-Timestamps- [0:00] *Chapters.* [0:57] *Intro.* [1:40] *dBrand sponsored to dye Linus's hair on stream.* [2:30] *Topic #1: CrowdStrike's Falcon update takes down billions of PCs.* > 4:12 Manual fixes, BitLocked devices, affected businesses. > 12:54 CS's stocks, r/WSB said CS is "overvalued" prior to update. [14:06] *Lime Day - free shipping for ordrers over $100.* > 15:02 LTT product reviews, list of sales during the shows. [19:04] *Topic #2: Netflix drops Basic, ad-free experience tier.* > 20:05 Master Chief, Disney, grandfathering & FP example. > 27:26 Uber, FP, "inflation." [31:08] *Topic #3: FTC responds to MS's Game pass pricing & COD.* > 32:44 Survey shows 82% in-game purchases last year. > 34:54 45% would swatch ads for game rewards, Luke on LoL & RL. > 36:45 Purchases & being a sponge, P2W. [40:12] *Merch Messages #1.* > 40:22 Behind the scenes of cinemas as an LTT video. > 44:22 Thoughts on Intel factories coming over to Ohio? > 46:28 Why are GPUs so big when you can build DIY CPUs? [49:18] *Surprise deal #1: 50% off Swacket V2.* [52:42] *Topic #4: FTC closes Calmara, AI-detected STIs dating app.* [56:44] *Topic #5: dCS apologizes to Golden Sound over review copyright.* [1:01:22] *Topic #6: Scrapyard Wars is back, now with costumes!* > 1:06:58 Title numbers changes, early access on FP. > 1:09:57 70 minutes FP exclusive for Scrapyard Wars. [1:11:39] *Topic #7: Record companies sue Verizon $2.6bn over internet privacy.* [1:13:56] *Topic #8: Intel's 13th & 14th gen instability.* > 1:16:27 Chips affected, hardware issue, why Intel can't do a recall. > 1:21:08 Linus on Intel's reputation with servers. [1:22:33] *Topic #9: PlayStation Portal's sales are still strong.* > 1:23:03 Linus asks Luke on controllers, C$ & US$ sites. > 1:25:01 Portal videos, working with Sony, companies & divisions. > 1:30:59 Sony sued Sony in 2002. [1:31:43] *Topic #10: UA-cam's guidelines target firearm content.* > 1:34:05 FP V.S. YT, Vessel, past YT's crackdown on TPS. > 1:44:18 Linus thanks the community & AJ, "thank you monitors as pay." > 1:45:25 Linus calls Dan out over the bill for memorial work. > 1:48:16 Luke on a funny AJ & Yvonne story. [1:51:19] *Sponsors.* > 1:51:25 Vessi. > 1:52:17 Ridge. > 1:53:08 Ahref ft. Birthday parties & gifts. [1:55:02] *Surprise deal #2: 82% off ShortCircuit sweatpants.* [1:56:38] *Merch Messages #2 ft. Linus leaves.* > 1:56:43 How is FFVI going to Luke? > 1:57:05 How much do Luke's birbs count into his diets? > 1:58:16 What pet would Luke have? ft. Food, Linus's boobies. [2:03:06] *Topic #11: Apate, AI that wastes scam caller's time.* > 2:04:49 Linus doesn't know his favorite pad tai, restaurant story. [2:06:09] *WAN Show on a Jumbotron.* [2:06:42] *Topic #12: NVIDIA open sources GPU kernel modules.* [2:08:37] *WAN Show After Dark, dBrand sponsoring blonde dye story.* > 2:11:03 Bell betrays Linus, Yvonne laughed in tears. > 2:12:42 Luke assists, struggles with gloves. [2:16:09] *Surprise deal #3: $11 Mystery sweatpants.* > 2:17:11 Gloves & "dexterity," preparing the mixture. [2:19:20] *Merch Messages #3 ft. Merch Messages per second.* > 2:19:59 What have you grown to enjoy about one another? ft. Sus Luke. > 2:24:27 Did the Canadian military approach LTT for a collab? [2:26:08] *Bleaching Linus's hair.* [Cont.] *Merch Messages #3.* > 2:27:56 Small backpack update? ft. Luke starts. > 2:30:39 Does Linus feel his employees don't share his passion? > 2:34:29 Has Linus been playing on Ally X? [2:26:08] *Bleaching Linus's hair.* > 2:35:08 Luke puts more bleach, Linus gasps. > 2:36:28 What's the most "that was the solution?" for you? > 2:39:04 Luke starts doing the roots. > 2:40:02 Best unplanned trip? ft. Dan helps with guiding Luke. [2:41:44] *Surprise deal #4: 50% off technicolor keys desk pad.* [Cont.] *Merch Messages #3.* > 2:42:50 Advice to deal with starting a dream company with 12h/d work? > 2:44:49 Linus asks for a plastic bag, Luke complains. > 2:47:02 ADHD's benefits to Linus & others? ft. Linus leaves to wash. > 2:49:36 How do you nail a work to life balance? ft. Food arrives. > 2:53:39 How do you balance time for work & personal development? [2:55:02] *Linus is audibly upset from afar, calling Yvonne chat idea.* > 2:58:03 Luke turns video calling on, Linus reveals his hair. > 3:01:28 Chat disagrees with Linus's methods. [Cont.] *Merch Messages #3.* > 3:03:03 Linus's racket & string combo for badminton. > 3:03:34 No addressable sprinkle heads? ft. Single room HVAC. > 3:05:56 Interesting things about your SOs they didn't expect? > 3:08:38 Worst hairstyles Linus & Luke got ft. Funny merch intro. > 3:12:28 Is Linus fine with getting cards? > 3:13:37 Would Linus make a personal appearance like QuakeCon? [3:16:34] *Surprise deal #5: $10 Mystery desk pad.* [3:17:25] *Surprise deal #6: 50% off colored screwdriver.* [Cont.] *Merch Messages #3.* > 3:18:10 Most interesting tech you've tinkered with for education? > 3:20:18 Will you ever do throwback merch? > 3:20:48 What do you think the future of AMD's X3D chips are? > 3:23:17 Underrated Canadaian things that should be embraced? [3:31:12] *Surprise deal #7: $9.99 Mystery hoodies.* [Cont.] *Merch Messages #3.* > 3:33:24 What would you redo now and how would you do it different? > 3:35:39 Will the keyboard pins come back? ft. Single purchase. > 3:36:20 Would generative AI be disruptive for the film industry? > 3:40:32 Luke plays Letter Boxed. > 3:43:16 Does Linus consider the lives he's changed with his content? > 3:44:35 Linus's paint brand recommendation to someone new to it? > 3:45:13 Why don't you partner with local distributors? ft. Reddit's down. > 3:46:56 Suggestions to secure your software? > 3:48:11 Hair stylist's recommendation. > 3:49:05 Would you get an RFID tracker implanted in your hand? > 3:49:38 dBrand stunts you turned down? > 3:51:39 Why are handhelds so big? ft. "help me step-handheld." [3:52:38] *Outro ft. Dan's solution to merch messages scrolling by.* Side notes: donations are in my channel's about description. Thank you for being patient with me!
Our team spent 12 hours yesterday restoring 900 servers. They had to be booted into safe mode, corrupt file deleted, and reboot. That was the "fix" they released. Our cloud team had it even worse. It happened around 1am... so we were exhausted. Fortunately our domain controllers only required a reboot. Laptops were bricked until we restored our disk encryption environment. We had end users fixing their own laptop when possible because support couldn't help 10k+ users. Fortunately, most laptops were not online at the time
Sorry, my artificial intelligence (according to 20% of my comments) is affected by this too. I'll be doing the stamps later today after a reboot. /s /j _Gotta do some stuff since I'm quite busy today, will do them later in 6-ish hours. I appreciate you all as well, see you in 6 to 8-ish hours c:_
Suing ISPs for providing services to pirates is like suing a local authority for providing a road someone to someone who broke the speed limit. This is just an attempt to shift the blame because the media industries can't or won't secure their property, and also can't or won't make access to their products accessible enough to make piracy unnecessary.
@@ferinzz for https connections, pretty much all the ISP sees is the ip address you're connecting to. In the UK, the government passed a law making it mandatory for ISPs to log it - along with date, time, and customer info - and allow it to be searched by various government departments.
Y2K Was **NOT** FUD. It was a real issue that was fixed. It was a massive undertaking and was fixed because people were forewarned. This is an example where because thousands of very talented people worked long hours to prevent a crisis, and the crisis was prevented, people think that the warning was meaningless. But the warning is WHY nothing happened.
its the IT department paradox. If you do your job, people ask why they have an IT department. If something happens, people ask why they have an IT department.
@@KARLOSPCgame I'm expecting 2038 to be worse because comments like Linus's make people downplay how serious Y2K was and they will say that this is "another" non-issue so don't put the resources into it. I hope I'm wrong.
It was a hoax, the number of things that the date code would have actually caused issues with were so minimal no one would have even noticed if they hadn't just done a simple script to transcade the dates for systems that couldn't know anything existed after 99. It was a small technical issue that was easily solved that was blown WAY out of proportion.
