Absent notes 🎢

This is to commemorate the Vivaldi Sync service outage from two months ago, which was severe enough that all the users’ data stored on the servers was lost.

Thor with crown and halo of stars, wood engraving from the 1887 book β€œSea and land: an illustrated history of the wonderful and curious things of nature existing before and since the deluge” by James William Buel
Vivaldi engineer ThoΝ›r Ødinson, seen here recharging batteries at the Iceland datacenter

Aftershocks are still felt today, and I don’t just mean the much smaller intermittent outages.

Vivaldi Sync service was offline 25% of the time, in the last 60 days

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