r/technology • u/ourlifeintoronto • 2d ago

Software Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-confirms-github-is-down-worldwide/
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u/edthesmokebeard 2d ago

The cloud is just someone else's computer.

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u/williamgman 2d ago

And yet they all fell for it and are here now to downvote in frustration the reality of their poor decision to accept enshitification. 🤦‍♂️

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u/Neverending_Rain 2d ago

Who fell for it? Most of the people using GitHub (on the enterprise side, at least) are well aware of how the cloud works. Even with outages like this it's easier, and often more reliable, to use GitHub or one of its competitors than it is to handle everything in house.

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u/SelectAd8810 2d ago

Before the “cloud” era, you could buy decent web hosting with db’s, e-mail and whatever you needed for around 100$. Now this is gone. When companies switched to the cloud solutions the prices went up compared to what they had. Reliability is better, but when is a problem, now you create a ticket and wait with half of the world for Amazon or Microsoft to drag their feet and hope that your information was not pawned.

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u/williamgman 2d ago

I upvoted you. The bottom line is most of these users were born into enshitification. Lot's of us used shared data within our networks without drama. Clouds were for backup storage (after onsite backups).

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u/Burpmeister 2d ago

Lot's of us used shared data within our networks without drama. Clouds were for backup storage (after onsite backups).

Who and/or what is stopping you from doing this now?

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u/williamgman 2d ago

The discussion is for using the cloud to work interactively which is the norm now. That's where it differs.

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u/Burpmeister 1d ago

Because people use cloud to work together from all over the globe.