@@bdhale34 so, 2 conflicting statements, y2k was not FUD and y2k was blown way out of proportion. Which one will back up their statement with evidence? Majority of google results say Y2K was real and was fixed before 2000 and that is why it looks like it was blown out of proportion. Save a life after a car accident and youre a hero. Save a life by avoiding the accident in the first place and you've done nothing.
I am a network engineer for BMW. I was working the night shift when this happened. It was crazy. It took us an hour to find a solution and another two hours to apply the fix to all the affected devices.
The fix is simple but needs to be done per host one by one in person, It really depends on how many computers your company have. If it's in the thousands then good luck to you. However if bitlocker happened to be enabled then damn!
@@haroldcruz8550 Why would a company use bitlocker? I understand your grandma buying into that malware, but a professional should never even think about it, yet install and enable.
8:00 it's worth mentioning that a lot of effort was spent on fixing Y2K issues before they occurred. According to Wikipedia, that worldwide effort cost more than $300 billion.
it's also worth mentioning that most of the hubub and the work done regarding it's fix was redundent too as most of the systems they made sure were y2k "ready" didn't have an issue when they weren't "fixed" in time in some cases. Biggest IT scam ever perpertrated imho. People STILL believe it was a real, credible threat and this ammuses me.
@@bdhale34It depends what you mean by threat. Planes falling out of the sky was always overhyped BS, but MANY systems simply would've broken if not patched. And unlike this current cloudstrike issue it wouldn't necessarily just crash the system, it could also corrupt databases, rather a big deal for institutions like banks.
@@bdhale34 It was real.. actual businesses were affected by the bug. Its people like you who are the problem who don't comprehend that in 1999 a global IT outage would had been a much bigger deal than what see that happened with crowdstrike. It would be much more difficult to recover from. Especially since many of the problems wont be OS related but instead an issue with the application its running.
Only for those that actually know what a golden shower actually is. :P More awareness these days, but still a massive minority of folks I would think. XD
@@joesatchton212 Really? Maybe to a child. It's a pretty well known term to those over 15 years of age. I am not into that in any way, shape or form, but I had adult conversations at a teenager. It prepares you for the world.
I should not write this comment to honor Linus' approach to the loss of his sister. But I want to express my condolences and say that I am always moved by how strongly you deal with this great loss... and that I think I understand. It does me good to see that you don't always have to break, as I did, in suffering. Thank you (and sorry. I had to let that out)
Woke up at 11 am to go out and run some door dash orders, but was met by my mom who had been up and attending to this Windows crash from 4 am! She works at a pretty big hospital and told me that IT had to manually restart every computer across the health system, this spans across about 3 towns
I woke up to an alert that one of the services was down. I messaged the guy on call like I got this alert take care of it and he's like. "EVERYTHING'S DOWN!"
I had to give a friend a ride to the hospital yesterday for outpatient surgery. Got up at 3 AM so I could cannonball across the county at 4 AM and get my friend to the hospital by 5-ish. When we got there, all the computers were down, and they eventually sent us home. Fortunately my friend's condition is not life-threatening, but I burned a vacation day and I'll need to burn another one now when he gets rescheduled. >:(
@@boxhead6177 you obviously don't remember McAfee 2010 update that flagged windows as malware and deleted files from system32, totally bricked machines worldwide
no he got it wrong like everyone else because there was so little to go on and it was very confusing. CrowdStrike have now released a detailed breakdownof what caused it and it had nothing to do with all zeros channel files as everyone assumed.
Watching TV news hosts say "Blue Screen Of Death" in a way tells nerd viewers that the TV hosts had only just heard the phrase when reading the teleprompter 2 minutes before,.... and the confusion on their faces when guests said "Be S Oh Dee" casually.
I highly doubt they were unaware of BSOD just because they used mac os or linux. News hosts aren't reporters, they're basically actors on a live show, tied usually to real world events.
I wonder how anybody born before windows 8 could not know about a BSOD. They used to be "abnormally" common on any windows before Win 8. People in office jobs have been using computers daily since the start of the 1990s. People have been gaming on windows since the 1990s.
just watched as video from a few years or so ago of trump talking to a news channel about crowdstrike being sold and owned by Ukraine which is just wild.
@@nathancriswell9289 Got a link at all? Going by the public data on the company and it's founders, it's totally US founded and majority owned, plus what stock is traded, and has been one of the independent corporate entities that investigated various US government hacks, so I wouldn't put it past any political entity to throw shade at enyone looking in to potentially illegal actions.
24:30 Yeah, that's how that works in the EU. You cannot increase the price of a subscription while people are on it (even a monthly recurring one). You know how they circumvent that? You have to "agree" to the new price, otherwise they'll cancel the subscription outright. So you either "voluntarily agreed" to the price hike (often with "if you use our service by day X, you agree to the new price", or you are cancelled. Happened to me a few times with Netflix and UA-cam. So rest assured that companies WILL find a way around any legislation in that direction.
As a 65 year old technophile and having owned a business you and Luke make fridays a highlight and the crew is awesome all week. Thank you for being you with your values.
3:35:11 Luke mentioned it, but personally the reason I couldn't buy any more "profitable" items is because while I was window shopping for something else, the thing in my cart suddenly disappeared because it was out of stock and I couldn't buy what I wanted. So for the next deal, I just put what I wanted in the cart, finished my purchases, and didn't bother to look for anything else. I'm sure other people ran into the same issue. I'm not sure how difficult it would be, but it would be nice if there was some sort of reservation system. For example, if there is a lightning deal, maybe you could confirm the purchase for that deal, but let people continue to buy items throughout the day and only finalize and bill the final order at the end of the day or if the person confirms that they are done shopping for the day. It would also help with shipping cost so we don't have to spend money on shipping with each order and have more money for actual merch.
In the words of Scotty: "The more they overtake the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain". Basically, the more and more we depend on internet, computers and certain software, the easier it is to shut down the world. That includes vital services, such as water, sewer, travel, power and emergency services. The bad side of centralized control of everything.
Linus, you missed something. The full articles that talk about Netflix point out that signups are down in quarter 2 because of password sharing stuff. They got an initial boost, but it's not sustainable, since there are only so many people who were willing to buy in. Netflix has made it clear they need continual growth in subscribers. These sorts of tactics are band-aids at best.
Cancelled my subscription because I travel for work and am never home. My home is multiple hotel rooms a week. They made no provision for someone like myself. Tying my subscription of a streaming service to a physical location is BS.
i think the model is fundamentally unsustainable. At first the beginning they had infinite VC money but now they seem desperate to maximise their user count and to milk every last drop.
Except that this is pure conjecture on the authors of the articles. How would this be a result of password sharing? The password sharing is a one-time crackdown and boost in subscribers for Netflix. That's all it is and can be. I can't see how it could effect things quarters down the line.
@@TopCheeseBarDown In theory, it should also mean a higher rate of signups. You would no longer have 2+ households signing up for only one account. All else being the same, they'd have more signups than they did before this password crackdown.
11:54 Linus - "We'd be ducks... Ducks that are sitting!... That's the word for it right?" Luke - "Sitting ducks? Yeah." Linus - "No no, ducks that are sitting. Nobody says it that weird way you said it." 😂😂🤣🤣
I saw people's smart home appliances blue screened... which was pretty funny Edit: thinking twice now, I went back and checked. two were deleted and the one left is a Samsung that runs on Android, the pics were shopped. my bad lol
Not sure how large of an pact it has but as a US truck driver I know a ton of trucks were just sitting, because dispatchers, payment systems and shipper/receiver PO processing was down. This outage didn't last that long but financially it cost a lot
I live in the UK and was told earlier this evening that emergency medical transport is still hugely delayed (talking hours for an ambulance) because of the crowdstrike bug and it's taken them the past 3 days to get things even slightly running again... 😅
the "what have you grown to enjoy about each other" segment at 2:20:20 is both the most wholesome thing I've seen in recent times and also absolutely hilarious.
@25:00 Thats how it works here in the EU or at least germany. You can't simply increase a subscription price and automatically keep charging, you either need to cancel the subscription and make the person sign a new deal with the updated prices.
Was up all night recovering an enterprise including multiple divisions, prioritized by tier (0, 1, 2, etc.), bitlocker included. Another one to add to the crazy tech life story list.
@@StephenOwen I'm sure my story isn't special amongst all the techs who served in this incident. A lot of good folks out there who should get the glory! A call in the middle of the night. All hands on deck. Break out the bitlocker vault. Recover your own system and then start down the tier list 0, 1, 2, etc recovering equipment and servers. Start with core infrastructure, then work on the most important divisions, on up the tier list. I have 2 divisions that I'm responsible for. It took about 10 hours.
Sorta. The issue was a file in the "System32\Drivers" folder. Systems behaved exactly the way they would with any driver issue at boot up. Our organization will be demanding to know how this change was QA'd before release.
