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Foone🏳️‍⚧️

good lord. I pulled a microSD card out of a Raspi inside an IoT product and it appears they had some developer use a raspi to develop/test some software, and then they just yanked the SD card out of that machine and duped it on to all of their deployed products.

it's got .bash_history of the development process! there's git checkouts of private repos! WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS?

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hikari 🌟 (falling into the sky)

I think we were lucky with yesterday's global CrowdStrike bug incident that it merely caused a boot loop requiring manual intervention to fix. Can you imagine how bad it would've been if it had corrupted the disk? This was a basically a warning of how vulnerable we are.

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AzulCrescent

I wonder if this is an Asian thing? Green onions truly are amazing tho

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sarah zedig! 🍉🐐

the news is dire, but i've put together a MUST-READ perspective over on my blog that is ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL for sanely navigating these TUMULTUOUS TIMES:

[links to a blog that shows the first three paragraphs and then the rest is paywalled]

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Alan

With all these computers crashing, did anyone remember to check if the raptor fences were still up?

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mcc

@vfig Moving offtopic:

The Apple Newton had this thing called the "soup". I'd like to see someone write an overview of what that was and how it worked for an audience of modern programmers.

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vfig

yes, the filesystem is stodgy and boring and has a billion shortcomings.

but it is a really solid substrate for building things on. its user-level metaphor is shallow and pretty transparent.

and proponents of replacing it always seem to end up thinking more about the features they imagine having, and less about the stodgy and boring reality of substrates.

show me that you understand that you are building new _foundations_ and i will be right there with you.

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vfig

yeah, i am very sceptical of "the files & folders metaphor is bad, folks" takes.

why? because i have lived through _decades_ of software developers having that same thought and making software harder to understand and harder to use because of it.

from Windows 95's ridiculous "just put everything into My Documents"

to iOS's "well, now everything you make is locked away inside this app"

to Dropbox and iCloud's "oh we decided you didnt need that thing and deleted it from your local storage"

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vfig

we invented writing to do administration. to record contracts, land titles, wills. and then we used the same materials to write down stories and poems, to do calligraphy, to write love letters and notate music. the metaphor doesnt hold us back.

mastodon.gamedev.place/@zens@m

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Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:

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

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geekysteven

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.

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Dave Anderson

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.

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Chris

@0xabad1dea

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DCoder 🇱🇹❤🇺🇦

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

#crowdstrike

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nixCraft 🐧

😂 #programming #softwaredevelopment

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Rabbit Cohen

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

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Bardnet

"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."

sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/b51

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kouhai, out of display names

who are you medgirl131

what did you see

(the answer is apparently "a lot of papers with hormone levels and a good number of molecular structure references” based on this wikimedia commons search commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.)

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Kevin Beaumont

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

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Jonathan Corbet
Ah joy ... Google is turning off its URL shortener and breaking every link that ever used it:

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/

A quick search on lore.kernel.org:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/?q=goo.gl%2F

...turns up about 19,000 messages with affected links. That's a lot of history that is going to become harder (or impossible) to find.
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