Miscellaneous Tech News
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@scottalanmiller Explains why two of our Azure backups failed overnight.
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@jt1001001 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller Explains why two of our Azure backups failed overnight.
Yup, looks like it was an hour and a half east coast total Azure outage, or nearly so.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@jt1001001 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller Explains why two of our Azure backups failed overnight.
Yup, looks like it was an hour and a half east coast total Azure outage, or nearly so.
Ouch, how does that even happen anymore, to that extent?
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@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@jt1001001 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller Explains why two of our Azure backups failed overnight.
Yup, looks like it was an hour and a half east coast total Azure outage, or nearly so.
Ouch, how does that even happen anymore, to that extent?
Don't know in this case, yet. But they know it was on the edge. So the most likely culprit, IMHO, is something like a router (probably actually a router) that failed and advertised some bad route or lost a route. When that happens, it takes a minimum of a few minutes for monitoring to find it, humans to understand what happened, replace or reconfigure the device, and the route to propagate back out correctly.
It's not the kind of thing that can have redundancy. I mean it can, but it's useless. It's like two houses, made of straw, directly next door. One catches fire, you know the other is going too (just ask people who live in California what that's like.)
At the end of the day, there's no good way to protect against that completely.
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Spooky action at a distance: The future magic of remote collaboration
In a world where you have to social distance, how do you scrum?
The global pandemic and the corporate office shutdowns resulting from it have wrought changes to how work works. While essential people in certain industries have continued their jobs in ways that are relatively familiar under layers upon layers of personal protective equipment, many companies have had to find ways to continue other work at a “social” distance. And in those situations, employees must find ways to continue collaborating as they did when they were packed into cubicles, open floor plans, and all the other various patterns of modern office spaces. -
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
SW is looking for money grams at this point
Don't keep up much do you?
They were bought last year by ZiffDavis.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
SW is looking for money grams at this point
Don't keep up much do you?
They were bought last year by ZiffDavis.
Does that imply they aren't still looking for money grams?
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Donald Trump joins TikTok rival Triller
Donald Trump has joined Triller, a New-York-based rival to China's TikTok.
After two days on the social-media app, the US president has 11,000 followers. TikTok was banned in India two months ago. Mr Trump wants to follow suit unless it sells the app's US version and has signed executive orders targeting both it and another Chinese social-media app, Tencent's WeChat. Both India and the US fear data collected by the TikTok could be given to the Chinese government. -
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Spotify goes down around the globe
Music-streaming service Spotify was offline for users around the world for more than an hour on Wednesday.
Users could play only songs already downloaded to their devices. And in many cases songs cut out after just a few seconds. The issues began at about 13:00 BST on Wednesday, affecting both free and paid users. The company has nearly 300 million users. Spotify has not said what caused the problem. Tweeting from its customer care account, the tech giant only said it was "aware of some issues right now". -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Spotify goes down around the globe
Ah that would explain it
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Microsoft Files Applications With Elk Grove Village For $123 Million Data Center In Tech Park
Microsoft filed applications this month for a $123 million data center in the Elk Grove Technology Park, according to records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act order for public documents.
Three permits were filed by Microsoft with Elk Grove Village: one filed in June for grading and site preparation, along with another two applications both filed Aug. 3, one for a data center and one for ancillary work including parking lots related to the data center. -
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Lyft suspends service in California over employment row
Ride-hailing firm Lyft says it is suspending operations in California after a judge ordered it to treat drivers as employees.
Both Lyft and Uber were told they must classify their drivers as employees and not contractors by Friday. Lyft has now said its services in California will stop at 23:59 local time on Thursday (06:59 GMT on Friday). Uber has warned it will have to do the same if a stay is not granted by an appeals court before the deadline. But Uber has yet to make any formal announcement. "This is not something we wanted to do, as we know millions of Californians depend on Lyft for daily, essential trips," Lyft said in a statement posted online. -
Want Verizon or AT&T 5G? You’ll have to buy an expensive unlimited plan
5G technically doesn't cost extra, but it's only in the pricier unlimited plans.
Verizon is adding some perks to its wireless plans this week, but some things aren't changing: Verizon still restricts 5G service to its most expensive unlimited-data plans. If you want to save money by getting a limited-data plan, you'll have to make do with 4G only—which, admittedly, is not a big problem for most people given how sparse Verizon's 5G network is. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Want Verizon or AT&T 5G? You’ll have to buy an expensive unlimited plan
5G technically doesn't cost extra, but it's only in the pricier unlimited plans.
Verizon is adding some perks to its wireless plans this week, but some things aren't changing: Verizon still restricts 5G service to its most expensive unlimited-data plans. If you want to save money by getting a limited-data plan, you'll have to make do with 4G only—which, admittedly, is not a big problem for most people given how sparse Verizon's 5G network is.Unlimited (Throttling) Plan
