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Windows PCs crashing worldwide due to CrowdStrike issue (mashable.com)

submitted 4 months ago by farcaster to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Won't take that long, security researchers are already decompiling the update to see if it was malicious or incompetence.

[–] Badeendje 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is going to be Solarwinds all over again I can just smell it.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

[–] SourceHuman 4 points 4 months ago

Source: xkcd - "Dependency" - https://xkcd.com/2347/

[–] Badeendje 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah.. applicable on soo many levels.

[+] [email protected] -19 points 4 months ago (3 children)

You won't find the incompetence in the software no matter what.

If you fail to assume that the software contains issues -- if you fail to understand that your software is made by humans and humans make mistakes, not because they're bad but because they're human -- and if you fail to implement mechanisms to feel gracefully with inevitable failures, THAT is the incompetence.

Failures are systemic.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago

Oh yes I make those failures myself, testing and staging and limited release schedules save my human failures from breaking the world

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Systemic failures are incompetence.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No idea why this relatively banal truth is getting so many downvotes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

One funny thing about humans is that they aren't just gloriously fallible: they also get quite upset when that's pointed out. :)

Unfortunately, that's also how you end up with blameful company cultures that actively make reliability worse, because then your humans make just the same amounts of mistakes, but they hide them -- and you never get a chance to evolve your systems with the safeguards that would have prevented these.