indeed

customers have 0 power over this stuff. MS know nobody will move, there's no commercial counter balance, so vibes it is. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq5y10ge3dp3t?post=asset%3A814eee66-ec99-48cb-a127-2cac7846fad0#post

We at Microsoft sincerely hope you enjoyed the opportunity we provided for you to reconnect with your colleagues. We believe in the value of personal relationships and trust you made the most of this experience to cultivate those relationships and develop new ideas to drive your business forward.

Solo, the Mozilla GenAI platform for building and hosting websites, is closing with almost no notice as nobody actually used it.

I wonder what the internal MS leadership view of the decision to replace SREs with Co-Pilot is looking like today…

There may never again be such an appropriate time for this gif

going well

How I will explain it to my kids one day.

We invented the internet specifically to be resilient through decentralisation, then spent the last twenty years cramming the whole thing into three cloud providers and calling it "progress."

Ukraine just reminded us in real-time why single points of failure are a bad idea, yet somehow, we’ll still act shocked the next time one outage takes down half the planet.

This is a subtoot about Microsoft.

Edit: Changed "survive a nuclear war" to "be resilient"

#Microsoft #Down #Decentralise #RYOMS #RunYourOwnMailServer

Why does the tech industry seem to consist of
1. Some guy (gender neutral) who vaguely remembers the tech stack for the product from when it was implemented 15 years ago
2. Some CEO who thinks “line go up if I fire that guy”

okay we moved really fast and everything is broken, now what?