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Today I'm grateful I'm using Linux - Global IT issues caused by Crowdstrike update causes BSOD on Windows (www.timesnownews.com)

submitted 4 months ago by Thorned_Rose@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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This isn't a gloat post. In fact, I was completely oblivious to this massive outage until I tried to check my bank balance and it wouldn't log in.

Apparently Visa Paywave, banks, some TV networks, EFTPOS, etc. have gone down. Flights have had to be cancelled as some airlines systems have also gone down. Gas stations and public transport systems inoperable. As well as numerous Windows systems and Microsoft services affected. (At least according to one of my local MSMs.)

Seems insane to me that one company's messed up update could cause so much global disruption and so many systems gone down :/ This is exactly why centralisation of services and large corporations gobbling up smaller companies and becoming behemoth services is so dangerous.

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[–] electricprism@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (13 children)

Every system has its faults. And I'm still going to dogpile the system with the most faults. But hell Microsoft did buy GitHub, Halo, MineCraft, and a million other things they will probably find a way to buy Linux and ruin it for us just like they ruin everything else.

Let's see, ...we are somewhere in between Extend and Extinguish on the roadmap.

Edit: Case & Point, RIP RedHat & IBM and GitHub CoPilot, what a great idea. RIP Atom Editor and probably a million other things. Do we have a KilledByMicrosoft website yet? I hope people in the pharmacy could get their prescriptions or we might have to add peoples names to the list.

[–] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago (9 children)

None of this has to do with the current outage though.

I hope people in the pharmacy could get their prescriptions or we might have to add peoples names to the list.

Which isn't Microsoft's fault. Linux systems have also been taken down by Crowdstrike's fuck ups in the recent past.

[–] electricprism@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Microsoft has many faults and I'll criticize them as I please. And if Linux is a culprit in a global outage someday I'll contemplate criticizing them too.

This "Not Microsoft's Fault" comes off as white knighting for Muh Billion Dolla Corporation.

Do we really need to SIMP for the company town.

Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon and others deserve every ounce of vitrol they earn through their shitty practices. Again I am criticizing them for being shitty not for the particulars of System X vs System Z but for the aftermath.

[–] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sure you can criticize as much as you want but if you are wrong in your criticism it just damages all of your criticism over all.

In my opinion it is important to state facts not fiction. This was not Microsoft's fault, no matter how much you hate Microsoft it still wasn't there fault and saying that is was is incorrect and doesn't solve the issue.

[–] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Well said, that's one of the points I have been trying to get across.

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