I work for a trucking company with trailer tracking, every single trailer stopped reporting positioning, and our sites for checking truck locations and driver hours went down. We were basically blind for a full day
Auto updates are fine... With precautions. Just like how you should always have automated testing, manual testing, and staged rollouts, you should have precautions and easy rollback on any auto-updating software. The problem is that that's not really the case for most software. I'd imagine that if Windows by default is an image-based OS a la Fedora Atomic this wouldn't be a problem because you just... boot the previous images. I have had issues building my system image on GitHub CI, but all that happens was that the update wasn't delivered to my device, then I fixed it a week later once I have time. At worst, I've messed my panel setup due to KDE upgrade, but then I just edit my image builder and pin to the previous version, until I was ready to move two months later. We've solved this issue, people just haven't used the solution because people are dumb.
This is a Security Software for enterprises though. They need to be UP TO DATE all the time because they need to withstand new attacks and enterprise will get these new attacks first every time (because they can be very lucrative) So in this case I really can't support all the "don't update" stuff I have been reading
1:17:40 "It's been a decent assumption that your CPU is really not like the problem for a long time" Yeah, I also assumed that when I built a PC with a Ryzen 5 3600 in 2020. That computer had instability problems since the very start, but it was extremely hard to reproduce the crashes. After a few months I had RMA'd my motherboard. And later replaced it with a better chipset mobo, went from A320 to B550. There were however still sporadic crashes. After upgrading the CPU, all issues went away!! But this unfortunately was just a few months after warranty was expired #sad
as much as I hate microtransactions, there are companies that do it right. When I played Path of Exile, I had absolutely no problem giving some money to the developers for small things. You can play the game for free entirely, and for like 20€ you can have basically everything you need to play it hardcore. And it's constantly updated. That's perfectly fine and it's a model of game business I have absolutely no problem supporting.
For future reference, when dying hair to get it evenly applied my trick is to comb it. You also get "free dye" back to re-use in other areas when combing.
Crowdstrike . . . I spent my entire Friday remediating PCs with that issue. For the sake of the company I work for, it was definitely a plus that they had their own IT to deploy for this.
For basically ever I have been shocked that platforms such as UA-cam or Twitch didn't go after sponsorships. That seems like such low hanging capitalist fruit you'd think they have some system in place where creators need to hand over 30%+ of any sponsor they take. UA-cam is an monopoly anyways so it won't matter what its viewers think and for Twitch it might actually make the platform somewhat profitable.
True. We were so afraid our computer and critical infrastructure would be bricked we did everything to prevent it from happening. 24 years later. We are more reliant on computers than ever... but we are even dumber that we completely trust and accept auto-updates that brick computer networks instantly. This was not the first, or last. We should be afraid this will happen, and do more to protect our networks.
Sure, but your 1990s washing machine was never going to shake itself to bits because it thought it was 1900. Also, just because it displays the date as dd/mm/yy or mm/dd/yy, doesn't mean it stores it that way internally. Some computers were quite happily displaying the date as 1/1/100.
What a time to be alive. TWO companies called DCS, suing content creators for unfavourable reviews. (the other is Deep Cycle Systems, about their batteries, suing an Aus offroading channel)
im still waiting for the early unix time overflow bug to kick in but i guess that was patched by now? The Year 2038 problem is because C programming utilizes a 4-byte integer to store time data, which will overflow on January 19, 2038. so y2k 2.0 lol
It is oh so much more than a Unix time overflow bug now. Unix might have been the first to count time with a 32 bit integer and an epoch of 1st Jan 1970, but it is now absolutely pervasive in IT systems.
You can easily test this by changing time on your computer. I remember one of the libraries I was using had problems when I was working on a project for a museum. A lot of tools don't like to hold dates before epoch, and some don't like dates BC even more.
Or be lucky like us where all our servers did a full root drive backup 30mins before the update dropped, we just restored the backup relaunched and everything was back with in the hour of crowdstrike saying the had a fix in place
me and 109 students being evacuated from Bangladesh after the horrible conditions were stuck in border because verifying was offline. we crossed border in about 24 hous 20x longer the\an normal. then we got stuck in the airport in India. thousands of students from multiple countries evacuated silently via ambulances through dhaka Airport were stuck due to flight cancellation. it was he'll and I'll remember it forever. I can't contact my local friends that are still stuck there.
I used to work in commercial automation support, this was a real nightmare. I'm sorry for my friends who had to deal with clients screaming to their faces about something they can do nothing about.
90% of Adelaide's fuel stations went down because of it, had to drive around about 10 different ones to find one running obviously a different system. Not fun
@8:35 - Siemens MRI scanners are operated by a Windows computer. Medical imaging equipment vendors typically recommend/require that 3rd party software NOT be installed on the computer that operates the device, but many institutions ignore this and force security software on devices in order for them to be connected to the Internet. So it is not at all surprising that at least some of those scanner computers had CrowdStrike installed on them...
hi! About the netflix thing ( 20:15 ), at least in Spain there’re some telecom companies that bundle their fibre + mobile options with the cheapest ad option, so if it’s also happening in other countries, it may be the reason of the growth.
I live in a house with one TV. The portal allows me to game when someone else wants to watch something on Netflix or whatever. It was a great buy for us.
This also shows again the power of the media, so many people blame Microsoft for a blunder that Crowdstrike did. Most people don't even know what Crowdstrike is and are just pointing fingers at Microsoft.
Spanish national tv has a UA-cam video with a title and miniature that implies that it was Microsoft’s fault. I don’t even know how they could mess that up, every other article I’ve read from my sources clearly mentions Crowdstrike lol. But yeah, professionals are sometimes more amateur (or intentionally bad) that we might think.
It's clearly a Falcon issue that Microsoft aren't responsible for, but I do have to wonder a little if there shouldn't be more resilience built in to the operating system to realise that a particular file being loaded and bootlooping the system, should maybe be quarantined and have admin access to some recovery interface where could roll out changes to multiple machines. Somewhat similar to how enterprise update / patch management stuff works, when things are actually working.
@@benwu7980this kind of measures that bypass corrupt drivers should never be automatic, especially in this case, this is a security software and in no way should windows decide to bypass it just because it's causing a reboot loop. At the end of the day, it's Crowdstrike's responsibility to not make a system breaking update.
@@nadirqg Not 'bypass' , but have a mode to go into after repeated bsods that the admins could push a change/ revert. Something like safe mode, but only with lan networking, from the trusted server. WSUS is already a thing for those orgs, as should be testing of an update, but obviously needs the computers to be on, and this wasn't exactly an update rather than a channel push. Most companies don't test those definitions before push.
On Cloudstrike's slip up being representative of a state action, I guess this shows you don't need to hit multiples, an actor could "just" corrupt an update for a widely deployed system?
This is exactly what happened with the xz exploit. The malicious actor planted a security vulnerability in a library that is used in very popular Linux distros, and they would’ve had remote execution if some Microsoft employee doesn’t find the vulnerability by chance. It was stopped before anything bad happened.
My dad died of cancer on Christmas day 2021, the Christmas e-card he'd pre-scheduled months before (with message assuming he'd already be dead) came through that evening. Treasure those cards.
I SWEAR if Linus doesn't start next weeks WAN Show wearing a bald cap and claiming his hair fell out due to Lukes terrible technique, I'm going to be disappointed.
So happy scrapyard wars is back, Just like junkyard wars on tv back a few years and monster garage. I am a gearhead and a geek so of course i wanted scrapyard wars to finally come back.
luke: dream to have a dog, and have a backyard for his dog. linus: literal millionaire not paying his best friend enough money to own more than an apartment
Outsourcing IT is dangerous. Our media treating CrowdStrike as the good guys in this is terrifying. People reading the headlines and walking away blaming Microsoft is just sad. This whole event really exposes how blindly ignorant common folks are to how things around them operate.
The lan community is alive and well in Edmonton, Alberta. Fragapalooza is still going almost 30 years strong and MegaFPS does several small lan events through the year.
This shows how valuable having different code bases on your network is. My suggestions have Linux on at least 20% of your machines, maybe BSD on a one or two. I personally have mostly Debian, but I also have Manjaro, and FreeBSD on my network. I also don't understand why any specialised machinery is managed by Windows systems.
A Raspberry Pi 4 with email and other logins, left on a shelf and ready to plug in, is looking like a good idea. Same goes with a desktop enabling dongle for an Android phone. Businesses should definitiely be limiting what percentage of their hardware runs on any single OS. Specialised hardware, especially that which controls hardware like CNC mills or A/C systems, should be locked down and offline, updates via USB.
Same for MRI machines.. I don't understand why so much of companies critical infrastructure/systems are networked at all. How often are MRI machines used remotely? Need to get the imaging off, removable drives are a thing, same for updates. Not perfect by any means on it's own but at least they would be much more resiliant to network attacks, 0 day bugs or such. How these companies let a service provider for such critical services not go throught their change management is also baffling. Or that the provider (name escapes me atm) could have any possibility of pushing an update that hasn't been extremely well tested and verified through multiple test environment releases before it has ANY possibility of being pushed live. I wouldn't rule out espionage yet either.. Looks whats being going on in Germany and such with spying and sabotage.
