Ben Buchanan on Nostr: Already had to try to explain Crowdstrike to a curious family member. Situations like ...

Already had to try to explain Crowdstrike to a curious family member.

Situations like this remind me that us tech folks have a working understanding that demystifies things like this outage. The reasons may not be exciting or good, but we do at least *understand* fundamentals like auto updates, reboot loops and manual fixes. We also understand root causes like compliance pressure.

To innocent bystanders the checkout screen went blue and now they can't buy groceries, and it doesn't make sense.