Are we relieved to know that Microsoft's massive outage isn't due to hacking, but rather incompetence?
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@dangillmor I suspect even if it was (Iranian?) hackers, Trump and company would forbid letting anyone know, as it would make them look bad, coupled with defunding US cybersecurity agencies.
@dangillmor I've been reading you since the early 90s (at least), so I know that you know that it's certainly due to incompetence. :-)
@dangillmor It makes all the difference, I'm sure.
@dangillmor I think that the correct initial response is "Meh!".
The second correct response is "Defund MicroSoft".
@dangillmor This is standard fare, so yes? But it won't be fixed because they don't have a culture of accountability and quality...
I mean, have we ruled out incompetent hacking?
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The judges from ICC are asking how does it feels now.
@dangillmor are we certain about that yet though?
@dangillmor yes maybe now the last idiot on this planet realizes how #corrupt #fuckedup and #stupid #microsoft #softwarequality has been since decades X-D
they never managed to deliver #quality of #software written on a #debian #gnu #linux if you read this on #windows you are a god damn ....
@dangillmor ever since they started using copilot to code their own stuff I've had a gradually worse experience writing in their tools and services.
@dangillmor Did they vibecode azure?
As I wrote here in a german rant post, the availability feeling with bullshit tool lotus notes was much better.
M$, wtf is this sh*t?
If Microsoft knew what caused the outage they may have fixed it.
Both hacking and incompetence remain active possibilities with precedent.
@dangillmor 60 000 people fired + vibe coding. Predictable I will say. When the c level will understand that experience and competency beat stochastic parots trained on entry level code? Probably never.
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Is there a difference in most actual digital reality? ;)