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André Cruz boosted
you just know that when this happened there was someone at Crowdstrike who said "so what are we doing to prevent this from happening on Windows" at a meeting and everyone was like "Bob SHUT UP"
https://www.neowin.net/news/crowdstrike-broke-debian-and-rocky-linux-months-ago-but-no-one-noticed/
Carlos Rodrigues boosted
Two months ago I presented over at the Dutch National Cyber Security Center academic symposium on how fragile our IT systems are, and how they are in no way ready for disruption. Perhaps a fun read for today: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cyber-security-pre-war-reality-check/
Carlos Rodrigues boosted
As I understand the BSOD today became more popular than ever, truly becoming mainstream and reported about all over the news. Of course, in systemd we are ahead of the curve, as usual, and if you too want to experience your very own BSOD we have your back. Enjoy:
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd-bsod.service.html
Finally no need to feel left out again, just because you use Linux! 💖💘💝
The name #crowdstrike now feels strangely appropriate...
Issues happen, and #hugops and all that apply to the people working on solving it, but that so many organizations can make themselves vulnerable to such an incident is worrying.
An issue with a single vendor being able to bring down so many businesses and services is the definition of centralization (or lack of redundancy).
@dncosta There is a lesson to be learned about external dependencies here, but I suspect few (if anyone) will learn it.
André Cruz boosted
snoot switcheroos are leading causes of trust issues for pets
The 1990's, when playing the yo-yo made you cool... 🪀
I have a bunch of old Pi 1B's in a drawer. Might be fun to put one to use connected to a CRT over composite.
It's a bit underpowered for some emulators (e.g. FinalBurn Neo), which may not be an issue if I decide to use this to emulate only the oldest consoles and micros. I don't normally enjoy emulating those very much, but with a CRT it feels... different.
Maybe I can even use an OG 256MB Model 1B. That's almost retro by itself.
Good overview about Trumps candidate for vice presidency, including this rather bizarre paragraph: “2016 Vance was also an ardent Trump foe. He wrote a New York Times op-ed titled “Mr. Trump Is Unfit For Our Nation’s Highest Office,” and wrote a text to his law school roommate warning that Trump might be “America’s Hitler.””
https://www.vox.com/politics/360283/jd-vance-trump-vp-vice-president-authoritarian?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=%40tibor
Pretty impressive to be convicted and nearly assassinated in the very same year. It lasted over 8 years to get both for Hitler.
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This is a very good moment to see how different editorial and ethical standards in a broader variety of media and newsrooms are. #DonaldTrump
The Secret Service had to escort #DonaldTrump off the stage at a rally. There might have been shots. On Trumps face were marks of blood.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07/13/us/biden-trump-election
The Silicon Graphics Indigo from mid-1991 looked a bit like an office coffee machine. And Silicon Graphics did make an "Espressigo" (seems like more than one) for marketing purposes. ☕
https://vintageapple.org/byte/pdf/199109_Byte_Magazine_Vol_16-09_64bit_Computing_-_3rd_Gen_CDRoms_-_Group_Schedulers.pdf (two page Indigo review on page 60)
The poster for "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" (1979) is just awesome.
It instantly makes me want to rewatch the best scene in the film, the 5 minute long, zero dialogue, flyby of the Enterprise:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMQTzYp756o 🌟
And this dive on the typrography of Star Trek, which reminded me of the poster just now, is super interesting:
https://typesetinthefuture.com/2020/08/17/startrek/ 🔡
The author has more articles on other films. I've read some over the years and are all very good.
A gentle reminder... 💤
Too many fail to grasp the relevance of sovereignty to the common person...
Sovereignty is not having to worry (too much) whether or not another country chooses to elect a dangerous idiot to govern it.
Lack of sovereignty is depending so much on another country that such a choice has real consequences for you, while not having any say (i.e. vote).
The first flight of Ariane 6 is carrying ISTSat-1. Nice. 🇵🇹
