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Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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...

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (2 children)

When your push to prod on Friday causes a small but measurable drop in global GDP.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Actually, it may have helped slow climate change a little

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

The earth is healing 🙏

For part of today

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

With all the aircraft on the ground, it was probably a noticeable change. Unfortunately, those people are still going to end up flying at some point, so the reduction in CO2 output on Friday will just be made up for over the next few days.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Definitely not small, our website is down so we can't do any business and we're a huge company. Multiply that by all the companies that are down, lost time on projects, time to get caught up once it's fixed, it'll be a huge number in the end.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

GDP is typically stated by the year. One or two days lost, even if it was 100% of the GDP for those days, would still be less than 1% of GDP for the year.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I know people who work at major corporations who said they were down for a bit, it's pretty huge.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Does your web server run windows? Or is it dependent on some systems that run Windows? I would hope nobody's actually running a web server on Windows these days.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I have a absolutely no idea. Not my area of expertise.