@kinetix huge outage caused by hosts running the Crowdstrike agent.
The Twitter #Crowdstrike tag is full of people blaming this on their DEI initiatives and the fact they're VC funded by a company that featured the Trump gunman. What the *hell* happened to that place.
@platypus "It was what she would have wanted"
@Clundoff Still going through his inbox one suspects
@vic It's the lawyers.
@XerShadowTail I think they had a two hour window for this one; they have had problems before - a Linux kernel bug was nasty but did not seem quite so widespread as it was largely confined to Redhat 9.5.
@annathepiper I have to find a mix that works. Too much white blows my eyes out (not literally...) Most dark modes are really great for me. Likewise that default silver/grey that you find in MacOS and Windows absolutely wrecks my ability to look at a screen for any length of time. I'm glad there's options.
@annathepiper I have retinal damage and also massively suffer with dark blues and grey on grey. Glad you can have fun with it!
@sherlock_holmes Ha! Yes.
@tk Let me check with my Lawyer Arnold T Pants
@Mitsu I do too
@ntnsndr I think that's a great idea. Students tend to like these things, especially if they're low friction.
For all the talk of AI replacing everything, today proves the value of a solid technical support person that can leg it around the building getting things done. The least fashionable role in IT was the most important. The worker.
#Crowdstrike
@GossiTheDog Someone told me that in response to the Broadcom chokehold too
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