We're all going to be so smug.
It's proving that POSIX architecture is necessary even if it requires additional computer literacy on the part of users and admins.
The risk of hacking (which is what Crowdstrike essentially does to get so deeply embedded and be so effective at endpoint protection) a monolithic system like Windows OS is if you screw up the whole thing comes tumbling down.
Is there a chance that this makes organisations move to Linux?
You'd think maybe not being reliant on a 90 billion dollar company to un-fuck security would be a bigger deal than it is.
This is exactly why centralisation of services and large corporations gobbling up smaller companies and becoming behemoth services is so dangerous.
Its true, but otherside of same coin is that with too much solo implementation you lose benefits of economy of scale.
But indeed the world seems like a village today.
Me too. Additionally, I use guix so if a system update ever broke my machine I can just rollback to a prior system version (either via the command line or grub menu).
Is there an easy way to silence every fuckdamn sanctimonious linux cultist from my lemmy experience?
Secondly, this update fucked linux just as bad as windows, but keep huffing your own farts. You seem to like it.
I'd unsubscribe from !linux@lemmy.ml for a start.
I'm pretty sure this update didn't get pushed to linux endpoints, but sure, linux machines running the CrowdStrike driver are probably vulnerable to panicking on malformed config files. There are a lot of weirdos claiming this is a uniquely Windows issue.
For reference, this was the article I first read about this on: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/bank-problems-reports-bnz-asb-kiwibank-anz-visa-paywave-services-down/R2EY42QKQBALXNF33G5PA6U3TQ/
I would be too, except Firefox just started crashing on Wayland all the morning D;
Me too. I'm also grateful I still accept cash.
From my understanding, they have some ring 0 thing that fucked up. Could that not in theory happen on our beloved Linux systems? Or does the kernel generally not give that option?
A third party driver could break things, but a combination of different things can break things too. Crowdstrike on RHEL was causing kernel panics within the past month until Red Hat updated their kernel.
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