It was a null pointer deref apparently... (lol)

The CrowdStrike developer who wrote the defective update knocking out computer systems around the globe proves that one person really can make a difference.

The more you understand computers, the more you value systems without them.

just heard someone call the people who can't resist looking at their bright little phones in a movie theatre "moth people" and I will be using this moving forward

Cherry contemplating how best to whack you in the face #caturday

Magical thinking is a disease, a disease that leads people into disaster again and again.

It's the reason why 'stupid people's idea of a smart guy' types like Trump and Musk do so well - a person who is willing to lie through their teeth is always going to come off as more pithy, straight-forward and capable than somebody who is honest and caveats things with doubts.

Somebody would much rather believe that Musk has solved climate change + will send rockets to mars than accept he's a 2-bit scammer funded by daddy who's lied about every single aspect of his life and is frankly rather unintelligent.

Because then people would have to both accept that their magical thinking wasn't true (the story of the 'great tech boss genius' in this case), and worse, admit they were scammed.

People would pretty much rather admit to ANYTHING rather than admit that.

Sadly it's hard to fight against this nonsense when by definition 50% of the population have IQ of 100 or lower.

Cherry is inviting you to rub her belly on #caturday

She assures you it is entirely safe and there is absolutely no chance whatsoever of anything sharp impacting your skin. None.

an old libcurl answer of mine on stackoverflow being questioned because I did not provide links to back up my statement when answering questions about code I wrote...

https://stackoverflow.com/a/28714247/93747

😂

(but yeah, I have stopped answering questions over there)

I had liked Marquee Brownlee's content before, but when I saw he put out a positive (!) review of the literal worst vehicle i have seen in my life by an ongoing scam company (the cybertruck) I had my doubts.

Fact he's putting out puff pieces... yeah this kind of dishonesty is why you basically can't trust nearly anyone about this sort of thing, sigh.

And to think he got 'backlash' for giving a bad review to a small company's product (funny that suddenly he's not concerned about consequences when the company's small eh?).

Sadly it's not just him, it's most reviewers/'influencers' out there who have very misplaced loyalties as they make this thing their career.

The radically honest people who can't help themselves are the ones you need to pay attention to like Louis.

I can relate, I've consistently felt the need to speak the truth and that's not always resulted in me having great outcomes in every situation...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0DF-MOkotA

Wrote a pretty good Windows emulator in {fmt}:

#include <fmt/color.h>

int main() {
fmt::print(bg(fmt::color::blue),
"{:1600}", "Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart.");
}

#crowdstrike

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/southwest-cloudstrike-windows-3-1/

AAARRRGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Channel 4 News, in talking about today's #Microsoft #CrowdStrike fuckup, stated that the expected Y2K effect was imaginary.

No! No! NO!

We* did a massive amount of work to update and ensure systems would keep on working. And more importantly WE TESTED EVERYTHING FULLY BEFORE GOING LIVE.

(* As in everyone responsable for operating computer systems around the world!)
(added note: Channel 4 is a UK national television station, not local)

Mastodon is the world's biggest community of people who deeply love computers and also think that the world would probably be better off without computers

Fight back against big security!

nokaslr no_hash_pointers mitigations=off

body fat % estimates suck - the electric resistance one is so awful to be useless (I lose 10kg, clearly fat, and it says I'm the same % ok bro that's not how maths works).

Caliper is ok but incredibly fiddly. Neck/waist seemed the most useful, right up until fat came off my neck and it said my bf% had gone... up?

BMI is so useless as to be a literal joke, a crap estimate on the back of an envelope that got taken oddly seriously... if you have significant muscle mass you may as well just guess based on the stars.

It seems the fancy machines that properly measure it are the only way to be _really_ sure.

ffs nvidia...

I don’t know what a crowdstrike is, and at this point I’m too afraid to ask.

Wow the latest advisory MS sent round about the crowdstrike issue is a little brutal

Any sufficiently privileged shitcode is indistinguishable from a cyberattack.

"Linux would have prevented this!" literally true because my former colleague KP Singh wrote a kernel security module that lets EDR implementations load ebpf into the kernel to monitor and act on security hooks and Crowdstrike now uses that rather than requiring its own kernel module that would otherwise absolutely have allowed this to happen, so everyone please say thank you to him