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AWS, Microsoft Azure, and CloudFlare – services run by gigantic corporations with endless supply of money and talent – all experience catastrophic, global failures that take innumerable other services down with them within 30 days.AWS, Microsoft Azure, and CloudFlare – services run by gigantic corporations with endless supply of money and talent – all experience catastrophic, global failures that take innumerable other services down with them within 30 days.
Meanwhile Wikipedia just keeps chugging along, globally stable and reliable as always.
And yes, Wikimedia Foundation runs a pretty complex infrastructure:
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Keep Android OpenKeep Android Open
https://keepandroidopen.org/This is important. We already have a basic duopoly in mobile operating systems, now Google is trying to lock down their platform even more. Nobody benefits from this other than Google's shareholders.
Whether you are a device owner, a developer, or a public institution, this affects you and should matter to you.
Everyone can meaningfully help to push back.
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You will not believe the trick-or-treat trick Microsoft just pulled!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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You will not believe the trick-or-treat trick Microsoft just pulled!Two price hikes, three major outages…
Microsoft will have to hike the price again just to keep the ratio at 1:1!
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You will not believe the trick-or-treat trick Microsoft just pulled!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, massively:
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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You will not believe the trick-or-treat trick Microsoft just pulled!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 -
You will not believe the trick-or-treat trick Microsoft just pulled!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/ -
You will not believe the trick-or-treat trick Microsoft just pulled!> 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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You will not believe the trick-or-treat trick Microsoft just pulled!Microsoft Azuren't
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You will not believe the trick-or-treat trick Microsoft just pulled!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 -
You will not believe the trick-or-treat trick Microsoft just pulled!Oh don't worry, Azure is not having a *global* outage, just a "non-regional" one.
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You will not believe the trick-or-treat trick Microsoft just pulled!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/e3yQSE1ysCGjCVEn2q1h -
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!You will not believe the trick-or-treat trick Microsoft just pulled!