Stop uploading your data to Google (News)

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• 00:04

  What up, nerds?

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  I'm Jared, and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, June 16th, 2025.

• 00:14

  Did you feel that Google Cloud outage last week?

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  Turns out,

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  this was another instance of Tony Hoare's classic billion-dollar mistake mixed with the also-classic distributed systems are hard.

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  The outage began when blank fields in a new service policy replicated a null pointer-induced crash loop almost instantly across their global fleet of servers.

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  Props to Google for their transparent post-mortem and props to the SRE team that triaged the issue starting just two minutes after that null pointer rolled out.

• 00:51

  Okay, let's get into this week's news.

• 00:54

  Stop uploading your data to Google.

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  A few years ago,

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  Lucas Mathis realized that losing access to his Google account would have been devastating.

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  Quote, End quote.

• 01:24

  Those are good questions to ask and he isn't merely being paranoid.

• 01:28

  There are instances of this actually happening to real people and it's never you until it's you.

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  And then it's too late.

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  Lucas set some rules for himself.

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  1. Do not upload any data to Google.

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  My Google account is too important to risk it.

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  Now, no services are tied to it, except for those that must be tied to it. 2.

• 01:48

  Self-host as much as possible.

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