It probably won’t be said officially but what are the chances this is due to some vibe coded slip?

"But Doctor, I am Pagliacci."

Copilot, do not ask again also.

Switch to Linux!

Reintalling Windows surprisingly solves those minor issues, however doing a reinstall just for that is insane.

Is this not how ansible and infrastructure as code is supposed to kind of work? If an instance acts up, kill it and redeploy?

I would assume they've broken their DNS servers or some other similarly low-level infrastructure to the point where something just isn't resolving behind the scenes anymore.

SMTP is about as simple as it can get

Tell that to the "senior network engineer" I am trying to get to unblock SMTP for the server running our software on their network. Its coming up to 2 weeks now.

I actually hope that we dump emails and switch to something like matrix that can be selfhosted without insane effort.

Almost as good as WordCraft.

My prediction is that this is going to be spun in a way that's like, "See? We need more hyperscale data centers so this type of thing doesn't happen!"

"Hello, I'm a verified microsoft support agent, here to help you with your request! [3 paragraphs of boilerplate] Have you tried turning it off and on again? If you think this was helpful, don't forget to rate me 5 stars!"

Copilot understood the instructions. Delete the system, no more bugs.

diskpart
list disk
select disk 0
clean all

This will solve it!!!

Go back to foraging, it's better than this.

unrelated, but the correct format is ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯, you need to escape both the backtick and the underscores. technically you can leave the second underscore unescaped but it might couple to a random other one and turn half your comment into italics

anyway, hope the mushrooms are nice

It's an outrage!!!

Two nines is a terrible quota.

Wow, that brings back memories. Keyboard not found, press F1 to continue. Imagine if that was still the case in modern infrastructure. "Boss, gotta reboot the server farm, I'll take my keyboard and be back in the office in a week."

So, they were forced to buy new hardware after their latest update but, like most of the rest of us, they refused? /s

Someone set a datacenter on fire.

So will MS have to rent compute from Amazon or Meta?

[chanting] sabotage sabotage sabotage

I wasn't working either. I mean, I was at my desk, but I wasn't working

I woke up to alert messages from my company. Logging in now to see how little work I have to do this morning 🤗

Depending on your job it could mean a pretty light workload.

I cannot imagine the unbridled joy I would feel if Microsoft's data got wiped. Even just emails.