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by vb-8448 2y ago
I've always seen microsoft certificates signed by digicert, who knows.
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Azure Down?(azure.status.microsoft)
93 points by vb-8448 2y ago|20 comments
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by vb-8448 2y ago
I recall several similar situations with Cloudflare: a user has billing/service problems and the only way to get some support is to end on HN frontpage or reddit ...
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by vb-8448 2y ago
Well, at least it's up to me to decide, not CS.
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by vb-8448 2y ago
It depends on the actual root cause, gross negligence won't save them, regardless of what they put in the contracts. From my point of view, one of the greatest problem for them is that they bypassed customers deployment policies.
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by vb-8448 2y ago
I would argue that the whole point of the post is: nothing in the world can save you from bad practices. There are at least 3 bad practices here: - releasing of untested SW/config files - bypassing of final users' rollout policies
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by vb-8448 2y ago
This appears to be the high level architecture: https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:4800/format:webp/0*SDt... . To me seems to overengineered for most of the companies outside there, how many people do you n
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by vb-8448 2y ago
Even with memory-safe languages you can shoot in your foots and on Windows, AFAIK, you need to stick with c/c++ for this kind of low level programming. BTW, using your metaphor, until 2 days ago they didn't even know that there wa
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by vb-8448 2y ago
A safer language like RUST won't help you against bad practices and poor QA processes. This is a kind of error that you should catch with automating testing, even before pushing the change to main branch.
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by vb-8448 2y ago
AV is still software, special kind of software but still software. If you look at how "normal" software updates are handled around the world, you will see a recurring pattern: - updates are first done in test envs and then in pro
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by vb-8448 2y ago
You don't like the term "IT managers"? Let's call them "company managers", suits better? You as a company allowed and external entity to push a completely uncontrolled update on all your production envs. What i
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by vb-8448 2y ago
Are you serious? If I push a code change in production before going through the test environment and this cause trouble, I'll be fired. We already have rules and procedures that work for "normal" software, why they cannot be
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by vb-8448 2y ago
IT managers allowed an external entity to do a massive update on all their devices and servers. I'm not saying to don't install AV or not update it, just first update system-test envs and then roll out patches gradually, not all t
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by vb-8448 2y ago
Well, if you look on all news sites, they put highlight that is a windows issue. I personally think that IT managers should be blamed for the disaster, but in the collective imagination this will e a microsoft/windows problem.
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by vb-8448 2y ago
I guess we can call it a "black Thursday" for microsoft.
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by vb-8448 2y ago
> The details (the particular companies / systems etc) of this global incident don't really matter. It definitively matters. The main issue he is that Crowdstrike was able to push and update on all server around the world where
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by vb-8448 2y ago
> which often lead to taking months to provision anything, even a very boring VM It's still true? In my experience it used to be, nowadays most of the organizations have an internal serf-provisioning portal.
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by vb-8448 2y ago
I wonder why they chose to build something from scratch instead of using python or similar tools that existed before.
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by vb-8448 2y ago
Why not https://github.com/prometheus/client_python ?
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by vb-8448 3y ago
It seems very stupid to me. How long will it be before the government starts pressuring these maintainers to do the things the government wants?
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by vb-8448 3y ago
I liked "How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)", first season. Generally speaking, you can use the xz story as a background for every type of movie set in the present, an eg.: think about the God's Eye story from the Fast & Fur
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by vb-8448 3y ago
Well, the identity of who's behind it can be left to the imagination of the authors. I think it's reasonable to think that behind this attack there is a well organized intelligence agency of a big country, so the author can choose
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by vb-8448 3y ago
I wonder if netflix will make a movie from this story, if you read the timeline it really sounds like a well written thriller.
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by vb-8448 3y ago
sono pazzi questi romani
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by vb-8448 3y ago
Bold prediction: AI will tell us how to solve the energy problem! /s
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by vb-8448 3y ago
If you want to do the math, do it right. How many images are you going to draw by hand in a year? For sure not 3153600 ... When speaking about environmental impact, absolute values count, not relative ones!
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by vb-8448 3y ago
I wonder if this is somehow related with meta's down.
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by vb-8448 3y ago
Seems like even the status page doesn't work ... i'd say typical for this type of situations :D :D :D
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by vb-8448 3y ago
I don't think this is a fair comparison. You cannot put your db in cloud provider A and run your application in cloud provider B.
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by vb-8448 3y ago
Nice comparison, but I would have found it more interesting and closer to reality if they enable HA.

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