenAI or Anthropic or AMD, or spin it out into an underresourced separate entity. 2. GCP will do very well for a time. Existing LLM inference capacity is going to get more valuable over time, commanding higher prices. At some point, they'll be left with second-rate hardware that's been dramatically outcompeted by ultra-efficient RSI hardware and data centers. It's not inconceivable that their TPUs will literally have the HBM chips pried off of them to put into better hardware by a competitor. 3. Search will have gone from merely declining in usage to declining rapidly in revenue. This will continue for some time as a viable business, like AOL, Juno and yahoo, but with a shrinking user base of aging retirees or barely-online people. They will embrace every dark pattern in the book to adsmaxx, but their core "indexing and understanding all the world's information" will have long since been done much better by model companies. 4. They'll probably release a quite good Gemini or two from inertia this year. Not necessarily SOTA, but good enough to cause a stock rally. This is probably the last place for someone like Sergei Brin to assert control and save the company. 5. Eventually the massive amount of debt taken on building GCP and getting related as buybacks will catch up with them after a credit downgrade. They'll get ripped apart for scraps at the org level, with stakes in various AI companies constituting most of their value, like yahoo! did with alibaba. Sundar Pichai will walk away enormously wealthy having maximized ******** out of some shareholder value.

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  Rosemary🇨🇦 (@rmmh1898) reported 8 minutes ago

  @Matt_Pinner Never had AOL or a waterbed but I still have a cheque book and a typewriter.

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  DVD (@FusedTruths) reported 8 minutes ago

  @Haltmlas2 @PALauzon1 @MusafirNafar You dont have to download you can copy paste you retarded **** are you like 70 using AOL?

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  Jayne (@Jgrady025) reported 18 minutes ago

  @Matt_Pinner 19. I never used AOL.

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  Capt Xan Steel (@xansteel) reported 20 minutes ago

  @PabloMakes If it’s like AOL used to be, you’ll need to tell it No/Cancel/unsubscribe like three times before it’ll let you.