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CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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The details (the particular companies / systems etc) of this global incident don't really matter. When the entire society and economy are being digitized AND that digitisation is controlled and passes through a handful of choke points its an invitation to major disaster. It is risk management 101, never put all your digital eggs in one (or even a few) baskets. The love affair with oligopoly, cornered markets and powe…

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Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Things like hospitals, airlines, 911, should have multiple systems with different software stacks and independent backends running in-parallel, so that when one infra goes down they can switch to another.

There is an enormous cost associated with the kind of redundancy you're talking about. Capitalism prevents us from being set up in the way you're describing. Why invest in company A if company B can run the same business with half the operational expenses? Shareholder profit above all.

Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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The details (the particular companies / systems etc) of this global incident don't really matter. When the entire society and economy are being digitized AND that digitisation is controlled and passes through a handful of choke points its an invitation to major disaster. It is risk management 101, never put all your digital eggs in one (or even a few) baskets. The love affair with oligopoly, cornered markets and powe…

The oligopoly is not a "love affair", that's how IT works: prime mover advantage, "move fast and break things" (the first of them being interoperability), moats, the brittleness of programming...

The whole startup/unicorns ecosystem exists only because there is the possibility of becoming the dominant player in a field within a few years (or being bought out by one of the big players). This "love affair with oligopoly" is the reason why Ycombinator/HN exists.

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