><obscure set of random words>

"language server" is probably not particularly obscure (or random) to the audience of people who know what "mecrisp-stellaris" is (i.e. the audience of the post).

i actually doubt "language server" is obscure to pretty much anyone who has done any programming recently.

my mom can use signal no problem. she doesnt know what half the words in your comment mean, though.

>if your first instinct is to defend it

the reminder of "theres a human there" is not "defending" the actions. its a call back to reality, because people on the internet take little things way too fucking seriously all the time.

and yes, this is a little thing. extremely tiny. i promise you'll forget about it in a few days whenever the next thing in the outrage cycle bubbles to the top of your feed/HN

>A world without Microsoft.. no telemetry or backdoors.

thank god microsoft is the only entity on the planet that uses telemetry or violates privacy. get rid of them and we're in a new age!

heres the second paragraph in full:

"Here, amidst the repurposed neoclassical columns and wooden pews of a building constructed to worship a different kind of permanence, lies the physical manifestation of the "virtual" world. We tend to think of the internet as an ethereal cloud, a place without geography or mass. But in this building, the internet has weight. It has heat. It requires electricity, maintenance, and a constant battle against the second law of thermodynamics. As of late 2025, this machine—collectively known as the Wayback Machine—has archived over one trillion web pages.1 It holds 99 petabytes of unique data, a number that expands to over 212 petabytes when accounting for backups and redundancy.3"

can you help my small brain by pointing out where in this paragraph they talk about deduplication?

>10 hours of outage in a year affecting a team of 10 would cost north of $70k

10 hours x 10 developers x $70 per hour = $7000, not $70000.

Thank you for the correction! This indeed completely changes the picture :-\

but you can be smug when theres a github incident, and thats hard to put a price on

You can do that with gitlab.

like most rap videos do with cars/jets/mansions, just rent the ram sticks for a few hours!

And the cinema equipment to make the video itself.

having no issues on azure here, seeing no azure incidents on the status page or any of my admin panels

> seeing no azure incidents on the status page

… in all seriousness, that is hardly proof that Azure isn't having an outage.

if i thought it alone was proof enough, i wouldnt have also included the bit about how i was actively using azure.

its one signal, among others. and in any case, i wasn't trying to prove the parent commenter wrong. i was offering my own signal to the crowd.

I second this. Not experiencing any Azure issues at this time.

this attitude is exactly why and how those "deranged redditor activists" (we're from the superior hacker news, of course, where there is no controversy or activists or differences in opinion) took and maintain control.