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Re:Global Microsoft Outage by MisterMunchkin on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:10AM (#50481111)
Yeah it’s either a hack or someone slopcoded something that has broken the servers so badly that they can’t be restored.
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Re:Global Microsoft Outage by ifwinterco on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:35AM (#50481426)
It's a huge distributed system, they're not hard to break in weird ways.

Malice or gross incompetence isn't really required to break it, that's its natural state. You need high levels of competence to get it to work

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