I guess you never worked in IT. If 20% of your machines run linux I can guarantee you that your company is still 99.99% out. Systems work with each other you know… But of course now all the linux homelab neckbeards come crawling out from their holes.
At my workplace we have Linux, Mac, Windows. However, authentication is done via Active Directory (Windows Server), so even those of us who could login to our laptops still couldn’t even access the VPN or anything else really.
I just realized that bit locker does nothing. It doesn't matter what you encrypt. They just need to take the file for themselves, isolate and decrypt it later. Like Google's incognito, bit locker provides faulty security.
I don't really agree. All encryption can be broken given enough time (perhaps except for a one time pad), but if it takes something like 1 million years then it's safe. Also BitLocker to my understanding is there to prevent physical theft from leaking your data. If your system is running then the files can be exfiltrated in their unencrypted form by just having malware on the system. It definitely adds security, but it's a specific kind of security.
@@HedgehogY2K In this case, absolutely. There are use cases where it's warranted, but you also need to make sure you won't get locked out. Otherwise you can end up with a disaster. Also regarding the TPM backed Bitlocker, there is a video on UA-cam when an engineer figures out how to completely bypass that protection by sniffing on the connections between the CPU and the TPM, allowing him to just get the Bitlocker key. It was a device specific hack, but the point is, it's not as foolproof as MS wants you to think. If memory serves, the engineer could get the key in about a minute.
@@the-answer-is-42 Holy crap this conversation reminded me that I need to turn off the TPM on my new laptop. It was so far in the back of my mind that I forgot my old procedures on what I would do with Windows 10 installations. Thanks for inadvertently reminding me.
That was hilarious on mixing the hair dye and Linus moving over for framing of shot. that's a good friend. I was laughing a little loud for being so late at night.
The only good thing about Microsoft forcing online account logins on windows 11 is that the Bit Locker key for that PC/laptop is stored online, and you can see it by logging into your Microsoft account. Don't get me wrong, i have it stored elsewhere too, but that's the easiest way to see it on the odd occasion when my laptop randomly asks for it.
Most companies no longer has an in house IT. Most now relies on 3rd party IT services. If I was one of the IT yesterday you can bet I will take my time, why do I have to stress myself over something that I have zero something to do with it.
So i work at a prison, whole camera system, docs, movement logs all went down for 12+ hours….put the whole prison on lock down (thankfully it went down on overnights when none of the IP’s were out) So that was fun, we had a bbq too 🍖 it was a good night
Not only Systems using Crowdstrike where affected. But systems that are reliant on such aswell. For example One of the Microsoft systems that where down was Azure so all system that used azure or entra domains where down aswell.
Would be cool if SOCs had internal RAM, but had the ability to read from upgradable memory slots on the board. These slots would be a lower priority memory space, and the memory in the SOC would be higher priority. Perhaps applications that don't need to run as fast could use the slower memory cards.
Smartphone health powered by AI is going to be huge in the next few years and will likely make a real impact. If the D-pick one didn't lie about what it could detect then I wouldn't even have a problem with it. Such tools can be genuinely be useful for those that do not have access to or cannot afford healthcare or in the case of D's it might also just be discomfort of going to the doctor for it.
I like the new haircolor of Linus, due it fitting the LTT logo even more. ^^ Thanks LLD for another awesome and fun bringing WAN-show! Absolutely love that we can see slowly all merch-massages now!
-Timestamps-
[0:00] *Chapters.*
[0:57] *Intro.*
[1:40] *dBrand sponsored to dye Linus's hair on stream.*
[2:30] *Topic #1: CrowdStrike's Falcon update takes down billions of PCs.*
> 4:12 Manual fixes, BitLocked devices, affected businesses.
> 12:54 CS's stocks, r/WSB said CS is "overvalued" prior to update.
[14:06] *Lime Day - free shipping for ordrers over $100.*
> 15:02 LTT product reviews, list of sales during the shows.
[19:04] *Topic #2: Netflix drops Basic, ad-free experience tier.*
> 20:05 Master Chief, Disney, grandfathering & FP example.
> 27:26 Uber, FP, "inflation."
[31:08] *Topic #3: FTC responds to MS's Game pass pricing & COD.*
> 32:44 Survey shows 82% in-game purchases last year.
> 34:54 45% would swatch ads for game rewards, Luke on LoL & RL.
> 36:45 Purchases & being a sponge, P2W.
[40:12] *Merch Messages #1.*
> 40:22 Behind the scenes of cinemas as an LTT video.
> 44:22 Thoughts on Intel factories coming over to Ohio?
> 46:28 Why are GPUs so big when you can build DIY CPUs?
[49:18] *Surprise deal #1: 50% off Swacket V2.*
[52:42] *Topic #4: FTC closes Calmara, AI-detected STIs dating app.*
[56:44] *Topic #5: dCS apologizes to Golden Sound over review copyright.*
[1:01:22] *Topic #6: Scrapyard Wars is back, now with costumes!*
> 1:06:58 Title numbers changes, early access on FP.
> 1:09:57 70 minutes FP exclusive for Scrapyard Wars.
[1:11:39] *Topic #7: Record companies sue Verizon $2.6bn over internet privacy.*
[1:13:56] *Topic #8: Intel's 13th & 14th gen instability.*
> 1:16:27 Chips affected, hardware issue, why Intel can't do a recall.
> 1:21:08 Linus on Intel's reputation with servers.
[1:22:33] *Topic #9: PlayStation Portal's sales are still strong.*
> 1:23:03 Linus asks Luke on controllers, C$ & US$ sites.
> 1:25:01 Portal videos, working with Sony, companies & divisions.
> 1:30:59 Sony sued Sony in 2002.
[1:31:43] *Topic #10: UA-cam's guidelines target firearm content.*
> 1:34:05 FP V.S. YT, Vessel, past YT's crackdown on TPS.
> 1:44:18 Linus thanks the community & AJ, "thank you monitors as pay."
> 1:45:25 Linus calls Dan out over the bill for memorial work.
> 1:48:16 Luke on a funny AJ & Yvonne story.
[1:51:19] *Sponsors.*
> 1:51:25 Vessi.
> 1:52:17 Ridge.
> 1:53:08 Ahref ft. Birthday parties & gifts.
[1:55:02] *Surprise deal #2: 82% off ShortCircuit sweatpants.*
[1:56:38] *Merch Messages #2 ft. Linus leaves.*
> 1:56:43 How is FFVI going to Luke?
> 1:57:05 How much do Luke's birbs count into his diets?
> 1:58:16 What pet would Luke have? ft. Food, Linus's boobies.
[2:03:06] *Topic #11: Apate, AI that wastes scam caller's time.*
> 2:04:49 Linus doesn't know his favorite pad tai, restaurant story.
[2:06:09] *WAN Show on a Jumbotron.*
[2:06:42] *Topic #12: NVIDIA open sources GPU kernel modules.*
[2:08:37] *WAN Show After Dark, dBrand sponsoring blonde dye story.*
> 2:11:03 Bell betrays Linus, Yvonne laughed in tears.
> 2:12:42 Luke assists, struggles with gloves.
[2:16:09] *Surprise deal #3: $11 Mystery sweatpants.*
> 2:17:11 Gloves & "dexterity," preparing the mixture.
[2:19:20] *Merch Messages #3 ft. Merch Messages per second.*
> 2:19:59 What have you grown to enjoy about one another? ft. Sus Luke.
> 2:24:27 Did the Canadian military approach LTT for a collab?
[2:26:08] *Bleaching Linus's hair.*
[Cont.] *Merch Messages #3.*
> 2:27:56 Small backpack update? ft. Luke starts.
> 2:30:39 Does Linus feel his employees don't share his passion?
> 2:34:29 Has Linus been playing on Ally X?
[2:26:08] *Bleaching Linus's hair.*
> 2:35:08 Luke puts more bleach, Linus gasps.
> 2:36:28 What's the most "that was the solution?" for you?
> 2:39:04 Luke starts doing the roots.
> 2:40:02 Best unplanned trip? ft. Dan helps with guiding Luke.
[2:41:44] *Surprise deal #4: 50% off technicolor keys desk pad.*
[Cont.] *Merch Messages #3.*
> 2:42:50 Advice to deal with starting a dream company with 12h/d work?
> 2:44:49 Linus asks for a plastic bag, Luke complains.
> 2:47:02 ADHD's benefits to Linus & others? ft. Linus leaves to wash.
> 2:49:36 How do you nail a work to life balance? ft. Food arrives.
> 2:53:39 How do you balance time for work & personal development?
[2:55:02] *Linus is audibly upset from afar, calling Yvonne chat idea.*
> 2:58:03 Luke turns video calling on, Linus reveals his hair.
> 3:01:28 Chat disagrees with Linus's methods.
[Cont.] *Merch Messages #3.*
> 3:03:03 Linus's racket & string combo for badminton.
> 3:03:34 No addressable sprinkle heads? ft. Single room HVAC.
