Programmer Humor

I am disappointed. A few servers have been moved via train and stayed online. Codeberg should do better.

Migrations should always incur downtime

"Hey we're migrating, take a break for a week"

To be fair MS makes orders of magnitude more money and has the benefit of operations at scale. Whereas codeberg's operational budget for 2025 was 100k euro and they still need to deal with DDoS and bot scraping. They also were running off a single server up until sept'25 when they had two donated hardware services which are now hooked up to make a 3 node ceph cluster.

more users means, they should do much better than the ones with less users (assuming each user is worth the same/requires same infra).

at the worst case, a bigger org could just copy paste a smaller orgs system a couple times to get the exact same uptime, with same budget per user*. The benefit of bigger orgs is, that they can consolidate these separate system a big system that is more stable AND costs less. If this wasn't true, we wouldn't have big orgs in the first place**.

* yes, it is NOT the same budget for the users. You can't JUST copy paste the system, you'd also need to think how you split it up. I know there are a million little things to nitpick here, but this can all be solved somewhat easily, and they wont change the overall argument.

** regulatory capture, lobbying, corruption and creating a monopoly could also be consider aspects of "consolidating into a bigger system". This doesn't mean why MS shouldn't be able to be better, it just explains why they aren't better.

Win10 was stable, but Win11 was back into the reboot often mode for a while. Not sure if it has gotten better.

Outing yourself as a Windows abstainer isn't the worst thing, I guess.

I've had uptimes over 1000 days on some of my air gapped linux and BSD machines. Windows never liked going more than month or two, and now unless you turn off automatic updates you never get close to that wall.

I and strongly against windows and what microsoft is doing, But you are absolutely correct. If you stick to a build/update that's not trying to brick your NVME, windows desktop uptime is very reasonable.

We're not scoping on stability of thier updates, or the ability to update, just uptime on a run of the mill patched version, it goes as long as you'd need it to for most people.

Now, my linux desktop can go for very very long stretches without updates/reboots if I cared to do it. but windows 11 isn't bad in the way that 95, 98, 2000 were. I'd even argue that win10 was more stable or at the very least had far less breaking issues.

I think that's how a lot of the internet is dying right now because buying an IP then wringing every drop of value out of its dying corpse before dropping it is a good way to make money right now. This is very much a thing that happens outside of the internet too, and happened long before the internet existed. I think one of the cool things about the internet is how quickly word can spread about this kind of compromised company / product / whatever thing, though I think we need to get better at it. I'm not exactly sure how to accomplish that, it seems like an overwhelming problem, but I think about it a lot.

I REALLY hope MS crashes and burns. They're a shitstain company, and the shit Gates did as CEO was atrocious.

You mean sourceforge?

I once tried to ask my phone to set an alarm. It said it did.

I checked the app. No alarm set.

I tried again, but with a timer. It said it was set.

Again, nothing.

I gave up on digital assistants after that. They took them out back and shot them, and what we see now is their rotted corpse puppeted by Shareholder Value™️ gone wrong. This was 2022.

"Users will completely understand the increased outages if we just eliminate the point-and-click UI that we've spent the last 30+ years getting them used to and instead give them a chat bot that they have to repeatedly type detailed instructions to for marginal results at best."

-- Vibe CEO's Everywhere

99.99%

TBF, no, established companies tend to have something between 99.9% and 99.99% of uptime. It only increases if the company is explicitly focused on it, at a large cost that usually needs to be paid by some customer.

But Github pretends to be one of those companies that focus on uptime. And it's also less than 99% right now. So yeah, the main point stands.

LMAO 1 nine of reliability.