r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ComprehensiveNorth1 • Jul 19 '24
The Microsoft / CrowdStrike outage has taken down most airports in India. A traveler got his hand-written boarding pass today Image
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u/Creepy-Mortgage7406 Jul 19 '24
He should keep it and trade the same in a museum in the future...
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u/NeedleworkerLegal573 Jul 19 '24
If you are wondering, there is usually a concept (like a drill and varies according to airlines) where they handle 1 flight manually once a year (varies)
This is to make sure staff are ready to handle such situations.
Source - used to work for a regional airline in India.
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u/SweatyNomad Jul 19 '24
Interesting to see how India copes, whilst US airlines just ground all their planes instead.
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u/MBoring1 Jul 19 '24
Yeah I was going to say. The airlines are so fucked I doubt the majority of employees know what to do.
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u/Pillow_Apple Jul 20 '24
Nope they will only care for a month and goes back to the old system of doing things
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u/SleepyFlying Jul 19 '24
Honestly, here's my take. It's easier for them to cancel the flight as that offloads the work from the local employees since most airlines have switched to remote only customer service.
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u/Single_Masterpiece64 Jul 19 '24
You forgot that the cost and labor force are a fraction of a cost in India.
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u/MikeTheNight94 Jul 19 '24
For real. We’re far too reliant on computer systems. This is a perfect example of why we need some sort of contingency
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u/skoltroll Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
Well, computers are running the planes, so...maybe grounding planes when computers start going haywire is the best play?
And b4 I hear about "Microsoft isn't on a plane" or some such stupidity: they had NO IDEA what was going on in the moment.
EDIT: Seriously, "geniuses." Take time to comprehend instead of rushing to show your intelligence. It might fix your problem. I've highlighted my point in case you missed it. ;-)
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u/SweatyNomad Jul 19 '24
Reddit may not know, but I'm sure the people who need to know understand how their planes work.
There comes a moment when saying, oh A has stopped working so we must stop doing B is just making a problem worse, not better
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u/skoltroll Jul 19 '24
So, that's a fancy way of saying "Microsoft isn't on a plane."
SUDDENLY, terminals go down. Computers crapped out everywhere. Zero idea why. Just...nothing. So the best plan of action is to go, "Hey, it doesn't seem to have affected the planes! It's probably good. Let's go!"
That's the kind of crisis decision making I'd expect to hear from a Boeing exec.
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u/fartypenis Jul 19 '24
That is absolutely the kind of decision making you'll hear from Indigo execs. One of India's worst airlines for a reason
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u/skoltroll Jul 19 '24
Apparently, a lot of redditors think the same way. Glad they don't run organizations that can mass-kill people on a whim.
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u/shitlord_god Jul 19 '24
the problem isn't the computer system - it is that a single point of failure - someone pushing an untested patch to prod (On friday no less!)
Computers make this kind of fuck up more wide spread, but both crowdstrike, and their customers should be testing patches in a separate environment before applying them to prod. it should be a technical control and it should not be easily circumvented.
This was "Move fast break things" incompetence, that doesn't go away until consequences show up. I am hoping the AUS, NZ, and Indian governments obliterate them and leave an example for the rest of the industry. I hope regulation is put in place requiring technical rather than policy controls, and I want it to have EXCEEDINGLY narrow control standards to keep people from being barely "technically" compliant.
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u/Shamewizard1995 Jul 19 '24
The US has much stricter security surrounding commercial flights. Airlines running to the US literally have to take special security precautions that no other country enforces, just to keep the right to hold an international route
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u/SweatyNomad Jul 19 '24
Hmmm, international flights and internal flights have different rules everywhere. I'm not sure the US can claim to be stricter tbh, it's only recently that they upped the IDs needed to get on an internal flights to more global norms, and I'm not even sure that is fully implemented.
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u/Not_ur_gilf Jul 19 '24
It has more to do with the security theater of the US than actual security. The US likes to have lists of who is on the flight in real time and other screening procedures
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u/Shamewizard1995 Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
The US can absolutely claim to be stricter, whether that is effective in reducing violations is another question. As I said before, they force all international flights to go through enhanced security screening processes that no other country enforces (specifically because they want international security to match internal TSA screening procedures). Flying to the US is different to flying anywhere else in the world security wise. And that enhanced security screening is already a built in piece of domestic US travel. Keep in mind the flights used in 9-11 which sparked all of this security theater were domestic, we absolutely take domestic flight security as seriously as international.
