Ben Hocking

Happiest Outdoors, Whitewater, Climbing, Gliding • Occasionally political, dislike accepting inequality as part of life • he/him

[Ben Hocking @bmwhocking]

#Laniakea our home #supercluster.
Alwayse good to know the name of the place you live #space #astronomy #science https://t.co/QGyJa5ucwS

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@Econgrad5143 @agentK I actually think the opposite, if we want high quality public services; they need fast reliable tech products with fast access to the secure data storage needed to do their jobs.

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@mwfowlie We have had a lot of false starts over the last 11 hours?

[Ben Hocking @bmwhocking]

Bets on Outlook still being down on Monday?

[Microsoft 365 Status @MSFT365Status]

We're continuing to work on recovering our frontend servers while implementing further traffic optimization actions to improve service stability and increase capacity. A more comprehensive update can be found at MO1550821 in the Microsoft 365 admin center, as well as https://t.co/pYdahqxDv3 if the admin center is not available to you.

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@Econgrad5143 @agentK The law already requires that between govt agencies.

The bulk of open source large scale data systems come designed to partition data at the account level.

Especially Cephs.

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@agentK @Econgrad5143 Govt data in govt data-centres to guarantee data sovereignty.

Security, multi-site & multi-zone all guaranteed.

We already have one large govt owned data-centre at Whenupai for anything deemed too sensitive for public cloud.

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@Econgrad5143 @agentK Not talking about more data, just the existing data stream govt agencies and services collect as part of their operations.

You go for a x-ray, CT Scan or MRI scan at hospital, that has to end up in some kind of govt storage system.

Ditto the record of you paying tax.

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@Econgrad5143 @agentK The govt already holds vast amounts of data.
Every LIM report, geological survey, x-ray image, tax record etc etc.

The question is, should that be in private data centres owned by overseas companies or in Govt owned data centres staffed by vetted kiwi staff?

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@Nov30500 @DanielW_Kiwi @TheNzRocketeer It’s ok @DanielW_Kiwi, Outlook will still be down on Monday & you can watch it at work then.

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@will_evans_qld @mwfowlie Govt really should run their own.
The shit with Elon & Starshield kinda underscored why.

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@Econgrad5143 @agentK I’m curious why?

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@Econgrad5143 @agentK The blast radius of Microsoft’s outage or govt owning datacentres?

[Ben Hocking @bmwhocking]

This is a nightmare outage.
Hats off to the Microsoft Devs, Engineers and Techs trying to fix this.

9 hours in & no solution is not good.

The record is 50 hours and 13 minutes when AWS US-east-2 when down.

[Microsoft 365 Status @MSFT365Status]

We're investigating reports of users experiencing issues accessing Exchange Online mailboxes through multiple connection methods in the Americas. More details can be found in the Microsoft 365 admin center under EX1550543.

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@traskjd I’ve delayed running billing, the reality is what 1/2 my clients legit just wouldn’t receive it.

Got others who can’t get into accounting & payroll tools.

For anyone who runs payroll on Friday this is a monumental issue.

Thankfully not a common payroll day in NZ.

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@DanielW_Kiwi The change was fundamentally made to make it easier for National to win elections.

We could also have restricted voting booth numbers if it was about cost.

That would hammer National Rural voters, so of course that didn't happen.

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@DanielW_Kiwi That cost was almost nothing relative to the wider cost of the election.

The Director General requested some basic changes to the vote counting process to speed it up & tie in to other govt databases to help voter verification.

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@DanielW_Kiwi The change was made because last election the right had a good election night, then the specials (which had a lot of new registrations) destroyed Act and Nationals majority.

When we have high turnout, the right doesn't do well.

Restricting turnout means the right does better.

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@DanielW_Kiwi There was no resource issue last election, there was going to be no resource issue this election.

The head of the EC confirmed that before a parliamentary committee.

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@DanielW_Kiwi This thread is a bit of a horror show.
https://t.co/ELwCOsRQOG

[Microsoft 365 Status @MSFT365Status]

We’ve monitored the status of the changes applied to improve serviceability and confirmed they're not taking as expected. We’re identifying alternate workstreams that can be applied to increase capacity in the face of sustained traffic management imbalances. More info under EX1550543 and MO1550821 in the Microsoft 365 admin center, as well as https://t.co/7pjJdrpwOr if the admin center is not available to you.

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@Zack_15908 NZ has a thriving Palestinian community & Auckland is one of the single most diverse cities on earth.

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Again, time for heavy sanctions on Israel.

Cut them out of the global financial system, refuse entry or export of any products & ban travel on Israeli passports.

Once Israeli businesses start loosing billions per week this will stop, then the war crime trials can start.

[CNN @CNN]

An Israeli strike on a hospital in southern Gaza overnight Wednesday killed at least six people, including a doctor and a child, Palestinian officials say. https://t.co/3mtQIn840V