So that’s, what, many millions of machines needing an in-person fix to sort out? Lot of billable overtime is that. 
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An extremely expensive blunder, to be sure. I’m sure CrowdStrike is having a very, very bad day.
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They’re not the only ones having a bad day. I know quite a few people traveling overseas for a conference right now. My wife is currently stranded at her layover in Paris – which would be great if not for everyone having these issues and it being a week before the Olympics.
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Their shareholders most certainly are.
I love this bit from the article…
- Hosts running Windows 7/2008 R2 are not impacted
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The cloud allows the companies whose products you rely on to alter the functioning and cost of those products unilaterally. Like mobile apps – which can’t be reverse-engineered and modified without risking legal liability – cloud apps are built for enshittification. They are designed to shift power away from users to software companies. An app is just a web-page wrapped in enough IP to make it a felony to add an ad-blocker to it. A cloud app is some Javascript wrapped in enough terms of service clickthroughs to make it a felony to restore old features that the company now wants to upcharge you for.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/22/degoogled/#kafka-as-a-service
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Oh yes, it’s definitely the primary distinguishing competitive advantage that Southwest holds over other carriers that’s the problem, and not, say, their repeated operational failures during the last year or two.
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… I just found a piece of metal in something I bought from the deli section at Safeway
Chew your food, people 
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Adobe’s controversial billing practices and punitive fees for those terminating their subscriptions early follow from the software titan’s addiction to revenue, the FTC has said.
In a newly unredacted [PDF] filing by the US watchdog in its lawsuit against the Photoshop maker, the FTC claims Adobe executives know its “inadequate … disclosures” about its annual paid-monthly plans “harm and mislead consumers” but yet those execs “continue to engage in these unlawful practices because better disclosures would hurt Adobe’s bottom line by reducing subscription revenues.”
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“We didn’t implement it, we were just seriously thinking about it” is not enough to avoid a lifelong boycott from me. In my opinion, even considering this kind of bullshit should be enough to instantly sink a company.
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