Japan mostly spared in global IT meltdown despite reports of some bugs

11 comments

1. Well of course not, the outage didn’t affect fax machines!

   I kid, I kid.

   Yeah, I was a little perplexed to hear people online start talking about this and I’m glad I didn’t have to bother with it. Still, I wonder if the next thing in the pipeline is a bunch of vague but breathless posts claiming this proves the superiority of Japanese IT, only for it to turn out the real difference was just due to some time zone issue or a single mission-critical server that has automatic updates disabled or something.

2. Damn, being stuck in the year 2000 allowed us to avoid y2k you guys.

3. Meanwhile:

   https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/07/ffb95fc8cad8-urgent-mcdonalds-shuts-30-of-outlets-in-japan-over-cash-register-glitch.html

4. Japan 5D chess.  

   Never upgraded their windows 95 machines

5. Neo Galapagos

6. The big machine where you order and pay at Matsuya froze when I scanned my dpoint card so the staff had to reboot it.

7. Afghanistan too…

8. So fax machines were unaffected I take it?

9. Imagine all the gaijin comments had this happened to the same extent in Japan, or only in Japan. But this happened in the technologically superior countries like the US so there is no need to make blanket statements or reevaluate your worldview. Just a IT bug, no big deal, it was fixed in one day! Move along, folks.

10. Actually Crowdstrike doesn’t have top EDR market share in Japan so that might be part of the reason why.

11. Our company was hit by this. Basically told the team after waiting for two hours lets get beers on me.

    Was a shit Friday for me but I’ll take my early snow day in July.