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All the principled pirates have jumped ship to lemmy so it was bound to happen sooner than later.

  • H_GG@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    I read that the (banned) member joined reddit a short time ago, I wonder how he became a mod

  • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    25·
    2 months ago

    Out of curiosity, is our megathread the same as theirs? If so, it might be time to make our own independently of theirs.

      • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        Thanks for linking the Reddit thread. I tried to do my part to spread the word. The more people talk about Lemmy on Reddit, the more people users will switch.

        • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          112·
          2 months ago

          Crowdstrike is not owned or in any way in a business relationship with Microsoft, offers the software that caused the issue for Mac and Linux as well, and in fact caused similar issues on specific Linux Distros a few months before this recent cock up.

          The issue only effected Windows OS machines that were running the Crowdstrike Falcon endpoint protection software, which runs at ring 0, kernel level. This presents the same potential for causing boot loops in all OSes due to the nature of running software that deep into the guts of things. The only caveat is that some Linux Distros have separation preventing things from running at that low level, and apparently so does Mac OS.

          The update was not pushed out through Microsoft, as many are incorrectly repeating. It was a malware definitions update which was downloaded automatically by the Falcon software itself, without any configuration options available for admins to stage and do partial rollouts for testing.

          Also, I significantly doubt that any company is going to do a complete overhaul of its IT architecture to switch over to a new OS for end user devices, when the simplest solution is to just switch to a different endpoint protection software. I’ve worked half a decade in an enterprise architecture type position, that simply isn’t how things work in this world.

    • Azzu@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      Of course getting people over from reddit is nice, but honestly the exact same thing can happen here as well. We’ll always depend on the integrity of the people with mod status.

  • Megaman_EXE@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Oh shit that’s not good. I suppose it’s bound to happen, though. Money talks.

    Could happen anywhere

  • kirbowo808@kbin.melroy.org
    104·
    2 months ago

    The fact that even happened tbh is insane tbh, but I’m so glad that people are now jumping ship tbh esp what the dumb decisions Reddit has made in the past couple of years.

  • Algernon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    I thought I wasn’t gonna give a shit about this, but it was quite enjoyable. Too bad, so sad! Looks like that guy’s discord is now well known for the wrong reasons…

  • InfiniteGlitch@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    991·
    2 months ago

    I honestly see no reason to use Reddit for its Piracy Megathread. Lemmy’s user base is much more friendly, helpful and the Megathread here is the same (if not better) organized than there.

    Not only that, I remember there was quite some problems among the mods on Reddit. So I’m not surprised something like this happened. Once there’s a slight fracture, it’ll slowly but steadily get broken into pieces entirely.

    I don’t see much decent content on both Piracy and PiratedGames subreddit anyway. Majority is memes, ‘is this safe’ and spam posts about empress.