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Patching is not a technical problem, 90% of the time. It's a political one (in medium to big operations). We have let our civilization down? No, our civilizatio
by chronid 9y ago
Patching is not a technical problem, 90% of the time. It's a political one (in medium to big operations). We have let our civilization down? No, our civilization is still asleep believing than when we say that patching is important, that rebooting your pc to install upgrades is important, we are spewing shit.
You need to patch, but big management wants X features implemented before the fix that will actually allow you to patch stuff without creating problems. And the only thing you can do is fix stuff after it breaks and look at your manager(s) when they leave in the day shit hits the fan at 6PM, as usual. And then stay in the night restoring data and praying it's not corrupted or infected too.
And in that moment you are sure of one thing: it will happen again, next time. Our civilization does not care.