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Jaycie mastodon (AP)

Content warning: uspol, this election, actionable advice

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Zack Whittaker mastodon (AP)

U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA has acknowledged that while the CrowdStrike outage is *not* a cyberattack, it has observed malicious actors "taking advantage" of the s(h)ituation for "phishing and other malicious activity" and warned organizations to "avoid clicking on phishing emails or suspicious links."

More: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/07/19/widespread-it-outage-due-crowdstrike-update

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you know how matpat brought the pope a copy of undertale?
could someone bring him a copy of linux or something?
I want to get the Pope into open source, so that he can petition god to open source humans. I got a lot of patches I need to make
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Humans are already open source. Anyone can cut a human open and see what's inside. Problem is no one can understand the source code.

Also, Big Government™ says disassembling someone just to study their insides is "murder" and won't let you do it.

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Landa :graz: mastodon (AP)
i hope he doesn’t forget to also open source all the proprietary symbionts in our guts and on our skin.
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AAARRRGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Channel 4 News, in talking about today's #Microsoft #CrowdStrike fuckup, stated that the expected Y2K effect was imaginary.

No! No! NO!

We* did a massive amount of work to update and ensure systems would keep on working. And more importantly WE TESTED EVERYTHING FULLY BEFORE GOING LIVE.

(* As in everyone responsable for operating computer systems around the world!)
(added note: Channel 4 is a UK national television station, not local)

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Nentuaby mastodon (AP)
Yeah, they were retrospective calculations that went bad only after loans written in the new millennium started to mature. It really pushed home how many instances of the problem had existed, to have such a long tail years "after."
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David Ho mastodon (AP)
TBH, this seems worse than having the road blocked by climate activists for a few minutes, much less talk about doing so on a Zoom call.
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calsnoboarder mastodon (AP)
No. The shitstains that prevent normal working folks from getting to work, or school, or to doctor's appointments are far worse than whatever climate catastrophe they're protesting to prevent. I'm a big supporter of being as green as you can (hell I don't even own a car and take mass transit everywhere I go), but to say the "minor" inconvenience of a bunch of shitty people making themselves a nuisance for the greater good is ok proves that most of these shit piles have more in common with the corporate ass lickers that are doing the earth dirty. You want to camp out in front of a senators house or have a sit in in their office, or chain yourself to a tree in a forest, feel free... but when you start impacting hard working folks from living their lives, you're worse than the corporate shitbags that are destroying the environment.
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Ikani mastodon (AP)
@calsnoboarder worse than oil execs who's documented plans already kill millions, and will likely kill billions if left unchecked? Okay then.
Keep in mind, no disruption happened. There was discussion of doing so on a zoom call, and for just discussing it, the group was sentenced to 5 years.
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Pippin friendica

It occurred to me while reading today's Suitor Armor this morning (which, incidentally, was being very nicely trans-positive today!) that many of the fictional characters I most like are, in fact, AIs (or a fantasy equivalent):

- Modeus from Suitor Armor
- Rambley from Indigo Park
- Wall-E and EVE
- Astro from Astro Boy
- SecUnit from The Murderbot Diaries
- Ronb1n5cat5co from Ron's Gone Wrong
- R Daneel Olivaw from an awful lot of Isaac Asimov's books
- Baymax from Big Hero Six
- Bender from Futurama
- 9 from… well, 9
- Alpha 5 from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
- Chappie
- Chip from the Not Quite Human book series
- D.A.R.Y.L.
- etc.

And I realised a little while ago when I remembered to actually write this post, that the reason for this may be that AIs are probably most likely to be Ace.

Like me.

Representation.


Pippin friendica
Later on during my run I took another pic, this time showing some old gasometers (not sure if they're even still in use, but I suspect not) with dramatic sunlight. This one should be titled something like "Solar Eclipses Gas" or "Solar Leaves Gas in the Shade".
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Aatheus mastodon (AP)

Tom Scott did a video on this (of course he did!)

The buildings actually rose and fell within the frame as they filled up with gas...and then emptied as it was burned. Very simple mechanical system, replaced by pressurized pipelines

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Pippin friendica
@Aatheus Yep, they are basically like a bell jar upside down in a circular trough of liquid, to seal it. The weight of the jar maintains the pressure in the gas pipes.

Pippin friendica

I went for a run earlier this week and actually paused long enough to take some photos. These are the local tower cranes being used to build some new tower blocks (in an area where there are no tall buildings, so they'll stick out like a sore thumb, but anyway). When I see them at night, I mentally refer to them as the eyes of Sauron, because of the red lights on the top.

