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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Na, nothing. Did an update today. Nothing bad happened at al, Because why would it?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    still read “unattended updates” as “unintended updates” …

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    It doesn't. It will require you to reboot for every god-damned line of code that has changed.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    I swear I heard my PC wake up in the middle of the night on its own several times, back when I used to run W10 on bare metal - god knows what it was doing

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

    Mine would wake up and go into my kitchen and eat my Cheetos and drink half of my vodka.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Firefox kept crashing because of explicit sync. Nothing new for an nvidia user such as myself. Still never going back to xorg.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Oh sweet not just me then! Hoping this one gets fixed soon

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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Set MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0 before starting Firefox and it doesn't crash anymore

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

    Thanks! If it gets annoying I'll give it a shot.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

    Nothing much, just getting far fewer client emails for some reason...

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    God, I love Read-only Friday where nothing bad ever happens before the weekend.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Speak for yourself. I am preparing for a high school camp on Monday and all our sound system isn't working. Stupid proprietary crappy sound boards.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

    Bless your heart.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Just another boring day on Linux huh

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

    Someone should create a distro called FreeBSOD

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I've found it funny how many people think they need to defend windows by saying " this could've happened to Linux too!!"

    Okay, sure. Yeah you're right about Linux being just as insecure as windows too 😉

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah but 14th Gen Intel CPUs are still failing regardless of your OS.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Proudly an AMD user for 25 years now :)

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)
    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Nobody but the most hardcore AMD enthusiasts used Bulldozer. The 2010s was a tough decade for AMD, to say the least. It wasn't until AM5 came out that I finally switched back to Team Red. Got too used to LGA sockets.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

    I still don't know why they thought sticking with PGA was a good idea... The amount of processors that were ripped out of their sockets is insane

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

    not familiar. Their processors tend to last me ~5 years so it's not like I bought every model available

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I think people are missing the point here. The biggest problem was not that the update was bricking the machines, that could've happened to Linux/macOS/BSD etc. The problem is that the solution to the problem is to MANUALLY access the machine, get into safe mode and type some commands. This is insane. And you should be able to EASILY disable automatic updates for apps like that on Windows Server.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

    I dunno, I'd say them deploying an update that bricked machines at the scale they did shows they didn't test it very well at smaller scales. They could have even still used their users as beta testers, just needed to do a subset of them first.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

    Crowdstrike exists for Linux. Are their reports their update affected Linux servers? I have not read that anywhere.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Something similar did happen on Linux clients with CrowdStrike installed not too long ago lol

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    To those many Linux users who took a look at their circumstances and said "I definitely need antivirus software!"

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    CrowdStrike does more than anti-virus and yes enterprise Linux installations need a lot of security controls that average Linux users don't need.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Ok fine simps, Linux is exactly as shitty as windows this was totally only a coincidence

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Bruh, I've used Linux for over 10 years. I run Arch on my laptop and have a homelab powered by Proxmox, Debian, and OPNSense. I don't run any AV in my lab but do follow other security practices.

    At work it's a different story. Products like CrowdStrike also collect logs, scan for vulnerabilities, provide graphing and dashboarding capabilities, provide integrations into ticketing platforms for investigation and remediation by security teams, and more. AV is often required because Windows users can upload infected files to Linux-run SMB shares. Products like CrowdStrike often satisfy requirements set by cybersecurity insurance.

    This is not simping, this is not Linux vs Windows. You just clearly have no experience in the enterprise Linux space and business security requirements.

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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Sounds a bit like its a bad idea to install CrowdStrike regardless of the system 🙃

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

    checkbox compliance – companies are required to have something in place that checks the box so they can pass the audit

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    lol yeah that’s a glowing review.

    “Oh, we can fuck other shit up too!”

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Anything to defend windows

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Noone needs to defend Windows. We need to defend the truth. And the truth is that this was not a Windows issue. It's a Crowdstrike issue.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Windows being an insecure shit show is no one else's fault though. Not sure why that draws an argument. It's well known

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    True. But nothing to do with this incident. That's the point.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Everything to do with it. You don't buy expensive software to protect your shitty OS unless it's a shitty OS

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Linux had a similar outage a few weeks ago, my man.

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    [–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    What a garbage.

    Just use Linux, SELinux, strong sandboxing, repositories, nonexecutable home directories, strong access control, offline backups.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    How about a testing environment separate from production

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