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by mrmondo 8y ago
Like the two posts above - I third Fastmail, great company, great engineers and the platform works so damn well!
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by mrmondo 8y ago
I’ve see the odd app / website like that, if it’s not OSS I give them the finger and move on (while politely suggesting they should offer non-google integrated options), if it is OSS I start by opening a feature / bug request (if
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by mrmondo 8y ago
Isn't it Chinese censorship - as reflected by Apple App store in China vs USA?
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by mrmondo 8y ago
I can’t say for sure, but I’m assuming they meant because it is (in comparison) not a distributed (or complex) system.
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by mrmondo 8y ago
Indeed, Apple is known (internally) for sitting down with privacy offenders and having serious conversations where they explain not just the rules they broke but why those rules are in place and that one of Apples business models comes from
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by mrmondo 8y ago
Well I can’t speak for other people, for me and the three others in the immediate space around me that I just asked: We all stopped used Facebook some time ago as we either found it irrelevant or did not trust the company. As for google, tw
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by mrmondo 8y ago
Give me a real app over a web app any day, the performance, the power and flexibility of native integration and if nothing else - JavaScript is a mess.
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by mrmondo 8y ago
"Facebook has insisted that all participants below the age of 18 submitted parental consent forms, but it would be impossible for Facebook to remotely verify that the teens just didn’t fill them out themselves without extra steps.&quot
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by mrmondo 8y ago
Absolutely disgusting, they're likely too young to sign the contract or understand what they're signing - let alone the impact of what Facebook is doing with their data (or potentially to them directly). It's incredibly distu
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by mrmondo 8y ago
and today Microsoft's "Xbox live" cloud service is down and it's causing Xbox's to fail to boot: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/xbox-one-black-screen/
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by mrmondo 8y ago
Yes, Skype / Skype for business uses Microsoft’s centralised servers including for authentication.
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by mrmondo 8y ago
They're barely desktop apps - they're essentially bloated javascript heavy web-frame like apps that perform poorly, have many bugs (IMO 7~ years of use) and require login to Office365 / Azure online.
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by mrmondo 8y ago
The Office365 status page now states "There are currently no known issues preventing you from signing in to your Office 365 service health dashboard." and when you click the link and are forced to login (now that auth appears to
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by mrmondo 8y ago
I find most of the time when Office365 (especially the mail or calendaring component aka Exchange online) is down - their status pages all say everything is fine, if you contact support no matter what you tell or provide to them they want y
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by mrmondo 8y ago
More so that there should be redundancy if it's a critical system.
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by mrmondo 8y ago
While I agree with your sentiments about the products, MS as a company and their software model, some of us are forced to use their products at work and of course some of us have tried to improve things and move away to more standards based
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by mrmondo 8y ago
Indirect, but the light comes from a west-facing window that I've since covered in tinfoil heh.
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by mrmondo 8y ago
I find the same issue, on several occasions I've done some wireshark / tcpdumps on Outlook (desktop) traffic and it was quite shall we say 'messy', additionally as we notice emails sent via Office365 at times go missing
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by mrmondo 8y ago
Said domain is not registered, While I suspect your comment is just aimed at being humorous it may be taken by some as a bit of a troll comment.
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by mrmondo 8y ago
Does that mean that you don't (ever) have to login to Microsoft / Office365 online services with the desktop software? I have been hearing that people are having issues with desktop apps asking them to log back in to use them - an
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by mrmondo 8y ago
This also impacted "US government cloud resources": https://twitter.com/AzureSupport/status/1090379738424569859 Also from ITNews: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/microsoft-hit-by-glob
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by mrmondo 8y ago
If that, been an enterprise customer with a company that is a gold partner and been using Office365 for 7 years now - it's down so often we stopped monitoring it, easily the most flaky, unreliable, slow and poorly managed online servic
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by mrmondo 8y ago
Update: This apparently affected all of Microsoft Cloud products - not just Office365 as I stated in the title. Source: https://twitter.com/AzureSupport/status/1090366788972404737 *Edit: I believe this includes Az
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by mrmondo 8y ago
Interesting, I suspecting their 'restart' of 'authentication infrastructure' may be a rolling restart and perhaps they have not got to Germany yet, perhaps by using Google's DNS different 'authentication infras
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by mrmondo 8y ago
As I said below the "status page which a) may not be accessible to everyone and b) often has old information removed"
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by mrmondo 8y ago
We thought that too - gwmigprda.aadg.windows.net.nsatc.net seems / seemed to be failing to resolve, but then it seemed like it was internal to their infrastructure - which they later added to their status page (and clarified it was the
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by mrmondo 8y ago
Not sure why I was down-voted for this, it's a direct copy-paste of the service status page which a) may not be accessible to everyone and b) often has old information removed.
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by mrmondo 8y ago
The status page reads as below (I've copied the text here as it a) may not be accessible to everyone and b) often has old information removed / edited, c) this status page / information is usually pay-walled and only availabl
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by mrmondo 8y ago
When I went to jump in the shower this morning (Melbourne) at around 7AM, it was 32deg or so, the taps in the shower were actually too hot for me to touch, I had to use a facecloth over them.
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Hottest places in the world in the past 24 hours are all in Australia(ogimet.com)
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