Comment on CrowdStrike downtime apparently caused by update that replaced a file with 42kb of zeroes

some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just needed to add 42k of ones to balance the data. Everyone knows that, like tires, you need to balance your data.

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  • Killing_Spark@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Apply the ones in a star shape to distribute pressure evenly

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  • rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean, joking aside, isn’t that how parity calculations used to work? “Got more uppy bits than downy bits - that’s a paddlin’” or something.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Assuming they were all calculations, which they won’t have been.

      We will probably never know because the company will never actually release a postmortem but I suspect that The final was essentially just treated as unreadable and didn’t actually do anything. Problem was that important bits of code that should have been in there now no longer existed.

      You would have thought they’d do some testing before releasing an update wouldn’t you. I’m sure their software developers have a bright future at Boeing ahead of them. Although in fairness to them, this will almost certainly have been a management decision.

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  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I once had a very noisy computer… It was the disk! I just balanced the data and all problems went away.

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  • xavier666@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Perfectly balanced

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