Manes Dii Focum

This art mine's idle lurking blog. I rarely post.

[2ndcenturynecromancer]

Greetings net-dwellers. Your presence naught to be expected upon these dwindled gloam, as we few guests. You are welcome to stay but tarry not overlong, I've not given heart to post in many a night.

And though I would assume it is known, but ye who has the resolve to tell the guests who have come here how they should think or believe in ways they do not consent to are not welcome here but as forgotten aether upon this electric edifice. This is my space, a place of idle ponder & sullen distraction, and I personally am not currently inclined to entertain your small insignificant notions. So if ye interact in a post in a manner that is seen fit to block your bullshit, this was your only warning....

[meta-marphosis]

look upon my rats

[2ndcenturynecromancer]

The holes in the walls of Here and Now run deep, deeper than thought would permit. Cold, dry and dust laden like the mouths of sun scorched carrion; insect and rot germ bloom in the rents carved deep. Almost as deep as the holes in the walls. We see you pretending to never notice the stink or the stains, but that doesn't deny extancy. You who deny Lies yet recoil from Truth, the rats see you and make mirthful chittering.

[battalion-of-randos]

[lemondoddle]

[ID. a photo of a man smiling and holding a burning american flag on a pole with text reading "share if you agree". end ID.]

[2ndcenturynecromancer]

[2ndcenturynecromancer]

The sky looks down upon us and sees a world likened to a great sea, ocher and crimson. The bodies stare back up mouthing empty prayers that there will be compassion, they get only the melting of skin and the maggot-chewing of meat. Kings mean nothing to worms, princes and paupers become pus-slick dust hand-in-hand.

[bogleech]

About to make some normal scented soaps

[bogleech]

If you look up the brand (saveonscents) by the way it caters to even professional perfumists and chemists but these are considered their "samples" for sometimes only $3-5 each.

They have every nice smell you could want like herbs and foods and rainy days and all that but they get as specific as like the smell of a specific meal being cooked or the smell of suntan lotion in salty air or whatever.

And yeah also things like piss and shit and black mold and rotting corpses. They usually have customer reviews to tell you if the smell is accurate. Besides funny gag uses this exists because a dash of a bad smell can balance out or enhance a good smell, you know like the whole reason they use ambergris or civet musk.

Like somewhere out there, there's a formula for a cologne or something that would actually smell amazing to a lot of people and make good money with one tiny drop of artificial rancid fart in it.

[bogleech]

Some specific ones they have:

Car exhaust

Fishing pier

Dusty carpet

Washed denim

Bandaid glue

Antique store

Fresh graffiti

Gun smoke

Halitosis

HUNGRY MAN (the microwave dinners)

Insecticide

Outer space, based on what NASA astronauts say outer space smells like

Stink bug!!

"Decayed rainforest"

Garlic mashed potatoes

Kelp nori

Newsprint

Steampunk (the smell of brass, steel and steam)

Zombie, described as "notes of rotting flesh, punctuated by pus and blood."

[elderscrollsconceptart]

How Khajiit and Argonians walk in Morrowind

[2ndcenturynecromancer]

Most of the humans I see walk with their legs? Fancy steps are just steps.

[cryptotheism]

My top three rules for world building:

How are these bitches eating?

How do these bitches stay warm at night?

Who is paying for all of this bullshit?

[2ndcenturynecromancer]

· With their mouths I hope

· Blanket fort!

· You guys are paying for things?

[toyastales]

Cheesy Pepperoni Stromboli

[apocalypse-polakiewicz]

chee fong

[anexperimentallife]

[labelleizzy]

Everyone reblog this. Mandatory.

[mistakenot4892]

Someone at Crowdstrike is going to have a very bad weekend. International outages on Windows machines due to BSOD and boot loops.

[mistakenot4892]

The international broadcaster in Aus is using notepads and checking phones to deliver their news and updates. Someone on Reddit is saying Triple J is playing music off a USB drive. Absolutely mental.

[intimatevoid]

My housemate is a software developer. Please understand that this is paraphrased and any errors are my own, not his. But here's a basic explanation:

Crowdstrike is a cybersecurity company in the US. They have a program for large-scale business networks called Falcon, that detects malicious activity on large networks. Loads and loads of businesses use this. Crowdstrike pushed an automatic update to Falcon today.

The way I understood my housemate, the update installs a driver on your computer. When it kicks in, it accidentally causes a Directed Denial of Service, or a DDoS, on your system. This means it overloads the system with requests for info, causing it to crash.

The only way to get rid of it is to physically go to the affected computer, boot it in safe mode, and delete the file so that Falcon stops working and lets the computer start up without DDoSing it. If a computer can't boot up in safe mode, it can't turn back on at all, and therefore can't be fixed.

Let me put that another way: This can't be fixed by Crowdstrike pushing out an automatic update. It needs people to physically access their machines.

So what does that mean? Well for starters, my housemate thinks it's possible that every single virtual machine which has installed this update is bricked. Utterly bricked. Cause VMs can't typically boot into safe modes. And even computers that are stored offsite to their owners? Bricked til they're accessed. This can't be done en masse via remote access methods like SSH, just as it can't be done by pushing out an auto-update. The computers can't turn on normally.

And the vast majority of web services are run either on remote servers or virtual machines.

This will likely spark some massive changes to computer infrastructure safety. Cause on affected systems, doctors can't access patient records, airlines can't process online tickets, banks can't process online transactions, even some emergency services call centres have gone down. The question is, how much damage has been done on a global scale?

So yeah, this is kind of an enormous deal.

[robotslenderman]

Can confirm, we had to close my department in the medical centre I worked at yesterday. GPs kept going and just made paper notes but it was physically impossible for us to scan for xrays because even on the computers that worked, our software went down.

