Post Ak5GP81ItRupv9JE92 by aaron@social.caskey-demaret.se
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(DIR) Post #Ak5ETC0ToSupXFjZU8 by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-07-19T08:54:37Z
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Breaking: massive Windows outage plunges banks, airlines and more into chaos around the worldhttps://www.techradar.com/news/live/windows-outage-july-2024-liveSo, how’s all that centralisation working out for y’all?HT @laura #microsoft #BigTech #centralisation #TooBigWillFail
(DIR) Post #Ak5EhMDcdr7XGGdSro by zebpalmer@syringa.social
2024-07-19T08:57:12Z
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@aral @laura I mean, that headline is misleading. It's #CrowdStrike
(DIR) Post #Ak5Eo3ND6gNMqBJTvc by ReverseModule@mstdn.games
2024-07-19T08:58:22Z
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@aral @laura This is a good day. Many people will realize they need to switch their services to Linux.
(DIR) Post #Ak5F3SdtRIAHYTSn1E by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-07-19T09:01:12Z
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@zebpalmer @laura The article mentions that the core issue might be CrowdStrike but still, the argument stands: the real culprit is centralisation and global reliance on multi-billion and trillion-dollar US corporations. If one company’s services going down causes this much chaos your system is not resilient.
(DIR) Post #Ak5FN2ymZ0DBkoZc7k by zebpalmer@syringa.social
2024-07-19T09:04:40Z
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@aral @laura sure. but saying Microsoft is suffering an outage is inaccurate and borderline unethical at this point. I hate MS and we don't have a single windows box in my org, but still... This is 100% confirmed by #Crowdstrike and every other news outlet to be #CrowdStrike not an MS issue.
(DIR) Post #Ak5FQNDRmULNNx1Ea8 by f4grx@chaos.social
2024-07-19T09:04:51Z
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@aral @laura Dont push to prod on friday.
(DIR) Post #Ak5FfPEkY7ADzsnR0S by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-07-19T09:08:04Z
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@zebpalmer @laura Updated with link to more recent article. Core issue remains the same.
(DIR) Post #Ak5G8U0vroQFD9CMHw by omz13@mastodon.social
2024-07-19T09:13:17Z
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@aral @laura It’s not really centralisation to blame specifically but, as always, a chain of events leading to failure (the Swiss Cheese Model). Unfortunately, the holes have been getting bigger, and everybody has been winging things for too long because “everything works fine”, um, until it doesn’t and then “BSOD”.
(DIR) Post #Ak5GP81ItRupv9JE92 by aaron@social.caskey-demaret.se
2024-07-19T09:16:17Z
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@aral @laura Even though this doesn't affect Linux servers, I'm feeling pretty vindicated about pushing back so much on installing it in our environment.Though I did eventually relent and install a test, I've just pulled the plug on that...
(DIR) Post #Ak5HlVlbNs7PtYCZ3Q by funkybuddha@mastodon.green
2024-07-19T09:31:31Z
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@aral @laura the thing you bought to avoid catastrophic failures has created a catastrophic failure.Nice.
(DIR) Post #Ak5XyCjb3VjjtlL1aS by cshlan@dawdling.net
2024-07-19T12:32:58Z
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@aralCrashing very efficiently! @laura @aprilfollies