#crowdstrike outage

[idroolinmysleep]

Nearly every flight in the U.S. is grounded right now following a CrowdStrike system update error … but not Southwest Airlines flights. Southwest is still flying high, unaffected by the outage that’s plaguing the world today, and that’s apparently because it’s using Windows 3.1.

Good lord. I don't know if I should laugh or cry over this.

[griefpersevering]

rip windows

[thisurlwasnttakenbutnowitis]

Southwest after everyone mocked them in 2022 for their out-of-date system causing a meltdown, now being the only functioning airline because of their out-of-date system:

[fratboyratboy]

everyone cross off “y2k actually happens” on your 2024 bingo cards

[olessan]

[hashtagloveloses]

so you’re saying half the world was shut down by too many companies using 1 single company’s software so that when it pushed out a faulty update it shut everything down bc of a monopoly. and the update was shoddy because the company, much like a lot of tech companies, tried to replace human workers with bullshit generative AI

[fleshadept]

was your work affected by the crowdstrike BSoD*?

yes

no, but i do interact with windows PCs at work

no, because i don’t interact with windows PCs at work

no, because my place of work doesn’t use crowdstrike

Voting ended onJul 20, 2024

*for reference, the BSoDs are only affecting corporate windows systems that implement crowdstrike antimalware, not personal PCs.

[el-ffej]