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You will not believe the trick-or-treat trick Microsoft just pulled!
@rysiek AWS and Google are also kinda down? Wasn't it cloudfhare earlier today?
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@rysiek AWS and Google are also kinda down? Wasn't it cloudfhare earlier today?
@mms Downdetector-dot-com is crowdsourced I believe, and my hot-take-hypothesis at this point is that a lot of services rely on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure all at the same time, and when one goes down, these services go down as well.
From there it's easy for folks to make incorrect assumptions.
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You will not believe the trick-or-treat trick Microsoft just pulled!
Choose your fighter!
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You will not believe the trick-or-treat trick Microsoft just pulled!
@rysiek Oh, microsoft did a AWS
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Choose your fighter!
Before anyone mentions how reliable Google Cloud is, here's a massive outage from June this year:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/16/google-cloud-outage-apology.htmlAnd from October last year:
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Before anyone mentions how reliable Google Cloud is, here's a massive outage from June this year:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/16/google-cloud-outage-apology.htmlAnd from October last year:
https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/e3yQSE1ysCGjCVEn2q1hOh don't worry, Azure is not having a *global* outage, just a "non-regional" one.
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Oh don't worry, Azure is not having a *global* outage, just a "non-regional" one.
If you're a journalist writing about this Azure outage, don't forget to ask Microsoft how much of their code is "AI-generated".
Satya Nadella claims 30%:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-as-30percent-of-microsoft-code-is-written-by-ai.html -
If you're a journalist writing about this Azure outage, don't forget to ask Microsoft how much of their code is "AI-generated".
Satya Nadella claims 30%:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-as-30percent-of-microsoft-code-is-written-by-ai.htmlMicrosoft Azuren't
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You will not believe the trick-or-treat trick Microsoft just pulled!
@rysiek the robots support #GeneralStrike
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Choose your fighter!
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Microsoft Azuren't
> We have confirmed that an inadvertent configuration change was the trigger event for this issue.
Folks, it's all okay! It was just an inadvertent configuration change [that happened to bring loads of services for millions of users down]. No biggie.
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> We have confirmed that an inadvertent configuration change was the trigger event for this issue.
Folks, it's all okay! It was just an inadvertent configuration change [that happened to bring loads of services for millions of users down]. No biggie.
Look, this is the level of professionalism we should expect of Microsoft at this point.
They had a separate global outage of Office 365 (or whatever it's called this week) *this month* already:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-365-outage-blocks-access-to-teams-exchange-online/And then there was the one from February this year:
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/03/01/microsoft-outages/3061740867107/Not to mention smaller ones, like the one in US-East that prevented admins from accessing the admin center:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-investigates-outage-affecting-microsoft-365-admin-center/ -
> We have confirmed that an inadvertent configuration change was the trigger event for this issue.
Folks, it's all okay! It was just an inadvertent configuration change [that happened to bring loads of services for millions of users down]. No biggie.
@rysiek Next time itāll be an advertent change, just to keep it fresh.
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Look, this is the level of professionalism we should expect of Microsoft at this point.
They had a separate global outage of Office 365 (or whatever it's called this week) *this month* already:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-365-outage-blocks-access-to-teams-exchange-online/And then there was the one from February this year:
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/03/01/microsoft-outages/3061740867107/Not to mention smaller ones, like the one in US-East that prevented admins from accessing the admin center:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-investigates-outage-affecting-microsoft-365-admin-center/I wonder if firing 15.000+ employees just this year had any impact here.
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-continues-layoffs-with-42-more-roles-cut-for-the-fifth-month-in-a-row -
Look, this is the level of professionalism we should expect of Microsoft at this point.
They had a separate global outage of Office 365 (or whatever it's called this week) *this month* already:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-365-outage-blocks-access-to-teams-exchange-online/And then there was the one from February this year:
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/03/01/microsoft-outages/3061740867107/Not to mention smaller ones, like the one in US-East that prevented admins from accessing the admin center:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-investigates-outage-affecting-microsoft-365-admin-center/"or whatever it's called this week":
They should at least reduce the "365" by one, for every outage.
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@mms Downdetector-dot-com is crowdsourced I believe, and my hot-take-hypothesis at this point is that a lot of services rely on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure all at the same time, and when one goes down, these services go down as well.
From there it's easy for folks to make incorrect assumptions.
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I wonder if firing 15.000+ employees just this year had any impact here.
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-continues-layoffs-with-42-more-roles-cut-for-the-fifth-month-in-a-rowWhile Azure was down and you could not use your Office 365 for 8 (eight) hours yesterday, Microsoft gloated about record profits:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/29/microsoft-earnings-azure-outage-xboxAfter all, Office 365 price has increased at least twice over the last 12 months:
https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/microsoft-365-gets-massive-45-percent-price-hike-and-its-all-to-do-with-ai-tools
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/publicsectorblog/upcoming-changes-office-365-g1-price-increase-effective-march-2025/4385970Price hikes were due to "AI", obviously. It's what users crave.
