Vanity: Yes, Microsoft took down large parts of the internet today around noon ET. No, it's not just you.

Microsoft Azure Status ^ | 2025-10-29 | dayglored

[dayglored]

A misconfiguration at Microsoft Azure caused massive, widespread outages today starting around noon ET.

https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status for details.

https://downdetector.com/ was on fire. It's getting better.

[sjm_888]

I don’t always test my code but when I do, I do it in production.

[Salamander]

Yup.

Leaves you feeling like YOU are the crazy one in the room because it simply does not connect to reality .

At. All.

😆

[BipolarBob]

Wife has been unable to access her email for two days.

[Redcitizen]

Better check the TPS report too.

[Peter ODonnell]

So this program I am seeing on all channels, Greetings From Chairman Xi, is no joke then?

[dagunk]

> Didn’t noticed it...

You are among the blessed.

Remember this day, for another day will surely come when you are not so blessed, and then there will be weeping, wailing, gnashing of teeth, and rending of garments. When that day comes, remember this day, and be grateful.

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Huh - I keep my data on my machines and my backups. Don’t trust clouds.

Now if I had been trying to get to one of the affected sites that may or may not be a problem, depending on what I’m looking for.

I didn’t notice outages either but I was busy playing with other stuff today.

[dayglored]

> I keep my data on my machines and my backups. Don’t trust clouds.

The rules I try to follow for important stuff:

1. Never have only one copy of anything important. Have two or more copies, in different places.
2. Backup important ground-based data to an encrypted secure cloud service if you don't have a separate physical facility somewhere safe.
3. Backup important cloud-based data to secure off-site storage on the ground that you can protect.
4. Become religious about synchronizing ground and cloud copies. During sync, keep a third copy in case the sync communications fails horribly.
5. Periodically verify that you have readable copies on the ground of everything important. If you're using a separate off-site ground facility instead of cloud, same goes true for that.

Of course, you don't have to follow those rules. But I do my best to do so, and it's paid off from time to time in the past.

I don't trust clouds either. But my house burned down to an ash pile in 1995, taking everything with it that I didn't have in my pockets, in my car, or in my off-site storage at the time. I don't trust ground storage either.

[FreedomPoster]

Lots and lots of H1b’s and offshore types. Impossible!

😜

[dagunk]

Of course, you don’t have to follow those rules. But I do my best to do so, and it’s paid off from time to time in the past.

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That’s a good set of rules, especially the off-site storage. I don’t use clouds, but....

Primary machine has two drives in it, second drive is for backups in case the primary drive craps.

I also have two external drives, primary and secondary, with full home directory and some setup information backups on them (printcap, wpa_applicant.config, FVWM3 config,....).

All work just like they’re supposed to. I reload the operating systems and utilities every two or three years and have reloaded the backups from all sources. They work. Saved my butt a few times....

All my boxes are unix-based (Linux or Freebsd).

[hecticskeptic]

Turned out that it was the first time in a very long time that I absolutely needed to talk to Microsoft support......it is already brutal enough to get to a little a body...

[hecticskeptic]

...to get to a LIVE body...

[dayglored]

> .to get to a LIVE body...

But are you SURE it was a LIVE body? Some of these AI's are pretty good at conversation.... :-)

[Openurmind]

I missed this yesterday... I think it was just an MS issue. So I would have never known.

[AppyPappy]

Someone pressed the RTO button

[GingisK]

Did their new server release earn them worldwide “Black Screens of Death”?

[dayglored]

> Did their new server release earn them worldwide “Black Screens of Death”?

Could be... they finally changed the color, and the famous Blue Screen of Death is now the Black Screen of Death. Apparently the acronym BSOD was so firmly entrenched in software code and documentation, not to mention common internet usage, that they had to go with Black, since Beige didn't render well, and Buttercup was too gay even for Microsoft.