> 3:05:56 Interesting things about your SOs they didn't expect?
> 3:08:38 Worst hairstyles Linus & Luke got ft. Funny merch intro.
> 3:12:28 Is Linus fine with getting cards?
> 3:13:37 Would Linus make a personal appearance like QuakeCon?
[3:16:34] *Surprise deal #5: $10 Mystery desk pad.*
[3:17:25] *Surprise deal #6: 50% off colored screwdriver.*
[Cont.] *Merch Messages #3.*
> 3:18:10 Most interesting tech you've tinkered with for education?
> 3:20:18 Will you ever do throwback merch?
> 3:20:48 What do you think the future of AMD's X3D chips are?
> 3:23:17 Underrated Canadaian things that should be embraced?
[3:31:12] *Surprise deal #7: $9.99 Mystery hoodies.*
[Cont.] *Merch Messages #3.*
> 3:33:24 What would you redo now and how would you do it different?
> 3:35:39 Will the keyboard pins come back? ft. Single purchase.
> 3:36:20 Would generative AI be disruptive for the film industry?
> 3:40:32 Luke plays Letter Boxed.
> 3:43:16 Does Linus consider the lives he's changed with his content?
> 3:44:35 Linus's paint brand recommendation to someone new to it?
> 3:45:13 Why don't you partner with local distributors? ft. Reddit's down.
> 3:46:56 Suggestions to secure your software?
> 3:48:11 Hair stylist's recommendation.
> 3:49:05 Would you get an RFID tracker implanted in your hand?
> 3:49:38 dBrand stunts you turned down?
> 3:51:39 Why are handhelds so big? ft. "help me step-handheld."
[3:52:38] *Outro ft. Dan's solution to merch messages scrolling by.*
Side notes: donations are in my channel's about description. Thank you for being patient with me!
thanks mate
Time to watch the wan show
You absolute legend! Thanks.
you were late, you ok bro.
everything great at home?
do tell, we take care of or mates.
How long until they just put you on staff at this point.
Our team spent 12 hours yesterday restoring 900 servers. They had to be booted into safe mode, corrupt file deleted, and reboot. That was the "fix" they released. Our cloud team had it even worse. It happened around 1am... so we were exhausted. Fortunately our domain controllers only required a reboot. Laptops were bricked until we restored our disk encryption environment. We had end users fixing their own laptop when possible because support couldn't help 10k+ users. Fortunately, most laptops were not online at the time
Thank you for your service. It is so often the unsung heroes of the organization. - LS
I bet you guys enjoyed it at the end
@@fefohood no 😂
why are you running windows servers!?!?
Never run mission critical server on windows.
Hello to NoKi1119 in advance, we love you man ❤
Big man NoKi1119
huh
Hopefully he didn't get effected
Sorry, my artificial intelligence (according to 20% of my comments) is affected by this too. I'll be doing the stamps later today after a reboot. /s /j
_Gotta do some stuff since I'm quite busy today, will do them later in 6-ish hours. I appreciate you all as well, see you in 6 to 8-ish hours c:_
@@NoKi1119 you're doing the work of the gods
I was in the Military for Y2K and we were on official Stand By, no drinking. Nothing Happened worst new years ever.
"nothing happened" due to billions being put into remediations
@@ohead that’s true but the fact is nothing happened.
I think the exchange between Linus and Dan about Dan's contract work might be the most Canadian thing I've ever seen.
rough timestamp?
edit: 1:45:40 ?
Suing ISPs for providing services to pirates is like suing a local authority for providing a road someone to someone who broke the speed limit.
This is just an attempt to shift the blame because the media industries can't or won't secure their property, and also can't or won't make access to their products accessible enough to make piracy unnecessary.
decentralization is the answer - start supporting decentralist developers and tech companies
Would be interesting if the solution is for isp to just encrypt everything and save no data.
Can't know if there's piracy of you can't see the piracy.
@@ferinzzthe us government would never allow that
@@ferinzz my company is doing that
@@ferinzz for https connections, pretty much all the ISP sees is the ip address you're connecting to.
In the UK, the government passed a law making it mandatory for ISPs to log it - along with date, time, and customer info - and allow it to be searched by various government departments.
My sister took a ferry out of Vancouver last night and got a ticket written in pink glitter pen.
Pink glitter pens huh... For a brief period of time the world showed signs of healing
That’s an upgrade
For a minute I pictured a cop writing out a ticket in sparkly glitter pen before realising that I'm dumb and it was a ferry ticket 😅
@@skootz24 weed is a hell of a drug lol Me too man
@@tanner6543REAL😂
Y2K Was **NOT** FUD. It was a real issue that was fixed. It was a massive undertaking and was fixed because people were forewarned. This is an example where because thousands of very talented people worked long hours to prevent a crisis, and the crisis was prevented, people think that the warning was meaningless. But the warning is WHY nothing happened.
its the IT department paradox. If you do your job, people ask why they have an IT department. If something happens, people ask why they have an IT department.
Now waiting for 2038
@@KARLOSPCgame I'm expecting 2038 to be worse because comments like Linus's make people downplay how serious Y2K was and they will say that this is "another" non-issue so don't put the resources into it.
I hope I'm wrong.
It was a hoax, the number of things that the date code would have actually caused issues with were so minimal no one would have even noticed if they hadn't just done a simple script to transcade the dates for systems that couldn't know anything existed after 99. It was a small technical issue that was easily solved that was blown WAY out of proportion.
@@bdhale34 so, 2 conflicting statements, y2k was not FUD and y2k was blown way out of proportion.
Which one will back up their statement with evidence?
Majority of google results say Y2K was real and was fixed before 2000 and that is why it looks like it was blown out of proportion.
Save a life after a car accident and youre a hero. Save a life by avoiding the accident in the first place and you've done nothing.
I am a network engineer for BMW. I was working the night shift when this happened. It was crazy. It took us an hour to find a solution and another two hours to apply the fix to all the affected devices.
3 hours ain't bad imo, painful sure, but by the time I clocked out the IT team at my company still had hundreds of computers to fix
The fix is simple but needs to be done per host one by one in person, It really depends on how many computers your company have. If it's in the thousands then good luck to you. However if bitlocker happened to be enabled then damn!
Now deploy a fix for BMW turn signals
@@meanmarine24 😂
@@haroldcruz8550 Why would a company use bitlocker?
I understand your grandma buying into that malware, but a professional should never even think about it, yet install and enable.
8:00 it's worth mentioning that a lot of effort was spent on fixing Y2K issues before they occurred.
According to Wikipedia, that worldwide effort cost more than $300 billion.
it's also worth mentioning that most of the hubub and the work done regarding it's fix was redundent too as most of the systems they made sure were y2k "ready" didn't have an issue when they weren't "fixed" in time in some cases. Biggest IT scam ever perpertrated imho. People STILL believe it was a real, credible threat and this ammuses me.
@@bdhale34It depends what you mean by threat. Planes falling out of the sky was always overhyped BS, but MANY systems simply would've broken if not patched. And unlike this current cloudstrike issue it wouldn't necessarily just crash the system, it could also corrupt databases, rather a big deal for institutions like banks.
@@bdhale34 It was real.. actual businesses were affected by the bug. Its people like you who are the problem who don't comprehend that in 1999 a global IT outage would had been a much bigger deal than what see that happened with crowdstrike. It would be much more difficult to recover from. Especially since many of the problems wont be OS related but instead an issue with the application its running.
62 seconds into WAN Show and Linus is talking about golden showers... This is gonna be an interesting episode isn't it?.
Nah he missed the mark. Should've been 69 secs
Only for those that actually know what a golden shower actually is. :P More awareness these days, but still a massive minority of folks I would think. XD
@@joesatchton212I mean... Look at dudes pfp. He gets off on animals. I'm not surprised he knows what a golden shower is.
@@joesatchton212 Really? Maybe to a child. It's a pretty well known term to those over 15 years of age.
I am not into that in any way, shape or form, but I had adult conversations at a teenager. It prepares you for the world.
@@НААТ Obviously you do though. This is not an obscure thing.
New cereal for LTT? Boot loops! Blueberry flavored rings!
Linus looks like every comic or anime, "I just got fire powers and don't know what I'm doing"
The back looks like a scortched crater
I should not write this comment to honor Linus' approach to the loss of his sister. But I want to express my condolences and say that I am always moved by how strongly you deal with this great loss... and that I think I understand. It does me good to see that you don't always have to break, as I did, in suffering. Thank you (and sorry. I had to let that out)
❤
Yayay we are slowly getting back to ultra long WAN show
Just FYI, the latest League of Legends special skin, was EXCLUSIVE to a $750 CAD bundle. Yes. $750 CAD.
And to get everything you had to complete the battle pass
I honestly don't care at all, so long as it has no effect on game play.
Talking about employees not being as motivated as boss:
This is what i told my boss: "You work on your dream - we also work on yours."
Luke: "I'm not a subscriber, I don't subscribe to any of the platforms"
Also Luke: Literally runs a subscription company.
Oof
Some people give it, some people take it...
