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Patricia Aas 11 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Normal folks hating on C++: it’s an old and memory unsafe programming language.

Me hating on C++: there is a convicted rapist and registered sex offender on the C++ committee and the committee leadership worked really hard to keep him there.

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Ninji 11 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I got to be a dog at Glasgow Pride today 🐺

Was hectic and warm but it was fun!

Selfie where I’m standing in a big crowd of people waiting for the march to begin. I’m wearing my blue dog mask and matching suit and a purple tank top, and a giant progress pride flag is visible in the sky in the background

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Tufty Indigo 🪗 11 months ago • mastodon (AP)

but only until the end of June, right? uhhhhh...

Ninji 11 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@tuftyindigo nah, I'm gay all year round

@Tufty Indigo 🪗

elle 11 months ago • mastodon (AP)

just heard someone call the people who can't resist looking at their bright little phones in a movie theatre "moth people" and I will be using this moving forward

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𝙹𝚎𝚗𝚗𝚢 𝙳𝙲𝙰𝚃 :catgirloid: 11 months ago • sharkey (AP)

This makes me go "YEP!"

zombblehh:

Shout out to the autistic who's abilities have regressed as they've gotten older.

“You didn't used to be like this when you were a kid." I know please don’t remind me

theconcealedweapon:

"This never bothered you when you were a kid."

Yes it did. I just let it slide because I was taught that I'm "too sensitive" anytime something bothered me. But now I'm finally standing up for myself.

"You never struggled with this when you were a kid."

Yes I did. I just burned myself outin order to do it so I wouldn't be punished. But now I'm accepting myself enough to not force myself to do what I was never meant to do.

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Nick East (Indie Writer) 11 months ago • mastodon (AP)

My brain has never brained logically 😂

@linguistics @linguisticsmemes @writing

#LinguisticMemes
#Linguistics #Words #AmWriting #Writerdons #Writers #Writer #Writing #WritingCommunity #Writinglife #WritersOfMastodon

#amwriting #writer #writing #linguistics #writingcommunity #writinglife #writers #words #writersofmastodon #writerdons #linguisticmemes @linguistics group @writing group @linguisticsmemes group

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Seiko 11 months ago • mastodon (AP)

A friend called me onto this photo my buddy Lingling did and I somehow missed. I really love this vibe!

Bluejay fursuiter walking in the woods with a camera at his hip

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Pippin 11 months ago friendica

Apollo 17 launched from the moon to return to earth 51 years, 7 months and 6 days ago, and no one's been back since. I'm 50, and no one's been to the moon — or even outside low earth orbit — in my lifetime. The (manned) space age finished before I was born!

The idea that we should now attempt to colonise a planet or moon within the time it takes us to trash the earth into unlivability is fanciful, to say the least.

Stuart 11 months ago • mastodon (AP)

In an unexpected turn of events, a sensible take on #Crowdstrike from the Orange Site.

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41004184

Screenshot of a Hacker News comment. Text follows:

So CrowdStrike is deployed as third party software into the critical path of mission critical systems and then left to update itself. It's easy to blame CrowdStrike but that seems too easy on both the orgs that do this but also the upstream forces that compel them to do it.
My org which does mission critical healthcare just deployed ZScaler on every computer which is now in the critical path of every computer starting up and then in the critical path of every network connection the computer makes. The risk of ZScaler being a central point of failure is not considered. But - the risk of failing the compliance checkbox it satisfies is paramount.
All over the place I'm seeing checkbox compliance being prioritised above actual real risks from how the compliance is implemented. Orgs are doing this because they are more scared of failing an audit than they are of the consequences failure of the underlying systems the audits are supposed to be protecting. So we need to hold regulatory bodies accountable as well - when they frame regulation such that organisations are cornered into this they get to be part of the culpability here too.

So CrowdStrike is deployed as third party software into the critical path of mis... | Hacker News

^{news.ycombinator.com}

#crowdstrike

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Filip W 11 months ago • mastodon (AP)

This is a remarkable story.

A factory belonging to a Polish snack company Aksam burned down last weekend, restricting its production capacity to only about 35%.

However, the CEO announced that no employee will be fired.

