I've often wondered how much unplanned downtime is caused by the aversion to planned downtime.
replyLike if Exchange Online went down for an hour every Sunday for maintenance, and they made their network configuration change then, there would have been no cascading failure.
This is how you get enshittification. It'll never stop at a day every once in a while, unless we hold those with billions to a higher standard, instead of giving them excuses while the layoffs continue.
replyOr maybe, if everyone was willing to tolerate occasional downtime, they'd compensate for it by not having single-sources of failure on the things that go down, and thereby fixing the structural issues that allow enshittification (dependence that the companies running the services get to use to squeeze users)
replyWhen you say "they'd compensate" are you referring to us end users trying to do banking when MS or CloudFlare go down? Or are you saying the big corps themselves would compensate? Enshittification stems from there being no incentive for them to do so, because they answer to shareholders not customers or competition. If you actually want structural issues fixed, I'd implore you to please hold these organisations to a higher standard of quality. I don't understand how average folks tolerating downtime leads to structural issues being fixed.
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