Lol I legit thought
whoa a gel electrophoresis meme, I wonder if anyone recognises the sequence.
yeah, but it’s microsoft. what’s the longest you’ve gone without rebooting windows? a couple days? It stands to reason.
Worst sorting algorithm ever.
[vibe coding intensifies]
At least their status bars are, presumably, somewhat honest. It’s pretty common for the status server being used to track various Lemmy instances to show all green even when the site has clearly been down several hours or even for days.
Probably pings the servers instead of checking web server works
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lol I’m about to kill my copilot subscription. Why have baby autocomplete when you have big daddy Claude now? I don’t even type anything anymore. The whole point of agentic swe is you don’t code by hand. If the ai does something wrong correct it so it doesn’t happen again.
Meanwhile, over at Codeberg: https://status.codeberg.org/
They achieve all of this using 100% open-source infrastructure. If I remember correctly, it’s all running on Codeberg-owned hardware as well, not some rented servers.
They were down for like entire day once because they moved that server to a new location by train. In a backpack.
Migrations should always incur downtime
“Hey we’re migrating, take a break for a week”
I am disappointed. A few servers have been moved via train and stayed online. Codeberg should do better.
A company at which I once worked built a functioning server into the frame of a motorcycle. It was after I left, so I’m not sure of the details, including whether it had to be plugged in; but regardless, they called it “the world’s fastest server!” and I think that’s pretty funny.
I have a dead moyorcycle. I want to do this now.
On behalf of a company that hasn’t been my employer for more than half my life, I give you permission.
I don’t need permission to do awesome things. All I need is the budget.
Fair enough. With that I cannot help.
Lol, awesome.
Annoyingly I noticed that the status page only shows the past 22 minutes to 1 hour for the primary services. I have no idea why, and there doesn’t seem to be a way to look further back. But the badge says 99.45% uptime over the last 14 days, so that’s probably right.
To be fair the number of users they serve is probably orders of magnitudes lower.
To be fair MS makes orders of magnitude more money and has the benefit of operations at scale. Whereas codeberg’s operational budget for 2025 was 100k euro and they still need to deal with DDoS and bot scraping. They also were running off a single server up until sept’25 when they had two donated hardware services which are now hooked up to make a 3 node ceph cluster.
Tbf that only shows the past 14 days instead of past 30, but still
They also have an history of incidents further down and as you can see they are very short, heck many aren’t even incidents since they were on purpose for mantaince and features deployment
We’re watching the old internet fall apart.
We’re watching Microsoft ruin another company. Its like if EA or IBM buys something, its enshittified and rent seeking occurs for shareholders.
Once this Windows monopoly has passed due to the abysmal quality it will hopefully be over, and hopefully AI helps remove barriers to file portability to hasten their demise.
I think that’s how a lot of the internet is dying right now because buying an IP then wringing every drop of value out of its dying corpse before dropping it is a good way to make money right now. This is very much a thing that happens outside of the internet too, and happened long before the internet existed. I think one of the cool things about the internet is how quickly word can spread about this kind of compromised company / product / whatever thing, though I think we need to get better at it. I’m not exactly sure how to accomplish that, it seems like an overwhelming problem, but I think about it a lot.
I REALLY hope MS crashes and burns. They’re a shitstain company, and the shit Gates did as CEO was atrocious.
It’s like all companies forgot that reliability is a core feature…
“Users will completely understand the increased outages if we just eliminate the point-and-click UI that we’ve spent the last 30+ years getting them used to and instead give them a chat bot that they have to repeatedly type detailed instructions to for marginal results at best.”
– Vibe CEO’s Everywhere
We are Flowers for Algernoning our technology.
If I use my phone (not android Auto), I can no longer say, “Navigate to <place>”. It flat out does not work.
Navigate to Local Bakery Xyz.
I’m sorry I can’t do that.
(It tries to open the non-existent app for the local bakery).
If I’m in the car that has android auto, it refuses to let me type while in drive (fair enough) and it recognizes the “Navigate to…” Instructions, but if I click on the Maps nav bar for voice and say my destination (it literally says, no text while driving speak your destination)… It tries to open the app.
This shit used to work, it’s getting actively dumber.
This morning I got fed up and asked,
“Can I use you to navigate somewhere?”
Sure! Where would you like to go?
“Dutch Bros”
(Opens the Dutch Bros app)
I once tried to ask my phone to set an alarm. It said it did.
I checked the app. No alarm set.
I tried again, but with a timer. It said it was set.
Again, nothing.
I gave up on digital assistants after that. They took them out back and shot them, and what we see now is their rotted corpse puppeted by Shareholder Value™️ gone wrong. This was 2022.
It never occurred to me before now but from here on out, there will probably always be some old part of the internet, crumbling and sparse, moldering and broken, populated by far fewer denizens than it was designed for.
I wonder if that’ll just be the ever-fading “old folks” internet.
You mean sourceforge?
Oh sure, there will always be museums and monuments with little slices of the internet that was, but for the most part, the urge to repurpose old resources to new endeavors means that some parts of the internet will always fade away. I don’t know if we’ll ever start preserving it perfectly but we certainly aren’t there yet.
I’m colorblind, but I’m curious to know what is being represented here.
Server / service downtime. For a well managed company, you would expect these to be almost uniformly green, meaning that all servers are responding correctly almost all of the time. This graph has a lot of yellow and red, indicating severe instability in their services.
Not being able to keep servers running is something that typically happens to smaller companies that grow too fast for them to manage. Established companies are (or, IMO, should be…) expected to have near perfect (>99.99%) uptime, and this is indicative of some expertise loss for the company broadly.
99.99%
TBF, no, established companies tend to have something between 99.9% and 99.99% of uptime. It only increases if the company is explicitly focused on it, at a large cost that usually needs to be paid by some customer.
But Github pretends to be one of those companies that focus on uptime. And it’s also less than 99% right now. So yeah, the main point stands.
Yeah that’s fair. It’s part of the advertising in some sectors, but not all. A lot of the companies I’ve bought products from tend to advertise their uptime, and that’s the type of company I think about when I think about uptime stats. However, a lot of the companies I’ve sold products to tended to not talk about it, and their uptime was often in the 2 nines to 3 nines, if not a lot worse. Somehow they still managed to keep going lol. Some of them anyway.
Thanks. I was thinking it was something biological, or some sort of light spectrum and was getting confused.
https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ offers a slightly more honest version with aggregate numbers
90% uptime is abysmal
Any other company would be asked refunds from most clients
LMAO 1 nine of reliability.
At one place I worked we had a service that had been part of an acquired company that, as far as I could tell, had no one responsible for maintaining it, and it either zero or almost zero users, so it would go down for weeks at a time before somebody noticed and did something about it, usually because it needed a security patch. To this day I have no idea why it wasn’t shut down but AFAIK it’s still out there causing problems for whoever works there now.
We came up with a bunch of ways to describe its uptime: a service has one fortnine of reliability if it stays up for at least one continuous fortnight of the year, for instance. An absolute nine is nine days per year. Fractional nines were invented: a “quarter nine” was 25% of 90%uptime, or 22.5% total uptime.
“Lets buy shit, then fire everyone, and balk when it fails”
“Brilliant gambit sir”
Two 9’s, the pinnacle of reliability.
Five 9s with an 8 in front.
*yeah, not yea or nay. Do people no longer attend school?
Cocksure. Look it up.
Gitlab is pretty much the same
Nobody says “yea”. Unless they’re voting. Or talking about the size of something.
You are correct. It is yeah, not yea or nay. It isn’t a vote. Most people are stupid.
it’s actually “yes.”
