• DigitalDilemma@lemmy.ml
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    14 hours ago

    As a sysadmin that’s pretty much my worst nightmare. I really feel for those trying to pick the pieces back up again after that.

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      13 hours ago

      I feel your pain, but meanwhile I’m laughing. No backups, no fire suppression system, what the fuck are these clowns doing.

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        13 hours ago

        Suppressing evidence? Looks like this was a deliberate oversight to later erase data.

        Probably data retention safety was overruled earlier by one person.

        So, I think the designed erase worked as designed .

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          11 hours ago

          Pretty big conspiracy theory for a situation where incompetence doesn’t seem out of the ordinary.

          SysAdmins saying “We need X, we need Y”, someone who signs the cheques saying “But it works fine! Why would there be a fire? We already spent so much on those UPSs”

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            11 hours ago

            I don’t know a lot at this time. The cool thing is this will be discussed for years , and any who follow this will know a lot more.

            I’m just saying if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck it may not be a squirrel

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              11 hours ago

              What you described isn’t “looks like a duck, quacks like a duck”.

              This is a fire in a government (publicly-funded) location in an industry that’s often overlooked and underfunded… in a traditionally conservative country (with a Liberal leader for the last few months) that is part of a very top-down hierarchical structure. Which would suggest that the complaints of a systems administrator are likely to be ignored. And that’s assuming that the systems administrator is competent, which isn’t a guarantee in and of itself.

              I’m seeing what looks like a duck, I’m hearing the quacks. The conspiracy theory is that it’s a squirrel in a duck costume that learned how to quack so people would toss it bread.

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                11 hours ago

                Here we have a glass of water, it’s half full.

                Did someone forget to fill it up, or did someone drink it.

                Is it institutional incompetence or criminal conspiracy?

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                    9 hours ago

                    I don’t have any argument, just my natural suspicion only.

                    But you likewise are thin on facts, your natural inclination is to see this as more a system issue.

                    Either we will never know , or one of us will be correct later