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Some bad code just broke a billion Windows machines (www.youtube.com)
submitted 7 months ago by TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike pushed an update that caused millions of Windows computers to enter recovery mode, triggering the blue screen of death. Learn ...

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[โ€“] brognak@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Weird, cus it literally happened a few months ago:

https://www.neowin.net/news/crowdstrike-broke-debian-and-rocky-linux-months-ago-but-no-one-noticed/

This was in no way a Windows problem, this was entirely a CrowdStrike problem. Claiming otherwise makes you look like an uninformed moron.

[โ€“] Entropywins@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

They are most likely uninformed with a very strong opinion based on how they feel...while I'd like to call them a moron I've done this exact thing and like to think I'm not a moron.