the crowdstrike outage highlights the fact that software engineering is a slowly improving business and that the apparent gains created by closed source and shitloads of VC capital do not win honestly against open source

they only appear to be better, until the outlying factors, the long tail, shows its head - and everyone has the proof of the error of centralization and closed source and this endless parade of update patches proves to be a bad production model

meanwhile bitcoin nodes are running right now for years of uptime that were written in 2015, without being updated, built on technology and using designs that are well proven and not squeezing that long tail and inviting this kind of broad scale problem

now, where is that saturnian wannabe Dr Evil Schwab right now on the subject of the cyberpolygon?

literally we are watching what could be interpreted as a cyberattack but is probably some addled devops person who forgot to run some tests before dropping the update, who probably is going to be villified and doxxed in 3, 2, 1...