I took these pics because the light was pretty good. First pic I tried to get all the cranes in the frame and yeah, that worked, but it looks bland. Second pic doesn't really show the cranes properly, but the dramatic lighting works!

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you do your eyes a disservice.
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Pippin friendica

I wonder if I'm odd for being an experienced computer-and-network person who hadn't even heard of CrowdStrike until today.

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I started seeing advertising for 'em a couple of months ago - but I'm certainly well off their prospective customer ideal.
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Lisa mastodon (AP)
stolen from reddit #crowdstrike
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In honor of everything IT breaking today, I went outside & touched grass 😂
#fursuitfriday #fursuit #fursuiting
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Tufty Indigo 🪗 mastodon (AP)

Content warning: Crowdstrike breakage

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Husky + Fennec = Fennsky?
🦊= 🐦☁️Lumunix
📷= 🐦☁️SvenFennec
#FursuitFriday
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fediverse be like: ode to a small lump of gender i found in my federated posts one midsummer morning
Arch :arch: mastodon (AP)
going to want to get that checked out

Is this art?
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Dairishgoat mastodon (AP)

All in green at the Maritim.

Me at Eurofurence 19 back in 2013, photographed by @cinnamonvector

#FursuitFriday

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Content warning: crowdstrike

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Wilfried Klaebe mastodon (AP)
...use-windows-and-cloudstrike-survey
I can understand many of them, but not the various "patient health monitors". Why the hell are things like that running a general purpose operating system at all, much less Windows? (I guess something buildroot Linux based I wouldn't count as general purpose if trimmed properly)

Beeton_Nukicoon mastodon (AP)

Good morning!

#FursuitFriday

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Phi mastodon (AP)
It's #FursuitFriday! Take this umbrella, it looks like rain! #LillithFox
📷: Anthony J Hill, Facebook
🪡: SeaBunnyStudios
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Tufty Indigo 🪗 mastodon (AP)
Silly fox, that umbrella looks nothing like rain!

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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.

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cy ActivityPub

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.


To err is human, but to royally fuck up, you need automation.
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Leigh Honeywell hometown (AP)
Any sufficiently bad software update is indistinguishable from a cyberattack…
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SwiftOnSecurity mastodon (AP)

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.

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Cheetah Obscura mastodon (AP)
I have an idea to make your day better - clear your calendar and snuggle up to a cuddly Chee instead! 🤗💜 #FursuitFriday
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looking super cuddly!! Would so ask if I could join for snuggles :3

~n mastodon (AP)

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.

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Alan mastodon (AP)
With all these computers crashing, did anyone remember to check if the raptor fences were still up?
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Adam Honse mastodon (AP)
While not exactly the same, remember that what is happening with #CrowdStrike could also easily happen with kernel level #anticheat software. Giving proprietary software vendors permission to insert whatever they please into your kernel, especially with the ability to auto update it, means giving up all control of your system to that software vendor. One day CrowdStrike, the next Riot Vanguard. Don't let this garbage into your system! A game is not worth losing your system or your data over.
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Blue mastodon (AP)
Villians better watch out, there’s a Hero in town
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Axel! ❄ mastodon (AP)
cuuuuuuute
Myriaderoc mastodon (AP)

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!


Alopex mastodon (AP)

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!

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László mastodon (AP)
These are probably the same people who so adamantly refused to mask up...

shoutout to the elderly lady with a strong Slavic accent on the train who spotted the patch on my bag, asked me "are you really service dog?" and was absolutely delighted when I barked at her
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Ahab mastodon (AP)

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

@BLUR
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Plonq mastodon (AP)

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...

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Dave Anderson mastodon (AP)

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.

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Dave Anderson mastodon (AP)
Also, quick note for crowdstrike execs: everyone can see you looking over at that bus, considering your options, limbering up your throwing arm... Just a note that the people you probably want to hire are watching reeeally closely how you're going to handle this, and are taking notes. The shareholders may be into human sacrifices, but the people you need to run your business aren't. Choose wisely.
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Missing The Point mastodon (AP)
Breaking: Crowdstrike introduces new “Touch Grass Fridays” update.
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The thing I hope is alarming people about today's #CrowdStrike outage is that if the company can take out that much of America's tech infrastructure by accident with a single buggy update, our adversaries can do the same on purpose with a supply-chain attack against CrowdStrike, and that one probably wouldn't be as quick to recover from. #infosec
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Heidi Li Feldman mastodon (AP)
Here’s a simple (nontechie) explanation of what Crowdstrike is and why a problem with it has caused so much havoc. https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/microsoft-it-outage-crowdstrike-explained-b2582491.html
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