szescstopni @szescstopni@qoto.org

@malwareminigun @GossiTheDog

According to industry analysts, the world production of snake oil is expected to surpass that of fossil oil in 2027. Huge, billion-barrel reserves are being discovered and tapped almost daily, mostly in California.

Have you tried turning it off and never turning it back on again?

Crowd Strike thing is basically an "Ever Given stuck in Suez Canal" of IT industry.

All the techies losing hair, sleep, and family time trying to get this un-stuck are the excavator operator trying to get things un-fucked.

#CrowdStrike #InfoSec

CrowdStrike is a small, local, struggling, resource-constrained mom-and-pop infosec shop which should not be regulated because that would kill it, and also is a globally-recognized security vendor of advanced AI-based EDR tools that you should definitely use because the company is massive and has all the resources in the world that they can put to making their tools top-of-the-line, not like those FLOSS amateurs.

Obviously.

#CrowdStrike

Hey fellow #Linux users, despite #CrowdStrike only affecting #Windows, this is not really a windows problem.

This is an "automatic update that got forced onto everyone with insufficient testing while also having way too many permissions" problem.

If you think big corps wouldn't run something similar on Linux, I have a an NFT of a bridge to sell you.

Let's cut the bullshit and spell out a few things. The IT security industry is about as trustworthy as the food supplement and vitamin industry, but somehow they escaped the same reputation. Their products are overwhelmingly based on flawed ideas, and the quality of their software is exceptionally bad. And while not everyone will agree with the harshness of my words, I'll say this: Essentially everyone in IT security who knows anything in principle knows this.

Everything seems to go back to Reagan. https://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/student-loans-debt-reagan/

Tip for software companies. Your stock price can't crash when you release a bad update if your update manyages to take out the stock exchanges

In all seriousness tho -

#hugops to the poor bastards who have to clean this up and especially to the poor bastard who now has the epic 'time I brought down prod' story - no matter who contributed the bug, it was a systemic failure of crowdstrike's QA process that allowed this to escape into the wider internet; the aim is not to rely on people not to make mistakes, but to build systems in such a fashion that mistakes can be caught and corrected before they become an issue for others.

Individual heroism never makes up for systemic failures, y'know?

My computer works. Can’t reproduce fault, closing ticket

An unlicensed therapy dog healing his tired Dad.

#dogs #dog #rescuedog #AdoptDontShop #DogsOfMastodon #photography #Pixel8

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⚠️ Update: Metrics show #Bangladesh has now been cut off from the world for over six hours, with a nation-scale internet shutdown in effect amid student protests.

The disruption prevents families from contacting each other and stifles efforts to document human rights violations.

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P S A

If your elderly loved ones show signs of a rapid personality change or suddenly develop mood swings make sure to first have them check for a urine infection (cultured test, not dipped) because it could very well be due to a urinary tract infection.
This test could save you time, money, and a lengthy hospital stay.

#Aging #Elderly
#Seniors #Healthcare #Psychology

Interesting results: people are more likely to believe fake news from a stranger.

This finding would be explained if people intuitively apply the three questions we suggest in our book to assess any claim:

1. Who is telling me this?
2. How do they know it?
3. What are they trying to sell me?

You know what your friends don't have a way of knowing (and you often know what they're trying to sell you.) With a stranger, these are harder questions to answer.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/07/youre-more-likely-to-believe-fake-news-shared-by-someone-you-barely-know-than-by-your-best-friend/

Someone please help me find sources about "opt-in" version of #ChatControl in which lack of consent would make user unable to send images in messenger apps. I remember converstions about it here, but now I couldn't find articles.

I like doing landscape photography so much more when there is weather involved. And the odd bird helps.

I was going through an old presentation, and I had forgotten about this image I made about commas, parentheses, and dashes.

I still like it. :)

Oh, this is just evil. And a really good bass exercise...
https://youtu.be/uW395LVJ7FQ