You will not believe the trick-or-treat trick Microsoft just pulled!
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Two price hikes, three major outages…
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.
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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. Cascading failure. It cascaded.
> As unhealthy nodes dropped out of the global pool, traffic distribution across healthy nodes became imbalanced, amplifying the impact and causing intermittent availability even for regions that were partially healthy.
https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status/history/#incident-history-collapse-YKYN-BWZ -
Cascading failure. It cascaded.
> As unhealthy nodes dropped out of the global pool, traffic distribution across healthy nodes became imbalanced, amplifying the impact and causing intermittent availability even for regions that were partially healthy.
https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status/history/#incident-history-collapse-YKYN-BWZ> An inadvertent tenant configuration change within Azure Front Door (AFD) triggered a widespread service disruption…
> The trigger was traced to a faulty tenant configuration deployment process. Our protection mechanisms, to validate and block any erroneous deployments, failed due to a software defect which allowed the deployment to bypass safety validations.
Am I reading this right? Global – pardon, "non-regional" – #outage of #Microsoft #Azure was caused by a tenant changing their config? 👀
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> An inadvertent tenant configuration change within Azure Front Door (AFD) triggered a widespread service disruption…
> The trigger was traced to a faulty tenant configuration deployment process. Our protection mechanisms, to validate and block any erroneous deployments, failed due to a software defect which allowed the deployment to bypass safety validations.
Am I reading this right? Global – pardon, "non-regional" – #outage of #Microsoft #Azure was caused by a tenant changing their config? 👀
Can't have a snow day without cloud. 🌨️
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Can't have a snow day without cloud. 🌨️
These massive "cloud" outages will continue to happen, inevitably, because they are "normal accidents":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_AccidentsAny system that:
- is complex,
- is tightly coupled, and
- has catastrophic potential…can be expected to experience catastrophic failures. AWS, Google Cloud, #Microsoft #Azure check all these boxes.
Fun fact: Internet was specifically designed to *not* be like that. It was designed to be loosely coupled.
But that's not as good for maximizing shareholder value!
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These massive "cloud" outages will continue to happen, inevitably, because they are "normal accidents":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_AccidentsAny system that:
- is complex,
- is tightly coupled, and
- has catastrophic potential…can be expected to experience catastrophic failures. AWS, Google Cloud, #Microsoft #Azure check all these boxes.
Fun fact: Internet was specifically designed to *not* be like that. It was designed to be loosely coupled.
But that's not as good for maximizing shareholder value!
@rysiek I know I'm only an average 'in the trench' type developer, and my interests have always been code over servers/hosting........
But I cannot express how much I miss the "old days" of normal web-servers and where focus was on delivery of (customer/user) value and optimisations and not just bloating everything with external services sold into a cloak of 'critical infrastructure' and 'pass/sass' cloud stuff.
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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@TeresaPotenza @storiespettinate @devol @_elena @informapirata @max Aldi là di MyVoiceMyChoice,dobbiamo ascoltare le esigenze degli altri. Di chi è chiuso ancora dentro i social commerciali. E su queste basi, capire se il fediverso può fare per loro. Non è detto. Ma se non ci si discute mai, non si va lontano.
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Ma glielo vogliamo dare 'sto Nobel per la pace?
Che se lo merita proprio 🤮Trump ordina test di armi nucleari: "Risposta ad altri Paesi" https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2025/10/30/trump-test-nucleari-usa-russia-cina-news/8178270/
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@GustavinoBevilacqua vendono queste fregature adatte solo per brevi eventi estivi con bel tempo...ci vanno strutture robuste per resistere al maltempo
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@GustavinoBevilacqua E mannaggia a Newcomen e Watt, che inventarono e perfezionarono la macchina a vapore, con il via al consumo massiccio di combustibili fossili....
Come scrive Youval Noah Harari: l'uomo è bravissimo a inventar nuove cose; assai meno a valutarne le conseguenze.....
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@mariosiniscalchi I cosiddetti "contratti pirata" nascono dalla reazione del sistema economico all'eccessiva onerosità del costo del lavoro. E in un paese di piccole, piccolissime e microimprese, l'integrazione aziendale è l'eccezione, non la regola.
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Timeless and priceless advice for all developers, but especially junior developers.
https://alex.party/posts/2025-10-08-junior-dev-tip-scroll-up/
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Mannaggia a Cornelis!
Che nel 1593 inventò la sega a vento.
Che moltiplicò per 30 la produzione di tavole in legno per navi.
Che permise a tutte le persone olandesi di comperare una quota di una nave usata nelle imprese coloniali, perché gli armatori tradizionali non riuscivano a far fronte ai costi, quindi si inventarono una specie di mercato azionario con rendite molto alte.
Ecc., compreso il disboscamento dell'Europa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelis_Corneliszoon_van_Uitgeest
