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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

bascule@mas.to ("Tony Arcieri 🌹🦀") wrote:

To fix the bungled CrowdStrike update, apparently you need to boot the system into safe mode and remove a file.

If the system was encrypted with Bitlocker, you need to enter the system's Bitlocker recovery key.

Apparently, many people are discovering they didn't have key management in place to store Bitlocker recovery keys, making it akin to a self-inflicted ransomware attack.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

love it:

‘Erica Kato, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation System, which runs the city's buses, trains and iconic cable cars, said the agency's main systems are not even connected to the internet. "Long live floppy disks, I guess!" she said.’

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07/19/business/global-tech-outage?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

JanMiksovsky@fosstodon.org ("Jan Miksovsky") wrote:

I think we should start referring to the output of industrial React toolchains as "ultraprocessed HTML".

#html #smallweb

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

Some_Emo_Chick ("Frankie ✅") wrote:

Just a friendly reminder. June is procrastination awareness month.

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

danfuzz ("Dan Bornstein") wrote:

Today is perhaps a good day to (re)read "How Complex Systems Fail."

https://how.complexsystems.fail/

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

fen@yiff.life ("fennec :verified: :therian:") wrote:

@lobo @Siph i touch a little computer myself

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

kizu@front-end.social ("Roma Komarov") wrote:

I wrote a new article: “Fit-to-Width Text: A New Technique”.

https://kizu.dev/fit-to-width/

Registered custom properties are now available in all modern browsers.

Using some pre-existing techniques based on them and complex container query length units, I solved a years-long problem of fitting text to the width of a container, hopefully paving the path towards a proper native implementation.

#CSS #Typography

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• A screen recording showing a square block of text, where each line has text fit to width by resizing it. The video shows how the element is resized by dragging the container by a corner, and text becoming smaller, different lines stopping at different points when reaching a certain font size limit. The text in the example is: What if I will tell you how we could use registered custom properties (alongside container query length units and math) to solve fit-to-width text in all latest browsers? The text is in a century font with serifs, “registered custom properties” and “container style units” are written in italic, “to solve” in bold, and “math” and “in the latest browsers?” are in a “black” version of the font-face (bolder than bold). (remote)

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Guess it's "find out which services run on Linux" day.

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

ryan@hates.company ("ryan wolf") wrote:

book touchers

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

We think of right angles as a sign of human design, but Paramatachia spiders like to use them in their webs.

I wonder if these spiders have considered writing MIDI tunes?

https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2021/06/interesting-spiderweb-pattern.html

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• A spider web that consists of regular rectangular zig zags like the border on a Roman robe. (remote)

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Serve markup. Not too much. Progressively enhanced.

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

garbados@friend.camp ("crows call me breadlady") wrote:

maybe worth reposting this:

# Regarding why software is so bad

> Ours is an immature discipline, spanning not even a century. Our roads crumble, our bridges fail, and our aqueducts burst as profiteers rejoice at the opportunity to sell anew.

https://garbados.github.io/my-blog/regarding-software.html

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

What's new in Intelligent Design 3.0? Absolutely nothing.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/19/intelligent-design-3-0/

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• ID 3.0 Research Program (remote)

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Well, I think we know the subject for Monday's Oxide and Friends! Any thoughts on who @ahl and I should ask to have on as a guest?

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

a delightful story

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/nyregion/nyc-betty-gordon-stoned-crow.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8U0.gUH_.TjnGucX-Z3O3&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

ianb@well.com ("Ian Betteridge") wrote:

Ha ha ha no

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• Microsoft IT outage Analysis Is the UK resilient enough to withstand a major cyber-attack? Dan Sabbagh (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

littlealex@infosec.exchange ("LittleAlex") wrote:

Too funny: In 2010 McAffe caused a global IT meltdown due to a faulty update. CTO at this time was George Kurtz. Now he is CEO of #crowdstrike

https://www.zdnet.com/article/defective-mcafee-update-causes-worldwide-meltdown-of-xp-pcs/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Hope I’m not missing anything important.

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• A steep trail on a green fell. In the background, more fells. Wife in front.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Masks are a symbol of tyranny and oppression.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/19/virtue-signaling/

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• Republicans wearing bandages over their ear (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Gol dang it. I was reminded this morning that Nanci Griffith is no longer with us. But thanks to technology, I can revisit some of her work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9lUG4gBjSE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GK462XnRjQ

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

davidho@mastodon.world ("David Ho") wrote:

TBH, this seems worse than having the road blocked by climate activists for a few minutes, much less talk about doing so on a Zoom call.

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• A flooded highway in Toronto with vehicles, including a school bus and a van, partially submerged in water. Cars are stuck in traffic due to the flooding under an overpass with green directional signs overhead. (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

HcInfosec@defcon.social wrote:

@atwolf @xssfox na

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• The xkcd infrastructure comic, but a wrecking ball labelled "crowdstrike" has hit the stack of infrastructure broadside. I hanscees did not make this image, but copy pasted the meme (remote)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:

Y'know what will be completely unaffected by the crowdstrike debacle?

Tomorrow night's @DoctorDeathray and Her Implements of Destruction show at Canopy + The Roots in Dahlonega, GA!

If you're around, come on out and rock with us!

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

If anybody is wondering the impact of the Crowdstrike thing - it’s really bad. Machines don’t boot.

The recovery is boot in safe mode, log in as local admin and delete things - which isn’t automateable. Basically Crowdstrike will be in very hot water.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

These Republicans are *weird*, yo.

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

agresor@infosec.exchange ("Patryk Krawaczyński") wrote:

Facebook probably has your phone number, even if you never shared it. Now it has a secret tool to let you delete it:

https://www.facebook.com/contacts/removal

#facebook #privacy #data

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I'm positively surprised how well designed WebGPU and #WGSL are.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Based on version numbers seen by crates-io, #Debian stable #Rustlang package is unlikely to be used by more than 0.1% of Rust users.

https://p.datadoghq.com/sb/3a172e20-e9e1-11ed-80e3-da7ad0900002-973f4c1011257befa8598303217bfe3a?fromUser=false&refresh_mode=sliding&from_ts=1720723122100&to_ts=1721327922100&live=true

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Seems a little odd the group saying "nobody wants to work anymore" and "everything is so expensive" is somehow ALSO the group saying "we should get rid of all the people who do the labor nobody else wants to do that keeps costs lower."

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

The expensive toys I want to play with in my midlife crisis are too tiny to be seen with the naked eye.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/18/i-want-my-microbots/

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• Microbots! Single-cell collection with optically actuated microstructure. (remote)