So it’s Scoop, but for Linux? (That’s a compliment. I love Scoop.)

upvotes Linux meme

But my achievements…!

(I’m serious about this.)

You just have to use the side of your foot (like in soccer) instead of the front.

Any more details?

This sounds like the setup to a fun story.

If it was the second Tuesday of the month, probably updating.

I’d heard some hospitals were affected. They cancelled appointments and non-critical surgeries.

I’m guessing it was mostly their “behind the desk” computers that got affected, not the computers used to control the important stuff. The computers in patients’ rooms may have been affected as well, but (at least in the US) those are usually just used to record information about medicine given and other details about the patient, nothing critical that can’t be done manually.

But the computer is within leg’s reach.

Their computers may not be affected, but their everyday lives might be. Some of the affected services include 911, stoplights, banks, hospitals, and a whole other smorgasbord of stuff.

It wasn’t a virus definitions update. It was a driver update. The driver is used to identify and block threats incoming from wifi and wired internet.

The “Outage” section of the Wikipedia article goes into more detail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike_incident#Outage