This is so fucking funny

  • OptimusSubprime [he/him, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    Lol, thank you based god that this shit happened on my days off!

    I know I’ll walk into a shit storm on Monday but I don’t care. I’m maxing and relaxing now

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    GODDAMN IT!

    Here I was shit talking, and my boss just called me and asked me to come in. Yes, I work in desktop support. Yes, I’m getting overtime for this. No, I am not happy! angery

  • Aradina [They/Them]
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    221 year ago

    I’ve been watching the ABC coverage. It’s pretty minimal, they have no on screen graphics and can’t play video. Started as the RNC coverage was ending. Bless em, they’re doing their best.

    • Aradina [They/Them]
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      151 year ago

      They had their first remote guest dropout! They’ve been covering this all arvo and that was the first. Still no on screen graphics but they did run video

  • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    Interesting, I didn’t notice 💅

    Have they tried not using hyper-centralized cloud-based services or proprietary corpo operating systems?

    • Aradina [They/Them]
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      91 year ago

      This isn’t really decades unless it was a cyberattack. Which it probably wasn’t. It’s a big deal, yes, but it’s not a major history altering moment.

      • Florn [they/them]
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        71 year ago

        It’s not going to alter history, but it’s a sign of where history is going. This won’t be the last time something like this happens.

  • @[email protected]
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    1 year ago

    Can confirm, in the hospitality industry. Had issues with the credit card machines and just got a call from an airline saying they needed to delay departures for guests.

    Maybe, and just hear me out: having the entire world rely on shit like this isn’t… a good idea. It’s definitely laughable at this point.

    edit: there’s a joke somewhere that the PCs are going on (crowd)strike. Someone cleverer than me, please articulate it.

  • moonlake [he/him]
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    501 year ago

    I’m sorry bros, this is my fault. I tried to upload an image of a DPRK solider to a Microsoft server missingram

  • Blockocheese [any]
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    1 year ago

    Is this why the computers at my work aren’t working???

    Edit: yeah it is and im fucked

    • CloutAtlas [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Boot in safe mode

      Go to Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike

      Delete “C-00000291.sys”

      Edit: Repeat manually for every computer on the system

      • Blockocheese [any]
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        81 year ago

        For some reason IT at my work either can’t do that or are taking a really long time to

        I don’t have access to do that on my work computer for myself though :/

  • ihaveibs [he/him]
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    231 year ago

    I feel like every IT professional was waiting for something like this eventually. Seeing the shitty infrastructure that supports even mega corporations makes you wonder how this doesn’t happen more often.

      • ihaveibs [he/him]
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        151 year ago

        I worked for a company who had cut their IT department so bad they could not fix a payments database that handled over $1 billion in transactions annually in a timely manner. The fix was a non-IT analytics team created their own database in Access to store it in instead big-cool

        And you are rewarded for doing stupid shit like that in corporate America instead of rightfully being told you are a fucking idiot.

  • Lerios [hy/hym]
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    1 year ago

    not to dox myself, but i work at a company thats basically tech support for a load of banks etc. and it is fucking wonderful seeing all these billion dollar companies come crying to us and telling them that it sucks to suck and we can’t do shit and immediately closing their help tickets lmao party-cat duane spongebob-party party-sicko crab-party

  • CloutAtlas [he/him]
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    231 year ago

    My fucking god. I picked up a co-workers shift this afternoon because she received a relatively minor injury but would prefer not to work, and I was thinking it would be a regular Friday afternoon.

    Half the other cafes, restaurants and pubs in the vicinity lost their card payment systems and some even their ability to take cash (windows OS cash registers I guess??).

    We got away from issues because our boss is cheap and has a cheaper point of sale system with a cheaper bank and a cheaper cash regjster that apparently never bought whatever Office/CrowdStrike thing that causes instant, looping BSODs and so we were operating as normal.

    Imagine the amount of people that come in because our shit was working.

    There is a bit of humour that my particular small business tyrant boss being a stingy capitalist avoided the fallout of the large business tyrants being stingy capitalists.

    • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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      21 year ago

      There is a bit of humour that my particular small business tyrant boss being a stingy capitalist avoided the fallout of the large business tyrants being stingy capitalists.

      Don’t celebrate so soon because your petty tyrant will never upgrade their system after seeing this shit lol