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  1. 2 minutes ago, Enchubben said:

    The truth is that the health of the "economy" isn't one or two singular measures, so he probably doesn't need to. I don't know the exact number, but I would guess only a third of Americans have an IRA or 401k (or otherwise directly benefit from a 40K DJIA) and so increases in the stock market prices don't impact a large swathe of potential voters. What those voters do notice however, are increases in costs at the pump, grocery store etc. which did become a significant issue for them over the last 3-4 years. 

    It's so weird to me that people obsess over their 401k - it's something you should be looking at quarterly, not tracking day by day

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  2. FTC calling out M$ for doing pretty much the exact opposite of what it said it would do when it was acquiring Activision

    https://www.ign.com/articles/ftc-blasts-xbox-game-pass-price-increase-and-new-tiers-as-product-degradation

    A new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filing in the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is taking aim at the recent Xbox Game Pass price increase, saying that it vindicates "the congressional design of preliminarily halting mergers to full evaluate their likely competitive effects."

    The filing argues that the price increase, which was announced July 9, is "inconsistent" with the case it made during last year's Xbox FTC trial. In breaking down the new revised service, the FTC filing describes the new Standard tier as a "degraded product" that withholds day-one releases while still representing an increase over the original Console Game Pass tier.

    "Product degradation — removing the most valuable games from Microsoft's new service — combined with price increases for existing users, is exactly the sort of consumer harm from the merger the FTC has alleged," the filing reads. It also notes that the price increase coincides with Call of Duty being added to the most expensive tier.

    As outlined last week, the newly-revised Xbox Game Pass will raise the price of the Ultimate tier from $16.99 to $19.99 per month along with a host of other changes. The price increase was described as inevitable by analysts speaking with IGN, with some predicting that Game Pass will eventually see the introduction of ads. The changes are said to be part of a push by Xbox to recoup some of its $69 billion investment in Activision Blizzard.

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  3. Just now, Dahobbs said:

    Are the systems with bitlocker installed extra turbo fucked? 

    Oh we got hit by that! We have to call our central IT, verify our identity, read the serial number sticker off our machine, and then boot into safe mode, enter the bitlocker pin, and then go into command line and delete the bad DLL. Reboot and you're good!

    Super fast and easy and scalable lol

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  4. 4 minutes ago, kevwun said:

    Isn't the update breaking VMs also?  I don't see how it didn't get caught because it seems to break everything it's installed on.

    Yeah my virtual desktop is hosed lol. Thankfully I have local admin on my work laptop and didn't auto pull the update so I'm not completely hosed. 

    Our outlook servers, VPN, and a few other core shared services are completely børked though. 

    Gonna be an interesting Friday lol

  5. Just now, Shaggy3.0 said:

    true.  i know several clients with 0 QA teams.  downsized and asked each domain to test their own work.

    lovely

    Don't get me wrong, I think the devops model is better than the tradition dev/QA model, but it is rarely done "right" and not just as a buzzword thing. If QA is a defined part of your acceptance criteria then you're good, but PM's and business partners have a way of ignoring those things I've found. 

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  6. 4 minutes ago, Macklemore said:

    LOL

    Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, does not plan to endorse a candidate in the November presidential election, he told Bloomberg News in an interview on Thursday. But Zuckerberg praised Donald J. Trump’s immediate response to the assassination attempt against him, saying that it was difficult not to get “emotional about that spirit and that fight — and I think that’s why a lot of people like the guy.”

    https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07/19/us/trump-rnc-republican-convention/fdcfc875-ac74-5869-a601-99b38f6034db?smid=url-share

    You like trump for the pedophilia and rape, right?

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  7. 6 minutes ago, Blotto said:

    Thats what I don't get. If the  updates fucks all Windows boxes once installed, how does this make it out of Crowdstrikes QA? I assume they QA this shit before release, but perhaps i'm naive about that. 

    QA is typically seen as a cost center and is often a first group targeted for downsizing by idiot empty suits, or getting outsourced to a consulting firm that's more interested in returning GREEN status than actually doing QA. Ive seen it firsthand in my customers time and time again

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  8. 4 minutes ago, DanTheHorn said:

    Yes but making sure you don't get a BOSD on reboot seems like a basic test before deploying a patch no matter how frequent patches are issued.

