Peter Drake HAS MOVED @peterdrake@qoto.org

Anyone need an album cover?

It's quite funny that in the midst of the crowdstrike thing yesterday, someone tweeted - afaict as a shitpost - that southwest were unaffected due to running windows 3.1. Then digitaltrends published that claim using the tweet as a source, and are now being quoted themselves as a source.

AFAICT, it's entirely bollocks. Same with the claim they still run Windows 95, that's from the same lazy digitaltrends article, misquoting another misquote from 2 years ago.

I watched this video about how the Mormon afterlife works and I have never seen a people who needed D&D in their lives so badly.

There are all these levels, and side levels, and revival conditions and diagrams that look like dungeon maps.

A lot of suffering could have been avoided if there were just some well-placed roleplaying clubs out west like 150 years ago. Send these people some D20s ... jeeeez

Storytelling masterpiece. 5 stars.

#dog #dogs #dogstodon #DogsOfMastodon #humor #humour #storytelling #writing

How do modern CAPTCHAs work?

By letting Google examine your browsing history.

The more you know 🌠

#Captcha #Google #DataPrivacy #LetsDeGoogle

I have been working on this for the past two months, after growing increasingly concerned about the influence this industry is trying to exert. Did you know crypto companies have spent more this cycle than the oil or pharmaceutical industries, despite being a small fraction of the size?

#crypto #cryptocurrency #elections #USpol #lobbying

I love #AOC She’s scrappy, viciously intelligent and seems to be truly wanting to do what is right.

I hope she can keep those who are wanting to turn tail and run in place and holding the line.

https://newrepublic.com/post/184042/aoc-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-warning-biden-drop-out-instagram-live

PSA: when a company has a sudden disaster and then you hear on the socials “the CEO sold stock two days before it happened!” or whatever, almost every single time, that’s because the CEO sells stock on a preannounced, fixed, repeating schedule, which is specifically to avoid insider information influencing the decision when and whether to sell. And if you’re selling on a fixed, repeating schedule, then there will always be one that happens to have been not too long before any given disaster.

I’m not saying that the illegal version of this never happens, I’m saying it doesn’t happen quite as often as people posting this stuff in a scandalized tone think it does. I mean, what, do you think the C-suite of Crowdstrike were pre-informed that they were gonna accidentally crash their own product and decided to offload some of their stock instead of stop the push to production?

For those curious about the big outage, I can offer an explanation in non-tech terms.

The problem is a program called Crowdstrike. Crowdstrike is a virus scanner (well not really, but let's keep things simple). A LOT of big businesses use Crowdstrike. It's very good at detecting threats and has a lot of good tools for monitoring big fleets of computers.

Glitch in the matrix... #Caturday