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The percentage of the population who did/didn't know of Crowdstrike probably reversed in the past week (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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[–] 21 points 2 years ago (9 children)

So like. Hear me out.

What if, even if you were not personally affected, you still heard about crowdstrike because of the coverage?

I'm an ICT professional with 40 years experience and I'd never heard of them

But you have heard of them now, right? Kind of like that

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    When my grandparents call me to ask about something, I consider it main stream.

    They called me the day it happened asking wtf was up.

    I definitely think that the amount of people who know about has shot up probably a couple thousand percentage points, and not for the better, but it definitely didn't flip.

    The other guy needs to Google what "hyperbole" is though

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (7 children)

    Let's say 99.99% of the World's population had not heard of them before this happened, and I think those numbers are very generous.

    Does anyone seriously believe that after this event only 0.01% of the World didn't learn about them?

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

    You're taking showerthoughts way too literally. It's an exaggeration. The number didn't "reverse" but it definitely multiplied. Businesses were impacted and who works for businesses? People who probably never heard of cloudstrike until it shut them down. It grounded flights and every person in an airport since then have probably heard the name. Anyone with a news app on their phone probably got a notification and know the company now. The number has drastically increased and that's the point, not that it specifically "reversed."

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Not only is this showerthoughts, as you pointed out, but the person posting never provided numbers for those that were previously aware of crowdstrike. Any attempt to do so by those responding takes the statement beyond it's intention.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Does anyone seriously believe

    Yes. My assumption is of course that this shower thought is presenting a numerical fact, and that everyone upvoting believes it in a literal sense.

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