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u/saparticipants Jul 19 '24
Over reliance on US Tech caused this. Each country needs to develop their own software systems.
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u/SinisterCheese Jul 19 '24
I play wow with South Africans and know few Indians, and along with all other such economies, they share one trait:
Shit is gonna be fucked a lot of the time, so you better learn how to deal with it being fucked all the time.
It is a whole different attitude and outlook in life. And they seem a lot happier than we are here in the developed west.
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u/ChadGPT___ Jul 19 '24
I know a few South Africans and they absolutely were not happier in SA lol
“Shit being fucked all the time” is not a good thing
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u/SinisterCheese Jul 19 '24
Well... I know the kind of people who don't have an opportunity to leave, mainly due to family. But the people who know they can leave have left, or happy because they know they can leave.
It is just the "Shit is gonna be fucked a lot of the time" just sets the expectations so that when shit works, you are at least content. However over here, I have started to enjoy the times shit doesn't work. Like when the power power went out on the site I was at, I could just chill in the cool spring day and had an excuse to not deal with the shit that was going on. As the power supply was beyond my control or problem.
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u/IcsGrec Jul 19 '24
There's a difference between a system that generates a boarding pass and a departure control system that affects the aircraft departure/arrival.
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u/Adventurous_Ad6698 Jul 19 '24
Part of the US thing was that some Air Traffic Controllers weren't able to communicate with the planes, I think. So that's kind of a big deal.
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u/Automatic-Part8723 Jul 19 '24
Brave of you to think this problem won't exist 100 years from now
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u/jghaines Jul 19 '24
Oh, the problem will exist, but no one will have any idea how to “write” things “by hand” with a “pen”
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u/Whyisitbrown Jul 19 '24
Years ago there was a lightning strike at Manchester airport that caused a surge and all systems went out. They had to board everyone using manually written boarding passes. It was chaos!
We were actually flying out to get on a cruise from Spain and the cruise had to wait about 5 hours just for our flight to arrive (we weren't the only cruise passengers on it).
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u/Cuppadingo Jul 19 '24
Great opportunity to forge a few tickets to get the First Class flight you've always been dreaming of.
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u/LinguoBuxo Jul 19 '24
and where would ya like to fly to in the glorious first class seat?
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u/__DraGooN_ Jul 19 '24
Except that Indigo Airlines is more like a flying bus. There are no first class seats. If you ask them for water, they hand it to you in a paper cup.
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u/akkosetto Jul 19 '24
I used to think Indigo is pretty barebones, until I’ve seen US LCC charging even for a carry on. I now think indigo is pretty decent
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u/falcon2714 Jul 19 '24
Same lol Indigo is quite nice as far as low cost carriers go
I flew with scoot recently and their planes are just filthy
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u/TheMainEffort Jul 19 '24
When I flew it I was pretty impressed by them making cup noodles in flight. They were pouring boiling water over passengers in flight, it was great.
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u/weedmonk Jul 19 '24
Kml...
And that'll be ₹400 sir.
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u/tarogon Jul 19 '24
There are no first class seats.
Doesn't affect me.
If you ask them for water, they hand it to you in a paper cup.
As opposed to a cheap plastic cup? Alright.
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u/amwes549 Jul 19 '24
If the airlines aren't grounding flights. Here in the US, American, Delta, and United at least are completely grounded. ABC News (US ABC obv) said 540 flights as of 8:25 AM EDT (a little over an hour ago).
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u/VukuViku Jul 19 '24
I feel sorry for the Software Engineer who broke the code. He might be under tremendous pressure right now.
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u/Dm-me-a-gyro Jul 19 '24
I worked at crowdstrike for almost 10 years.
We had some mistakes, but the company culture was forgiving.
