Technology

59287 readers

5759 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

1203

Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

555 comments fedilink hide all child comments

All our servers and company laptops went down at pretty much the same time. Laptops have been bootlooping to blue screen of death. It's all very exciting, personally, as someone not responsible for fixing it.

Apparently caused by a bad CrowdStrike update.

Edit: now being told we (who almost all generally work from home) need to come into the office Monday as they can only apply the fix in-person. We'll see if that changes over the weekend...

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It's not just Windows, it's affecting services that people that primarily use other OS's rely on, like Outlook or Federated login.

In these situations, blame isn't a thing, because everyone knows that a LSE can happen to anyone at any time. The second you start to throw stones, people will throw them back when something inevitably goes wrong.

While I do fundamentally agree with you, and believe that the correct outcome should be "how do we improve things so that this never happens again", it's hard to attach blame to Microsoft when they're the ones that have to triage and ensure that communication is met.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I reckon it's hard to attach blame to Microsoft because of the culture of corporate governance and how decisions are made (without experts).

Tech has become a bunch of walled gardens with absolute secrecy over minor nothings. After 1-2 decades of that, we have a generation of professionals who have no idea how anything works and need to sign up for $5 a month phone app / cloud services just to do basic stuff they could normally do on their own on a PC - they just don't know how or how to put the pieces together due to inexperience / lack of exposure.

Whether it's corporate or government leadership, the lack of understanding of basics in tech is now a liability. It's allowed corporations like Microsoft to set their own quality standards without any outside regulation while they are entrusted with vital infrastructure and to provide technical advisory, even though they have a clear vested interest there.