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It’s #STFUfriday!
When cops ask you questions, ask for a lawyer and then STFU:
- I am not discussing how I’m doing or where I’m going.
- Am I free to leave?
- I am not answering any questions.
- If they ask to search anything: "I do not consent to a search."
- I want to speak to a lawyer.
It's hard to say no to someone in authority. Practice makes perfect. "No, I don't want to answer questions. I want a lawyer." STFU.
Henry – I'm sorry to cut you off but we're going live to CrowdStrike headquarters, where they are demonstrating a new process for testing product updates.
Uh, oh, customers are now reporting a blue screen in their eyes.
Thoughts and prayers go out to all those experts who have to explain the background of today's clownstrike oopsie to the befuddled press.
It takes some non-trivial mental contortion to explain the whole "people installing a backdoor on their computers for some company to execute privileged code, written in an unsafe language, in order to make their computers more secure" thing.
Are you going to inflate the villains so big and round that they cannot carry out any more of their dastardly deeds? If yes, then I think it's time to change my alignment to evil and give mischief a try! 
Great arts! Very expressive and sharp!
Can we make it a counter-movement for Zoomers and Millennials to wear showy bandages in support of classmates who have been injured or killed in school shootings?
That would totally drive the MAGA crowd nuts!
authorities have determined the cause of today's massive cloudstrike outage that has crippled the internet, but have declined to press charges because he's too cute
🎨: @BlurTheFur
My work PC is currently caught in a cycle of blue-screen-reboot death.
I checked webmail from my Surface, and they have instructions to call the help desk if the problem doesn't resolve itself.
If only they hadn't disabled all of our company phones in favour of Teams...
I'd use my company-issued cell phone to call the Help desk -- if they'd issued me one...
Okay so you know, bunch of shitposting and all that, but a serious interlude:
Someone pushed the button to start this rollout. They are probably having a _really_ bad time right now.
If someone at Crowdstrike knows who that is, please go and check on them, give them a hug, tell them it's not their fault, that it's going to be okay. No matter what the company line is on blameless culture whatever, the lizard brain is in charge right now and needs reassurance.
One piece of software appears to have brought airports and TV stations to a standstillAndrew Griffin (The Independent)
Remember how on Battlestar Galactica none of the systems were wired into each other and everything was done via sheets of hexagonal paper?
Not a bad idea really
Of course the current global cyber outage has a #Wikipedia article already!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2024_global_cyber_outages
--sf
*nom* (Happy Fursuit Friday!)
*nom nom!* (Now let me keep nomming!)
#Furry #FursuitFriday #Fursuit #Koblenz #FursuitPhoto
Notice from the Admiralty
We are aware that some battlemech pilots engage in so-called "dance-offs" in their spare time. We have allowed this as harmless fun.
However, after seeing the viral clip of Jaeger-845D and Jaeger-922H do the tango we must make a public statement:
Woof!
I bet Eldonius Rex is on it.
Tex Talks Battletech has lots of great artists work on their videos, and feature such great works as:
The pinwheeling, double-armed Marauder melee slapfight
The Urbie Derby
A Charger in a track and field number jersey being chased by a police Urbanmech, which is keeping pace by virtue of wearing stomped-in police cars as rollerskates
If you're mad about Google killing short links all over the Internet, and are saying things like "let's scrape it all before it goes down", I suggest checking out https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior. Some chaotic good people are well ahead of you in terms of planning, and have a VM image you can run to lend some compute and bandwidth to the effort. It's like SETI of old, but for praxis against internet vandals like Google.
(context: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/)
Understand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.developers.googleblog.com
"Six million people at risk from extreme heat in England, campaign group warns"
Friends of the Earth says older people and young children are most at risk in heat-vulnerable neighbourhoodsGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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I feel bad for the police officers. They're the stooges being set up to incriminate innocents, under huge pressure to lie, cheat, and steal to get a confession. None of what you say should be admissible in court, and instead it is considered incontrovertible evidence. The lawmakers wrote it that talking to police can be used against you, while talking to a lawyer can give you some modicum of protection against that. It prevents cops from solving crime, and leaves them nothing to be but crazed inquisitors, torturing confessions out of bystanders.
I mean I feel "bad" in the sense that I still want the one who wilfully tortured out confessions to be pulled out of his cozy retirement and hung somewhere by his nipples for a few weeks. But the system is rigged against any cops who aren't trying to do that, too.