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
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.
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)
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.
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
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!
I wonder if I'm odd for being an experienced computer-and-network person who hadn't even heard of CrowdStrike until today.
The study flies in the face of right-wing talking points.Mira Lazine (LGBTQ Nation)
listening to the original hitchhiker guide to the galaxy radio play while reading along :3
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.
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.
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!
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)
also speaking as a reverse engineer... you have no idea how often I've wanted to go into medical research.
because I can hack software and hardware all day! why can't I hack wetware?
Anyone can hack wetware! Once. 😜
[Adapted from the old saying: "All mushrooms are edible. Some are edible more than once."]
@shroomie @ioletsgo yeah!
and speaking as a reverse engineer, you have NO IDEA how often I've considered studying medicine instead. I can hack software and hardware all day, why can't I hack wetware?
@ioletsgo @shroomie she has the funds from being a co-founder of sirius-xm! I don't!
give me a couple million dollars and I'll hack the fuck out of my body
I, personally, want to be DIFFERENT
Imagine the Pope and RMS in one room.
One of them does prefer the “cathedral” model.
Also Git, we need a lot of code control.
Maybe a drive-by-confession or transfiguration injection? Cardinal Robert Tables? Evil nun? Spear of Longinus Phishing? NOP Sled? Ministrant-In-The-Middle?