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CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor also linked to Linux kernel panics and crashes

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158 points kenjackson | 6 comments | 22 Jul 24 02:22 UTC | HN request time: 1.435s | source | bottom
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notepad0x90 ◴[22 Jul 24 06:27 UTC] No.41031421[source]▶
I'd like to see a proper journalistic investigation into every other EDR sensor on Linux as well. I really hate it when supposed journalists look for an angle and pursue it without critical thinking.

But they could be right, they may have an issue in their engineering department recently.

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Speaking of,I wanted to mention a slightly related observation I've had recently scrolling through twitter (unfortunately) looking for information on this crisis. There are a lot of people who at least know enough technical jargon to probably work in IT or technology but they're using arguments like "it must be because of a DEI hire", for those who are unaware they're using "DEI" as a replacement for a hard-r N-word. In other words, I just learned that blatant racists are not a rarity in our corner of the world. If you're not one of them, I wanted to inform you of what they really mean. Fortunately I haven't seen this on HN so far :)

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1. bdjsiqoocwk ◴[22 Jul 24 06:36 UTC] No.41031482[source]▶
> it must be because of a DEI hire

Of course, white people making mistakes is unheard of.

Yeah it's quite frustrating how easily people latch on to the daily meme if it reinforces their preexisting prejudices.

Republicans calling Kamala Harris the DEI candidate in 3, 2, 1...

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2. notepad0x90 ◴[22 Jul 24 07:01 UTC] No.41031604[source]▶
For the record, crowdstrike isn't the type of company that does DEI hiring. For technical roles, they let technical people from the team you're interviewing for grill you and it is their opinion that decides the outcome of first round interviews.
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3. wongogue ◴[22 Jul 24 07:21 UTC] No.41031713[source]▶
For your last point, there already is a long thread in the Biden post yesterday. As per them, it makes both the sides same somehow.
4. rsynnott ◴[22 Jul 24 09:37 UTC] No.41032466[source]▶
I'm not sure what people think inclusive hiring _is_. In almost all cases, it's pretty much entirely about the _pipeline_, trying to attract a more diverse set of people to interview in the first place. There's generally nothing special about the interviews.
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5. bdjsiqoocwk ◴[22 Jul 24 21:27 UTC] No.41040014{3}[source]▶
> I'm not sure what people think inclusive hiring _is_

I bet you a lot of people think DEI is companies go "you're black, you're hired". Instead you're absolutely right, it's manipulating the pipeline so that 50% are the overall best and 50% are diverse. The "diverse" ones also have to do great in their interviews, no one is automatically hired.

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6. rsynnott ◴[23 Jul 24 06:08 UTC] No.41043012{4}[source]▶
> it's manipulating the pipeline so that 50% are the overall best and 50% are diverse

Not even that; it’s changing the pipeline so that it has a lower weighting on upper-middle-class white men who went to one of about four universities (which does not actually equate with ‘overall best’). One surprisingly simple thing that companies can do is be realistic about their requirements in the job spec. There’s a fair bit of evidence that if you have an aspirational job spec, then some candidates will go “well, I meet some of that” and apply, and others will go “well, I only have five years of experience in [whatever], not six like it says in the job spec” and won’t apply. And group 2 tends to be less male, less white, and more working-class.