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every single school teacher should get paid $300,000 a year minimum and ICE agents should all die simultaneously in agony. this is my congressional budget plan
I don't think we talk enough about how epic and cool and awesome Princess Quest is so I'm hereby starting the conversation
Pro Of A Special Interest: Been thinking about it all day
Con Of A Special Interest: Been thinking about it all night
i made a meme for wednesday
Can't believe they took down the Internet on a Friday, bro you gotta do that on a Monday.
maybe they shouldn’t have put so many of the major arteries in such erotic places. Have you ever thought about that
died 2000 born 2024 welcome back y2k!! (crowdstrike)
Someone asked, so if you're on the western hemisphere and waking up to read your dashboard like it's the morning news, I'll summarize; Crowdstrike, a cybersecurity company that works closely with Microsoft, rolled out a bad update last night.
Some- not all- machines are impacted, and by 4am EST there's a workaround if you are (boot in safe mode, delete a specific file.) The main issue if you personally prefer to use your phone or your computer works alright is all the owners of your favorite websites might not be so lucky.
The problem: your bank probably runs on Microsoft. Your workplace runs on Microsoft. Your doctors. Your airports and trains and bus hubs. They alll have to either swap to Linux or boot in safe mode. On every machine.
The good news: if you're just waking up now, you missed the worst part of it (when no one was sure why nothing was working.) Save your receipts today, and expect delays in transit, and you're probably gonna have a slightly weird but perfectly okay day.
Tumblr user waking up to read their dashboard like it's the morning news:
(having mildly hard time drawing) i hate doing this shit i’m never doing it again (having mildly fun time drawing) i love this shit it’s what i was born to do (having mildly hard time drawing) i hate this shi
idk if people on tumblr know about this but a cybersecurity software called crowdstrike just did what is probably the single biggest fuck up in any sector in the past 10 years. it's monumentally bad. literally the most horror-inducing nightmare scenario for a tech company.
some info, crowdstrike is essentially an antivirus software for enterprises. which means normal laypeople cant really get it, they're for businesses and organisations and important stuff.
so, on a friday evening (it of course wasnt friday everywhere but it was friday evening in oceania which is where it first started causing damage due to europe and na being asleep), crowdstrike pushed out an update to their windows users that caused a bug.
before i get into what the bug is, know that friday evening is the worst possible time to do this because people are going home. the weekend is starting. offices dont have people in them. this is just one of many perfectly placed failures in the rube goldburg machine of crowdstrike. there's a reason friday is called 'dont push to live friday' or more to the point 'dont fuck it up friday'
so, at 3pm at friday, an update comes rolling into crowdstrike users which is automatically implemented. this update immediately causes the computer to blue screen of death. very very bad. but it's not simply a 'you need to restart' crash, because the computer then gets stuck into a boot loop.
this is the worst possible thing because, in a boot loop state, a computer is never really able to get to a point where it can do anything. like download a fix. so there is nothing crowdstrike can do to remedy this death update anymore. it is now left to the end users.
it was pretty quickly identified what the problem was. you had to boot it in safe mode, and a very small file needed to be deleted. or you could just rename crowdstrike to something else so windows never attempts to use it.
it's a fairly easy fix in the grand scheme of things, but the issue is that it is effecting enterprises. which can have a looooot of computers. in many different locations. so an IT person would need to manually fix hundreds of computers, sometimes in whole other cities and perhaps even other countries if theyre big enough.
another fuck up crowdstrike did was they did not stagger the update, so they could catch any mistakes before they wrecked havoc. (and also how how HOW do you not catch this before deploying it. this isn't a code oopsie this is a complete failure of quality ensurance that probably permeates the whole company to not realise their update was an instant kill). they rolled it out to everyone of their clients in the world at the same time.
and this seems pretty hilarious on the surface. i was havin a good chuckle as eftpos went down in the store i was working at, chaos was definitely ensuring lmao. im in aus, and banking was literally down nationwide.
but then you start hearing about the entire country's planes being grounded because the airport's computers are bricked. and hospitals having no computers anymore. emergency call centres crashing. and you realised that, wow. crowdstrike just killed people probably. this is literally the worst thing possible for a company like this to do.
crowdstrike was kinda on the come up too, they were starting to become a big name in the tech world as a new face. but that has definitely vanished now. to fuck up at this many places, is almost extremely impressive. its hard to even think of a comparable fuckup.
a friday evening simultaneous rollout boot loop is a phrase that haunts IT people in their darkest hours. it's the monster that drags people down into the swamp. it's the big bag in the horror movie. it's the end of the road. and for crowdstrike, that reaper of souls just knocked on their doorstep.
@ms-demeanor I assume this has been your Friday?
yep :) :) :) :)
here's what one of our ops guys posted in the meeting:
@ms-demeanor - said on our bridge call, and echoed repeatedly around the internet
"Happy belated Y2K everyone"
You can see exactly when everyone realized how badly they’d fucked up.
This is about to change the entire way the cyber world works, by the way. This is very akin to what happened to our telecommunications grid on 9/11, and the sudden amount of legislation to make sure it never happened again was absolutely insane.
I don’t say this to frighten you, because the odds are good it’s nothing that should cause fear (legislation will likely be aimed at companies providing and/or using these services, and at bolstering 911). But the world changed today. If you’re late Gen Z or early Gen Alpha, this is something that’s slipping by you so quietly you won’t even realize until years from now that you lived through a watershed. (This isn’t me being condescending when I say that, by the way. My CrowdStrike moment was the switch from analog to digital TV. Sooner or later we all have one.)
If you’re the type of person who likes to write things down, write down what you thought about today. In ten or twenty years, a museum will be absolutely THRILLED to have a firsthand account of your airport experience, grocery checkout issues, even the fact that you happened to work at a company that doesn’t use CrowdStrike and you’re hearing your friends in the IT sector lose their fucking minds while wondering how much you absolutely definitely should not say your company uses different software. They can use those firsthand accounts to build a picture for the people who weren’t here.
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im a hater BECAUSE i like things and want them to be good. and also because im an asshole
shout out to the people who DO look autistic
to the people who have different facial features from autism or conditions that often occur with autism
to the people who need padded equipment, gait trainers, or other highly noticeable aids
to the people who are ignored in favor of talking to their parents/guardians/carers
to the people who have been told they shouldn’t be seen in public because of their autism
to the people who are told they don’t exist by low support needs autistics
there is a place for you in the autistic community <3 [heart]