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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 17:54:54 JST Aral Balkan

   • Laura Kalbag

   Breaking: massive Windows outage plunges banks, airlines and more into chaos around the world

   https://www.techradar.com/news/live/windows-outage-july-2024-live

   So, how’s all that centralisation working out for y’all?

   HT @laura

   #microsoft #BigTech #centralisation #TooBigWillFail

   • Zeb Palmer (Syringa Admin) (zebpalmer@syringa.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 18:01:28 JST Zeb Palmer (Syringa Admin)

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     • Laura Kalbag

     @aral @laura I mean, that headline is misleading. It's #CrowdStrike

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 18:01:28 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Laura Kalbag
     • Zeb Palmer (Syringa Admin)

     @zebpalmer @laura The article mentions that the core issue might be CrowdStrike but still, the argument stands: the real culprit is centralisation and global reliance on multi-billion and trillion-dollar US corporations. If one company’s services going down causes this much chaos your system is not resilient.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 18:08:20 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Laura Kalbag
     • Zeb Palmer (Syringa Admin)

     @zebpalmer @laura Updated with link to more recent article. Core issue remains the same.

   • Zeb Palmer (Syringa Admin) (zebpalmer@syringa.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 18:08:21 JST Zeb Palmer (Syringa Admin)

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     • Laura Kalbag

     @aral @laura sure. but saying Microsoft is suffering an outage is inaccurate and borderline unethical at this point. I hate MS and we don't have a single windows box in my org, but still... This is 100% confirmed by #Crowdstrike and every other news outlet to be #CrowdStrike not an MS issue.