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I’m not entirely sure, because I’ve never gotten the hang of Twitter. But reading between the lines, I think this is the sequence of events:

Libertarian twit tweets a death threat against Harris.

Libertarian twit is reminded of the rules (and common decency) and removes the offending tweet.

Libertarian twit passive aggressively tweets about having removed the tweet they twote, invoking the promises of free speech to imply that Leon was censoring their tweets and trampling on their freedoms.

Leon responds to the complaint with the tweet the twit twote, simultaneously demonstrating that the twit is a twat and amplifying the message.

Normally, phobias are defined as an irrational fear. This one is not.

He also took a healthy liver and destroyed it. Someone on the transplant list probably died because they were behind him on the list, and he should have been disqualified for being noncompliant with medical advice.

And likely a fair bit of bone and connective tissue, but it’s all been processed and homogenized.

Jokes on them, I don’t have any.

Oh. I made myself sad.

“Owl, pass” Cow is calling for the ball, which Owl has thrown towards Cow.

Perplexica? What sort of sauce goes with that?

For a minute I legit thought Italy had dropped a new pasta shape.

Microsoft gave CrowdStrike unfettered access to push an update that can BSOD every Windows machine without a bypass or failsafe in place. That turned out to be a bad idea.

CrowdStrike pushed an errant update. Microsoft allowed a single errant update to cause an unrecoverable boot loop. CrowdStrike is the market leader in their sector and brings in hundreds of millions of dollars every year, but Microsoft is older than the internet and creates hundreds of billions of dollars. CrowdStrike was the primary cause, but Microsoft enabled the meltdown.

Even if that’s the case, how is it Crowdstrike’s place to call these other companies out for claiming something similar will never happen to them?

I agree completely, which is why I added that last sentence in an edit. This is a bad look for CrowdStrike, even if I agree with the sentiment.

Thus far, it had only ever happened to CS.

Everybody fucks up now and then. That’s my point. It’s why you shouldn’t trust one company to automatically push security updates to critical production servers without either a testing environment or disaster recovery procedures in place.

I doubt you’ll find any software company, or any company in any industry, that has not fucked up something really important. That’s the nature of commerce. It’s why many security protocols exist in the first place. If everyone could be trusted to do their jobs right 100% of the time, you would only need to worry about malicious attacks which make up only a small fraction of security incidents.

The difference here is that CrowdStrike sold a bunch of clients on the idea that they could be trusted to push security updates to production servers without trsting environments. I doubt they told Delta that they didn’t need DRP or any redundancy, but either way, the failure was amplified by a collective technical debt that corporations have been building into their budget sheets to pad their stock prices.

By all means, switch from CrowdStrike to a competitor. Or sue them for the loss of value resulting in their fuckup. Sort that out in the contracts and courts, because that’s not my area. But we should all recognize that the lesson learned is not to switch to another threat prevention software company that won’t fuck up. Such a company does not exist.

If you stub your toe, you don’t start walking on your hands. You move the damn coffee table out of the pathway and watch where you’re walking. The lesson is to invest in your infrastructure, build in redundancy, and protect your critical systems from shit like this.

It’s not really criticism, it’s competitors claiming they will never fuck up.

Like, if you found mouse in your hamburger at McDonald’s, that’s a massive fuckup. If Burger King then started saying “you’ll never find anything gross in Burger King food!” that would be both crass opportunism and patently false.

It’s reasonable to criticize CrowdStrike. They fucked up huge. The incident was a fuckup, and creating an environment where one incident could cause total widespread failure was a systemic fuckup. And it’s not even their first fuckup, just the most impactful and public.

But also Microsoft fucked up. And the clients, those who put all of their trust into Microsoft and CrowdStrike without regard to testing, backups, or redundancy, they fucked up, too. Delta shut down, cancelling 4,600 flights. American Airlines cancelled 43 flights, 10 of which would have been cancelled even without the outage.

Like, imagine if some diners at McDonald’s connected their mouths to a chute that delivers pre-chewed food sight-unseen into their gullets, and then got mad when they fell ill from eating a mouse. Don’t do that, not at any restaurant.

All that said, if you fuck up, you don’t get to complain about your competitors being crass opportunists.

Carry a ladder, security will open gates for you.

I enjoy that, when I know that’s what I’m supposed to do. But I also enjoy layered meanings and puzzles. It’s like one of those magic eye posters, where you squint at it, and nothing appears and you realize it’s just a Jackson Pollack painting. Like yes, I appreciate the art for what it is, the totality of the experience and the nuance of the interplay between colors and textures. But also, I just spent ten minutes staring at it cross eyed thinking there was going to be a schooner.

I’m on the fence here.

On the one side, I love weird dream-logic fantasy worlds inhabited by strange and interesting characters. It’s like taking your frontal lobe to the dayspa.

On the other hand, I don’t enjoy searching for deeper meaning when the creator is being deliberately opaque and nonsensical. Absurdist art should come with a warning, “This ain’t gone make no damn sense.”

Like, imagine if you showed up to work on your first day, and it was a day spa, and your boss was just getting a massage. You don’t know what you’re supposed to do, so you spend the first day anxious and confused, and still you have no explanation. You ask what is going on, what you’re expected to do or learn from the situation, and everyone you meet wordlessly gestures broadly at the situation. “What is wrong withme?” you ponder while the world around you unfolds at its own pace.

Eventually, you might catch on that you’re not supposed to do anything, learn anything, or examine anything for allegories or metaphors. But now it’s too late, the experience is tainted by feelings of inadequacy and frustration. Instead of enjoying the art for what it is, you resent it for what it isn’t.

So yeah, I guess I’m saying don’t overthink it. Because I did, and I’m not having any fun.

I read that as “California launches electric trains at US…” and I was confused.

Then you need an expert on the equipment. If the person who tagged it out didn’t document why, and isn’t available to answer questions, then someone needs to do a full diagnostic and maintenance on whatever it is. Really, asking the person who failed to document the reason shouldn’t even be considered an option. Memories are unreliable. Anyone with the authority to lock out equipment should be trained on the procedure.

The original person who locked the switch fucked up, but that sort of fuckup is precisely why LOTO procedures exist. Safety regs are written in blood. 500 years ago, some well-meaning technician found some equipment that was broken and put it aside to fix later. One of their colleagues found the equipment, not realizing it was broken, tried to use it and immediately died a gruesome death.

Safety is diametric to convenience. Somebody cuts a corner somewhere, and the safest thing to do is overreact.

That’s actually exactly how it should work. The switch isn’t necessary, or someone would have called in an expert to fix it, so it hasn’t been fixed and remains locked.

If they become the Play store, why wouldn’t I just use the Play store?

Plus a bus is wider than a car, and takes up more of the lane than a car.

I mean, they’re not fooling anyone. That guy is obviously Jeremy Renner with dyed hair.