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

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158 points kenjackson | 3 comments | 22 Jul 24 02:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.019s | source
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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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rsynnott ◴[22 Jul 24 07:05 UTC] No.41031620[source]▶
> 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"

There is a certain type of tech person (well, they probably exist elsewhere, but the tech variety is particularly noisy) who seems absolutely determined to use this one every time a company does something stupid; there seems to be an odd unwillingness to blame _process_, rather than some sort of imagined individual saboteur (who would, preferably, in the minds of these people, be someone other than a straight white man).

A particularly extreme example, to the point that it almost read as parody; when the door plug blew out of that 737, there was a certain amount of fixation by the weirdos on Twitter on how the pilot was a woman. Quite how this was supposed to have anything to do with it was unclear.

The whole thing is pretty weird, and feels quite new. Sometimes, a poorly-run company is just a poorly-run company.

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1. notepad0x90 ◴[22 Jul 24 07:12 UTC] No.41031660[source]▶
You're right, I'm actually surprised my post is getting negative downvotes, it was only informative in my opinion. But perhaps the people I'm talking about are also on HN they're just silent on this topic due to efficient moderation.

Imagine actually being a minority, woman or any group like that and making a mistake. sucks.

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2. thworp ◴[22 Jul 24 10:23 UTC] No.41032771[source]▶
> it was only informative in my opinion

Was it though? Your second paragraph is written in a way that it can easily be interpreted as "all critics of DEI hiring are racists". Is that a more sophisticated statement than "all minorities are incompetent"? Is being a racist the only reason someone might be opposed to quota-based hiring?

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3. notepad0x90 ◴[22 Jul 24 11:43 UTC] No.41033300[source]▶
yes, it was. I was informing you that all critics of DEI outside of an actual discussion thread about DEI are racists and "DEI" in that context is equivalent to the n-word. I hope that clarifies my intent better.

To clarify, I'm not to keen on DEI either, but we're not really talking about DEI here are we now?