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Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike says outage caused by ‘defect’ in software update, rules out ‘cyber incident’.
This is so fucking funny
I'm sorry bros, this is my fault. I tried to upload an image of a DPRK solider to a Microsoft server 
Yesterday I was dreading having to work an early morning flight.
Literally in the crew van right now making a u-turn heading back to the hotel. Thanks Microsoft! 
not to dox myself, but i work at a company thats basically tech support for a load of banks etc. and it is fucking wonderful seeing all these billion dollar companies come crying to us and telling them that it sucks to suck and we can't do shit and immediately closing their help tickets lmao 
Interesting, I didn't notice 💅
Have they tried not using hyper-centralized cloud-based services or proprietary corpo operating systems?
Can confirm, in the hospitality industry. Had issues with the credit card machines and just got a call from an airline saying they needed to delay departures for guests.
Maybe, and just hear me out: having the entire world rely on shit like this isn't... a good idea. It's definitely laughable at this point.
edit: there's a joke somewhere that the PCs are going on (crowd)strike. Someone cleverer than me, please articulate it.
Half my company is shut down. Laptops crash into blue screens after bios post and probably need to be wiped. Gotta love Microsoft. Exceptional customer service.
2 weeks ago CrowdStrike was just permanently taking up 30% of my CPU and kept my laptop running on maximum fan power. Apparently also due to a faulty update. Holy fuck, what is that company doing. And why is apparently everywhere?
Glassdoor posts shows CrowdStrike doing layoffs of software engineers in 2023. They made 3 billion in revenue YTD.
Middle managers in big companies that decide to use these things are fucking idiots and got sold the shitware by sleazy sales people and now they're stuck with it because admitting it was the wrong move is out of the question. Some heads are probably gonna roll after this fiasco tho.
I’m making a list of notable outages here, in the news megathread if anybody wants to laugh. Or cry, if you work in IT
Anyway, never push prod on Friday lol
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Anyway, never push prod on Friday lol
All these dorks gotta work on the weekend now. Oopsie.
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Communist Party HQ
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are inside the north walls, to the west. 
Lol, thank you based god that this shit happened on my days off!
I know I'll walk into a shit storm on Monday but I don't care. I'm maxing and relaxing now
EDIT:
GODDAMN IT!
Here I was shit talking, and my boss just called me and asked me to come in. Yes, I work in desktop support. Yes, I'm getting overtime for this. No, I am not happy! 
The trick is to always be unavailable on your days off and never answer your phone. Unless you want the overtime, of course.
also if you mistakenly answer the phone, switching to airplane mode drops the call
oops you were traveling
That's the thing though. I work in the public sector. I can play truant but they rarely give out OT.
Boot in safe mode
Go to Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike
Delete "C-00000291.sys"
Edit: Repeat manually for every computer on the system
For some reason IT at my work either can't do that or are taking a really long time to
I don't have access to do that on my work computer for myself though :/
My fucking god. I picked up a co-workers shift this afternoon because she received a relatively minor injury but would prefer not to work, and I was thinking it would be a regular Friday afternoon.
Half the other cafes, restaurants and pubs in the vicinity lost their card payment systems and some even their ability to take cash (windows OS cash registers I guess??).
We got away from issues because our boss is cheap and has a cheaper point of sale system with a cheaper bank and a cheaper cash regjster that apparently never bought whatever Office/CrowdStrike thing that causes instant, looping BSODs and so we were operating as normal.
Imagine the amount of people that come in because our shit was working.
There is a bit of humour that my particular small business tyrant boss being a stingy capitalist avoided the fallout of the large business tyrants being stingy capitalists.
There is a bit of humour that my particular small business tyrant boss being a stingy capitalist avoided the fallout of the large business tyrants being stingy capitalists.
Don't celebrate so soon because your petty tyrant will never upgrade their system after seeing this shit lol
I feel like every IT professional was waiting for something like this eventually. Seeing the shitty infrastructure that supports even mega corporations makes you wonder how this doesn't happen more often.
I worked for a company who had cut their IT department so bad they could not fix a payments database that handled over $1 billion in transactions annually in a timely manner. The fix was a non-IT analytics team created their own database in Access to store it in instead 
And you are rewarded for doing stupid shit like that in corporate America instead of rightfully being told you are a fucking idiot.
I've been watching the ABC coverage. It's pretty minimal, they have no on screen graphics and can't play video. Started as the RNC coverage was ending. Bless em, they're doing their best.
They had their first remote guest dropout! They've been covering this all arvo and that was the first. Still no on screen graphics but they did run video
The finale plot of Fight Club but instead of using bombs the Fight Club just sits back and drinks Natty Ice while the corporations cut tech budgets until accomplishing the same thing.
Seeing shit like this makes me feel vindicated not going into IT work cause fuck id rather be shot than deal with this.
No doubt anyone with a brain was saying this could happen at any time but the “decision makers” had no interest in improving stuff cause what its working fine now and that costs money
is it possible that reinventing the mainframe and discarding decentralized computing was a bad idea?
no it is the graybeards who are wrong
once again the Owl is a better poster than all of us 
I needed the OT unfortunately.
