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The new Head of Quality in Microsoft has not started working there yet, so it's business as usual at MS... And now with AI slop on top

Ref: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1r1tphx/microso...


So they will get better at publicly dismantling such cases and doing much better damage control in PR only. "Q" in "Microsoft" stands for "quality".

Many European software companies are looking for alternatives outside the US now with the geopolitical situation between the US and EU. It's not only limited to the three big cloud providers, but Microsoft in general, in addition to other US providers.

If you look closely, you can see the color of the orange Cloudflare logo being slightly adjust to match a particular individual's facial color tone.


Happy new year from Norway!


TLS certificates is not the only technology for which the default mode is failure. What about disks, databases or syntax errors in configuration files in general?

In technology, there are known problems and unknown problems. Expiring TLS certificates is a known problem which has an established solution.

Imagine if only some of the requests failed because a certificate is about to expire. That would be a debugging nightmare.


Maybe I'm too cold or cynical here, but I would make it compulsory to indicate the disability in the diploma with an annotation or comment.

Or possibly the other way around: "Completed degree on standardized terms "


This is how Heroku has been doing it for years since it started out 10+ years ago.

$ git push heroku master

So you'll have to make sure to push to e.g. GitHub as well for version control.


Steve Jobs is gone, so is the unique quality obsessed Apple we knew. Even on the hardware side, the AirPods reecks of poor quality since they break so easily


Can one also use AirPods for e.g. Google Maps navigation?


Theoretically yes. There are apps for the blind that do this[1]; you set a "beacon" at the location you want to navigate to, and the apps use head tracking and 3d (HRTF) audio to show you which direction the beacon is in.

Most of these are based on Microsoft's discontinued Soundscape app[2], which MS open sourced after its discontinuation.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voicevista/id6450388413 [2] https://github.com/microsoft/soundscape


You're pointing out something important. I think it's feasible for the crowd who dislikes the overall direction Docker has been heading and need a simple drop-in replacement


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