     

    1 minute ago, boilerhorn said:

    True agile has that in tier 7 of the testing, which is customer-testing.  Windows boot, post-deployment, will now be part of the "DOA Testing" adding 5 minutes to the CI, slowing developers. ;)

    You're telling me the push to prod ISN'T "user acceptance testing"?? Ah fuck I gotta send some emails...

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  9. 3 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

    Are there systems management tools that can automate the process of booting to safe mode and removing the offending file? In the olden days we just had to stand in front of the console or maybe get in via a remote access card one by one. 

    There are for Linux, because it's a OS that's actually built for enterprise usage lol. Windows is basically a full reinstall to unfuck it, and from what I've been reading in /r/crowdstrike most admins are just completely locked out from remote windows systems due to the boot loop. 

     

  10. 8 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

    Does Crowdstrike make consumer solutions or is this contained to enterprise systems? The only Windows machine in my house is the boy’s gaming PC. 

    It's usually deployed as part of a managed device, I know it's on my work laptop and virtual desktop as part of the whole minimum required security posture. I get the option to postpone windows and user software updates, but endpoint protection gets pushed through

     

    2 minutes ago, 0xdeadbeef said:

    It appears to be 3rd party kernel-mode driver, not a user level DLL.  

    Username appropriate lulz

  11. 7 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

    It’s puzzling how this could have been rolled out so broadly without being tested and caught. Back when I did that sort of thing for a living (thankfully those days are way behind me) we tested pretty extensively before rolling out patches / updates.

    Nothing breaks itself quite so eagerly as windows does. Because antivirus/endpoint protection (crowd strike) is security it gets frequent definition updates that are pushed out quickly. Since windows is a brittle cunt of an OS, one small thing sends it spiraling and more often than not requires a full OS refresh to unfuck

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  12. Lol windows is such a fkn pile, it's wild how easily one bad push update can cripple their OS globally. 

    I've seen so many outages caused on Windows fleets just from one bad update that forces you to ol yeller the whole install and restart from scratch

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  13. 6 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    That is true.  But, that's not the only ground under which they could remand it to a different judge.  Two pretty bad rulings, some questionable but not unlawful docket management, her inexperience, the literally thousands of complaints the 11th Circuit Judicial Conference has received about her (most not actionable) and the fact that even other conservative district judges urged her to give it to another judge.  That all spells "the interest of justice."

    It's far from a slam dunk, but it's more possible that it may initially seem.

    And the ruling is heading pretty hard toward bonkers, a serious misapprehension of the Appointments Clause.

    Fail Charlie Brown GIF by Peanuts

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  14. 2 hours ago, Felix said:

    I just read The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.  If you think the Nazi comparisons are over the top, I suggest you read/listen to it.  If I wasn't already concerned, which I was, that took it to another level.  The similarities are pretty hard to ignore.

    For more fun, check out Robert Evans' "Behind the Insurrection" spin off that he did right after Jan6. The case studies of all the fascist takeovers have SO. MANY. SIMILARITIES. with the republican efforts of today

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  15. Really fuckin weird, my wife had a matt carriker (demo ranch dude) video on her recommended scroll on YouTube this morning. I do not understand why media companies pump up dirt bags who sell "make politicians scared again" hats on his bunker banding apparel site

    https://web.archive.org/web/20240705070410/https://www.bunkerbranding.com/products/make-politicians-afraid-again-hat

    For some reason that product isn't on his storefront anymore...

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  16. 24 minutes ago, tokamak said:

    The only remedies for a private company with a monopoly are competition, nationalization, or a ball-busting regulator that is immune to capture. None of those things is going to happen, either for practical or political reasons. Centerpoint has a PR disaster every few years, customers and politicians get Very, Very Mad and then....life moves on. I think a big part of Centerpoint's usefulness is as a PR shield for the people that actually have the power to change the situation. If you're mad at Centerpoint, I think you're mad at the wrong people.

    Isn't it grand living under an oligarchy where the people have no recourse to change anything and the wealthy are cleared to bribe officials because it's """protected speech"""? Lol yeah I'll go write and call my Congressperson and senators (state and fed) about the outage, that VM will go right to a full inbox and they'll reply to my letter after a couple quarters. 

    If you don't have a trough of donations, you're just another customer to exploit and extract wealth from

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