Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This isn’t a conspiracy…
It’s the reality of using Hotmail as a business account in 2025.
Which is frankly nuts.
But the author even says the same thing happened to them before too
95% of senior government officials across Africa will give you a fancy-ass, taxpayer funded, full color laminated plastic business card that lists their email address for official business as Gmail or Hotmail.
Like… Today. Right now. I used to have a collection. Once got one with a 3D hologram thing. Fucking hotmail and gmail address.
Yep, I don’t remember the exact phrasing, but in these situations, I assume incompetence before I assume evil intent.
Maybe it is intentional but the incompetence is in how obvious they are.
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetentance
Is the saying, but it’s definitely not always true.
It’s more like some of the best evil can be hidden behind incompetence for quite a while
I mean, the phrase is for associates and random people you run into for one specific interaction
Basically:
Give em the benefit of doubt
It doesn’t mean if your neighbor kicks you in the balls everyone morning, you still try to shake his hand tomorrow.
6nk06@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Using Hotmail for anything was already bad, using it for an open-source dev account is worse. I don’t understand why they haven’t switched to something else 20 years ago.
SheeEttin@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
It’s been a 365 account for years now.