One of my jobs today was to scan in a pile of receipts, and to email it to my boss. Outlook was down. Easy day today
Skynets beginnings
See everybody talks about the negatives of “Oh humanity is destroyed” and “I have to fight against terminators!” but nobody talks about we no longer have to action emails.
Are we already at the point where they’ve fired so many engineers to be taken over by AI that they can’t fix it by themselves anymore?
Fuck Microsoft
A cog sucker director at my company was saying just two days ago how we should copy Microsoft way of replacing workers with AI and their products are working great lolololol
Get rekt. Vibe code this, you layoff fucking happy prrrrrricks
#badvibes
My bosses sent out an email informing people of the outage through Outlook… [facepalm]
Also, placing 5$ on it being a BGP issue.
Our IT is hamstrung so HR sent a text blast about the outage. Good thinking, hilarious failure.
Everbridge. Gotta diversify.
Another vote for everbridge it serves us well.
My school uses it as their email and I had to make my class online only for today because of personal reasons. Could I reach my students? Nope!
But, I did mention it during class on Tuesday and also last week, so people who remembered joined. A cool student also let confused people know in person since she was around. I still made it optional and just gave personalized feedback to students who stuck around.
It’s wasn’t as bad as when Canvas dropped cause of AWS outage during finals week. That was not fun.
Its way more than Microsoft. Someone fucked up again lol.
Is it DNS? Is DNS again, isn’t it?
No idea. But i didn’t know how hard it is to work when no one can check emails and calendars lol.
What is affected other than Microsoft?
Zoom, Starlink, Google, Service Now, AWS, AT&T to name a few.
My work outlook won’t even start. It’s just sitting on the splash screen for 45 minutes now
Nine fives is still better than a coin flip.
At least emails retry I guess
It’s only downtime if you take 24h+ to fix it, otherwise it’s just slow e-mails.
Lol … this is how the AI takeover starts
First we get inconvenienced by having a few things shut down in our office, then we start seeing pieces of the internet fall apart … once we start seeing memes being made about it all … the nuclear weapons have already launched and we only have about 40 minutes before we realize that the end has already started.
Some of us will just see the bright white flash and shock wave.
Most of us will start getting mad because the internet isn’t working any more, no TV, no radio and we won’t know about the apocalypse until we step outside and start asking other confused people about what happened.
Your email is down for the day.
Calm down.
Thats what they said when we told everyone they were recording us at all times. Then Snowden came out.
If you dont think this is just the beginning your heads in the sand. Its gonna get BAD.
This is like the “king tides” that were historically high this past summer. The oceans are literally already in the process of swallowing these coastal cities!
What are we missing, oh wise one? Are you going to share your humanity-saving knowledge? Or just keep it to yourself so you can act superior over everyone?
Yep! Everything truly sucks now.
I was just trying to update an account to not use my hotmail address, and oh look I can’t get the email to start the process. Come on.