"Employees will be employed in a two-week system. Then there will be a crew exchange. I want everyone to have a job. However, a two-week job does not mean a reduction in salary. It will be full. In our company, we always put the human being in the first place and this will not change" - said the president Adam Klęczar

Here is the story (in Polish) https://businessinsider.com.pl/biznes/fabryka-paluszkow-splonela-zwolnien-jednak-nie-bedzie/0je1txd

Fabryka paluszków spłonęła. Zwolnień jednak nie będzie

W poprzedni weekend spłonęła fabryka produkująca m.in. "Paluszki Beskidzkie". W związku z tym właściciel wprowadził rotacyjny system pracy. Zwolnień jednak nie będzie.

^{IAB Polska}

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David D. Levine 11 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I won't be using passkeys any time soon. https://me.micahrl.com/blog/concerns-about-passkeys/

Concerns about passkeys

All rituals restricted. All rites reserved.

^{me.micahrl.com}

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Juggling With Eggs 11 months ago • mastodon (AP)

‘In this area of healthcare, like no other I know of, the professionals with the requisite expertise are positioned by their critics as having been “captured by ideology” and therefore lacking in credibility. Meanwhile, those without the expertise are positioned as “independent”, which critics argue makes them better able to evaluate the evidence – despite having never worked in the field and having no understanding of its complexities’

Dr Aiden Kelly, clinical psychologist

#Trans

#trans

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Juggling With Eggs 11 months ago • mastodon (AP)

“the ban is not supported by the Cass review or the wider evidence, and the exceptional approach to transgender youth is discriminatory and unfair.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/19/transgender-children-ban-puberty-blockers-wes-streeting

I treat transgender children – banning puberty blockers is not a decision for politicians to make

Decisions around the tiny minority for whom the option could be helpful should be made by clinicians, not Wes Streeting, says clinical psychologist Aidan Kelly

^{Aidan Kelly (The Guardian)}

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Tom Walker 11 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Mastodon is the world's biggest community of people who deeply love computers and also think that the world would probably be better off without computers

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e(Ag)le 🦅 11 months ago • mastodon (AP)

people often ask me if my radio software's badass unicorn mascot is trans-coded

well duh, it's radio software, everything on it gets transcoded

A rendition of AzuraCast's unicorn mascot as an anthropomorphic unicorn with slate gray fur, long flowing azure blue hair, and a microphone with a gold cable hanging from her horn. Art by Tyson-Tan.

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CelloMom On Cars 11 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"To deter long-distance travel, the band offered an initial presale of tickets for local postal codes only.

#MassiveAttack are giving train travellers special privileges: access to a VIP bar with separate toilets, extra pre-sale tickets and free transfers to and from the train station via electric bus. They are also working with the local train network, Great Western Railway, to lay on five extra trains for travelling fans."

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240717-the-band-that-doesnt-want-you-to-travel-for-their-tour

The band that doesn't want you to drive to their concerts

Massive Attack have been campaigning on environmental issues for years – and are now fixing their gaze on the music industry itself with a groundbreaking Bristol show next month.

^{Daniel Stables (BBC)}

#massiveattack

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Tryst 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 :ms_asexual_flag: :ms_cat_grin: 11 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Petition to make the 19th of July "International BSOD Day"

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Emeritus Prof Christopher May 11 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Haroon Siddique sums up the problem with the Just Stop Oil sentencing:

'Individual comparisons, while also imperfect, can also pose questions. Can it be right that protesters who forced closure of a motorway will be locked away for so long, when in March a woman was given a six-month suspended sentence for causing death by careless/inconsiderate driving?'

And if you think this is just 'whataboutism' then you've missed the point about property & life in law!