Your Microsoft Tax dollars at work!
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While Azure was down and you could not use your Office 365 for 8 (eight) hours yesterday, Microsoft gloated about record profits:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/29/microsoft-earnings-azure-outage-xboxAfter all, Office 365 price has increased at least twice over the last 12 months:
https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/microsoft-365-gets-massive-45-percent-price-hike-and-its-all-to-do-with-ai-tools
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/publicsectorblog/upcoming-changes-office-365-g1-price-increase-effective-march-2025/4385970Price hikes were due to "AI", obviously. It's what users crave.
Your Microsoft Tax dollars at work!
Two price hikes, three major outagesā¦
Microsoft will have to hike the price again just to keep the ratio at 1:1!
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Two price hikes, three major outagesā¦
Microsoft will have to hike the price again just to keep the ratio at 1:1!
This might be a good time to consider deploying, contributing to or otherwise supporting @nextcloud:
https://nextcloud.com/And before anyone says that Nextcloud's UI/UX is lacking: of course it is! Nextcloud has several orders of magnitude less money to throw at UI/UX.
But guess what:
1. this is fixable if they get more resources to work with;
2. every single Nextcloud instance I know of or use (there are many) stayed up and running yesterday.
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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Ce anno fatto un corteo pe er NO bruciando cartelli co la faccia mia e Nordio
Dateve na mossa a fĆ un contro corteo pe er SI bruciando cartelli co la faccia de i maggistrati
...no spe, troppo esplicito š¤
https://www.open.online/2026/03/14/corteo-no-referendum-no-sociale-roma-bruciate-foto-meloni-nordio/
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I know it's intended as a joke but it may not be that far from reality:
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Non siamo (ancora) alla minaccia di dazi ma i concetti sono simili. Gli anglosassoni lo chiamano tantrum. Quanto alle minacce alla Cina, loro controllano il rubinetto delle terre rare...
Donald Trump warns Nato faces āvery bad futureā if allies fail to help US in Iran https://www.ft.com/content/1ca6d121-760b-4ec5-b6ad-514fdaa94873
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@ZoidbergForPresident @grumpygamer somebody made a doom mod where the monsters are processes and killing the monster kills the process; I bet something similar could be done for defragmenting
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@annamam@mastodon.social hello and welcome to the #Fediverse
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@dazo @grumpygamer Funnily enough, I remember reading a letter to a Your Computer (the British one) in Februray 1985, lamenting that these new 64 KB monster machines made for sloppy programming and had taken all the fun out of computers. š
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@jwz I know. Some people don't
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Magnetic-Suspension Hoverboard is Only 11 Years Late
Anyone who saw Back to the Future II was disappointed when 2015 rolled around with nary a hoverboard in sight. There have been various attempts to fake it, but none of them quite have the feel of floating about wherever youād like to go that the movie conveys. The little-known YouTuber [Colin Furze] has a new take on the idea: use magnets. Really big magnets.
If youāre one of [Colin]ās handful of subscribers, then you probably saw his magnetic-suspension bike. We passed on that one, but we couldnāt resist the urge to cover the hoverboard version, regardless of how popular [Colin] might be on YouTube. Itās actually stupidly simple: the suspension is provided by the repulsive force between alarmingly large neodymium magnets. In this case, two are on the base plate that holds the skateboard ātrucksā, and two are on the wooden ādeckā that [Colin] rides upon.
Of course magnetic repulsion is a very unstable equilibrium, so [Colin] had to reduce the degrees of freedom. In his first test, that was with a pair of rods and linear bearings. That way the deck could only move in the z-axis, providing the sensation of hovering without allowing the deck to slide off its magnetic perch. Unfortunately those pins transferred too much vibration from the ground into the deck, ruining the illusion of floating on air.
After realizing that heād never be able to ollie (jump) this massive beast of a skateboard, [Colin] decides he might as well use a longboard instead. Longboards, as the name implies, are long skateboards, and are for transportation, not tricks. The longboard gets the same massive magnets, but after a couple of iterations to find a smoother solution ā including a neat but unsuccessful tensegrity-inspired version ā ends up with a pair of loosely-fitted pins once again, though relocated to the rear of the board. From the riderās perspective, it looks exactly like a hoverboard, since you canāt see underneath from that angle. According to [Colin], it feels like a hoverboard, too.
The only way to do better would be with eddy currents over copper, or superconductors over a magnetic track, but both of those methods limit you to very specific locations. This might be a bit of a fakeout, but its one with a degree of freedom. One, to be specific. You have to admit, itās still less of a fake than the handle-less Segway we got in 2015, at least.