Seems it was the theme for this episode.
Gambling company owners don't gamble
Woke up at 11 am to go out and run some door dash orders, but was met by my mom who had been up and attending to this Windows crash from 4 am! She works at a pretty big hospital and told me that IT had to manually restart every computer across the health system, this spans across about 3 towns
I hope they did all the removing manually and not with a usb stick. That would be a good way to get malware around without knowing it :(
Started at 6am local. Was on call bridge at 7, went on for 16hrs before we got back to 80% healthy
@@Damicske haha.. Clearly you've never seen hospital computers. I'm willing to bet they still have CDs and bioses that boot from them
I woke up to an alert that one of the services was down. I messaged the guy on call like I got this alert take care of it and he's like. "EVERYTHING'S DOWN!"
IT ISNT MICROSOFT
I had to give a friend a ride to the hospital yesterday for outpatient surgery. Got up at 3 AM so I could cannonball across the county at 4 AM and get my friend to the hospital by 5-ish. When we got there, all the computers were down, and they eventually sent us home. Fortunately my friend's condition is not life-threatening, but I burned a vacation day and I'll need to burn another one now when he gets rescheduled. >:(
You are a good friend.
Norton sitting back like "Phew... At least it wasn't us...."
McAfee "It wasn't us either... we wish our former employee the best of luck digging himself out of this hole"
@@boxhead6177 you obviously don't remember McAfee 2010 update that flagged windows as malware and deleted files from system32, totally bricked machines worldwide
Norton running in the background**
Imagine how much Microsoft programmers were relieved
It wouldn't have been a big deal if it were norton, no good IT team would dare use that.
Dave's Garage is one guy that can really make you understand what happened with Crowd Strike
As he did. Dave is very straightforward.
The same thing that always seems to happen, security measures having an issue unrelated to actually providing security that breaks everything, again.
no he got it wrong like everyone else because there was so little to go on and it was very confusing. CrowdStrike have now released a detailed breakdownof what caused it and it had nothing to do with all zeros channel files as everyone assumed.
Watching TV news hosts say "Blue Screen Of Death" in a way tells nerd viewers that the TV hosts had only just heard the phrase when reading the teleprompter 2 minutes before,.... and the confusion on their faces when guests said "Be S Oh Dee" casually.
I highly doubt they were unaware of BSOD just because they used mac os or linux. News hosts aren't reporters, they're basically actors on a live show, tied usually to real world events.
I wonder how anybody born before windows 8 could not know about a BSOD. They used to be "abnormally" common on any windows before Win 8. People in office jobs have been using computers daily since the start of the 1990s. People have been gaming on windows since the 1990s.
You blokes are giving the talking heads waaaay to much expectation of intelligence. Goldfish have longer memories then news hosts.
just watched as video from a few years or so ago of trump talking to a news channel about crowdstrike being sold and owned by Ukraine which is just wild.
@@nathancriswell9289 Got a link at all? Going by the public data on the company and it's founders, it's totally US founded and majority owned, plus what stock is traded, and has been one of the independent corporate entities that investigated various US government hacks, so I wouldn't put it past any political entity to throw shade at enyone looking in to potentially illegal actions.
24:30 Yeah, that's how that works in the EU. You cannot increase the price of a subscription while people are on it (even a monthly recurring one). You know how they circumvent that? You have to "agree" to the new price, otherwise they'll cancel the subscription outright. So you either "voluntarily agreed" to the price hike (often with "if you use our service by day X, you agree to the new price", or you are cancelled. Happened to me a few times with Netflix and UA-cam.
So rest assured that companies WILL find a way around any legislation in that direction.
As a 65 year old technophile and having owned a business you and Luke make fridays a highlight and the crew is awesome all week. Thank you for being you with your values.
3:35:11 Luke mentioned it, but personally the reason I couldn't buy any more "profitable" items is because while I was window shopping for something else, the thing in my cart suddenly disappeared because it was out of stock and I couldn't buy what I wanted. So for the next deal, I just put what I wanted in the cart, finished my purchases, and didn't bother to look for anything else. I'm sure other people ran into the same issue.
I'm not sure how difficult it would be, but it would be nice if there was some sort of reservation system. For example, if there is a lightning deal, maybe you could confirm the purchase for that deal, but let people continue to buy items throughout the day and only finalize and bill the final order at the end of the day or if the person confirms that they are done shopping for the day. It would also help with shipping cost so we don't have to spend money on shipping with each order and have more money for actual merch.
Oh wow, that hair makes Linus look like he should be freestyle walking in an empty parking lot for a Playstation Underground ad.
Or someone for a Tony Hawk skateboarding game ad 😂
In the words of Scotty: "The more they overtake the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain". Basically, the more and more we depend on internet, computers and certain software, the easier it is to shut down the world. That includes vital services, such as water, sewer, travel, power and emergency services. The bad side of centralized control of everything.
*overthink
Linus, you missed something. The full articles that talk about Netflix point out that signups are down in quarter 2 because of password sharing stuff. They got an initial boost, but it's not sustainable, since there are only so many people who were willing to buy in.
Netflix has made it clear they need continual growth in subscribers. These sorts of tactics are band-aids at best.
Cancelled my subscription because I travel for work and am never home. My home is multiple hotel rooms a week. They made no provision for someone like myself. Tying my subscription of a streaming service to a physical location is BS.
i think the model is fundamentally unsustainable. At first the beginning they had infinite VC money but now they seem desperate to maximise their user count and to milk every last drop.
@@chill89892 That is sympathetic to being a publicly traded company. (There are exceptions mind you)
Except that this is pure conjecture on the authors of the articles. How would this be a result of password sharing? The password sharing is a one-time crackdown and boost in subscribers for Netflix. That's all it is and can be. I can't see how it could effect things quarters down the line.
@@TopCheeseBarDown In theory, it should also mean a higher rate of signups. You would no longer have 2+ households signing up for only one account. All else being the same, they'd have more signups than they did before this password crackdown.
11:54
Linus - "We'd be ducks... Ducks that are sitting!... That's the word for it right?"
Luke - "Sitting ducks? Yeah."
Linus - "No no, ducks that are sitting. Nobody says it that weird way you said it." 😂😂🤣🤣
Another gem from Dan at 2:54:35
Airports shut down, gas stations went down, my pc bluescreened, one of 5 at my work did, crazy shit
I saw people's smart home appliances blue screened... which was pretty funny
Edit: thinking twice now, I went back and checked. two were deleted and the one left is a Samsung that runs on Android, the pics were shopped. my bad lol
@@stackflow343 thats so annoying, cant even really fix like a normal pc, hope refunds are available
One of the biggest banks in my country was down. No transactions could be made lmao.
@@stackflow343smart home door lock would be a very enlightening experience.
@@stackflow343 I'm so confused, what smart home appliances are running Windows with Crowdstrike?
Not sure how large of an pact it has but as a US truck driver I know a ton of trucks were just sitting, because dispatchers, payment systems and shipper/receiver PO processing was down. This outage didn't last that long but financially it cost a lot
I live in the UK and was told earlier this evening that emergency medical transport is still hugely delayed (talking hours for an ambulance) because of the crowdstrike bug and it's taken them the past 3 days to get things even slightly running again... 😅
Don’t worry Linus. I bought a backpack and a screwdriver in addition to my mystery desk pad.
Can’t wait for the package to reach Germany though 😂
I watched this on twitch. I just wanted to comment that I really love the thumbnail with the blue screen of death in the background.
the "what have you grown to enjoy about each other" segment at 2:20:20 is both the most wholesome thing I've seen in recent times and also absolutely hilarious.
@25:00 Thats how it works here in the EU or at least germany. You can't simply increase a subscription price and automatically keep charging, you either need to cancel the subscription and make the person sign a new deal with the updated prices.
In Sweden they can increase prices but they need to notify before.
It's what Netflix is doing with this price increase
Was up all night recovering an enterprise including multiple divisions, prioritized by tier (0, 1, 2, etc.), bitlocker included. Another one to add to the crazy tech life story list.
Make a fireside whiskey story type video? I’d like to hear the story
@@StephenOwen I'm sure my story isn't special amongst all the techs who served in this incident. A lot of good folks out there who should get the glory! A call in the middle of the night. All hands on deck. Break out the bitlocker vault. Recover your own system and then start down the tier list 0, 1, 2, etc recovering equipment and servers. Start with core infrastructure, then work on the most important divisions, on up the tier list. I have 2 divisions that I'm responsible for. It took about 10 hours.
Funniest WAN show in ages. Thanks i had to stop a go get a glass of water coz i was choking from laughing so hard
As an ad for Floatplane, this was a 6+ hour WAN show. It’s a strong contender as the GWOAT.
Crowdstrike has kernel level access which is both good and bad, and we just witness the bad of it.
Sorta. The issue was a file in the "System32\Drivers" folder. Systems behaved exactly the way they would with any driver issue at boot up. Our organization will be demanding to know how this change was QA'd before release.
So this is proof of what could happen if one of the kernel level anti-cheats went rogue.
