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Day 431. Our deployment of an #Azure Key Vault through #Terraform failed because the Key Vault responded with "EOF" while Terraform was polling to see if it was already available. But then trying to run Terraform apply again fails because a Key Vault with the same name suddenly already exists and manually needs to get imported into the state.

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@Marcel_Gehlen dann wollen wir, Deinen Hinweis einen groesseren Kreis kundtun. Wie das so geht, kennst Du sicher.

Macht den #eXit und den #UnplugTrump , d.h. u.a. verlasst die #usServer der #TechMillardaere , wie z.B. #AWS , #apple #icloud , #MicroSoft #azure , #akamai , #googleCloud . Es gibt viele gute #europeanAlternatives und einige bedenkliche #euServer wie solche die AfD-Inhalte hosten : #hetzner wurde da genannt. Wer dort ist, sollte vielleicht mal nachdenken und -fragen.

Day 429. Following up on the shit from day 427. #Microsoft did not only disable the creation of #GitHub issues on their #Azure repositories. They disabled the entire issues section, which means that all previously created issues can no longer be viewed either. Years of bug reports, discussions, workarounds... accumulated knowledge just went down the drain. Hopefully you haven't linked to any of these issues in your own docs (we surely did).

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actionnetwork.orgTell Microsoft To Stop Partnering With Israel's GenocideBREAKING: Microsoft is a core partner in Israel’s AI-powered massacres of Palestinians. Leaked documents published on Jan. 23, 2025, expose the deep partnership between Israel’s military operations and Microsoft.  Take action: mpowerchange.org/microsoft We now know that Israel’s military used Microsoft’s cloud platform (Azure), a “suite of communications and messaging systems,” millions of dollars of engineering support, and more. Take action with us — and support the Microsoft workers organizing to cut ties with the IDF. Israel’s so-called “demands of the war” on Gaza called for outside tech support. To that end, Israel’s military operational capabilities were “upgraded” during the current war in Gaza thanks to the “wonderful world of cloud providers” that enabled “very significant operational effectiveness.” The sanitized language of “operational effectiveness” is a weak cover for Israel’s AI-powered war machine, unleashed on Gaza for 15 months. Israel’s AI program “has been a behind-the-scenes force accelerating the death toll in Gaza, which has claimed 45,000 lives….” Microsoft has lofty public-facing AI goals. These include AI for Humanitarian Action: “aimed at harnessing the power of AI to support disaster response and recovery, help ensure the safety and wellbeing of children around the world, protect refugees and displaced people, and promote respect for human rights.” The Jan. 23rd exposé shows that Microsoft has caused the opposite of their stated aims, and its actions of support for Israel accelerated an AI-powered genocide. Microsoft supported what the International Criminal Court sees as “plausible genocide. Microsoft should be held accountable.

Day 427. In 2024, #Mirosoft decided to stop using GitHub issues for feedback (its not like almost all GitHub issues got ignored by Microsoft anyways) and introduced a new feedback method for their #Azure docs. But this method is non-conversational and not public. Which means that you miss out on a lot of community-driven knowledge-sharing which happened a lot in GitHub issues.

The problem with #unplugtrump is, it is impossible to fully live without. A lot of websites are hosted by #cloudflare or #AWS or #azure or #GCP.
I can buy from somewhere else, I can use another email service (but is this hosted on an European server?), but just surfing the internet, even only German sites, is mostly using big tech. Daimler, Bahn, Allianz and many others have migrated their IT to one of the top three cloud providers.
My uni forces me to use zoom or teams

nytimes.com/2020/07/31/technol

The New York Times · I Tried to Live Without the Tech Giants. It Was Impossible.By Kashmir Hill