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Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 92 points 2 years ago (20 children)

CrowdStrike: It's Friday, let's throw it over the wall to production. See you all on Monday!

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  • [–] 61 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    ^^so ^^hard ^^picking ^^which ^^meme ^^to ^^use

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Good choice, tho. Is the image AI?

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (8 children)

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

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Actually, it may have helped slow climate change a little

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (4 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Was it actually pushed on Friday, or was it a Thursday night (US central / pacific time) push? The fact that this comment is from 9 hours ago suggests that the problem existed by the time work started on Friday, so I wouldn't count it as a Friday push. (Still, too many pushes happen at a time that's still technically Thursday on the US west coast, but is already mid-day Friday in Asia).

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