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losing my mind at the number of people who insist directly to me that the Crowdstrike thing must be a deliberate conspiracy by somebody. Is that literally impossible? No. Is there currently any actual reason at all to think it was a deliberate conspiracy and not just the oopsie of the century? No!!! oopsies happen, it is completely statistically unavoidable that they happen, and we've built a world where a single person's typo can take out half the airports and hospitals on earth!

edit: and I made a typo writing this post 😂 fixed

Jul 20, 2024 at 4:36pmWeb
Show threadMorten Hilker-SkaaningJul 20, 2024
@0xabad1dea I think some people have a difficult time unifying the suffering they have to endure, and that super impactful events are basically random.
Show threadNoah KennedyJul 20, 2024
@0xabad1dea as an engineer at Cloudflare, the idea that these sorts of incidents occur due to conspiracies is absolutely hilarious
Show threadnoëlle (encoded in AAC)Jul 20, 2024

@0xabad1dea hanlon's razor applies

and if it were a grand conspiracy, you could have done much MUCH MUCH MUCH worse with a self-updating kernel driver than bluescreen a bunch of systems for lulz

Show threadHeath BordersJul 20, 2024
@0xabad1dea someone claimed it's a conspiracy to increase Rust's popularity bc Rust is a "woke language" 🙄
Show threadC.Suthorn Jul 20, 2024

@0xabad1dea

Meanwhile someone (Fefe) looked into the TOS of Crowdstrike and found out, that Crowdstrike Actually forbids the use of their Software in airports, Airlines, Hospitals and any critical Infrastruktur at all, because it is unsafe...

https://loma.ml/display/373ebf56-f254fb7c-dc0fcc1e25335c2e

[ˈloma] | Fefes Blog | Inoffiziell @ [ˈloma]

Show threadBrandon JonesJul 20, 2024
@0xabad1dea As a software developer who has at least once shipped an oopsie to a billion devices, I am constantly amazed that these kinds of incidents are as rare as they are.
Show threadFutureBoyJul 22, 2024

@0xabad1dea
from Wikipedia:
"Hanlon's razor is an adage or rule of thumb that states:

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

Golden words to live by. Human stupidity is endless, and infinitely creative.