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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 146 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The mistake was pushing it on Friday morning like a bunch of amateurs, they're supposed to push it out scheduled on Friday at 5:03PM so you have enough time to get to your car and off the parking lot

[–] flango@lemmy.eco.br 16 points 1 year ago

Exactly hahaaha!!

[–] postnataldrip@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Was about 3pm here /cries in Australian

We regularly get screwed over during business hours by things being pushed out overnight in the US/UK

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

AFAIK it was a Thursday night push for people in US mountain time / pacific time. But, that ends up being Friday early morning in Europe and Friday mid-day in Asia.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 60 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Y2K would have been CRTs. But it's not like kids will know that.

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey we had flat screens back then, they just took up the whole floor space and it took 2 people to move those projection TVs

[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Laptops also had LCDs. Just don't move your mouse too fast or the screen can't keep up and it'll disappear

[–] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're thinking of passive matrix displays. Those were the cheaper option but active matrix screens did exist.

[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

They did, but you had to pay a pretty penny to have one of those

Maybe even split-flap displays, or printed advertisements

[–] wer2@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone stuck in DTW, I feel the pain.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] T4V0@lemmy.pt 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bro do you even lingo? It's obviously Down To Wedgie, that's why he's in pain

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, no, no. It's clearly a city since the photo is flight info boards. Clearly he means Dallas Tort Worth, it's a little tiny place unlike its bigger brother DFW.

[–] Thassodar@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Surprised to hear someone mention Dallas Tort Worth ever since The Incident.

[–] T4V0@lemmy.pt 3 points 1 year ago

Of course mate, and unlike its sibling, it Doesn't Fuck Walruses

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You sure it's not DownTon Wrappy?

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this the Denver airport?

[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 20 points 1 year ago

Ironically it was more of a hassle than y2k ended up being lol

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago
[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year ago

Also, half the team must be on summer vacation

[–] pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 year ago

https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-crowdstrike-outage-australia-internet-banks-media-0a5f792b6571b37a35181d64028fefc4

An update to a cybersecurity software suite called CrowdStrike caused Windows machines to BSOD. CrowdStrike was big and monopolistic enough that it took out servees at large organizations worldwide.

[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How was this not tested by Microsoft in a virtual environment with a large set of test conditions before it was released? Does this not happen?

[–] teknomunk@lemm.ee 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't expect that Microsoft checks CrowdStrike's software before CrowdStrike pushes their updates.

[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

So this wasn't a windows update? Got it

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Johnny5@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everyone has a test environment but only a few separate prod

And here I am having to deal with 4 environments.