#politics
https://www.theguardian.com/law/article/2024/jul/19/just-stop-oil-jail-terms-questions-harsh-treatment-protesters

Just Stop Oil jail terms raise questions over harsh treatment of protesters

Lengthy prison sentences seen by many as heavy-handed and prompt comparisons with other offences

^{Haroon Siddique (The Guardian)}

#politics

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Èlia 🌸🦊 11 months ago • mastodon (AP)

so apparently the Crowdstrike crash was due to a c++ nullptr dereference. Common C++ win

WHO WOULD WIN meme

- The entire modern capitalist system

- One pointy boi 0x9c

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RevK :verified_r: 11 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Ah, Mr Bobby *(0x9c) Tables...

moved to => @kura@hai.z0ne.social 11 months ago • foundkey (AP)

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Tinker ☀️ 11 months ago • mastodon (AP)

So managers are starting to spew the whole "well I didn't do anything wrong, it affected everyone else, so we're not liable" bullshit.

Did you allow a third party vendor to have the highest privilege access to all of your systems AND let them run Remote Code Execution on your systems whenever they want?

You didn't have a test environment set up to test each update or patch that is applied to your systems before you push them to prod? No? Just let it auto-update?

Yeah, that "Risk Transference" didn't work so well as your GRC policy seemed to think it would, huh? I know they're a security company and they SHOULD have tested it, but they didn't, did they?

I know everyone else does it, but if everyone else jumped off a bridge, would you?

Just because everyone else fucked up, doesn't mean you didn't fuck up.

There's gonna be a lot of deep discussions in this post-mortem and hopefully orgs will change. Those that don't will just be hit again... and again... and again.

#crowdstrike

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Chris Trottier 11 months ago • akkoma (AP)

Wow! 😲

CrowdStrike’s CSO sold $1.5M worth of stock right before the outage today!

I repeat, the Chief Security Officer sold $1.5M worth of stock!

https://www.barrons.com/articles/crowdstrike-insiders-sold-stock-cac5e509?siteid=yhoof2

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Soreth (Eschewal Theorist) 11 months ago • mastodon (AP)

No one you look up to is better than you are.

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Jen, Freedonian Ambassador 11 months ago • mastodon (AP)

yr favorite mascot said trans rights.

A tweet from Chiitan, the 0-year old fairy baby otter mascot tweets "Yes! Transgender people are my precious family and I love them with the bottom of my heart.

"Transgender people are less accepted in Japane than in the US, and people may look strange when they declare their identity, but I don't mind. It's a small thing like people saying bad things about Chiitan, so it's not an issue. It's far more important that transgender people all over the world 'are able to enjoy life peacefully being themselves, as a matter of course.'

"I will continue to send out messages to protect the rights of trans people. Please lend your support to Chiitan. Your voices give me energy. I love you all. Please continue to be by my side."

Below this is a picture of the mascot, wielding a giant soft-looking sword and shield.

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:neopossum_floof: Ibly 🏳️‍⚧️ :therian: 11 months ago • akkoma (AP)

good time to remind everyone of this

a tweet from chiitan stating "chiitan has No gender", and shown is chiitan escaping the police while on a motorcycle.

someone quote tweeted it saying "Chiitan declaring they are non-binary while on a motorcycle escaping the police is so raw actually"

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iximeow 11 months ago • mastodon (AP)

THEY POSTED A BLOG https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/technical-details-on-todays-outage/

Technical Details on July 19, 2024 Outage | CrowdStrike

Learn more about the July 19, 2024 CrowdStrike outage and the technical details related to it.

^CrowdStrike

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Darren 11 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Note that the BBC didn’t go offline today.

That’s because their entire operation is run from a bank of half a million BBC Micros all linked together in an enormous basement under Broadcasting House.

The whole of greater London takes its heating from that basement.

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Phil M0OFX 11 months ago • hometown (AP)

Nine tenths of the heat comes from the Ferranti ULAs. The contribution of the 6502 CPUs is negligible.

Stephen Ramsay 11 months ago • hometown (AP)

If a hacker had done this, we would be trying to put them in prison forever. If this were a company making a physical device that happened to kill people, the settlement numbers would be astronomical.

I predict that *at best,* there will be some kind of "hearing" along the lines of the Boeing inquisition, but I doubt even that will happen.

Which makes me wonder (among other things) why we have allowed software bugs and errors to occupy their own special moral category.

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Hazelnoot 11 months ago • sharkey (AP)

"there's nothing more permanent than a temporary solution"

Screenshot of a git diff for a file called "build-prod.ps1", focused on the file header. The left (previous) version reads: "Production Build Script. This is a placeholder until proper CI/CD pipelines are built." The right (newer) version deletes the "placeholder" note and just reads "ModShark Build Utility".