[roseate-felidae]

Our Internet was down for a while at work over in the UK. I was told it was Microsoft and was global. @robotslenderman is Microsoft linked to sorta thing?

I have no knowledge with this sorta stuff

[mistakenot4892]

It's a third party service called CrowdStrike, but it only impacts WIndows machines. There was also an unrelated Microsoft services outage before the big one. People misreported it as a Microsoft outage and some places haven't caught up yet.

[mistakenot4892]

Not sure how supported this is, but the buzz on the sysadmin and tech subreddits is that during the leadup to this debacle, CrowdStrike was actively cutting back on testers/QA and trying to replace them with AI products. :)

[mistakenot4892]

I do want to note in passing, with no shade intended on the poster up above (who was just paraphrasing their housemate): from what I've seen the technical explanation is that CrowdStrike runs with very elevated privileges so it can diddle things in kernel space in the pursuit of protecting your PC or scraping your employee's activity data or whatever. The kernel is the core heart and brain of your computer operating system, so in kernel space even tiny bugs can cause instability/crashes/BSOD. There was no DDoS involved (you need multiple remote computers for a distributed denial of service, for one), just a page fault or some memory access violation that was in a sensitive enough place that the OS just throws an interrupt, falls over and dies.

[scientia-rex]

Me: Exercise does not cause weight loss. This is a fact that has been demonstrated so robustly in research that even doctors, who hate and fear evidence, are grudgingly starting to admit this.

Someone reading that post: Cool, but have you considered that exercise leads to weight loss?

Me: I am going to eat you

[scientia-rex]

lololol "does too"

does it? not for women after childbirth

does it? not if you want to see an effect size of greater than 1 kilo (2.2lbs)

does it? not if you'd like to see a maintained loss greater than 3.3% of your body weight

does it? not for people with type 2 diabetes

does it? not for people exercising for their non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Interactive computer-based reminders to diet and exercise are useless.

I mean, I literally went to Cochrane Reviews, one of the best-respected sources for massive meta-analyses, and I just input the keywords "weight loss" and "exercise," and I'm tooling through the results. Every one of the damn things shows that we do not have high-quality research indicating that exercise leads to weight loss. So no. I'm right, and you need to adjust your worldview--ask yourself, if not for weight loss, then why? Re-read those sources: exercise improved muscle density, insulin sensitivity, and cholesterol. It's good for your blood vessels, it's good for your strength, it's good for your brain.

But it won't make you thin. Maybe two pounds, maybe five, but that's about it. If you're looking at short-term, like a year, sure, you can lose weight--but the effort will almost always result in your body going "oh shit, we're living in a famine" and you will regain it, and now, with your body at a new set-point, losing it will be harder. Regaining will be easier. Welcome to the life-destroying yo-yo.

[scientia-rex]

#then what the fuck are we supposed to do?

Exercise and eat lots of fruits and vegetables and whole grains because those things will keep you healthier longer, regardless of how much you weigh, and pick up your pick-axe in the ongoing horribly slow and frustrating fight of chipping away at the idea that being fat is a bad thing that means you’re a bad person. I recommend the book Fat Talk for a good place to start.

[inbabylontheywept]

so once me and my wife were watching a documentary where a snake ate like a million eggs. that snake just went to fucking town on eggs. and the snake made the eggs look so good that i kept thinking about it, and thinking about it, and thinking about it, and eventually it was 11pm and i ran out of willpower and decided to eat one (1) singular raw egg just to prove to myself that the snake was surely a liar.

the snake was not a liar. texture is like, super important to me and raw eggs are very Texture so i had another one, and then another one, and then another one, and eventually i ran out of eggs.

i had like, fifteen raw eggs.

i didnt really know how to explain this momentary madness to my wife, so my Plan was to put all the eggshells into a grocey bag, and then throw that grocery bag in the dumpster, and if she never noticed that would be Excellent and if she noticed immediately i could lie and say that the eggs went bad.

except i cant lie very good, and of course with murphys law being such, i got salmonella.

so i threw up a lot and my wife asked me what poisoned me so and i tried very hard to dodge the question but i was oozing shame like oil from a room temperature cheese and eventaully i gave in and told her everything and to her enormous credit she was more flabbergasted than actually upset. she did make me promise to not eat any more raw eggs, which i have stuck to, and she gives me weird looks during nature documentaries now as if desire was the only thing keeping me from eating thousands of pounds of krill anyway i made a joke earlier about being able to eat my age in eggs and my sister in law in law made a drawing to comemorate the moment and also because it was my birthday. she's excellent. thank you 10000000% @cintailed. you should all visit her page and admire her work.

[inbabylontheywept]

daily reminder that i am a person with poor impulse control and not a demon piloting a skinsuit to punish the damned before they die. i cannot eat eggshells. sorry to dissapoint.

[wanderer-chronicles]

[feyosha]

tough audience

[foodcravings]

Steak tips, mashed potato, green beans, and macaroni (via Instagram)

[crevicedwelling]

Bear was not a huge fan of her daughter Pear when the two first met. maternal instinct has been bred out of domestic Coturnix quail, so Bear was quite suspicious of this mysterious peeping bundle!

when Pear grew up (4 weeks later) the two eventually found some common ground in their shared attributes of roundness and brownness and would spend most of their time together. Pear ended up larger than her mother but inherited her gentle disposition and love of sitting around staring blankly into space

[crevicedwelling]

thinking about these dumplings today. I’ve met very few birds that were this excellent at sitting

[occudo]

Happy Pride everyone! ✨️

Remember when I asked for ideas for stickers in this post ?-This is how they turned out -sorry I didn't include everyone/ everything :'D