stay on this side of paradise

24, United States, estoy luchando para aprender español

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[catchymemes]

[oranges-are-rad]

Leftist Americans are so weird with how much they hate their country. So many people are like “Trump is making our allies mad with the tariffs he’s imposing” but aren’t mad that these “allies” they’re defending take advantage of us at every turn. Imagine your neighbor taking advantage of you and sucking you dry and being mad at your parents for putting a stop to it. Our country is broke. We have no money. We have failing infrastructure, a bankrupting healthcare system, record inflation, yet we need to take care of other countries for what reason?

[oranges-are-rad]

I can already see the mainstream news blaming Trump for record inflation and a failing economy first thing tomorrow morning, after gaslighting us for four years straight acting like this was normal and that Joe was doing a good job

[oranges-are-rad]

One thing I’ve never understood is why AOC gets so much attention? There are 435 members of the House of Representatives, so why does SHE get so much attention? I’ve thought this since the first day she took office

[thinkfeelbe]

[oranges-are-rad]

All the lefties I know FINALLY admitted that Joe Biden was a terrible president a few weeks ago. Then what do those fools do? Immediately fawn over Kamala Harris. BRO SHE WAS IN THE SAME ADMINISTRATION! SHE IS ALSO THE PROBLEM! How stupid do you have to be? The DNC would not let Bernie beat Hillary, so yall had to settle for that train wreck and pretend you liked it. Then yall had to settle for a career politician in 2020. Then yall had your primaries stolen from you when yall knew the entire time that your incumbent was not fit to serve, and you guys are still taking it from them. The Stockholm syndrome is real. Yall are insane. But the right is supposedly the “cult”. Baby, the call is coming from inside the house!

[henpillled-deactivated20241123]

listen i am a blue cheese hater

[scallioncreamcheesebagel]

no matter how bad things get at least im not the guy that pushed the crowdstrike update that bluescreened all windows computers and grounded every flight worldwide. what a week

[scallioncreamcheesebagel]

guys wake up y2k happened

[viralfrog]

[flightyquinn]

Companies really be out here pulling the exact kind of shit they'd never tolerate from an applicant.

"Yeah, sorry. I've actually only taken two years of university. I just said that I had my degree to get a bigger pool of interviews."

[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 Crowdstrike breaks 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.

[westenraskiss]

Normalize going into people’s ask boxes and ask them random ass questions.

Tumblr used to be so much fun with all the asks (anonymous or otherwise), and we need to bring those back, especially now that we finally have a half-decent blocking feature in place.

Ask people things! Message them! Don’t let tumblr inbox die! It’s one of the features that made tumblr tumblr.

[oranges-are-rad]

Tesla freaks are such weirdos because they act like they love cars but really they love tech. If Apple made an iCar/iSUV/iTruck; or Samsung made a Galaxy S Car/SUV/Truck they would lose all their cringey fans

[oranges-are-rad]

From the videos I’ve seen, Tesla’s tech does look intriguing, but their cars are so ugly it’s a sin. The only car that looks remotely good is the Model 3. Whoever designed the cyber truck should be locked in Guantanamo Bay. I’ve said it before, but if EVs actually are the future eventually, and it makes more sense to own one than an ICE car, I am not buying Tesla. I’ll buy a Volvo or Volkswagen, aka car makes that actually focus on the car rather than the tech

[oranges-are-rad]

Tesla freaks are such weirdos because they act like they love cars but really they love tech. If Apple made an iCar/iSUV/iTruck; or Samsung made a Galaxy S Car/SUV/Truck they would lose all their cringey fans

[azderathos]

[disgruntled-foreign-patriarch]

it's so sad. May that person be at rest, and his family/loved ones find peace

[oranges-are-rad]

I physically can’t take listening to Joe Biden much longer. The dudes always been a dumbass, but he’s so far beyond that now. How in the hell is he allowed to be president still? He needs to be in a nursing home. Maybe hospice. It’s insanity.

[oranges-are-rad]

I hate being negative. I hate feeling like I’m bringing down the mood. I want to be positive. I want to be warm and be a person who people look forward to being around. But HOW THE HELL am I supposed to NOT be negative when I am putting in genuine effort all the time to achieve goals, and they NEVER go my way? How am I supposed to be positive when everything good falls through right when I have hope, and in surrounded by people who have what in looking for?

[oranges-are-rad]

And when I voice this to people in my life, they said “it’ll come when you least expect it” no it won’t. I’ve never expected that o get anything easily, and never have I gotten it easily.

Or “it’ll come when you stop looking/trying for it”. Again; no it won’t. Did I lose weight by not trying? No. Did I get a good job by not trying? No. That’s not how life works. Except for people who have easy lives, who can’t range to this regardless

Or my favorite: “it’s a lesson!” I don’t NEED ANY MORE LESSONS. I’ve learned enough. Why the fuck can’t these lessons go to other people? I am an imperfect person and will never claim otherwise; but what have I done that is so much worse than the average person that I don’t deserve anything good in my life without fighting way harder for it than what it’s worth?

[oranges-are-rad]

All I’ve been wanting for over a year is someone to love me and have like a life partner/companion just like everyone else asks for and I can’t get it. Apparently, that’s asking for too much! Despite the fact that I’m 25 and have never had this, and many people have had way more than one. Excuse the fuck out of me for being greedy for wanting to experience it one time, I guess