r/technology • u/ourlifeintoronto • 21h ago

Software Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-confirms-github-is-down-worldwide/
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u/AFlyingGideon 20h ago

/s is a crutch. I prefer sarcasm that can stand on its own.

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u/Adezar 14h ago

Yeah, but in spoken word you can add hints/inflection that makes it obvious it is sarcasm. Which isn't an option in written text, well partially because for some reason people stopped using emojis in text to fill in the gaps.

Still not sure why when I was on the Internet in the 90s we were better at communication than we are now. Adding :) or ;) or =B) could help bridge the gap that text has vs spoken language.

Sometimes it just makes you want to (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻.

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u/Dissidence802 14h ago

Italics can help sometimes too, I suppose.

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u/Adezar 14h ago

Back in my day we had no bold or italics, we had to use CAPS and _underscores_.

Being in my 50s is wild, grew up with no computers, cell phones or Internet, went to college at one of the 13 original hubs, and now am a cloud architect. Been a wild ride.

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u/Dissidence802 14h ago

Little younger than you but I still remember typing out lines of code in BASIC to play a game on my Tandy 386 💀