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Have spent all my afternoon and all evening on a bridge trying to support flailing systems. Was supposed to be on a plane in 5 hours to start my vacation. Guaranteed it's not gonna happen. With hearing 911 and other safety critical systems going down, I hope that the worst that comes out of this is a couple delayed flights and a couple missed bank payments.
Industry should move to Linux on desktop - we should not rely on single vendor
1) mistakes in kernel-level drivers can and will crash the entire os
2) do not write kernel-level drivers
3) do not write kernel-level drivers
4) do not write kernel-level drivers
5) if you really need a kernel-level driver, do not write it in a memory unsafe language
My entire emergency department got knocked offline by this. Really scary when you have ambulances coming in and are trying to stabilize a heart attack. Update: 911 is down in Oregon too, no more ambulances at least.
OTA update went wrong? How can an update go live without proper testing for the millions of live connected endpoints?