The Windows OS Thread - Formerly THE OS for gamers and normies, now sadly ruined by Pajeets

Probably deserves it's own thread, but windows is taking down everything.

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I guess anyone with a brain could have predicted everything online on centralized cloud services, plus auto-updates plus the shitty windows "anti-malware" installed on every corporate system would eventually cause a Y2K level crash.
I wonder what the consequences, if any, will be?

Also, despite all the fuss about Russia, China and Iran, modern IT is better at sabotaging itself than any of those are.
 
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Fuck Microsoft and their updates. I miss the days when you could just say no to windows updates.

I have a small pc I use to host media on my home network and the hoops you have to jump through just to stop the machine from auto updating and restarting itself are maddening. Why do I have to fuck with the registry and group policies just to stop updates?

Even then, pretty sure the only reason I could disable them is because the machine has windows pro, if you have home you are fucked and have to accept the Microsoft update dildo with no lube.
 
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Stasi said:
Fuck Microsoft and their updates. I miss the days when you could just say no to windows updates.

I have a small pc I use to host media on my home network and the hoops you have to jump through just to stop the machine from auto updating and restarting itself are maddening. Why do I have to fuck with the registry and group policies just to stop updates?

Even then, pretty sure the only reason I could disable them is because the machine has windows pro, if you have home you are fucked and have to accept the Microsoft update dildo with no lube.
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You could install Debian on that PC and almost never have to reboot and and install updates whenever you want, if you make it a swizzing seedbox you probably run the same server apps anyway
 
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if trump brings the year of the linux desktop after making anime real last presidency I'm gonna laugh my ass off.
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Crowdstrike has pushed bugs out to Linux users as well (example), so I can't imagine how you think Linux fixes the problem. If your systems allow 3rd-party vendors to push updates to your production machines and bypass your own IT, you will get fucked just as hard on Linux as you do on Windows. I genuinely cannot imagine how you could possibly think Linux would make this a safe practice unless you do not even have a rudimentary understanding of what software is.

Edit: It looks like the issue is Crowdstrike provides its customers staging software to test updates, but gave itself a backdoor to bypass this system and ignore any controls customers had in place, which is absolutely fucking insane, and certainly not solved by "switch to Linux."
 
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Crowdstrike has pushed bugs out to Linux users as well (example), so I can't imagine how you think Linux fixes the problem. If your systems allow 3rd-party vendors to push updates to your production machines and bypass your own IT, you will get fucked just as hard on Linux as you do on Windows. I genuinely cannot imagine how you could possibly think Linux would make this a safe practice unless you do not even have a rudimentary understanding of what software is.

Edit: It looks like the issue is Crowdstrike provides its customers staging software to test updates, but gave itself a backdoor to bypass this system and ignore any controls customers had in place, which is absolutely fucking insane, and certainly not solved by "switch to Linux."
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That alone should be grounds for a lawsuit. It's not unlike Uberent and Riot planting mining/backdoor kernels in players' computers. Completely unethical.
 
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I remember yesterday morning I had found that my computer reset instead of going to sleep as I had done, I wonder if that was related to it.

I currently am in the NEET life so I don't have to figure out why our systems are down, nor am out and about often.
 
Microsoft should sue Crowdstrike for reputational damage given the number of times I've heard both non-technical people and those who should know better refer to this as a Windows problem.

But the company will be a smoking ruin soon enough - their share price has already gone off a cliff - so it's not like there'll be anything to sue.
 
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Edit: It looks like the issue is Crowdstrike provides its customers staging software to test updates, but gave itself a backdoor to bypass this system and ignore any controls customers had in place, which is absolutely fucking insane, and certainly not solved by "switch to Linux."
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Holy shit. There are so many layers to how bad this is. This is a company that was being taken seriously on a global scale.

NEVER underestimate how fucking incompetent big tech can be.
 
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Betonhaus said:
Anyone going to mention the global shutdown of any windows computer with crowdstrike antivirus on it? Banks, trains, media companies are down worldwide.
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Cybrwind said:
Probably deserves it's own thread, but windows is taking down everything.

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Most discussion on this is happening in the Global IT outage live updates thread in A&N. There is also this thread to discuss Cloudstrike in Happenings.
 
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I'm being affected by this at work. Fuck CrowdStrike. Fuck Microshit. Fuck technology it's all garbage.
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I had a telehealth appointment this morning, but when I clicked the link they sent me, I couldn't get in. I called the office to let them know that the link was borked. The appointment got cancelled. When I asked why the doctor couldn't just call me on the phone, since clearly the phone system is working, the gal got pissed lol.
 
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The Ugly One said:
Crowdstrike has pushed bugs out to Linux users as well (example), so I can't imagine how you think Linux fixes the problem. If your systems allow 3rd-party vendors to push updates to your production machines and bypass your own IT, you will get fucked just as hard on Linux as you do on Windows. I genuinely cannot imagine how you could possibly think Linux would make this a safe practice unless you do not even have a rudimentary understanding of what software is.

Edit: It looks like the issue is Crowdstrike provides its customers staging software to test updates, but gave itself a backdoor to bypass this system and ignore any controls customers had in place, which is absolutely fucking insane, and certainly not solved by "switch to Linux."
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I think Windows picks up some of the blame here from 2 angles.

1. Plain ignorance. There are definitely alot of people who initially assumed this was a Windows issue because they dint actually know what Crowdstrike is, or because they jumped the gun.

2. It exposes alot of situations where Windows is deployed where it quite frankly doesn't belong. It's infuriating to see pictures of MRI machines and other systems that really should only have a minimalist OS to function. The fact that it's running Windows, and more importantly, is connected to the Internet and running anti-virus software, is ridiculous. Its the worst aspects of corporate IT which follow business standards that have no consideration for common sense.
 
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1. Plain ignorance. There are definitely alot of people who initially assumed this was a Windows issue because they dint actually know what Crowdstrike is, or because they jumped the gun.
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Honestly, when I walked into work today and saw all but one Windows laptop in my area stuck at the recovery screen, I assumed our IT department pushed out an update that caused it because they suck and spend most of their time trying to fix self inflicted problems.
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2. It exposes alot of situations where Windows is deployed where it quite frankly doesn't belong. It's infuriating to see pictures of MRI machines and other systems that really should only have a minimalist OS to function. The fact that it's running Windows, and more importantly, is connected to the Internet and running anti-virus software, is ridiculous. Its the worst aspects of corporate IT which follow business standards that have no consideration for common sense.
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I was shocked to learn a few weeks ago that the order pickup lockers at Lowes, run Windows. I went to pickup something I ordered and it was boot looping and showing the Windows login screen. You could run those lockers with a Raspberry Pi, no problem, but nope, Windows. What a waste of money. I was wondering today if Lowes uses CrowdStrike and if they do, if they deployed it on those lockers.
 
Windows is allegedly a known variable. SUSE is a scary unknown even if it's superior.
 
I am reminded of the .hack games where some guy managed to wipe out most of the devices connected to the Internet through a virus. The only computers to survive were running a random OS by a small company, which pretty much became mandatory. Just some food for thought.
 
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