2961: CrowdStrike

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CrowdStrike

Title text: We were going to try swordfighting, but all my compiling is on hold.

Explanation

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This comic is about the 2024 CrowdStrike incident occurring on the day of the comic's release.

The title text refers to 303: Compiling.

Transcript

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[White hat is addressing Ponytail, who is half nealing on a moving office chair, holding onto a rope tied to Cueball who is riding an electric scooter.]

White Hat: Hey, aren't you supposed to be working on the -

Ponytail: Sorry, that's all on hold today because of the CrowdStrike thing.

Protip: as long as you're not actually in charge of fixing the CrowdStrike thing, you can use this excuse for pretty much anything you want to do today.

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Discussion

how will this impact the status of vs sonic.exe rerun 172.70.90.177 18:25, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

Somewhat bemused that there's a comic for this on Day 0, yet there was no comic about the xzutils backdoor earlier this year… 162.158.49.19 20:21, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

How do you know there wasn't a secret comic about the xzutils problem, set up well before any impact became obvious? ;) 172.69.43.185 21:09, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

Right now, reading this explanation, this is the first I've ever heard anyone mention "crowdstrike" at all. - 141.101.109.193 08:19, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

Some early reports called it "cloudstrike" which certainly reminds us of our vulnerable positions as providers of truth. Look up “We built this city on sausage rolls.” 172.68.70.122 13:33, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

Seriously, this comic came out yesterday, the same day as the thing happened? How did Randall do that, seriously??? Mathmannix (talk) 14:51, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

Sounds like a good start of a conspiracy theory. But wouldn't it have been ironic if he tried to publish it, and the service provider for explainxkcd.com was down because of Crowdstrike? Barmar (talk) 00:11, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

That's not irony, that's coincidence. 162.158.212.173 03:24, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

he's been drawing stick figures for years, probably really easy for him. youtu.be/miLcaqq2Zpk 05:53, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

Is there an English Dialact in which the Titletext is pronounced resembling a Haiku? 172.70.250.183 (talk) 11:04, 21 July 2024 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Fully enunciated, it's 18 syllables. Whilst "going to" can easily be reduced to "gonna", it still makes it hard to split nicely intoto three phrases of 5/7/5 'on'/syllables.

The "...is on hold" is the clincher, at just three and no obvious way to self-bulk to five (requiring other bits to merge further down). Awkward to donate part of "compiling" (three on its own, hard to reduce to two without slurring). I suppose a strategic ellision might help draw it in.

The two immediate options I would give are therefore:

• "We were going to / try swordfighting, but all my / compiling on hold." (meh)
• "We were gonna try / swordfighting, but all my comp... / ...iling is on hold." (...a bit of non-verbal onomatopoeia invoked? Might be considered even the more poetic for it)

Or rewrite, for explicit nod to the haiku:

• "From our office chairs / neither compile nor swordfight / at this time of pause." (usefully, for the form, "time of" becomes a poetically better seasonal reference)

In fact I was at one point going to add to my latest exit to the Explanation that, based just upon this and Compiling, it seems that 'office-sanctioned idling' must involve the ubiquetous office-chair (which, BTW, surely deserves a Category:Office Chair... if someone cares to create it, there being any number of appearances being sat/kneeled/stood upon) to be allowable. But maybe wait for a third demonstrative example to be posted/remembered. Maybe if I go and manually look for all Office Chair Category candidates I'll stumble across just such an example that I'd forgotten... But later. 172.69.43.226 11:50, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

Did the image change? Now it just says "crap" over and over again. Vaden K. (talk) 05:24, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Some vandal did it. I fixed it a while ago. —megan [[user talk:megan|talk]contribs 07:51, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Return of the Crapper? Oh dear. P?sych??otic?pot??at???o (talk) 14:41, 22 July 2024 (UTC)