Microslop is a tiny scrappy start-up company, give them some slack and patience, they can’t just throw virtually unlimited money at the problem to solve it…
I wouldn’t want to have the job of managing GitHub infrastructure right now. The sheer volume of AI slop being uploaded must be unimaginable
Just use AI to filter, ez
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Well, I have a solution for you! Pay me lots of money and I will tell you EXACTLY what you want to hear about those scammers/business opportunities!
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They should migrate their code to use some technology that scales well… Like web servers and git.
Whoever has that job also very likely has blood on their hands from being involved in facilitating (or remaining silent about) the Palestinian Genocide with Microslop products like Azure and other computing services, so FUCK them, pile the misery on to them until they crumble into dust as a person for all I care.
You can’t just seven degrees of Kevin Bacon everyone into being involved in the genocide of Palestine.
You can’t just pretend having some arbitrary connection to Kevin Bacon is the same as being all the way at the top of the power structure of one of the most powerful entities on earth that is actively seeking profit from an ongoing Genocide.
I mean it’s a job homie, I mean there are some jobs you can’t be forgiven for doing like death camp guard, or gas chamber operator, or whatever Kathleen Kennedy’s job title is. But I don’t think network engineer is on that list
and I mean it is a job that gets blood on your hands, homie.
If they don’t want that baggage, they can deploy their golden parachute and go head another company/organization.
Stop carrying water for these people.
There’s an image going around showing a bar chart of GitHub uptimes over the last several years. It was steady as a rock until Microsoft took over, then it started dipping like crazy and never recovered.
Man, remember when three nines was the standard uptime guarantee?
Well at least they’re showing me a picture of an angry unicorn, as if that’s going to lighten my mood
The message says “This page is taking too long to load”.
I like how it is so vague an average person could easily assume it wasn’t an outage.
They’re avoiding accountability even at the system error level.
Who do we git blame for this
No one will git commit to it.
We just need to push the right people
Who is even copiloting this?
This was a horrible day. I couldn’t even open the source code to make fun of a friend’s choice of language.
So 4 hours later and apparently it’s kind of back again: https://www.githubstatus.com/
“back” yet several additional messages of additional problems
I do wonder if this is the new standard when moving everything from AWS to Azure.
We all knew it was going to be. Nothing was going to stop management from doing it anyways.
I primarily use GitLab, is that actually better?
