#my computer woke up to bsod

[getvalentined]

Hey, did y'all know that stores selling large home appliances don't keep stock on-hand anymore? In order to get a new fridge, since mine died yesterday out of the fucking blue, it has to be paid for in-store in full, and then we have to wait for it to show up at some undetermined point between 7AM and 7PM on some undetermined day between February 7th thru 10th. It will arrive randomly, with "15 to 30 minutes' notice for convenience," and someone has to be present to receive it or it will be returned and we have to reschedule and pay for a second delivery.

I feel like if someone is buying a fridge it's because they need a fridge, which is a pretty time-sensitive thing, but sure! That sounds totally convenient! 10-12 days is a completely acceptable wait when food will spoil in a matter of hours! And monopolizing the entire day, multiple days in a row, with basically no notice as to actual arrival is a fucking inspired way of handling things!

We live in a fucking hell world.

[teafaeyay]

Fun facts from today:

- I got an emergency phone call/email notification at 3am (note: I am not in IT)

- When I woke up did a quick Google search. Thoughts and prayers for whatever guy pushed this out, 100% guarantee someone threw up from the anxiety after realizing what was going on.

-Work laptop BSOD. But I work from home on a personal computer as well so can still function.

-Try some initial googling to fix it before dr appointment, a simple delete of a registry file but I don't have admin access so meh.

-Try again when I get back with official IT recommendations via work - find out my work laptop isn't showing up on BitLocker access (fyi, that's a 3rd party service to access safe mode in an emergency. hmmmmm.). Will need to go onsite to fix it. Meh I'll do it Monday since I can still work.

- Found out the same thing happened to Linux users of Crowdstrike in the Spring. 🤔🤔🤔

Belated Y2K indeed.

idk if people on tumblr know about this but a cybersecurity software called crowdstrike just did what is probably the single biggest fuck up in any sector in the past 10 years. it's monumentally bad. literally the most horror-inducing nightmare scenario for a tech company.

some info, crowdstrike is essentially an antivirus software for enterprises. which means normal laypeople cant really get it, they're for businesses and organisations and important stuff.

so, on a friday evening (it of course wasnt friday everywhere but it was friday evening in oceania which is where it first started causing damage due to europe and na being asleep), crowdstrike pushed out an update to their windows users that caused a bug.

before i get into what the bug is, know that friday evening is the worst possible time to do this because people are going home. the weekend is starting. offices dont have people in them. this is just one of many perfectly placed failures in the rube goldburg machine of crowdstrike. there's a reason friday is called 'dont push to live friday' or more to the point 'dont fuck it up friday'

so, at 3pm at friday, an update comes rolling into crowdstrike users which is automatically implemented. this update immediately causes the computer to blue screen of death. very very bad. but it's not simply a 'you need to restart' crash, because the computer then gets stuck into a boot loop.

this is the worst possible thing because, in a boot loop state, a computer is never really able to get to a point where it can do anything. like download a fix. so there is nothing crowdstrike can do to remedy this death update anymore. it is now left to the end users.

it was pretty quickly identified what the problem was. you had to boot it in safe mode, and a very small file needed to be deleted. or you could just rename crowdstrike to something else so windows never attempts to use it.

it's a fairly easy fix in the grand scheme of things, but the issue is that it is effecting enterprises. which can have a looooot of computers. in many different locations. so an IT person would need to manually fix hundreds of computers, sometimes in whole other cities and perhaps even other countries if theyre big enough.

another fuck up crowdstrike did was they did not stagger the update, so they could catch any mistakes before they wrecked havoc. (and also how how HOW do you not catch this before deploying it. this isn't a code oopsie this is a complete failure of quality ensurance that probably permeates the whole company to not realise their update was an instant kill). they rolled it out to everyone of their clients in the world at the same time.

and this seems pretty hilarious on the surface. i was havin a good chuckle as eftpos went down in the store i was working at, chaos was definitely ensuring lmao. im in aus, and banking was literally down nationwide.

but then you start hearing about the entire country's planes being grounded because the airport's computers are bricked. and hospitals having no computers anymore. emergency call centres crashing. and you realised that, wow. crowdstrike just killed people probably. this is literally the worst thing possible for a company like this to do.

crowdstrike was kinda on the come up too, they were starting to become a big name in the tech world as a new face. but that has definitely vanished now. to fuck up at this many places, is almost extremely impressive. its hard to even think of a comparable fuckup.

a friday evening simultaneous rollout boot loop is a phrase that haunts IT people in their darkest hours. it's the monster that drags people down into the swamp. it's the big bag in the horror movie. it's the end of the road. and for crowdstrike, that reaper of souls just knocked on their doorstep.

[thesummerstorms]

Woke up to a BSOD on my computer again and my brother telling me actually he won't be signing another lease because of shit with his job so I need to start saving to pay full rent again.

Merry mother fucking Christmas eve.

[bromojumbo]

Pretty sure the matrix fucking glitched in my dreams

I had a dream last night where I was driving (during the day) down a road I didn’t recognize, and saw that it was jammed up with traffic because of some haziness up ahead

I decided to turn around and go down a side road I passed earlier

as I drove, I saw this massive black cloud really low to the ground, but at the same time it didn’t look like a cloud. It looked like if a cloud could be solid but also intangible at the same time

Right as I got closer and it passed over me, I felt this violent shaking sensation (more like a vibration but super intense). My sight blacked out and I couldn’t see a thing other than pure darkness, and one other thing

the number 0 repeated over and over again as if somebody was holding down the “0″ key on a keyboard. It flashed over the darkness briefly like a computer screen experiencing a BSOD as the shaking got worse and then suddenly daylight broke through and I was back on the road again.

I looked behind me and the massive cloud was there moving down the road. I looked back to my car and all the lights were flashing

I pulled over and happened to pull over to a friends house (although his house was different) and then I woke up. I have been thinking about this since.

[blitzcitydiy]

Came home, woke up my computer and a wild BSOD appeared. How rude! #DIY #tech #computers #pcmr #windows10 #microsoft #bsod #software #nerdlife

[driftingicecaps-fr]

I think my desktop is gone for good, and I;m having a severe breakdown

I dopnt know what the fuck happened? I left it alone for an hour while I wen to go eat, and when I came back I saw it restarted itself . Things’ went very downhill from there. Chrome would freezw my computer and crash on startup. Firefox was suddenly telling my to instal media files I knew I had. Netflix wouldn’t run.

Restarting did nothing, virus scan showed nothing, trying to fix chrome did nothing. I wanted to system restore, but low and behold it had no restore points. 

I rebooted again, then one more reboot with last known configuration. After I did that, everything started crashing. I was getting a critical failure error, it would tell me things just weren’t working with strings of numbers that I don’t understand. I just shiut it down and I sobbed, threw up, then sobbed more. 

Went to get my sleeping boyfriend, he told me he’ll look when he gets up (he was mad I woke him), and I called my mom and she said to bring it down to have my dads military friend have a look through it all bc he fixed it last time.

The only thing I think at fault is either my tablet or it’s just her time to go. I had left my tablet plugged it, which i shouldn’t have done, because if i use it to long it sometimes gets buggy and acts in it’s own and closes things.. But the computer has also been acting kinda weird and taking longer and longer to start up. It’s like eight years old.

It survived a monitor failure, multiple BSODs, a power surge and tons of viruses but I think it’s gone.

I got a back up finally, after the power surge a few months ago, so not everything is gone. Hopefully the guy can save a few more things if she’s really gone. I just don’t know what to do. It’s a computer, I know, but it’s all I’ve had and I can’t stop crying