Technology

68689 readers

21 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related news or articles.
Be excellent to each other!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

41 comments fedilink hide all child comments

All our servers and company laptops went down at pretty much the same time. Laptops have been bootlooping to blue screen of death. It's all very exciting, personally, as someone not responsible for fixing it.

Apparently caused by a bad CrowdStrike update.

Edit: now being told we (who almost all generally work from home) need to come into the office Monday as they can only apply the fix in-person. We'll see if that changes over the weekend...

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The amount of servers running Windows out there is depressing to me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I dunno, but doesn't like a quarter of the internet kinda run on Azure?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've had my PC shut down for updates three times now, while using it as a Jellyfin server from another room. And I've only been using it for this purpose for six months or so.

I can't imagine running anything critical on it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Windows server, the OS, runs differently from desktop windows. So if you're using desktop windows and expecting it to run like a server, well, that's on you. However, I ran windows server 2016 and then 2019 for quite a few years just doing general homelab stuff and it is really a pain compared to Linux which I switched to on my server about a year ago. Server stuff is just way easier on Linux in my experience.