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Sharkie 11 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I used to have a line that I preached: "short term solutions become long-term problems"

Siph 11 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Something I love bringing up again from time to time: a little more than five years ago a friend and I found a functional microphone in a smart kitchen appliance that wasn't advertised to have one. The product in question was being promoted hard by Lidl because they sold it at a fraction of the price of similar devices.

https://www.numerama.com/tech/525214-monsieur-cuisine-connect-micro-cache-android-non-securise-les-dessous-du-robot-cuisine-de-lidl.html

It made national & european news and I was interviewed by the biggest TV news show at prime time.

All we wanted was run Doom on the thing. We installed Discord on it and hopped into a call because we thought it would be funny and fell off our chairs when it turned out the person on the other side could hear us just fine

Monsieur Cuisine Connect : micro caché, Android non sécurisé... les dessous du robot cuiseur de Lidl - Numerama

Le tout nouveau robot-cuiseur connecté de Lidl fait un carton en France depuis début juin 2019. En voulant s'amuser à détourner son écran tactile, deux Français ont découvert plusieurs éléments curieux dans le fonctionnement de l'appareil.

^{Marie Turcan (Numerama)}

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TK Wolf 11 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"Please allow me a moment to clean this up. Rest assured, I will let no harm come to you."

I've been swooning over Von Lycaon for a while now, and @gearwurk surprised me with this awesome art of Von TK! I guess Mr. Von Lycaon decided it was time for a new recruit. ^^

Thanks again so much! ^^

TK Wolf in an action pose, wearing Von Lycaon's outfit of jet-augmented boots, a vest, shirt, and leather straps around arms, tail, and his right eye.

@gearwurk

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Matthew Garrett 11 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"Linux would have prevented this!" literally true because my former colleague KP Singh wrote a kernel security module that lets EDR implementations load ebpf into the kernel to monitor and act on security hooks and Crowdstrike now uses that rather than requiring its own kernel module that would otherwise absolutely have allowed this to happen, so everyone please say thank you to him

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[object Object] 11 months ago • mastodon (AP)

thx kp

The Verge 11 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Bethesda Game Studios workers have unionized https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/19/24202271/bethesda-game-studios-workers-unionize-cwa

Bethesda Game Studios workers have unionized

More than 200 developers at Bethesda Game Studios have unionized with the Communications Workers of America.

^{Jay Peters (The Verge)}

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Trevor Flowers 11 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Folks looking for an alternative to RPi 5 boards (say, for inside a miniature retrocomputer) might be interested in this little N100 board:
https://www.hackster.io/news/radxa-s-x4-packs-an-intel-n100-processor-and-2-5-gig-ethernet-into-a-raspberry-pi-5-like-footprint-ca501f40305c

Radxa's X4 Packs an Intel N100 Processor and 2.5-gig-Ethernet Into a Raspberry Pi 5-Like Footprint

Four 64-bit cores, up to 8GB of RAM, four-lane PCI Express Gen. 3 on-board, and a 40-pin GPIO header: the X4 ticks a lot of boxes.

^{Gareth Halfacree (Hackster.io)}

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Mandu 🥟 11 months ago • mastodon (AP)

defying physics really strengthens your core

@ lexbu

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br00t4c 11 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Trump now bleeding support in GOP-dominated state as more women voters gravitate to Biden

#formerpresident #trump

https://www.alternet.org/women-voters-biden/

Trump now bleeding support in GOP-dominated state as more women voters gravitate to Biden

Former President Donald Trump's political hopes may be in danger in a solidly Republican state with a significant haul of Electoral College votes if current polling trends stay consistent.

^{Carl Gibson (Alternet.org)}

#trump #FormerPresident

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Phil M0OFX 11 months ago • hometown (AP)

I don't know why people are so obsessed with ChatGPT and #AI. I know a lot of people who can spout absolute bullshit with a much lower carbon footprint. Funnily most of them seemed to be in the sales and marketing fields, but I'm sure that's a coincidence.

#AI

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