this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2024
866 points (98.9% liked)

Memes

45584 readers
1263 users here now

Rules:

  1. Be civil and nice.
  2. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The cause is a malfunction of the Crowdstrike monitoring solution, which employees use to spy at anything ever done on company hardware. They do have a Linux version and it has been reported to cause kernel panics (not ~~sure if~~ during this incident).

But yes, Windows on public information displays is dumb.
Infamous "Let's finish setting up your PC" screen

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

it was because crowdstrike themselves notified that this specific instance did not affect their linux nor osx distributions of security, and was windows specific.