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What in the world how do you screw up that badly 

And that is why cloud services should never be relied on for anything.

Another 4gb 750ti, ABBA’s Gold CD, and a power switch for my commodore 64’s monitor which cost me more than I was comfortable paying but it’s the only one so I paid it anyway 
 

poor youtubers

Summary
Unisuper is a superannuation fund (think pension fund) that manages retirement savings for members of Australia’s higher education and research sector. With 620,000 members and $125 billion in assets, they’re Australia’s 13th largest by number of members and 7th largest superannuation fund by assets managed. For the last week, Unisuper members have been unable to access their accounts due to what turns out to have been the wholesale deletion of the fund’s Google Cloud account. The fund had to recover their data from a backup at a different provider, as the deletion affected two redundant instances stored on Google’s service. Account access is slowly being restored. It isn’t clear at this point what exactly happened to cause this incident, other than that Unisuper and Google Cloud have issued a joint statement to the effect that it was due to an “unprecedented sequence of events.” Unisuper had migrated a large proportion of its operations to Google Cloud Platforms in 2023.
 
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My thoughts
At least they had backups outside Google? Superannuation in Australia is a highly regulated industry, providing a lot of incentive to do things properly. What would have happened in a less regulated environment? It certainly drives home the idea that “backups” stored in the same infrastructure as the primary data aren’t actually backups. It remains to be seen who has what share of the blame, but it's certainly an indication of how vulnerable this kind of data can be without the proper processes in place to secure it.
 
Sources
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/09/unisuper-google-cloud-issue-account-access
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/unisuper-private-cloud-outage-caused-by-google-cloud-issues/

boop3.mp4 Plenty of morons (bus drivers in particular) with super loud air horns in the city. I get scared like that cat 🥲

Hey - It can happen....

Big ass brakes
203mm in the front and 180mm in the rear
at real risk of ripping the mounts off the frame and fork at this point but that’s part of the fun 



the front rubs under hard banking and turning, since the whole thing flexes a little

Wing commander series might be ancient at this point but it's got a better likeness of Mark Hamill than either of the battlefront remakes do lol

Could have been so much better, they wasted their chance

So ? Just because you see her Input on this Forum as not constructive or helping doesn't mean she or anyone else shouldn't be allowed to Post such Stuff. As long as one follows the Forum Rules they can do what ever they want here.
 
I'm personally a big Fan of the Off Topic section because it's cool for talking about non Tech things as well. And I appreciate that the Mod Team is chill, straight forward, fair and that you can also make jokes with them.
 
Oh and May the 4th be with you all !

Well, there's a lot of jokes in our department that I'm about to go down "Boeing style."
After 11 years here and the worst management we've ever had I've finally taken the gloves off this week.

Probably had been shipped and got lost, then found again...

squadrens is alright...

Taking advantage of the May the 4th be with you ! sale:

And the best part about this is that the money is from selling Items in CS:GO 2. EA gets no more of my real hard earned Cash

Earlier this year I received a 3TB Seagate Ironwolf Pro in the post without having ordered one. Turns out it was a gift from Ugreen. Thanks guys.
 
Two months ago I ordered some filament. To this day the shop can't tell me where to send the money .... How can you run a sustainable business if you can't tell a customer how to pay for it? 
 
Today I had another surprise: A 256GB SSD?????? I haven't ordered one of these in months.

 
Searching through my ebay purchase history this is half a year late, the first shipment got lost, never sent or whatever (seller issued a refund/cancellation of the order) and now they shipped it? 6 months later????
 

That's probrably a GOOD thing considering what it may have produced.
You know - Something like this.

It was ever productive?

For my other hobby...

 
and possibly @Skyesgaming's new one too 😄 

At this point I'd be perfectly okay with Valve putting their big boy pants on and going toe to toe with MS. Just tired of MS's bullshit at this point. Xbox is crumbling, Windows is a shitheap of bloat and ads to the point where I hardly game on my PC due to the incessant issues. My Steamdeck and PS5 get much more attention lately.

Yeah Microshit should've never been allowed to buy so many freaking Game Studios.

Upgraded to a Aorus RTX 4090 Waterforce AIO GPU and also swapped out the PSU to a 1000W unit.  The Lian Li fans should work properly (connected to fan hub now) once a plug adapter arrives from the UK.  Cablemods 90 degree adapter plug will enable me to fit the side panel on without trouble.  Need to tidy up a few cables a bit.  Nephew is getting old 3080 and 850W PSU to put in his NZXT rig.

You can bet they are going to kill many more. Embracer is the same. They buy because supposedly they want the IP in their portfolio and one studio can cover for the others, but as soon as anything goes south, they close the studio.

Yeah Microshit should've never been allowed to buy so many freaking Game Studios.