I'm not an expert on the "electoral college" system, but I believe this is when Russian troll farms are trying to make sure Trump wins, while Chinese troll farms are trying to make sure that Trump loses.

Time for the Internet’s many neurology experts to find new fields.

what if the crowdstrike thing wasn't incompetence but a failed backdoor attempt

Rarely have I nodded this much when reading an analysis of the systematic failure of the tech industry and our "market system" as a whole.
The unending need to cut cost (at all cost) to improve "metrics" that have nothing to do with creating sustainable, quality results... Yeah, it's bleak. It's terrifying.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/crowdstruck-2/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter

Millions of linux users around the world had their productivity crippled by #cloudstrike as they all rushed to read the news, post hot takes & dad jokes to their Mastodon feed.

Kids these days! Back in '95, we got a Windows Blue Screen of Death 5-10 times a day, and that was on a *good* day.

Reminds me of that time when, a good few years ago, I woke up to a flurry of monitoring alerts reporting that every single kernel.org system went offline. After hours of scrambling, I managed to track it down to an automatically applied selinux package update that depended on another update in rsyslog that wasn't marked as "security" and so wasn't applied in the same transaction. This caused rsyslog to wedge, and if syslog calls are not returning, that puts the entire system into a massive gridlock.

Anyway, that was the end of automatic OS updates on all critical path systems.

Fucking wonderful. I get COVID on a work trip, then get laid off while still recovering.

Who needs an SRE? AWS, GCP, all the usual stuff you'd expect. Immediate start, obviously. US-based, either remote or a company that will pay relocation to a blue state (any non-swing-state is fine, other than VA or NH)

DM for CV. Tell me who you work for first for the version with unredacted history, or just DM a listing for me to apply to, let me know if you want to give you as a referral or not. If you have a redacted version I will of course provide a full one directly to the company on request.

Standard stuff: Have green card. Absolutely can not get a security clearance.

Edit: Thanks so much for all the support so far ❤️

#GetFediHired

Someone, non-ironically, sent me a gopher:// link today. 👴

Inbox 90 is the best I can do today. Considering I started with over 3,100, this is not too bad. :)

Not the mental image I needed today.

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To: admin@kernel.org
Subject: current state of recent kernels

Why do recent kernels require so much twerking, to execute Suspend and
Hibernate Successfully? If you are Lucky!!

I am amused that "sovereign" now means some kind of cross between "independent" and "self-sustaining" when it literally means "overlord."

I'm back. Now excuse me while I deal with 3216 messages in my inbox.

Your email is important to us. Estimated hold time is <error> <error> <error> minutes.

#Ukraine #Russia #War

Oh no.

Home renovations are like refactoring your code -- messy and full of occasional despair that you ever got started.

Thankfully, the end is in sight.

Collective wisdom: "All it takes for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing."

51 Nobel prize winners: "Hold our beer."

Every government organisation, publicly funded entity, should leave X as soon as possible. The platform is now even labeling investigative journalism from Bellingcat as an "unsafe" link. It shows how X (and/or Elon Musk) supports Putin's agenda in the war with Ukraine and other rightwing actors. It's clearly not a neutral platform that can be trusted.
#X #twitter #elonmusk #russia #putin #ukraine #censorship #mastodon

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/07/09/russian-missile-identified-in-kyiv-childrens-hospital-attack/

project 2025 is the thing the antifascists were warning you about for the past decade, by the way

A video directly confirms a Russian missile strike on "Okhmatdyt" in Kyiv. It wasn't intercepted and didn't deviate from its coordinates - it was aimed precisely there to cause maximum casualties and inflict the most pain.

SBU investigators have determined that Russia struck "Okhmatdyt" with a Kh-101 missile.

#RussiaIsATerroristState #ArmUkraineNow #Ukraine #EU #Europe #NATOSummit #NatoAllies