• @Carnelian
    link
    214 months ago

    So like. Hear me out.

    What if, even if you were not personally affected, you still heard about crowdstrike because of the coverage?

    I’m an ICT professional with 40 years experience and I’d never heard of them

    But you have heard of them now, right? Kind of like that

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      34 months ago

      When my grandparents call me to ask about something, I consider it main stream.

      They called me the day it happened asking wtf was up.

      I definitely think that the amount of people who know about has shot up probably a couple thousand percentage points, and not for the better, but it definitely didn’t flip.

      The other guy needs to Google what “hyperbole” is though

    • @me66
      link
      14 months ago

      Let’s say 99.99% of the World’s population had not heard of them before this happened, and I think those numbers are very generous.

      Does anyone seriously believe that after this event only 0.01% of the World didn’t learn about them?

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        74 months ago

        You’re taking showerthoughts way too literally. It’s an exaggeration. The number didn’t “reverse” but it definitely multiplied. Businesses were impacted and who works for businesses? People who probably never heard of cloudstrike until it shut them down. It grounded flights and every person in an airport since then have probably heard the name. Anyone with a news app on their phone probably got a notification and know the company now. The number has drastically increased and that’s the point, not that it specifically “reversed.”

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          44 months ago

          Not only is this showerthoughts, as you pointed out, but the person posting never provided numbers for those that were previously aware of crowdstrike. Any attempt to do so by those responding takes the statement beyond it’s intention.

        • @Serinus
          link
          24 months ago

          The number didn’t “reverse” but it definitely multiplied.

          Maybe he should have put the thing that did happen as the title.

          But that’d be kind of boring, wouldn’t it.

      • @Carnelian
        link
        14 months ago

        Does anyone seriously believe

        Yes. My assumption is of course that this shower thought is presenting a numerical fact, and that everyone upvoting believes it in a literal sense.

        • @Serinus
          link
          24 months ago

          It’s a dumb take that’s incredibly boring presented any other way. The only thing interesting here is how dumb it is when presented this way.

          • @Carnelian
            link
            04 months ago

            Must suck being one of the only people smart enough to be offended by it