The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread
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La misère des riches
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It was a CRS update patch that caused this.
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Let it all burn to the ground
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@Zeppelin said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Let it all burn to the ground
So you are insurrecting with Trump?
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Just passed in front of my bank and there are employees outside telling people that only the ATM machines are working right now.
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@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Zeppelin said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Let it all burn to the ground
So you are insurrecting with Trump?
If it burns down social media. Trump won’t let that happen. He needs to piper his sheep
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It’s pretty staggering in retrospect that all these big companies with all this critical infrastructure just lets some third party yahoos push (self-evidentally) untested code directly to their devices without so much as testing the impact themselves first.
There’s stories over on Hacker News about Crowdstrike being responsible for the same thing in March of this year of except that time was Debian servers affected, only brought down a handful of obscure services, so didn’t it get any press.
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luckily for crowdstrike, with all the outages, its harder to short their stock … 9d chess.
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@tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Maybe don’t use Microsoft for critical infrastructure? The world has gone crazy.
Jurassic Park used Unix. And everyone died.
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@Stu said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Jurassic Park used Unix. And everyone died.
Let’s also not forget how much work Microsoft has done with Linux over the past decade. If i’m not mistaken they’re in the top 5 commiters to the Linux kernel. I may be recalling the article wrong but under Balmer’s leadership, Microsoft was trying to kill Linux. Under Nadella though, they shifted to adoption and cooperation.
A decision that has been good for everyone fwiw.
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A bit bitter about that Christmas meltdown beating I see.
But I do love the Texan no fucks given when it comes out.
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Microsoft Recommends Rebooting Your Computer 15 Times as Blue Screen of Death Strikes Worldwide
As the world is still reeling from a massive IT outage triggered by an antivirus update, Microsoft recommends rebooting up to 15 times.
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Reboot 15 times? That’s like, what, 3 windows updates? No problem.
(I just booted up windows for the first time in months tonight and got a truckload of updates. Fuck that shit is primitive.)
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@Lob12 that big PC better not overheat
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Cybersecurity strategist and former FBI counterintelligence official Eric O’Neill:
“If the U.S. government needs to bail out CrowdStrike, which I believe is too big to fail, then taxpayers will bear the burden”
I really hope this guy is a paid CrowdStrike lobbyist because then he’d just be an asshole. Otherwise, if some incompetent maker of a Norton Antivirus equivalent is considered “too big to fail”, the corporate kleptocracy has cemented itself in your countries DNA and you’re fucked.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Cybersecurity strategist and former FBI counterintelligence official Eric O’Neill:
“If the U.S. government needs to bail out CrowdStrike, which I believe is too big to fail, then taxpayers will bear the burden”
I really hope this guy is a paid CrowdStrike lobbyist because then he’d just be an asshole. Otherwise, if some incompetent maker of a Norton Antivirus equivalent is considered “too big to fail”, the corporate kleptocracy has cemented itself in your countries DNA and you’re fucked.
If you recall the novel Snow Crash, it posited the US of the future was good at two things-pizza and software and the government did software. So maybe that’s what happens with private corps not up to the liability.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Cybersecurity strategist and former FBI counterintelligence official Eric O’Neill:
“If the U.S. government needs to bail out CrowdStrike, which I believe is too big to fail, then taxpayers will bear the burden”
I really hope this guy is a paid CrowdStrike lobbyist because then he’d just be an asshole. Otherwise, if some incompetent maker of a Norton Antivirus equivalent is considered “too big to fail”, the corporate kleptocracy has cemented itself in your countries DNA and you’re fucked.
As a CRWD shareholder, I’m glad that this was just a technical glitch and didn’t happen because of a cyberattack lol
It's a Unix system
