Five hundred reasons to not use Microsoft Azure(azsh.it)

9 points by bsoqqb 10 months ago | 0 comments

Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted(graz.social)

653 points by ColinWright 3 years ago | 277 comments

A Mastodon post by Karl Voit arguing that the Microsoft Azure cloud hack, including 60,000 stolen US State Department emails, means everything Microsoft authenticates is tainted.

Astronomy Picture of the Day is is 28 years old today(mastodon.social)

44 points by sohkamyung 3 years ago | 7 comments

Simon Riggs has died(m6n.io)

793 points by ajdude 2 years ago | 211 comments

Mastodon post by Josh Berkus reporting that PostgreSQL maintainer Simon Riggs died in a small airplane crash, noting his contributions to replication.

Trying to find some life on the Usenet (2020)(mastodon.sdf.org)

148 points by carlesfe 3 years ago | 181 comments

A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team(mastodon.social)

841 points by luu 3 years ago | 491 comments

A Mastodon post listing recent controversial moves by Google's Chrome team, such as Manifest v3, JPEG XL removal, and Web Environment Integrity, urging users to switch browsers.

Tell HN: Azure outage

856 points by tartieret 1 year ago | 779 comments

Hacker News discussion thread where users report and discuss a Microsoft Azure outage affecting the Azure portal and services in multiple regions.

Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates(404media.co)

501 points by donohoe 6 months ago | 186 comments

404 Media article reporting that Microsoft terminated VeraCrypt's developer account, halting the encryption software's Windows updates.

Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header(neilzone.co.uk)

383 points by wasmitnetzen 2 years ago | 310 comments

A blog post describing how the author added a Postfix header to outgoing mail to try to stop Microsoft Outlook users from sending 'reaction' emails.

Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses(bleepingcomputer.com)

464 points by speckx 11 months ago | 291 comments

News report that Microsoft Azure mitigated a record 15.72 Tbps DDoS attack from the Aisuru botnet using about 500,000 IP addresses.

So this guy is now S3. All of S3(chaos.social)

524 points by aendruk 3 years ago | 332 comments

Mastodon post showing that Bluesky handles verified by serving a file from a domain let someone claim an S3 domain handle.

Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted(graz.social)

653 points by ColinWright 3 years ago | 277 comments

A Mastodon post by Karl Voit arguing that the Microsoft Azure cloud hack, including 60,000 stolen US State Department emails, means everything Microsoft authenticates is tainted.