The tech lowdown on Crowdstrike (what caused the crash)

CrowdStrike IT Outage Explained by a Windows Developer

Dave's Garage, YouTube Channel, 776K subscribers ( what's this? Zillions sold?)

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Perhaps I can can guide you through this super-high techie discussion of what happened recently. I actually wanted to do something like this back in the day. That would be about 47 years ago. I went through all the trouble of getting a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, only to fail to get myself hired anywhere. There was this short stint at IBM NASA, where I got to do some interesting stuff, but most of the time, it was super boring over there. But that is a different story.

Anyway, as I watch this, I notice this guy speaks very fast. Yours truly does not speak fast. I'm listening to this, and I note that the computer field has moved way beyond anything I was familiar with. However, I can interpret this enough to get it after a few listens to what this guy is talking about.

So I imagine the average guy on the street cannot make heads or tails of this. Maybe the younger generation can, due to the fact that they were weaned on computers. Maybe this doesn't seem too esoteric to someone raised on techie jargon. But for anybody not falling into the techie categories, this may seem like Egyptian hierglyphics. Even to me, I can't keep up. I've got to go back and listen again. Say again, and more slowly please.

Anyway, I thought I'd put this one up for your amusement and/or consternation. Due to the wisdom of our "betters", we are getting more and more dependent on things we don't understand. Furthermore, those who produce this stuff will have all of us at their mercy before too long.

Like a good many things these days, the public had better wake the hell up. This shit is getting at a critical point. Either we get a handle on it, or it will get a handle on US.

I'm migrating to Linux. Screw Microsoft. Screw Google. Screw Big Tech in general.



Why Linux? Linux is "open source". At least in theory. It is what Microsoft used to be, and what Apple never was. That means that if you have the inclination and the ability, you can see inside the "black box". If you can't or won't, you will be at their mercy.

That's why freedom advocates like me are really starting to get worried about these bastards. They are out of control.