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CrowdStrike Bug likely caused by unsafe NULL Pointer
- adevthatsudos 2y agohere for a good time not a long time...
- animan 2y agoOne of us, one of us...
- akdev1l 2y agowhere the rust folks at edit: wtf is this > is compromised by a cabal of woke tards that are doing strange things.
- CurtHagenlocher 2y agoor > Maybe they have a DEI engineer that did this Can confirm that as an upper-middle class heterosexual cisgender white man I have never dereferenced memory through an invalid pointer. That's just part of my "PRIVLIDGED".
- Smeevy 2y agoI heard that the CrowdStrike bug was committed during DRAG QUEEN STORYTIME AT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
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- jimbobimbo 2y ago"The fix going forward is that Microsoft needs [...] not just raw dog risky updates to customers." Odd critique. Microsoft could do whatever, it was Crowdstrike who "raw dogged" the update to customers without any meaningful staging.
- optymizer 2y agoLet's hypothesize a bit. What's preventing the C++ compiler from auto-inserting if-checks for NULL pointers, just like a human would? That it wouldn't know what to do in the 'else' block?
- gnabgib 2y agoDiscussion (267 points, 11 hours ago, 313 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41009740 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41009740