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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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[–] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 57 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (15 children)

Crowdstrike already killed some Linux machines. Let's not pretend Windows is at fault here or Linux is magically better in this area. No one is immune from software that can run as a kernel module going bad.

[–] 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 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Also fyi Red Hat and IBM are still around and aren't really a force for good anyway. Stop SIMPing for large companies.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hilarious. I am sure that, out of principle, you have stopped using all the software that Red Hat contributes to your distribution.

If it is ok with you, I am not going to define my morality in terms of corporate interest. They are not my friends but I do not believe that shutting on their contributions does much for me either.

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

I am not shitting on their contributions. All I am saying is that as a large company they aren't anymore my friend than Microsoft. Generally they still exist and make contributions. Microsoft didn't kill them like the person I am replying to is insinuating.

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