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		agilob 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Samsung Q990D unresponsive after 1020 firmware upd... Today a tech lead with admin role on GH opened a PR, approved it for himself and merged it, because he could override GH rules. The PR had failing unit tests. It went straight to prod and caused 20 minutes downtime of one functionality. We do test things, sometimes you're just not prepared for all the permutations of the idiocy out there... This is more common than you think. Only a few days HP update bricked their printers https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/firmware-update-bric... Similar thing happened to Hisense https://old.reddit.com/r/Hisense/comments/18xnmz9/the_latest... Samsung phones: https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/galaxy-s10-phones-smar...

MattGaiser 11 months ago [–]

The answer seems to be that things get tested, but the results often get ignored.

agilob 11 months ago | [–]

Human error, don't worry, we will be getting rid of these pesky humans soon

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