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From the VeraCrypt discussion (1109 points, 16 hours ago, 412 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686549

Comment (with 134 replies): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687884

Microsoft VP comments on this: https://x.com/shanselman/status/2041977121686585396?s=46

Interesting, but disingenuous

The VP says: "but sometimes it's just check emails and verify your accounts. "

From the Techcrunch article:

    “Microsoft never sent me any notification at all about this. I’ve looked in every inbox in every spam folder in every mail log, and zero, nothing, zilch,” Donenfeld said.

I think Microsoft systems are intermittently failing, it is the simplest explanation

Microslop at its best.

Yesterday I couldn't get a download link for the Windows install media creation tool for a solid hour due to errors at their CDN(?). I have a friend in IT who tells me "degraded availability" across their many services is a daily thing.

The solution, clearly, is even more layoffs.

well, there was this, a while back: "experiencing a critical and recurring email delivery issue affecting recipients at outlook.com, live.com, hotmail.com, and msn.com"

"Emails to Outlook.com rejected due to a fault or overzealous blocking rules"

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/04/users_fume_at_outlook...

discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47246044

What a distasteful response. People are not `dumping on` microsoft. What kind of PR is this?

Absolutely braindead take to spend 10 years absolutely shitting on your end users and then getting mad when something happens and no one gives you the benefit of the doubt. Bro needs to read the room

Also: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/08/wireguard-vpn-developer-ca...

So, he hadn't logged in for 4 years...? Or didn't push an update for 4 years? You guys are really taking this at face value?

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