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Today I'm grateful I'm using Linux - Global IT issues caused by Crowdstrike update causes BSOD on Windows (www.timesnownews.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This isn't a gloat post. In fact, I was completely oblivious to this massive outage until I tried to check my bank balance and it wouldn't log in.

Apparently Visa Paywave, banks, some TV networks, EFTPOS, etc. have gone down. Flights have had to be cancelled as some airlines systems have also gone down. Gas stations and public transport systems inoperable. As well as numerous Windows systems and Microsoft services affected. (At least according to one of my local MSMs.)

Seems insane to me that one company's messed up update could cause so much global disruption and so many systems gone down :/ This is exactly why centralisation of services and large corporations gobbling up smaller companies and becoming behemoth services is so dangerous.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

I wanted to share the article with friends and copy a part of the text I wanted to draw attention to but the asshole site has selection disabled. Now I will not do that and timesnownews can go fuck themselves

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

It is annoying. Some possible solutions:

On desktop: Using Shift + ALT you often can overrule this and select text anyway.

On mobile: Using the reader mode or the Print preview often works. It does for me on this website.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The firefox reader mode button doesn't show up for me on that site. I wonder if its just a poor site or if they are intentionally trying to break it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Could be both. You can enforce it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/activate-reader-view/

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