Yesterday I was dreading having to work an early morning flight.

Literally in the crew van right now making a u-turn heading back to the hotel. Thanks Microsoft!

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

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

yet somehow hexbear is still online?

CURIOUS.

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.

Interesting, I didn't notice 💅

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

Half my company is shut down. Laptops crash into blue screens after bios post and probably need to be wiped. Gotta love Microsoft. Exceptional customer service.

I’m making a list of notable outages here, in the news megathread if anybody wants to laugh. Or cry, if you work in IT

Anyway, never push prod on Friday lol

¯\ (ツ)/¯

I was just about to post this once again the Owl is a better poster than all of us

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

Edit: yeah it is and im fucked

~~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~~

EDIT:

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!

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.

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.

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.

The finale plot of Fight Club but instead of using bombs the Fight Club just sits back and drinks Natty Ice while the corporations cut tech budgets until accomplishing the same thing.

Guess I'll see how on-fire my job is tomorrow.

Linux penguins stay winning

Seeing shit like this makes me feel vindicated not going into IT work cause fuck id rather be shot than deal with this.

No doubt anyone with a brain was saying this could happen at any time but the “decision makers” had no interest in improving stuff cause what its working fine now and that costs money

My company is still up and running and i still have to work till midnight POG.

is it possible that reinventing the mainframe and discarding decentralized computing was a bad idea?

no it is the graybeards who are wrong