A program doesn't need kernel level access to download a file into System32\Drivers
@@ericedewe use CrowdStrike and my IT Security Director heard word that it was NOT QC at all due to higher up demands. BIIIG Ooof if true.
@@MordeKa0s if true, that may very well be the last update they ever roll out.
I work for a trucking company with trailer tracking, every single trailer stopped reporting positioning, and our sites for checking truck locations and driver hours went down. We were basically blind for a full day
this perfectly exemplifies my issues with "cloud" nonsense and automatic updates. I don't even let my steam servers auto update.
I thank the tech community for this mindset, it really helps me out.
Auto updates are fine... With precautions. Just like how you should always have automated testing, manual testing, and staged rollouts, you should have precautions and easy rollback on any auto-updating software. The problem is that that's not really the case for most software.
I'd imagine that if Windows by default is an image-based OS a la Fedora Atomic this wouldn't be a problem because you just... boot the previous images. I have had issues building my system image on GitHub CI, but all that happens was that the update wasn't delivered to my device, then I fixed it a week later once I have time. At worst, I've messed my panel setup due to KDE upgrade, but then I just edit my image builder and pin to the previous version, until I was ready to move two months later.
We've solved this issue, people just haven't used the solution because people are dumb.
If things didn't auto update they'd never get updated meaning major security risks.
I don’t want automatic updates, my virus definitions from 2019 are working just fine, ain’t broke don’t fix it /s
This is a Security Software for enterprises though.
They need to be UP TO DATE all the time because they need to withstand new attacks and enterprise will get these new attacks first every time (because they can be very lucrative)
So in this case I really can't support all the "don't update" stuff I have been reading
1:17:40 "It's been a decent assumption that your CPU is really not like the problem for a long time" Yeah, I also assumed that when I built a PC with a Ryzen 5 3600 in 2020. That computer had instability problems since the very start, but it was extremely hard to reproduce the crashes. After a few months I had RMA'd my motherboard. And later replaced it with a better chipset mobo, went from A320 to B550. There were however still sporadic crashes. After upgrading the CPU, all issues went away!! But this unfortunately was just a few months after warranty was expired #sad
as much as I hate microtransactions, there are companies that do it right. When I played Path of Exile, I had absolutely no problem giving some money to the developers for small things. You can play the game for free entirely, and for like 20€ you can have basically everything you need to play it hardcore. And it's constantly updated. That's perfectly fine and it's a model of game business I have absolutely no problem supporting.
PoE essentially has free demo but to really enjoy the game you have to spend 20$. Amd you know what, I'm okay with it
For future reference, when dying hair to get it evenly applied my trick is to comb it. You also get "free dye" back to re-use in other areas when combing.
Crowdstrike . . . I spent my entire Friday remediating PCs with that issue. For the sake of the company I work for, it was definitely a plus that they had their own IT to deploy for this.
For basically ever I have been shocked that platforms such as UA-cam or Twitch didn't go after sponsorships. That seems like such low hanging capitalist fruit you'd think they have some system in place where creators need to hand over 30%+ of any sponsor they take. UA-cam is an monopoly anyways so it won't matter what its viewers think and for Twitch it might actually make the platform somewhat profitable.
The Y2K comments were ignorant
Nothing happened in Y2K because lots of people took it seriously to check and modify and update systems
Still, it seemed like many computers were happy with thinking it was 1900 and had no reason to crash itself just because of that.
True. We were so afraid our computer and critical infrastructure would be bricked we did everything to prevent it from happening.
24 years later. We are more reliant on computers than ever... but we are even dumber that we completely trust and accept auto-updates that brick computer networks instantly. This was not the first, or last. We should be afraid this will happen, and do more to protect our networks.
Idk man are they really ignorant or are they just joking.
I was the only person on a plane going into Prague landed around 11pm but I work in IT and understood it was a COBOL issue
Sure, but your 1990s washing machine was never going to shake itself to bits because it thought it was 1900.
Also, just because it displays the date as dd/mm/yy or mm/dd/yy, doesn't mean it stores it that way internally. Some computers were quite happily displaying the date as 1/1/100.
What a time to be alive. TWO companies called DCS, suing content creators for unfavourable reviews. (the other is Deep Cycle Systems, about their batteries, suing an Aus offroading channel)
im still waiting for the early unix time overflow bug to kick in but i guess that was patched by now? The Year 2038 problem is because C programming utilizes a 4-byte integer to store time data, which will overflow on January 19, 2038. so y2k 2.0 lol
It is oh so much more than a Unix time overflow bug now. Unix might have been the first to count time with a 32 bit integer and an epoch of 1st Jan 1970, but it is now absolutely pervasive in IT systems.
It has been mostly patched now, but there's probably still some things around using 32bit rather than 64bit timestamps.
You can easily test this by changing time on your computer.
I remember one of the libraries I was using had problems when I was working on a project for a museum.
A lot of tools don't like to hold dates before epoch, and some don't like dates BC even more.
The relationship between LMG, Linus, and D-brand is hilarious. its like 2 best friends fucking with each other over long distance, and its the best
Or be lucky like us where all our servers did a full root drive backup 30mins before the update dropped, we just restored the backup relaunched and everything was back with in the hour of crowdstrike saying the had a fix in place
You guys seriously dodged a bullet!
me and 109 students being evacuated from Bangladesh after the horrible conditions were stuck in border because verifying was offline.
we crossed border in about 24 hous 20x longer the\an normal.
then we got stuck in the airport in India.
thousands of students from multiple countries evacuated silently via ambulances through dhaka Airport were stuck due to flight cancellation.
it was he'll and I'll remember it forever.
I can't contact my local friends that are still stuck there.
Cant wait to seee blonde haired linus in new ltt videos
Orange. Keep it how it is.
I used to work in commercial automation support, this was a real nightmare. I'm sorry for my friends who had to deal with clients screaming to their faces about something they can do nothing about.
90% of Adelaide's fuel stations went down because of it, had to drive around about 10 different ones to find one running obviously a different system. Not fun
are you sure about that?
only ones i heard were down were OTR's and only knew that because i work at one.
@@auzziegamer4661 was only able to fill up at drakes, not sure how many others got hit
@@auzziegamer4661 don't OTR own the majority of the adelaide market?
Ev owners with home charging lol’ing now
@@yessuz hybrid owners with home charging and a full tank 🧠
@8:35 - Siemens MRI scanners are operated by a Windows computer. Medical imaging equipment vendors typically recommend/require that 3rd party software NOT be installed on the computer that operates the device, but many institutions ignore this and force security software on devices in order for them to be connected to the Internet. So it is not at all surprising that at least some of those scanner computers had CrowdStrike installed on them...
Y2K finally happened lol
Y2k +24
underrated comment
Indeed
And yet it was more disappointing than expected
Nah Y2k would be bigger.
I’ve been watching wan religiously for years and it’s always hilarious, but this one was something special 🤣
I’d like twice if I could
hi! About the netflix thing ( 20:15 ), at least in Spain there’re some telecom companies that bundle their fibre + mobile options with the cheapest ad option, so if it’s also happening in other countries, it may be the reason of the growth.
In the words of Princess Leia, "Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?"
Too early for timestamps
never too early for timestamps if you eat them sparingly
A 3 hr podcast can't get timestamps for every 2 minute of conversation within 1 hr of upload?
This is why we need AI 😂
@@ssjenforcer191191191we don't need it we want it 😂.
@@ssjenforcer191191191oh god for UA-cam videos?? 😂 yeah we sure do “need” it 😂😂
Congratulations..?
I live in a house with one TV. The portal allows me to game when someone else wants to watch something on Netflix or whatever. It was a great buy for us.
Something IT related, NOT CAUSED BY MICROSOFT, oh the humanity...
actualy it was it's their update that messed with crowdstrike
@@ealtar I can't listen to someone who can't spell "actualy"....
But it was crowd strike that pushed an update that broke things. They admitted they had a faulty update @@ealtar
@@graemepennell well AKCHUaly it apears i was somwhat wrong
@@ealtar which is why we don't listen to folks who are unable to spell correctly. It doesn't mean they are dumber, just less informed.
Always fun when there is a function that pushes an update automatically on a remote location.
Crowdstrike did what their name says. The really struck the crowd. 😂
This whole time I've really been wondering what's with their name. To me at least it sounds like a malware name or something!
he put that big glove on when he was looking like he was ready to palpate a horse
This also shows again the power of the media, so many people blame Microsoft for a blunder that Crowdstrike did. Most people don't even know what Crowdstrike is and are just pointing fingers at Microsoft.
Spanish national tv has a UA-cam video with a title and miniature that implies that it was Microsoft’s fault.
I don’t even know how they could mess that up, every other article I’ve read from my sources clearly mentions Crowdstrike lol.
But yeah, professionals are sometimes more amateur (or intentionally bad) that we might think.
It's clearly a Falcon issue that Microsoft aren't responsible for, but I do have to wonder a little if there shouldn't be more resilience built in to the operating system to realise that a particular file being loaded and bootlooping the system, should maybe be quarantined and have admin access to some recovery interface where could roll out changes to multiple machines.
