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I remember taking the Christmas emergency contact shift years ago, when a script pretty much bricked an entire organisation. We decided with management to sort it on Boxing Day.

While I wasn't directly involved in fixing it, I was on site, ensuring folks were fed and caffeinated.

Those folks trying to sort everything out today will be focused on that at the expense of their energy levels.

I hope there are folks in their orgs keeping them going, reminding them to stop and eat.

#hugops

If your conservative relatives minimize your queer relationships by calling your partner your ”friend“ start calling church their “little club”
This will only be funny and have zero negative consequences.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Windows is in fact Crowdstrike/Windows, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Crowdstrike plus Windows. Windows is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another component of a fully non-functioning Crowdstrike system, made useless by the .SYS files, automated updates and blue screens comprising a full outage as defined by the news.

@0xabad1dea

Smallest domino: tired QA engineer misses an edge case.
Largest domino: Year of the Linux Desktop.

#crowdstrike

😂 #programming #softwaredevelopment

If you turn of the safety on the Holodeck, could you get pregnant from Holodeck sex? #StarTrek

"You think human civilization will survive past 2050? I appreciate your optimism and pray that you are correct. Even so, I have enough to do in just trying to get to 2050 without worrying about what comes after."

https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/b51b0b5db63444ea

Crowdstrike published a faulty update. Causes Windows to bluescreen. Driver is C-00000291*.sys. Will cause worldwide outages.

Google is killing their url shortener so they can finally bring go-links to the public, or as I called them every day I worked for google: AOL keywords

they say the night is joeverest just before the jawn

this is why I think encapsulation is the actual important part of object-oriented programming. inheritance and dynamic dispatch are, in limited applications, useful tools for sharing abstractions, but the sharing is not the point. that's another common misconception about abstraction that drives me up the wall.

here's a concrete example of an actual abstraction: strings. you can, if you are so inclined, carry around a raw byte buffer together with information about how large the buffer is, how much of the buffer is used, etc. but that's error-prone. every place you have to use the string, you have to keep all of these things straight in your head. make sure the right size is associated with the right string, make sure you don't swap the size and capacity arguments to a function, yadda yadda yadda.

this is why string manipulation in C sucks so hard.

or. you can stick all those raw parts in a struct, say "do not look at the bits behind the curtain," and just traffic in strings, like a normal first-class data type. that's an abstraction. it doesn't have to be a class (but it helps), it doesn't have to involve inheritance or dynamic dispatch. you're replacing a big bag of complexity with a reification of its corresponding high-level concept. that's abstraction.

I see the infosec industry has finally achieved security once and for all by shutting down every workstation connected to the internet

I am looking for a (preferably derogatory) term to evoke the steaming, interconnected mess of for-profit academic publishing, research-institution and funding-body selection criteria, and research career structure.

I was thinking of something like an analogue to "military-industrial complex" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_complex) - so something like "academic-publishing research-institution industrial complex".

I would greatly appreciate suggestions for a name for this.

@openscience @academicchatter #OpenScience #OpenAccess @petersuber @albertcardona @brembs @jonny @UlrikeHahn

Decided to check where it's possible to watch Oshi no Ko legally

Crunchyroll: This series isn't listed

Hidive: No series are listed at all. The front page just says "No content available". what

Amazon (🤮) Prime Video: This series is listed, but it says it's not available in my country (at least they're upfront about it)

Possible other streaming sites?: I have no idea how to find out if there are any. I didn't see any on Google, at least

Cool. It's great how piracy is a solved problem

@hikari “Mozart in Mirrorshades” by Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner (1985)