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Major Cloud providers have all suffered significant outages recently.

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    I just posted this and immediately #Phanpy goes down. Talk about comedic timing. ✌🏻
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    Is it not clear yet that it is time to decentralise the internet? The recent outages from major providers speak for themselves. We need a network that is more distributed and secure.#Internet #IT #SysAdmin
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    @stefano @christopher I am not sure if I'd say #Linux is becoming like #Windows. I do recall similar statements made on the Debian-User mailing list on a previous release when xorg introduced autoconfiguration. A lot of people were pissed that it was making choices for you instead of manually configuring the xorg.conf file.Honestly, that was a good thing. Painful doesn't begin to describe it but users were unaware they could still hand-configure the file.There has been, however, more stuff added to Linux over the last several years. Call it bloat, call it whatever you want. OSes change. But it has been gradually moving away from simplicity.I miss the simplicity.However, to reply to your original post, coming from COTS solutions, sometimes the vast amount of choice can be overwhelming. For instance, when it comes to #FreeBSD #jails it used to just be jails. Now, it's thin, thick, classic, networking. I understand they have their places but it would be helpful to provide more detailed explanations, tutorials, or best practices for each. The FreeBSD Handbook is good but just scratches the surface but often leaves more questions. It would help with learning and in part...marketing.On a side note: The FreeBSD Handbook is a great resource but there are opportunities to improve it, like tailoring it to new users (better empathy), best practices, architectural examples, and links to additional resources and info.
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    No matter how you slice it, as I see it, it boils down to: Microsoft's software did insufficient input validation on untrusted data (specifically in this case configuration changes for one customer, it seems), and this led to widespread outages affecting many, many, *many* customers in many different ways.Security done properly should not rely on "blocking erroneous" stuff, but should verify that everything is good and only *if* that succeeds allow any of it through.@spytfyre @rysiek