"But if we fail, people won't be paid, society will grind to a halt" Don't enable addicts. It is exactly what they are. Addicted to the finite high of growth which can only end in the misery and despair of a crash when it all falls down.
An entire planet cannot be held hostage by the whims of a bunch of suited wankers playing God with the world's money. It's absurd.
Microsoft Azure's @medium page just published this guide on how to deploy Mastodon on Azure.
https://medium.com/microsoftazure/simple-mastodon-node-deployment-on-azure-f79f40114d74
Now the fellow who wrote this doesn't directly work for Microsoft.
But clearly, Microsoft wants to use Mastodon to sell Azure. Otherwise they wouldn't publish this article on their official Azure Medium page.
I've been predicting this for months.
In fact, Microsoft has been telegraphing more and more involvement with the Fediverse.
See also: @dotnet
Today in 1823, 200 years ago: Sailor Benjamin Morrell erroneously reported the existence of the island of New South Greenland near Antarctica.
Today in 1781, 242 years ago: In the American Revolutionary War, the Battle of Guilford Court House is fought near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, in which 1900 British troops under the command of General Charles Cornwallis defeat a mixed American force of a total of 4,400 soldiers in a Pyrrhic victory.
Thanks Docker Hub for finally killing yourself 👍👍👍
https://blog.alexellis.io/docker-is-deleting-open-source-images/ #Docker #Dockerhub
Most people's use case is fashion accessory running MS applications, or similar proprietary. No I don't know how to configure your outlook because I spent the last decade of my career specifically avoiding that
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