Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

I wonder if anyone on the Fediverse thinks the Crowdstrike incident confirms any of their views on technology.

"He is running with Russian help on a plan to give Russia what it wants, starting, but not ending, with Ukraine on a silver platter.

Trump, and the guy Trump pardoned for lying about what happened with Russia in 2016, are simply picking up where things left off."

#Trump #RNC #Republicans #Manafort #Russia #Putin
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New: CrowdStrike says it is "deeply sorry for the inconvenience"

Faulty update in its software on Windows machines has disrupted hospitals, airports, public transit, and much more worldwide. Surgeries cancelled, flights grounded.

https://www.404media.co/crowdstrike-deeply-sorry-for-the-inconvenience-2/

People are catching on to Trump's plan to gut NOAA and commercialize its weather forecasts, but Dharna Noor wrote about it in the spring. This is terrifying stuff.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/26/trump-presidency-gut-noaa-weather-climate-crisis

FSD meeting starts now! Join us on the fsf IRC channel. Learn more at: https://www.fsf.org/events/fsd-20240719-irc

We have a bunch of paid work coming up doing species identification work.

If you can ID bats, birds or frogs from audio, plants from images, or mammals from camera traps - apply using your form and we will be in touch!

🐦🦇🐸🌿

#ecology #nature #jobs #birds #botany #zoology

https://www.researchgate.net/job/1013726_Ecologists_Naturalists_and_Taxonomic_Experts-Remote_Job

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.

Joe #Biden is still withholding all US humanitarian aid funding to #UNRWA while Palestinian #children starve. He is using hunger as a weapon to help #Israel, which is a #warcrime. Joe must go.

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Microsoft/CrowdStrike issue workaround -

- Boot Windows into Safe Mode or the Windows Recovery Environment
- Navigate to the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike directory
- Locate the file(s) matching “C-00000291*.sys”, and delete it.
- Boot the host normally.
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https://theconversation.com/massive-global-it-outage-hits-banks-airports-supermarkets-and-a-single-software-update-is-likely-to-blame-235107
#Outage #Microsoft
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Meanwhile, the AI systems are busily taking notes on how to bring down critical systems around the world ...

I've been reading about Project 2025.

The American Republicans have basically become Vanilla ISIS.

I fear the Canadian rightwing are not far behind. Looking at Italy, Hungary and elsewhere it is a worrying trend.

Democracy needs protecting more than ever. Let's not fall asleep at the wheel.

NEW: This is all we know — at this point — about the CrowdStrike update fail that's caused a global mess.

We will be updating this article throughout the day, so stay tuned.

And if you have been impacted by this and want to talk, Signal and other encrypted apps are on my bio.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/19/what-we-know-about-crowdstrikes-update-fail-thats-causing-global-outages-and-travel-chaos/

@telescoper In my circular laundry accelerator, I have discovered that certain other particles, notably J-eans and S-hirts, will mask a sock by surrounding it for a long time. My science team have even discovered a sock hidden in J-eans days after the experiment! We currently have a paper-being-pressed at Laundry Review Letters B.

Do I have some photoshop wizzards in my (extended) network who could help turn my rough draft of a journal cover image into a polished product? (For money, obviously)

Please boost for visibility

#design #help

okay people, stop with the 👉🥺👈 but crwd is just an itty babby don’t be meeean

they are a grown ass commercial software vendor who has known, for years, by design, that they effectively deliver a rootkit into enterprise systems and, often, critical infrastructure

again, if you have the energy to shame OSS contributors for their mistakes, but make excuses for large commercial vendors: maybe what you seek is punching down, not making the software ecosystem better https://hachyderm.io/@shortridge/112813022742284016