Live: Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world
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There are reports of IT outages affecting major institutions in Australia and internationally.

All our servers and company laptops went down at pretty much the same time. Laptops have been bootlooping to blue screen of death. It’s all very exciting, personally, as someone not responsible for fixing it.

Apparently caused by a bad CrowdStrike update.

Edit: now being told we (who almost all generally work from home) need to come into the office Monday as they can only apply the fix in-person. We’ll see if that changes over the weekend…

          • jedibob5@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            5 months ago

            Is the 4x10 really worth the extra day off? Tbh I’m not sure it would work very well for me… I find just one 10-hour day to be kinda draining, so doing that 4 times a week every week feels like it might just cancel out any benefits of the extra day off.

            • meanmon13@lemmy.zipEnglish
              2·
              5 months ago

              I am very used to it so I don’t find it draining. I tried 5x8 once and it felt more like working an extra day than getting more time in the afternoon. If that makes sense. I also start early around 7am, so I am only staying a little later than other people

          • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
            2·
            5 months ago

            I changed jobs because the new management was all “if I can’t look at your ass you don’t work here” and I agreed.

            I now work remotely 100% and it’s in the union contract with the 21vacation days and 9x9 compressed time and regular raises. The view out my home office window is partially obscured by a floofy cat and we both like it that way.

            I’d work here until I die.

      • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
        13·
        5 months ago

        Yep, anything done on Friday can enter the world on a Monday.

        I don’t really have any plans most weekends, but I sure as shit don’t plan on spending it fixing Friday’s fuckups.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          5 months ago

          And honestly, anything that can be done Monday is probably better done on Tuesday. Why start off your week by screwing stuff up?

          We have a team policy to never do externally facing updates on Fridays, and we generally avoid Mondays as well unless it’s urgent. Here’s roughly what each day is for:

          • Monday - urgent patches that were ready on Friday; everyone WFH
          • Tuesday - most releases; work in-office
          • Wed - fixing stuff we broke on Tuesday/planning the next release; work in-office
          • Thu - fixing stuff we broke on Tuesday, closing things out for the week; WFH
          • Fri - documentation, reviews, etc; WFH

          If things go sideways, we come in on Thu to straighten it out, but that almost never happens.

      • sasquash@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        Actually I was not even joking. I also work in IT and have exactly the same opinion. Friday is for easy stuff!

    • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      You posted this 14 hours ago, which would have made it 4:30 am in Austin, Texas where Cloudstrike is based. You may have felt the effect on Friday, but it’s extremely likely that the person who made the change did it late on a Thursday.

      • Hotzilla@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        This is AV, and even possible that it is part of definitions (for example some windows file deleted as false positive). You update those daily.