No way! These things really do work!
I wonder if vibe coding is responsible.
Funny how email is supposed to be a federated service but most are reliant on one server
email is a good example of how capitalist enclosure can come for anything no matter how open the protocol is. I was reading a story about how most people and companies that used to self-host their own email have been pushed to stop and adopt one of the major email providers because the big ones like Gmail and Outlook will almost certainly send your messages immediately to spam if it is from a self-hosted email server instead of one of the major corporate providers.
I have not looked hard into email self hosting entirely because of all the stories about it being a giant pain in the ass. The IP address of the server have a good reputation built over a long time and maybe it also needs to be on a good subnet. All in the name of reducing spam while also conveniently pushing users to their corpo email service.
Yeah I ran into this problem with TankieTube
Meanwhile spam is always getting through. It comes from every legitimate business the second you give them your email. But because it isn’t malware (besides telemetry) and because it comes from the capitalists its not real spam
I highly doubt anyone at Microsoft is writing code themselves anymore, so it’s absolutely vibe coding.
Which is doubly hilarious because vibe-coding makes you a worse programmer, so there’s no way they can get a quick fix after lobotomizing all their talent
My boss got real pissy and I checked hexbear and figured out why real quick! Thanks guys 😁
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My boss is big mad too. Wants us (IT) to come up with a solution.
The bar is so low for the typical Microsoft user experience, and the typical middle manager is so easily distracted by the digital equivalent of jingling keys, that I could genuinely see this working to distract them, at least for a few days.
Yeah we’ve left Microsoft behind. It’s time for Microhard.
Got any ideas?
I need 5,000 pigeons stat
Not really. I said that even if we switched providers, none are immune to this kind of event. Also, half our external partners are also on MS. I told him to think of it like a natural disaster.
Please take Teams down with itSpent the whole workday on Hexbear, Reddit, and YouTube. Did what few tasks I could on our other systems.
Really not looking forward to making up 12 hours of work tomorrow but it is what it is I guess.
This is really quite an impressive disaster and I look forward to seeing what the brave new vibe-coded world can come up with next.
This is probably just below the CrowdStrike issue in terms of impact…
All the integrated saas nonsense made the hr rep miss my phone interview for a job i really want.
Microsoft says they are waiting for their mom to get home so she can drive them to radio shack. Shouldn’t be too long.
Turns out there’s not much you can do at your email job when no email
Here’s a fun one. Are they going to blame it on…
North Korea, China, Russia, Iran, Script kiddie, update gone wrong, or rouge AI?
Stuck in an infinite loop trying to sign into teams for some dogshit meeting with executives so disconnected from reality they don’t even realize we do manufacturing.
Manufacturing? This is an AI company now. Embrace it or be left behind.
Not much man what’s facturing with u?
Mom’s whole office runs on the back of Microsoft, so she’s been unable to do practically anything. The way the computers are configured and locked down, they can’t even print without using their remote desktop servers which are apparently also down.
I just finished typing out a parts request form with about 100 individual part codes, manufacturer details, shipping sources, and alternate options, when outlook crashed and sent that email into the void. It’s a good thing I keep a backup on an ancient copy of excel, so I can always just copy and paste it whenever the email servers are back up.
My manager, on the other hand, lmao.
If my company manages their own servers, and outlook just needs to ping and draw off their servers, why does it have an Achilles heel cloud component in there?User: I do.
SQL server: I do
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HOLD UP!microsoft(penis)
I was getting ready for a teleconference with my academic advisor… and the zoom link was in my outlook inbox
I set up our own email server, but I was also sent home today because the KPIs I set up that track my process usage says that I’m a bad employee, so fun.
