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by javanissen 695 days ago
A girl I went to school with in the American South is now a reporter in the Midwest. She was supposed to go home for a brief visit to see her family, but Delta canceled her flight due to the CrowdStrike outage. A few days later her father was murdered by a disgruntled customer while working at his jewelry store in their hometown.

What an awful coincidence. I can’t even imagine how it must feel to have a freak technical accident deprive you of seeing your father for the last time.
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xandrius 695 days ago
This would happen with literally anything. Bus is late and you miss the flight. Weather is bad, flight gets delayed. You eat out and get food poisoning, can't get the flight.

Anything could have caused that really. Still very unfortunate but c'est la vie sometimes.

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javanissen 695 days ago
I agree. My desired tone for my comment was less “CrowdStrike is evil” and more “the universe, through its indifference to you, can be very cruel and absurd”
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recursive 695 days ago
Sorry/Not sorry I stole your car. You just need to accept that the universe is cruel. Don't blame me.
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lenerdenator 695 days ago
It could have happened with anything, but instead, it happened because a company run by a guy with a multi-billion-dollar net worth couldn't be bothered to check if the software they were shipping actually worked.
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recursive 695 days ago
I mean yes, but so what? It wasn't anything, it was this.
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observationist 695 days ago
Exactly. A preventable action by a company resulted in this. It wasn't a tornado, a hurricane, an asteroid, or aliens from another planet. Crowdstrike played stupid games and now they're going to win a lot of stupid prizes. They're responsible for the harm they inflicted on the world - the amount of handwringing apologia on their behalf is staggering. Companies and the people who run them absolutely need to be held accountable concomitant with the level of harm they inflict.
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justinclift 694 days ago
> now a reporter

Ouch. That has potential to go that bit extra badly in the press/media too.

Though with the scale of ClownStrike's fuck up, they might not even notice.

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