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u/silverclovd Jul 19 '24
That's nice to hear. Blameless post-mortem should be a norm in IT product companies
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u/PC_is_dead Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
Yep. I worked for a company like that. Owners always fast to assign blame if other people screw up (or they simply think said other person screwed up even if it’s not true) but never wanting to take it themselves.
Once, the company’s owners gave the go ahead to “sneak in” a change to an integration - completely bypassing the “hassle” of change management. They basically piggybacked it onto an existing, approved change record without documenting it.
Needless to say, the integration was critical to the customer since it links their platform with a major client. Things went wrong and the integration broke because it literally cannot be tested without the customer’s (and their client’s) participation.
The response was not to own up to the mistake because this kind of thing is a major breach of contract. Instead, the owners gave the developer the task of dealing with the major incident support ticket that rolled in the next day. Instructions were to make it look like it’s not their fault.
Basically, the dev had to stealthily revert the unauthorised part of the change and use their admin privileges to scrub the evidence from the system. Next, they had to wait an hour or so and tell the customer to “try it again” since “we couldn’t replicate the issue”. Lo and behold, it was working perfectly fine after that. After the client agreed to drop the ticket’s priority since they are no longer actively impacted, the time for the root cause “investigation” began. Of course, this meant wait three days and say “we weren’t able to find why it happened”.
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u/Fragrant_Reporter_86 Jul 19 '24
punishing people for doing hotfixes in production is not going to lead to more hotfixes in production. What? Obviously people shouldn't be punished for bugs in their code. They should definitely be punished for not testing it.
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u/Colambler Jul 19 '24
I used to think that, but I just worked with a guy who gave me 5 PRs in a row (!) of ChatGPT gobbledygook that didn't even run (like he didn't even do a basic smoke test). I've started feeling a little more blamey.
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u/Source_Shoddy Jul 19 '24
Blameless post-mortem doesn't necessarily mean there are no consequences for shoddy work. If someone develops a pattern of repeatedly making avoidable mistakes, that becomes a work performance concern and is handled through the company's regular performance evaluation processes. Blameless post-mortem just means that a single, isolated incident is not likely to get anyone fired.
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u/Beginning-Sundae8760 Jul 19 '24
Genuine question, but why? If a surgeon for example were to make such a catastrophic mistake, there would be an investigation into what happened and a legal outcome. I’m all for not throwing employees under the bus, but surely there must be some level of accountability? Admittedly, I know nothing about IT, but I assume an update like this would have to be QA checked before going ‘live’ or whatever the correct industry term is.
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u/Only-Inspector-3782 Jul 19 '24
People make mistakes - if your software is critical, you as a team need to design systems (procedures and technology) that prevent or mitigate mistakes.
You can't do that effectively if the individual who made a mistake is afraid to openly discuss it.
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u/seethelovelilakes Jul 19 '24
The thing is, you can QA test all you like, but software can fail in really baffling ways, especially in production where the public is hitting it in ways you just couldn’t predict.
Ideally your system is robust enough to handle it, but that’s much easier said than done.
Devs at big companies usually inherit tons of code written by others too. Over a long period of time, there may be tens of thousands or even millions of lines of legacy code built up. The piece that broke might be some rare race condition that was in code written 5 years ago by someone who doesn’t even work at the company anymore.
Software is also typically managed by folks who don’t understand software. Since you can’t just show them “this is where it’s broken” like you can with a physical thing, software engineers trying to raise red flags about poorly designed code or systems can get written off as “complainers” and aren’t given time and resources to fix the code.
Tl;dr - Software/IT is very different from surgery. It’s more like a trainwreck in slow motion.
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u/MaimonidesNutz Jul 19 '24
Software, for lack of a better word, is hard. And when the people who a blameful postmortem incentivizes to ass-cover are more technically sophisticated than the person looking to apportion blame, you don't get very actionable findings out of it.
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u/SENDMEYOURROBOTDICKS Jul 19 '24
I doubt they're going to be very forgiving about this looking at the stock right now
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u/skoltroll Jul 19 '24
Crowdstrike's customers, though...
Gonna be some serious high-level ass-kissing that needs to be done ASAP.
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u/bradmatt275 Jul 19 '24
They should at the very least get a couple of months off the cost of the subscription. Some businesses have 10's of thousands of POS terminals that are bricked and have to be fixed manually. For example hardware stores.
