I’m upvoting you because you’re making a lot of sense. The only thing I don’t get is your assessment of what Putin thinks about my comments. Not trying to debate. Have a nice day.

Putin’s government is anti-gay and anti-LGBTQ af so I’m making light of it by referencing a meme from 12 years ago.

We’ve known this about Putin for over a decade now.

Maybe Orbán and him should get a room.

So at this point, Israel has stopped making up reasons on how the piece of civilian structure that the people of Gaza need to live, could be an offensive resource for Hamas.

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Jerboa is my choice, but what you settle on depends on what features you want.

Repeating lossy compression on a dataset produces lossier data, which seems pretty intuitive, glad it is spelled out in a paper.

In fact, Harris once identified herself as wearing a blue dress at a disability conference to assist blind and sight impaired people. That’s totally weird, and helping people absolutely disqualifies her for holding office in the Republican Party.

Yeah the latest news I heard about the Russian economy was about falling out of a window. Sure sounds like things are looking up for them…

I wish you a warm welcome to the Fediverse! Your contributions to keeping discussions genuine, fun and interesting, and reporting excessively toxic behaviour will be much appreciated.

Um, thanks for bringing the latest enlightenment from Reddit, I guess?

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He’s from the UK. Like me in Canada, we get to live in relative bliss in not needing to worry about living in the current US reality…

You’ve already made your determination not to vote, and no candidate seems to please you. So what are you going on about? What do you want?

https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/crowdstrike-freezing-rockylinux-after-9-4-upgrade/14041

The bug seems to have only affected certain Linux kernels and versions. Of course no one cared, because it didn’t simultaneously take out hospital systems and airline systems worldwide to an extent that you’d only think you’d see in movies.

Linux has comparitive advantages for being so diverse. Since there are so many different update channels it would be hard to pull off such a large outage, intentionally or unintentionally. Yet, if we imagine a totally equivalent scenario of a CrowdStrike update causing kernel panics in most Linux distribitions, this is what could be done:

• Ubuntu, Redhat, and other organizations who make money from supporting and ensuring reliability of their customers’ systems, would be on the case to find a working configuration, as soon as they find out it’s not an isolated incident or user error.
• If one finds a solution, it will likely quickly be shared to other organizations and adapted.
• The error logs, and inner workings of the kernel and where it fails are clearly available to admins, customer support personnel and tech nerds, so they aren’t fully at the mercy of the maintainers of the proprietary blobs (both Microsoft and Crowdstrike, for Windows, but only Crowdstrike for Linux) to determine the cause and potential solutions that would be available.
• The Linux internet-facing component updates can be rolled back and inspected/installed separately to the Crowdstrike updates. The buggy update to Microsoft Azure and from Crowdstrike happening together on the same day muddied the waters as to what exactly went wrong in the first several hours of the outage.
• There’s more flexibility to adjust the behaviour of the kernel itself, even in a scenario CrowdStrike was dragging its feet. Emergency kernel patches could just set to ignore panics caused by the faulty configuration files identified, at least as a potential temporary fix.

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Even if this were considered binding I’m hardpressed to think the US would play along with it.

I think the best outcome would be if Europe were to lead with the first sanctions on Israel. The US will protest but will be forced to cover their ears when the EU reads off their thorough rationale. Maybe eventually, so long as the Democratic candidate succeeds for 2025, we will see concrete action.

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@partial_accumen had the same idea. i.reddit.com was too good of an experience for Reddit to keep around, despite hardly being maintained for almost a decade.

Welcome back! Were you here in the times there were only around 20 active people to talk to on each site?

New Outlook is a pile of shit compared to the desktop Outlook app. It’s been causing a lot of headaches for my coworkers. Microsoft had better port near every single feature over to the newapp before they force everyone on it.