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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
0:46 Sponsor: SquareSpace
01:50 Massive third party bug paralyzes the world's IT for hours
05:33 SUSE asks OpenSUSE to rebrand
07:55 Solus ditches AppArmor, and snaps
09:57 GNOME 47 alpha is out
11:49 Linux kernel 6.10 is out
13:31 Gaming: Big PS2 emulator update, Wine
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Massive third party bug paralyzes the world's IT for hours

SUSE asks OpenSUSE to rebrand

Solus ditches AppArmor, and snaps

GNOME 47 alpha is out

Linux kernel 6.10 is out

Gaming: Big PS2 emulator update, Wine

[Kermitk]

I love to hate on Microsoft but Crowdstrike literally crashed RedHat servers less than a month ago and Debian servers back in April. I think the common denominator here is Crowdstrike.

[roseredthorns]

Opensuse should change their name to chameleon

[cameronbosch]

For thoae who don't know, an airline in the U.S. (Southwest) wasn't affected by this Crowdstrike BSOD issue because it was running in top of _Windows 3.1 & 9.5._ Yes, seriously!

[armornick]

The CrowdStrike problem really doesn't have anything to do with Windows. CS has also made a bunch of Debian servers kernel panic in april. This is genuinely a problem with CS not testing their updates.

[stevenjlovelace]

I saw a commenter on Ars Technica say that the big issue is Habsburg Syndrome. Like Habsburg dynasty, the modern tech industry is so inbred that a small issue can quickly become catastrophic.

[gxtarer]

What shocked me is critical businesses, hospitals, airlines use Windows. I thought they use Linux. Linux dominates in the server world.

[joecan]

TBH, the fact that this didn't happen on Linux & MacOS doesn't mean it couldn't. Falcon sensor on Linux is a kernel module as well. The real problem is any OS allowing this sort of nonsense...

[wolcek]

Crowdstrike protected windows computers from *all* the threats. 100% effectiveness.

[KarthiDreamr]

This is another example of problems in Monopoly. Single company providing security solution to lot of major companies

[megamaster]

My main question is why the fuck are they not using staggered rollout? Like first roll it out to 0.01% of customers, see if crash rates spike or if you get a thousand angry phonecalls. If not, then roll it out to 5%, then 30%, then 50, 80 and 100% like every company I’ve worked at does this, even ones with like only 1000 customers

[profkwl]

the point is, you can't get a malware if your computer isn't working 😂

[ananon]

Id like for Opensuse to keep the chameleon, but changing the name is perfectly good with me

[fuseteam]

the rebranding is about brand identity not association

SEO for SUSE/openSUSE is a nightmare

[tj]

I would laugh really hard if the code that caused the outage was generated by an LLM. That would be chefs kiss.

[calyodelphi]

Honestly I think what SUSE could probably do to make this rebranding request go a whole lot smoother is offer an olive branch and assist openSUSE in developing their own recognizable branding. They don't _have_ to do it, and I'm not expecting nor demanding that they do, but it would be pretty cool if SUSE _did_ do that as a gesture that their request for openSUSE to rebrand was not made in bad faith and that they're willing to continue supporting the community distro in its new identity.

[brandonw]

The fact that with Windows a vendor can push an OTA update like that without the IT teams knowing about it is an issue.

[violentkrabs]

Crowdstrike did strike the whole crowd.

[remrevo]

AFAIK the creative cloud applications mostly *do* run on wine, but the installer does not.

[a.randomjack]

"The best way to keep your computer safe, is to turn it off" 🤷‍♂

[yoClohrine]

"fuck you, i use linux" ahh moment