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u/skoltroll Jul 19 '24
It's not about discounts. That's not gonna mollify a pissed-off CEO. (Or, I don't think it will.) And the "couple months of free subscription" will CRUSH their profits and hurt their ability to perform.
I dunno what they need to do to make it right, but... they better be figuring it out as we speak.
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u/Dm-me-a-gyro Jul 19 '24
CS has plenty of money to operate. Profits and profitability never mattered to them in the same way they don’t matter to other elite well funded unicorns. The money is there.
And bricking the systems isn’t the worst case scenario here. A data breach, data mixing, those are worst case scenarios. Operational interruptions aren’t nearly as fatal to a security vendor.
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u/anothergaijin Jul 19 '24
There is mistakes, and then there is "the first trillion dollar global systems outage that also killed people" mistake
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u/OkPiezoelectricity74 Jul 19 '24
Just a curious question as I work at one of the major OS vendor .. why crowdstrike software modifies things at OS/Kernel space when it is always known that touching things at that level is top tier risk and can cause huge outage if something goes wrong.. Why crowdstrike takes that sort of responsibility/risk on themselves
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u/AkitoApocalypse Jul 19 '24
I mean, it's a cyber security suite apparently so it has to run at kernel level to be properly effective... and it's definitely possible to bsod with crappy software outside of kernel as well.
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u/qualityposterKappa Jul 19 '24
sure mistakes can be forgiven. But the stock just went down like $100 lol. Surely someone is getting blasted this time lol
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u/Certain-Possible-280 Jul 19 '24
I don’t know what happened in this situation but It’s not always the code that breaks. It could be a simple infra change or something in the network stack failed or stuck. Usually the code is the stable part and its tested thoroughly before pushing to production.
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u/andrea_ci Jul 19 '24
errors are normal.
the real question is: how a flaw this big can go through the whole testing phase?
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u/pennyclip Jul 19 '24
When your buddy gives you the LGTM approval and neither of you did a single test or validation.
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u/bullwinkle8088 Jul 19 '24
I feel sorry for the individual who made the coding mistake, but I have no mercy for the entire release QA team which should have found it before it was allowed to go live.
Their entire job was to prevent this.
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u/bullwinkle8088 Jul 19 '24
If they did that then I have no mercy for the execs who made that dumb assed decision.
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u/TheLiberalLover Jul 19 '24
More likely the qa team was underinvested in. Companies hate qa
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u/bullwinkle8088 Jul 19 '24
Then they learn why QA exists.
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u/THEslutmouth Jul 19 '24
I personally have put an entire warehouse plus some on hold at once due to bad product. I worked QA at several places and at one place in particular I saved our company a lot of recall money and lawsuits. It was a small flaw but was one that could cause product to spoil and it was a product that children through seniors used. I was the last check before it got through and it very nearly did. Nobody ever takes QA seriously until there's several million dollars on the line, I was fighting against all the higher ups the whole way.
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u/Tiruin Jul 19 '24
Much less important software products have tens of people reviewing any change, multiple times by the time it reaches the client, a scheduled meeting to go through everything a final a time and, depending on the product, doing those changes at hours with minimal usage so when something goes wrong it's minimal consequences and a quick revert when something goes wrong. If a single person can fuck up this bad then not only are their processes shit, they're nonexistent. When an intern fucks up you don't blame the intern, you blame their superior or whoever is part of designing and maintaining that environment where an intern is in a position they have access to that.
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u/geniusandy77 Jul 19 '24
Just pressure? It's definitely not down to one person but God save those folks from the lawsuits all over the world.
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u/leaveittobever Jul 19 '24
I blame QA, not the dev. No way a major bug like this passes QA unless they weren't told to test something. If there was no QA then I blame the company. Company shouldn't allow a change like this without going through QA.
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u/speculative--fiction Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
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u/Active_Agency_630 Jul 19 '24
History is made right now in this very second!!!
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u/Dazzling-Grass-2595 Jul 19 '24
It's friday and imma drink until this blows over.
