⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

A wide ask here so please boost: my grandfather is trying to get rid of an old business computer, and I was wondering whether any vintage computer people might want it. It was purchased for $50k from The Ultimate Corporation in the early 80s. This ran the Pick operating system, and my best guess is the hardware was originally manufactured by GE or Honeywell. It's about the size of a half-rack and currently lives in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. It has sat covered in plastic in a chemical warehouse for the past 35 years. Where do people usually post stuff like this other than here? Thanks!

#RetroComputing

Defcon is such a weird feeling for me, it's like two separate major life events. My first Defcon was the first time I ever booked a vacation with my own money, so I got to go from sharing budget accommodation with my family, to staying in 5 star hotels. Then my second defcon was when I went from living with my parents to being fully independent, thanks to getting arrested and forced to live in the US indefinitely.

@revk Whilst a person might have 'caused' it their error should have been no more than an 'oops do that again' internally.

People make mistakes... I've done it dozens of times. It should be impossible for an untested file to not only be rolled out to prod but pushed directly to prod on multiple critical networks.

Does anyone know what happened to internet access in Turkmenistan from the 11th to the 19th of July 2024?
We saw roughly a 75% reduction in requests to www.bbc.co.uk & www.bbc.com over that period.
Traffic looks to have returned now (possibly at a higher level).
Curious...Could be a scraper or something I guess. Not a lot of traffic.
#Turkmenistan #WebStats #Censorship (maybe)

Breaking: Trump refuses to accept the results of the presidential withdrawal, will continue to campaign against Biden.

US Democrats are fretting in July about getting a candidate for a November election in respect of taking office in January.

We would have had five Conservative Prime Ministers in the same time period.

@shadowsminder @w7voa how about the bbc?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1e5xpdzkd8o

Both outlets have Washington correspondents.

Twitter may have been taken over by nazi's but that's not reflective of all the users still on there.

I'm sorry but CrowdStrike's "technical details" post is well below the expected standard in our field. What kind of logic error was it? More importantly, what was your QA process like? Why did CI not catch it? Why was there not a staged rollout? These are the absolute basics that should be expected.

https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/falcon-update-for-windows-hosts-technical-details/

Would any UK folks be interested in picking up a complete real robots magazine collection + kit? My dad is doing a bit of house clearance and was wondering if I knew anyone who would be interested

okay so this is rich: to get around the lack of a safe bytecode vm in-kernel on windows, cloudstrike made an *un*safe bytecode vm, which choked on a null pointer and brought down the world yesterday

Let's relive this moment from 55 years ago when, on July 20, 1969 at 20:17 UTC, NASA astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin touched down on the moon and made history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc1SzgGhMKc
1/n

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

Working through content creation of the next part of "Amiga as a Workstation in 1986" videos.

We write a simple program to get used to the #CommodoreAmiga Intuition and Graphics libraries.

I will record the video soon. #retrocomputing

"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

Linux users panicking because there's not enough smug to go round

Pouring another bucket of smug over my laptop, shouting down the bucket chain FASTER LADS, IT'S STILL WORKING, tooting as the fires rage around us