szescstopni @szescstopni@qoto.org

CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed https://www.neowin.net/news/crowdstrike-broke-debian-and-rocky-linux-months-ago-but-no-one-noticed/

Szef holenderskiej ekipy olimpijskiej zdziwiony, że opinia publiczna protestuje przeciwko udziałowi pedofila-gwałciciela w kadrze
"biorąc pod uwagę fakt, że van de Velde od dawna jest aktywnym sportowcem, startował w Pucharze Świata czy mistrzostwach Europy"

This is a big deal. As a member of my family so astutely put it, "insurers and banks are shaping environmental policy for the better, rather than our own governments."

https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/nz/news/environmental/major-insurers-withdraw-support-for-deep-sea-mining-498048.aspx

Brown antechinus (Antechinus stuartii) captured on the camera-trap on Sydney’s northern fringes.

This is probably my most successful antechinus photo from this location so far. I like the body language.

#wildlife #WildlifePhotography #CameraTraps #CameraTrapping #CameraTrap #marsupials

I want to know why milk crates have two oval holes in each end. The Internet isn't revealing any answers yet

Wczoraj w #OkoPress pisałem o spowodowanej przez #CrowdStrike globalnej katastrofie informatycznej:
https://oko.press/infrastruktura-cyfrowa-krucha-ile-zgonow-bledy-crowdstrike

Opisuję, co się stało (na tyle, na ile wiemy), co mogło złożyć się na taką katastrofalną awarię, i jakie wnioski warto, byśmy z niej wyciągnęli.

Dotknięte są m.in. szpitale. To zagrożenie dla zdrowia pacjentów.

Gdyby to była katastrofa budowlana, spodziewalibyśmy się śledztwa prokuratorskiego i być może zarzutów karnych.

Czas takie awarie zacząć traktować podobnie.

Verhältnismäßigkeiten in #Deutschland. Fragen?

Smiley 💩

Schaden: 3,30 € und 43.000.000 €

So...anything happening in US politics today??? I have been busily watching the Grazer bear family on Explore. So precious are these littles! OH, and I am totally supporting #KamalaHarris for President. #KatmaiNationalParkAK #GrazerFamily #GrazerCoy #SummerInAlaska

Make no mistake, if an outage similar to Crowdstrike would have been caused by OpenSource, there would be calls across the entire industry and at the government level to ban OpenSource from critical systems. But since it was caused by billion-dollar publicly-traded companies, nothing to see here, move-on.

#CrowdStrike #Linux #OpenSource #Outage #Microsoft

wearing an outfit covered in QR codes for some horrible malware so that if anyone tries to take my picture in public i brick their shit

Wetland Wonders Unfold: Aerial Systems Shed Light On Ecosystem Services https://www.eurasiareview.com/22072024-wetland-wonders-unfold-aerial-systems-shed-light-on-ecosystem-services/

Does anyone have a digital copy of ANSI/CGA G-13 Storage and Handling of Silane that I can use? I just need to read and reference it, but do not have $214 to pay CGA for access.

While doing a thorough cleaning of my room, I found this anatomical embroidery I did a while back with red silk thread on white cotton. #embroidery #textile #TextileArt #AnatomicalEmbroidery #EmbroideryArt #IndigenousCreatives

I like to imagine that Joe Biden’s going to use his new-found freedom and his presidential immunity to go on an absolute killing spree. Four months of non-stop malarkey. Untouchable, beyond remorse, beyond the law. Fear the rise of Dark Brandon.

Cosmos in front of my favorite mountain shrine. It's going to be another scorcher today. Stay cool and well hydrated everyone.
🌸 ⛩
昌信神社の前の野生のコスモス。今日も暑くなりそうだ。皆様、涼しく、十分に水分を補給してください。
#SakakiTown #Nagano #Japan

Hey look, a distraction!
#DailyDoggo #DogsOfMastodon

@briankrebs Maybe WaPo is too old to carry on this kind of work anymore. Maybe they should consider passing the torch to some younger, more intelligent, better edited organization… before they embarrass themselves too… oh, nm, I see it’s too late.

Someone recently suggested to me that AI systems bring the users' ability closer to the average. I was intrigued by this idea because it reflects my experience. I am, for example, terrible at any kind of visual art, but with something like Stable Diffusion I can produce things that are merely quite bad, whereas without it I can produce things that are absolutely terrible. Conversely, with GitHub Copilot I can write code with more bugs that's harder to read. Watching non-programmers use it and ChatGPT with Python, they can produce fairly mediocre code that mostly works.

I suppose it shouldn't surprise anyone that a machine that's trained to produce output from a statistical model built from a load of examples would tend towards the mean.

An unflattering interpretation of this would suggest that the people who are most excited by AI in any given field are the people with the least talent in that field.

While we're at it, is there any possible use of the word "talent" that isn't riddled with bias? Isn't it invariably a distraction from opportunity as the determining factor in achievement? I think it maybe needs to get in the bin alongside merit tbh.