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Enjoy your Friday folks, what's left of it, wherever you are.

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I've been trying out this app that uses machine learning to identify species. I found a bug.

Well that has been a very trying day. It started with an all hands call at 0700 and did not stop

Perhaps we should try changing SCE to Aux

Days like this I have ideas about just buying a boat

There is another quite insidious side to things like . Faith in their effectiveness tends to lead to complacency. We've already seen one example of this.

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In a development of sheer brilliance, people can't create tickets from their work issued laptops because they're fucked

If a stay puft marshmallow man puts in an appearance on Fifth today that would round off this month nicely

When Clive Owen's character in The Bourne Identity dies he says "LOOK WHAT THEY MAKE YOU GIVE" and I feel like that every time I get fucked by proprietary software

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> "CrowdStrike: Stop breaches. Drive business".

> Proceeds to breach and halt more businesses' computer infrastructure than any malware in history

I understand your concerns about telemetry and privacy, but really what we should be talking about is my bonus

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Install this kill remote kill switch in your systems, it's for your own good, it'll never be used

I think the Crowdstrike CEO would like to help, but he's totally like driving his racing car this weekend so too bad

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okay people, stop with the 👉🥺👈 but crwd is just an itty babby don’t be meeean

they are a grown ass commercial software vendor who has known, for years, by design, that they effectively deliver a rootkit into enterprise systems and, often, critical infrastructure

again, if you have the energy to shame OSS contributors for their mistakes, but make excuses for large commercial vendors: maybe what you seek is punching down, not making the software ecosystem better hachyderm.io/@shortridge/11281

I just want to play with FOSS and help people, why the fuck am I dealing with this shit

I think for some organizations and for some parts of organizations the sheer monetary cost of this is going to be greater than a compromise, the very thing it's supposed to prevent against.

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Okay computer, compile this as if we're running it in production :)

:mycomputer: ok, seems to go well

Alright, then push it and run it in production!

:mycomputer: literally everything is on fire

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