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McDonald’s was hit by a system failure Friday that closed restaurants and disrupted online and app orders around the world, including in the United States, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom.

  • @[email protected]
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    1596 months ago

    More than 20 ice cream machines were working at the same time. This caused a buffer overlow that crashed the McDatabase in the McCloud.

    • Kalkaline
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      206 months ago

      IT guy went on vacation, left the junior guy in charge.

      • Victor
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        186 months ago

        McCation

    • @kosanovskiy
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      66 months ago

      RIight after there was claims of starting a open-source official fix for the machines.