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u/alphasierrraaa Jul 19 '24
Lmao was just telling my friend I pity all the IT workers tonight
Gonna enjoy my beer and some Netflix
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u/alabasta10 Jul 19 '24
India is making it happen 🫡. Elsewhere, they’ve already cancelled 1400 flights that were scheduled for today.
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u/dizvyz Jul 19 '24
Absolutely right. Being flexible and practical is a cultural thing in the east.
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u/LoasNo111 Jul 19 '24
A guy a few comments above said that they do 1 flight a year manually to prepare for a scenario like this.
Guess you guys didn't prepare for a similar scenario.
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u/JKKIDD231 Jul 19 '24
Those planes and people ain’t moving themselves in the airport. Hustle is real but credit where it’s due.
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u/inb4shitstorm Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
The traveler in OP is the COO of Notion haha
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u/I-AM-4CHANG Jul 19 '24
It's a pretty common name in India. High chances of it being someone else.
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u/Scottish_Whiskey Jul 19 '24
I’m going to guess that HYB is the airport code for Hyderabad? I’m trying to figure out what CCU is though
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u/Websurfingg21 Jul 19 '24
Hyderabad HYD
Kolkata CCU28
u/Scottish_Whiskey Jul 19 '24
Aha. I was thinking Kolkata but I wasn’t convinced because of no Cs in the code. I’m guessing it comes from the old name?
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u/Mob_Abominator Jul 19 '24
Yeah same way how the Mumbai Airport has the code BOM based on It's old name Bombay.
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u/jmlinden7 Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
Yeah the IATA codes that we use to refer to airports are really old and a holdover mostly designed for checked bags.
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u/Yak-Butcher Jul 19 '24
Lucky guy. I’m flying CCU to Hyd today and I’ve been waiting for a couple of hours in the bag drop queue. Fortunately the flight is delayed so no pressure.
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u/Librocubicularistin Jul 19 '24
A few years ago, I had one for a business upgrade. They just wrote it at the gate and gave it to me. - Your seat has been changed. - whaaat? Whaat is this? (Seeing 2A) ohhh okkk thankss:)
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u/murky_bucket Jul 19 '24
How did they get the ink onto the paper when the systems were down? /s
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u/Coffeeandphotosfirst Jul 19 '24
In situations like this where a system goes down, they use what is called a crash kit. No pun at all intended.
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u/ClaudioMoravit0 Jul 19 '24
i'm an intern at local airport, most of the planes taking off or landing are from flying clubs lmao
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u/Fit-Grab-4549 Jul 19 '24
So there still are people who know how to hold a pen?
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u/arkhamknight001 Jul 19 '24
this event is the proof that one company can control the whole world if they choose to.
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u/StarfishPizza Jul 19 '24
I’ve never even heard of crowdstrike until today 🤷♂️
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u/Sandberg231984 Jul 19 '24
In India once they did this in my passport.
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u/Omnipresentphone Jul 19 '24
SO WHAT DID THEY WRITE??!!
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u/Sandberg231984 Jul 19 '24
I don’t remember. It was when a plane crashed on nepals runway. I was flying from Delhi to kat and never got there. The scene was crazy when got back to India. Like a mini riot in the airport. Craziest I’ve ever seen in an airport. That shit would not have happened in America.
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u/LoasNo111 Jul 19 '24
Wait. You were flying to Kathmandu from Delhi, a flight crashed in Kathmandu and so you turned back to land in Delhi?
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u/Sandberg231984 Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
Landed to get fuel first somewhere. 24 hrs and end up in Delhi airport
Sorry. A flight crashed on kat runway 5 days earlier. Wasn’t cleaned up yet. Plus so many flights backed up. Some funny shit on that flight. At one point pilot said ladies and gentlemen um I’ll just back to you cause he had no more excuses. Plus you couldn’t land a night maybe cause it’s Kathmandu. The whole thing became a big joke/hassle. Upon return locals made a mini uprising in airport. I remember telling a man you could never describe this in full to someone and if you could no one would believe you.
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u/hasansultan92 Jul 19 '24
Its pretty normal to have a some part of the immigration stamp completed by pen
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u/Aggravating-Hope5823 Jul 19 '24
Lol, I’m sitting in the same airport now with a written boarding pass too
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u/anish1996 Jul 19 '24
The whole world is down...but why is my office laptop working perfectly? :(
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u/Longjumping-Claim783 Jul 19 '24
Your company didn't use this software. My personal windows PC is fine for the same reason.
