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A Brief Note on the CrowdStrike Outage and "Tech Influencer" YouTube

20 points by adamrezich 2y ago

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dudus 2y ago
The author need to name these channels, it doesn't match my experience watching YouTube.
- hammycheesy 2y ago
  I assume the author is mainly referring to the video by Dave's Garage [1], at least the items listed match up pretty well with the points made in the video. I seem to remember Dave making some of these points as examples rather than asserting them as the truth of what occurred with CrowdStrike, but it's been a couple days since I watched the video. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAzEJxOo1ts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAzEJxOo1ts
  - newprint 2y ago
    I was going to say, Dave did a great job covering the issue, despite the fact that he hasn't worked on Windows kernel for a lot time (10y+, if not for 20y+). But in general, there is a lot of "parroting" going on from people who know very little or specialists in this field.
sublinear 2y ago
I don't see the issue. Youtube is usually a low quality source for just about anything. This isn't even a new problem. I see Youtube as equivalent to nonsense you'd have found in a magazine rack in the past.
- adamrezich 2y ago
  Spreading incorrect technical information about a trending current event to possibly millions of people or more just because the grift is hot and you want a quick buck is a bad thing, actually, and should be discouraged to whatever extent possible.
  - netsharc 2y ago
    Yet another problem caused by the ad-driven lagoon of shit that is the Internet...
aaron695 2y ago
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stonethrowaway 2y ago
Not that I endorse this in general but I was personally so busy heads down with work I had no idea about any of this until it came and went. It did not affect any of our companies (directly) when it happened so it never came up on my radar. Having said that, as a routine policy I do tend to explicitly ignore things because it’s easy to get caught up in all this. At the end of the day these are silly YouTube videos that are, let’s face it, cruising for attention and clicks. They’ll latch onto anything anytime because that’s the hit their audiences crave. The salient point is that will continue happening regardless of this brief note, which empirically is what has been driving my disengagement rather than attempting to “set the record straight” which I think is a moot point.
oslis 2y ago
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20 points by adamrezich 2y ago

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dudus 2y ago

The author need to name these channels, it doesn't match my experience watching YouTube.

hammycheesy 2y ago
I assume the author is mainly referring to the video by Dave's Garage [1], at least the items listed match up pretty well with the points made in the video. I seem to remember Dave making some of these points as examples rather than asserting them as the truth of what occurred with CrowdStrike, but it's been a couple days since I watched the video. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAzEJxOo1ts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAzEJxOo1ts
- newprint 2y ago
  I was going to say, Dave did a great job covering the issue, despite the fact that he hasn't worked on Windows kernel for a lot time (10y+, if not for 20y+). But in general, there is a lot of "parroting" going on from people who know very little or specialists in this field.

sublinear 2y ago

I don't see the issue. Youtube is usually a low quality source for just about anything. This isn't even a new problem. I see Youtube as equivalent to nonsense you'd have found in a magazine rack in the past.

adamrezich 2y ago
Spreading incorrect technical information about a trending current event to possibly millions of people or more just because the grift is hot and you want a quick buck is a bad thing, actually, and should be discouraged to whatever extent possible.
- netsharc 2y ago
  Yet another problem caused by the ad-driven lagoon of shit that is the Internet...

aaron695 2y ago

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stonethrowaway 2y ago

Not that I endorse this in general but I was personally so busy heads down with work I had no idea about any of this until it came and went. It did not affect any of our companies (directly) when it happened so it never came up on my radar. Having said that, as a routine policy I do tend to explicitly ignore things because it’s easy to get caught up in all this. At the end of the day these are silly YouTube videos that are, let’s face it, cruising for attention and clicks. They’ll latch onto anything anytime because that’s the hit their audiences crave. The salient point is that will continue happening regardless of this brief note, which empirically is what has been driving my disengagement rather than attempting to “set the record straight” which I think is a moot point.

oslis 2y ago

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