Somewhat similar to how enterprise update / patch management stuff works, when things are actually working.
@@benwu7980Microsoft already implemented that, it's called safe mode.
@@benwu7980this kind of measures that bypass corrupt drivers should never be automatic, especially in this case, this is a security software and in no way should windows decide to bypass it just because it's causing a reboot loop. At the end of the day, it's Crowdstrike's responsibility to not make a system breaking update.
@@nadirqg Not 'bypass' , but have a mode to go into after repeated bsods that the admins could push a change/ revert. Something like safe mode, but only with lan networking, from the trusted server.
WSUS is already a thing for those orgs, as should be testing of an update, but obviously needs the computers to be on, and this wasn't exactly an update rather than a channel push. Most companies don't test those definitions before push.
Whenever I accidentally fall asleep watching youtube, I ALWAYS wake up to The WAN Show.
Love the subtle LTT store QR link in thumbnail
Me giving $10 TOTAL to a free to play game that's given me dozens of hours of enjoyment is not the issue, Linus.
On Cloudstrike's slip up being representative of a state action, I guess this shows you don't need to hit multiples, an actor could "just" corrupt an update for a widely deployed system?
Yes, this is why InfoSec folks keep going on about the danger of supply-chain attacks.
This is exactly what happened with the xz exploit. The malicious actor planted a security vulnerability in a library that is used in very popular Linux distros, and they would’ve had remote execution if some Microsoft employee doesn’t find the vulnerability by chance. It was stopped before anything bad happened.
The crowdstrike incident just keeps reminding us not everything have to be online. Lol.
The rise of Slim Shady
My dad died of cancer on Christmas day 2021, the Christmas e-card he'd pre-scheduled months before (with message assuming he'd already be dead) came through that evening.
Treasure those cards.
I SWEAR if Linus doesn't start next weeks WAN Show wearing a bald cap and claiming his hair fell out due to Lukes terrible technique, I'm going to be disappointed.
So happy scrapyard wars is back, Just like junkyard wars on tv back a few years and monster garage. I am a gearhead and a geek so of course i wanted scrapyard wars to finally come back.
Luke looks exacrly like himself in the scrapyard wars.
luke: dream to have a dog, and have a backyard for his dog.
linus: literal millionaire not paying his best friend enough money to own more than an apartment
Outsourcing IT is dangerous. Our media treating CrowdStrike as the good guys in this is terrifying. People reading the headlines and walking away blaming Microsoft is just sad. This whole event really exposes how blindly ignorant common folks are to how things around them operate.
Agreed there.
Who is blaming Microsoft? No serious newspaper would make such a stupid mistake
The lan community is alive and well in Edmonton, Alberta. Fragapalooza is still going almost 30 years strong and MegaFPS does several small lan events through the year.
This shows how valuable having different code bases on your network is.
My suggestions have Linux on at least 20% of your machines, maybe BSD on a one or two.
I personally have mostly Debian, but I also have Manjaro, and FreeBSD on my network.
I also don't understand why any specialised machinery is managed by Windows systems.
A Raspberry Pi 4 with email and other logins, left on a shelf and ready to plug in, is looking like a good idea. Same goes with a desktop enabling dongle for an Android phone. Businesses should definitiely be limiting what percentage of their hardware runs on any single OS.
Specialised hardware, especially that which controls hardware like CNC mills or A/C systems, should be locked down and offline, updates via USB.
Same for MRI machines.. I don't understand why so much of companies critical infrastructure/systems are networked at all. How often are MRI machines used remotely? Need to get the imaging off, removable drives are a thing, same for updates. Not perfect by any means on it's own but at least they would be much more resiliant to network attacks, 0 day bugs or such.
How these companies let a service provider for such critical services not go throught their change management is also baffling. Or that the provider (name escapes me atm) could have any possibility of pushing an update that hasn't been extremely well tested and verified through multiple test environment releases before it has ANY possibility of being pushed live.
I wouldn't rule out espionage yet either.. Looks whats being going on in Germany and such with spying and sabotage.
When you realise most of the decisions are not made by tech enthusiasts.
I guess you never worked in IT. If 20% of your machines run linux I can guarantee you that your company is still 99.99% out.
Systems work with each other you know…
But of course now all the linux homelab neckbeards come crawling out from their holes.
At my workplace we have Linux, Mac, Windows. However, authentication is done via Active Directory (Windows Server), so even those of us who could login to our laptops still couldn’t even access the VPN or anything else really.
I just realized that bit locker does nothing. It doesn't matter what you encrypt. They just need to take the file for themselves, isolate and decrypt it later. Like Google's incognito, bit locker provides faulty security.
I don't really agree. All encryption can be broken given enough time (perhaps except for a one time pad), but if it takes something like 1 million years then it's safe.
Also BitLocker to my understanding is there to prevent physical theft from leaking your data. If your system is running then the files can be exfiltrated in their unencrypted form by just having malware on the system. It definitely adds security, but it's a specific kind of security.
@@the-answer-is-42 A specific kind of security that causes more harm the good, especially with TPMs.
@@HedgehogY2K In this case, absolutely. There are use cases where it's warranted, but you also need to make sure you won't get locked out. Otherwise you can end up with a disaster.
Also regarding the TPM backed Bitlocker, there is a video on UA-cam when an engineer figures out how to completely bypass that protection by sniffing on the connections between the CPU and the TPM, allowing him to just get the Bitlocker key. It was a device specific hack, but the point is, it's not as foolproof as MS wants you to think. If memory serves, the engineer could get the key in about a minute.
@@the-answer-is-42 Holy crap this conversation reminded me that I need to turn off the TPM on my new laptop. It was so far in the back of my mind that I forgot my old procedures on what I would do with Windows 10 installations. Thanks for inadvertently reminding me.
3:53:45 WE GOT THE WAN SHOW SECRET ENDING
Started with a wan show Golden shower
That was hilarious on mixing the hair dye and Linus moving over for framing of shot. that's a good friend. I was laughing a little loud for being so late at night.
The only good thing about Microsoft forcing online account logins on windows 11 is that the Bit Locker key for that PC/laptop is stored online, and you can see it by logging into your Microsoft account.
Don't get me wrong, i have it stored elsewhere too, but that's the easiest way to see it on the odd occasion when my laptop randomly asks for it.
Aaaaand on macOS the encryption key is just based on the local account password.
So you are saying that the only good thing about windows 11 is it's encryption with a security flaw as big as the death star?
No. I'm saying that windows 11 has so many things worse than windows 10, that I find small mercies like that good when I find them.
@@DanCojocaru2000 same with LUKS, or any sane encryption scheme really.
Yeah having Microsoft store a copy of your key in their cloud, what could go wrong.
We have entered a new era, the ginger Linus era. Welcome to the soul less club!
Working in the IT was not fun yesterday😂
my company was fine..
i am lucky
Only if you rely on shitty software with crappy support, and think it reliable. (no system is reliable or safe)
Most companies no longer has an in house IT. Most now relies on 3rd party IT services. If I was one of the IT yesterday you can bet I will take my time, why do I have to stress myself over something that I have zero something to do with it.
@@haroldcruz8550 Because that is your job?
Why should a firefighter stress himself over a fire he did not start?
So i work at a prison, whole camera system, docs, movement logs all went down for 12+ hours….put the whole prison on lock down (thankfully it went down on overnights when none of the IP’s were out)
So that was fun, we had a bbq too 🍖 it was a good night
0:30 I misheard Linus say "An STI screaming app". Then he went on to describe it and I thought no, I heard right the first time.
Yes!! Return of the (almost) 4hr WAN show!
Here before the beloved timestamp man
It's no "i knew it was a beaver so I drew a Beaver" but it was still very funny!
Not only Systems using Crowdstrike where affected. But systems that are reliant on such aswell. For example One of the Microsoft systems that where down was Azure so all system that used azure or entra domains where down aswell.
Microsoft outage was unrelated. They had issues in US-Central, which caused some of our VM's to become unresponsive.
Would be cool if SOCs had internal RAM, but had the ability to read from upgradable memory slots on the board. These slots would be a lower priority memory space, and the memory in the SOC would be higher priority. Perhaps applications that don't need to run as fast could use the slower memory cards.
The late timestamps are unironically the worst disruption the outages have caused me.
As a man who grew up with a hair salon in the house (mother was a hairdresser), I can smell the dye on Linus' head.
Smartphone health powered by AI is going to be huge in the next few years and will likely make a real impact.
If the D-pick one didn't lie about what it could detect then I wouldn't even have a problem with it. Such tools can be genuinely be useful for those that do not have access to or cannot afford healthcare or in the case of D's it might also just be discomfort of going to the doctor for it.
Assuming it actually works though. The whole "Your D-shaped cake looks healthy" thing substantially undermines confidence.
I like the new haircolor of Linus, due it fitting the LTT logo even more. ^^
Thanks LLD for another awesome and fun bringing WAN-show!
Absolutely love that we can see slowly all merch-massages now!