The Linux user base is growing. Steadily and angrily.
Some neighbor not being happy with Microslop.
#microsoft
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RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/117607915649897895
This is actually interesting: #Microsoft is a good model of how all our software infrastructure will evolve in the future. Bad engineering and kludges upon kludges. This behemoth of a mess will stumble on into the future and most people will not care (or simply assume to be inevitable) that we'll get increasing service disruptions, privacy leaks, and security breaches, because they know no other way to use software. /1
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#Microsoft products were always slop. Even when still human-made. Now vibecoded, with all these sloppy programmers fired, we get ensloppification on steroids. Get out of there while you still can! We'll see lots more of this kind of thing in the future...
Open quoted post#Microsoft products were always slop. Even when still human-made. Now vibecoded, with all these sloppy programmers fired, we get ensloppification on steroids. Get out of there while you still can! We'll see lots more of this kind of thing in the future...
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Hi! I think I've managed to migrate everything to my new personal Mastodon instance! 🐘 It's interesting to discover that digital sovereignty doesn't have to come at a cost. With a free #Oracle Cloud #VPS, it's possible to host several services, including #mastodon at no charge. After yesterday's experience, when many of us lost access to services due to our dependence on #microsoft the importance of embracing digital autonomy and freedom has become even clearer. Let's see how it goes...
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Re: Microsoft outage
"Here, I think, is a nice, bright-line, administrable test for monopoly power. If your company has a dominant position and if it allocates its surplus capital to its investors and if that precedes a significant degradation of your products, then you have an illegal monopoly and you should be broken up."
https://pluralistic.net/2026/11/13/outlookpocalypse/
#Microsoft #Monopoly #Tech #Technology #Business #Antitrust #Law #Politics #News #US #USA #World
Today's top ten tag trends:
10: #WindowFriday
9: #MicrosoftOutage
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#trendytoots 📈
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De storing bij Microsoft bewijst hoe afhankelijk we in Nederland zijn van dit ene bedrijf. Belangrijk om hier snel over te spreken in de Tweede Kamer, maar mijn mail deed het niet, want ook onze democratie hangt volledig aan een Amerikaanse tech-infuus. Debat aanvragen ging dus even niet. Hopelijk wordt de motie van @laurensdassen@mastodon.nl om de Tweede Kamer digitaal onafhankelijk te maken nu heel snel uitgevoerd! #microsoft Lees het hele artikel @NRC@nrc.social
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RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117610994447265569
"Microsoft has demonstrably underinvested in its IT stability. Any IT plan that results in a global, multi-day outage is, by definition, inadequate."
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"Microsoft is too big in every way. Too big to fail, too big to jail and too big to care. Too big to trust. Too big to rely upon. Too big to foster a corporate culture that cares about reliability, a decent workplace, or product quality."
#microsoft #pluralistic #outage
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: I told you so; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/11/13/outlookpocalypse/
#Pluralistic
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Today, I received two emails from two different customers. Both use Zimbra, hosted on one of our servers, and both wrote to thank us.
They pointed out that in ten years of hosting (both have been with us since that server was first set up), they've experienced only a few minutes of downtime. Always during weekends or at night, strictly for maintenance and updates. In fact, they never even noticed.
They also mentioned that many of their contacts, who are rather desperate today, will probably be getting in touch with us over the next few weeks.
Thank you, Microsoft. Today, you've given me the best advertising I could possibly ask for. And you did it for free.
#Microsoft #AvoidMonoculture #Decentralization
RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@demofox/117610334329985119
#Microsoft
Noun:
"black box systems built by people who left 2 years ago."
#AI
Who is this #Microsoft everyone keeps talking about.. 
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#News: 💻⚠️ #Google, #Amazon, and #Microsoft use AI and #cloudcomputing to power #military campaigns and #surveillance in #Gaza. As international outrage grows, could 2027 be the year they face justice for aiding #genocide? 🛑⚖️ #TechWashing #HumanRights @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk
#FootpathFriday is now trending across Mastodon
#FursuitFriday is now trending across Mastodon
#SextaSerie is now trending across Mastodon
#Microsoft is now trending across Mastodon
Governments around the world grapple with not having access to their email, due to a Microsoft outage. It really is time for them to host their own mail services and generally diversify. Relying so heavily on Big Tech is just a really bad idea.
#Microsoft #Outlook #Mail #Government #EU #Europa
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#Microsoft🚨continued to warn that users may be unable to connect to multi Microsoft 365 products *making “continued recovery progress” overall, w “broader improvements” in NA, “sustained improvements” in much of Eur..."
-CNBC
A grp of current & fmr Microsoft employees🚨is circulating a letter accusing the co of chasing #AI at the cost of its own ppl, customers & climate goals *drawn fresh attn after the co offered buyouts to ~60K employees, >1/4 of the WF.
#BigTech #USPol
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De storing bij #Microsoft365 heeft zowaar tot gevolg dat we op de @NRC@nrc.social site de reactiemogelijkheid hebben aangezet onder een oproepje. (Wat merkt u ervan?) Ons mailen kan even niet.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/11/13/hoe-raakt-de-a4941299
#Moderatie #Microsoft #Cybersecurity
When ordinary people accidentally send an email to the wrong recipient, there is nothing we can do.
When Trump accidentally sends all of the uncensored Epstein files to all media outlets, he just calls Microsoft's CEO and tells him to have an outage.
#microsoft #trump #epstein
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Watching #microsoft hit the Find Out phase of firing 10,000 engineers 6-12 months ago.
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It used to be my job to explain complex technical outages and incidents to very senior executives who didn’t know anything about technology.
Last year, they decided I was unneeded.
Anyways, I’m having a GREAT day.
#microsoft
EDIT: Please note, this post hasn't been update for a long time and still considers Dovecot 2.3.x - but the underlying ideas are still current.
Quite relevant, today:
Make your own E-Mail server - Part 1 - FreeBSD, OpenSMTPD, Rspamd and Dovecot included
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/03/08/make-your-own-email-server-freebsd-opensmptd-rspamd-dovecot-part1/
#FreeBSD #RunBSD #email #Microsoft #OwnYourData