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Captainant

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  1. 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...

  2. 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. 

     

  3. 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

  4. 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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    Edited by Captainant

    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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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...

  9. 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

  10. 51 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Not for a minute do I ascribe that as the only source of inflation.

    It's not that price gouging was THE SINGULAR SOURCE of inflation - there absolutely were demand spikes and a lack of capacity to satisfy that spike. But gouging is a completely optional piece, that has been a pretty significant portion of inflation. 

     

    However, incredulity is not someone capable of holding that thought in his head, and he calls anyone a communist who disagrees with him.

  11. 1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Agree except for the greed part- if the demand signal is telling them that prices are below what the market will support, what choice do they have? Fundamentally I think the problem here is the problem with the economy for most people- the slosh of stimulus injected liquidity disconnecting buying power from income, following four decades of labor not sharing in productivity gains.

     

    1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Do you think that explains the entirety of record corporate profits in a time period where the average American is taking it in the shorts?

     

    32 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Oh absolutely.  Broadly speaking, that was a major target of stimulus. Before that the target was support for asset prices, especially real estate. And not for nothing, I don’t recall you complaining about record home prices while the average American was taking it in the shorts. 

    Wait Bozo, so it's your view that the one-off stimulus payments to individuals are the main contributing factor to the long-term sustained inflation that we observed post-COVID? I'm not sure I can see how giving American citizens an extra 3% of the median pay ($1400 stimmie) in a single payment is meaningful leg of support for long-term >50% cost increases.

  12. 1 hour ago, Buzzrock said:

    Some sort of WWII YouTube video. 
     

     

    huh, the Corridor Digital crew are generally decent dudes - I think it's just aggy being tonedeaf and not thinking about how it looks to be gleeful in a waffen SS uniform. 

    I'd bet that CD video is gonna be a banger though, they've made a ton of great stuff over the decade plus they've been going

  13. 1 hour ago, C-Man said:

    Contrast the glacial speed of Trump's cases with that of Senator Menendez, who was charged, tried and convicted in roughly the amount of time it takes Trump to send a rage tweet from his shitter.

    (D) vs (R)

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