Beyond parody. To quote Penny Arcade, how do you make fun of a clown? Insult his big shoes, his red nose?
CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm that crashed millions of computers with a botched update all over the world last week, is offering its partners a $10 Uber Eats gift card as an apology, according to several people who say they received the gift card, as well as a source who also received one.techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/crowdstrike-offers-a-10-apology-gift-card-to-say-sorry-for-outageData centers now consume 21% of all the electricity in Ireland, more than all the homes in its cities and towns combined. Cloud providers still want more.
This drive for ever-increasing computation serves no one but the bottom lines of major tech companies. It must be stopped.