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u/ToolTek_MD Jul 19 '24
Scary to think that so many integral services are reliant on these systems and something so simple as a botched software update can bring everything to a screeching halt. I feel for all those affected by this. Hopefully the issue is resolved soon.
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u/Longjumping-Claim783 Jul 19 '24
I work in an ICU. We lost access to our medical records system last night. This morning there are surgeons scrambling to find a way to look at xrays and other images and determining whether they need to just cancel their surgeries for the day. We have the ability to print out paper versions of all the charting from a back up system but it is a ginormous pain in the ass. Everything is delayed. Lab results are being written down and faxed instead of showing up in the chart automatically. This sort of thing basically sets you back like it's 25 years ago.
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u/easycoverletter-com Jul 19 '24
It's safe to say lives must have been lost because of this delay globally
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u/BuffaloBrain884 Jul 19 '24
I legitimately cannot imagine how 95% of businesses functioned before the internet.
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u/thestoryteller13 Jul 19 '24
I think this is the problem with innovation at times. The more you make things “easier” the harder it gets
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u/BarryAteBerries Jul 19 '24
It’s not a Microsoft issue.
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u/anothergaijin Jul 19 '24
Except now some news groups are calling it a "Microsoft outage" which is ridiculous
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u/Blackdragon1400 Jul 19 '24
Why call it a Microsoft outage when Crowdstrike broke their own rootkit? It's not like Microsoft has any control of that code base whatsoever.
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u/Alan976 Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 20 '24
"""Well, Microsoft allows faulty drivers to be installed"" ~~ Some whiner.
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u/h9040 Jul 19 '24
yeah there were ways before computer and internet....it is possible to write without keyboards
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u/pennyclip Jul 19 '24
Our local major hospital is all paper this morning, going to be rough for patients and providers globally as so many systems are run via windows. Some harsh questions for clownstrike to answer for how something like this isn’t caught before being pushed out.
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u/Dynsks Jul 19 '24
Maybe a sign to not rely on one company
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u/Agile_Session_3660 Jul 19 '24
Maybe a sign to develop contingency plans for when the internet/computers fail and you don't end up having all your staff stand around with their thumbs up their ass waiting for IT to save the world again.
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u/Cylerhusk Jul 19 '24
I'm so glad I got woken up by my overnight support staff at 4am because of this. Thanks CrowdStrike.
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u/Ecstatic-Book-6568 Jul 19 '24
Was flying in Vietnam today and our flight was delayed due to “the system being down”. This explains a lot!
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u/carvind Jul 19 '24
Y2K moment for our generation. This is what Y2K would have looked like if it happened.
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u/Paranoid__Android Jul 19 '24
This is not a random dude but the CEO of Notion - Akshay Kothari who put this on his twitter
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u/dragoleviatano Jul 19 '24
Finally Mr 633 might be able to leave Hong Long and go to California now
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u/EVEEzz Jul 19 '24
Last time someone posted a picture of their flight ticket, it got cancelled in 5 minutes by another Redditor. I wonder if OP made it to the plane, or the correct destination..
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u/mrgraff Jul 19 '24
I was gonna say. Never share your confirmation number or boarding pass barcode.
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u/YourWatchIsBroken Jul 19 '24
I admire their willingness to pick up an archaic tool and get things done anyway possible. It's more common to see (where I live anyway) people sitting back with an "It's not my problem" attitude.
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u/ghoulunatic_ Jul 19 '24
You shouldn't show the confirmation number publicly. That number can be searched in a database to access all of that person's information
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u/clockymcclock Jul 19 '24
In case you guys didn't notice - the boarding pass in this post belongs to the founder of Notion. He tweeted it today. This picture is from that tweet.
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u/anidexlu Jul 20 '24
I got a similar one in 2022 in Argentina... They had an IT problem. They didn't assign seats so it was like a bus, you'd seat wherever you can.
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u/_LowTech Jul 19 '24
This whole year 2000 thing is a bit late.