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Love this, makes me tempted to see if I can personally rig up enough bullshit to make a completely meaningless slop video whenever I run a program, take the effort from 10 minutes to 10 seconds

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Kerbal Space Program was once afflicted by a bug the fans dubbed the "Deep Space Kraken", whereby if you travelled far enough from the origin of the game's coordinate system, floating point rounding errors would cause your spacecraft's components to become misaligned and/or clip into each other, resulting in the craft falling apart or exploding for no obvious reason.

The bug was later fixed by defining the active spacecraft itself as the origin of the game's coordinate system. In effect, the spacecraft no longer moves; instead, the spacecraft remains stationary and the entire universe moves around it. Owing to how relativity works, to the player this is indistinguishable from the spacecraft moving about within a fixed coordinate system, and it ensures that the body of the craft and its components will always be modelled with maximal precision.

While elegant, this solution introduced a new problem: it was now possible, by doing certain stupid tricks with relativistic velocities, to introduce floating point rounding errors to everything except the active spacecraft. In extreme cases, this could result in the destruction of the entire observable universe.

Some might call this one of those situations where the solution proves to be worse than the problem. I call it a perfect expression of what Kerbal Space Program is truly about.

Funny how Andrew Tate, the most truthful of all believing Muslims and the strongest of Allah's servants, would sell out his Muslim brethren to the nazis in England. Wow!

fujoshi final boss

My friend made me a 3d model for my fursona, Mihn!

abusing tumblr image limits to put together my emergency disco propaganda kit. for future reference or something

the thing about adulthood is when someone says something extremely rude to you, you can either turn the other cheek or calmly & firmly correct them. The third option is to tell them “say that again, I’ll bite you” & everyone sort of nervously laughs and tries to move on from your little joke. Which is why I think it’s very important that when they do say it again you follow through. Nobody actually expects you to bite them. We should be biting more. Also if you’re with the county health department do not read thi s post

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This is revolutionary. Never again will we have a Chernobyl disaster or a Fukushima tragedy where old people literally sacrifice their remaining life in order to take care of the reactor. Every single one needs to adapt to this immediately

why is "mummies are so rare bc the british ate them" always presented as like a morbid fun fact and not an example of heinous racism and dehumanization of people of colour to the point of cannibalism. a little bit odd if im honest.

Posting this everywhere til im not obsessed with it anymore

i know i say this a lot but why are dnd players like this

For non-tech people, the crowdstrike situation is much like if a surgeon fucked up and left a used condom inside a patient during an appendix removal.

Like, yeah, accidents can happen sometimes and even the best people will slip up. But for this case, the fact this was something that could happen accidentally means that were already an insane amount of things going wrong with the fundamental process, let alone it actually happening.

Serial killer horror almost always falls flat with me, not only because by default it has to frame the police (usually the literal FBI) as an unquestionable force of good, but because I know just enough about IRL serial killers (thanks 3 years of my life I wasted "studying" criminology) to know they are unanimously deeply uninteresting and pathetic people. The most common type of serial killer is a guy who kills vulnerable people (sex workers, substance users, racialized women and girls, queer people) because he can and gets away with it for a while because he's targeting people whose lives are explicitly devalued by the society he lives in. That's it. There's no secret pattern that needs to be uncovered, no cryptic messages that need to be decoded, and definitely no "Satanic" shit. The handful of times there is weird "occult" stuff involved it's literally just untreated mental illness or fascist mysticism/religiosity. There's genuinely nothing interesting or scary about these people, just a bitter and depressing distillation of the thousands of routine violences needed to maintain the status quo.

No matter how you slice it, this whole incident today is going to cause some pretty significant changes in the tech world.

1) More people are now acutely aware of the dangers of monopolies and near-monopolies - Crowdstrike Falcon was not the ONLY security suite used on an enterprise level, but the fact that it had so much of the global market share...well, if it didn't, this certainly wouldn't have happened

2) Crowdstrike is fucking hosed. They may be able to restructure majorly and continue existing as a company, but this revealed MULTIPLE major flaws in their business structure; SEVERAL people are getting VERY fired just to start TRYING to save the whole operation:

Okay, sure, someone could write a bad update. That happens. People make typos in their code, they slip up and make fatal redundancies or miss spots, whatever. Shit happens. But...

That's what QA exists for. An error this severe and immediate? Now everyone can deduce with just the slightest bit of effort that Crowdstrike does not test their software updates before pushing them. Yikes.

And they didn't even stagger the update to make sure it worked as intended at scale - they sent it out to everyone, then packed up and left for the weekend. More understandable than NOT TESTING AT ALL - people who know business better than they know tech (i.e., most of the people paying the bill for this software) might very well demand they not have even an HOUR delay in getting the latest update because it's TOTALLY safer that way right? - but even if that is the reason, that's really something that should be pushed back on for exactly this reason

3) The number of critical things that ground to a screeching halt because people have decided we don't NEED low-tech backup protocols to keep shit from stores to HOSPITALS running anymore is uhhhh...terrifying. Look, I have been a tech nerd for as long as I've been alive, and if there is one thing that was drilled into me from a very young age, it is that anything that would be worse than severely inconvenient if it fucks up should have a computer failure protocol as robust and comprehensive as a Waffle House, and yet here we're seeing people locked out of healthcare work because someone misplaced their BitLocker key and no one can boot their computers to safe mode to delete a file? Yeah, terrifying.

It's absolutely wild to me how much of a Major Historic Event this one shitty software update has the potential to be. Let's try and get some positive changes done because of it.

idk if people on tumblr know about this but a cybersecurity software called crowdstrike just did what is probably the single biggest fuck up in any sector in the past 10 years. it's monumentally bad. literally the most horror-inducing nightmare scenario for a tech company.

some info, crowdstrike is essentially an antivirus software for enterprises. which means normal laypeople cant really get it, they're for businesses and organisations and important stuff.

so, on a friday evening (it of course wasnt friday everywhere but it was friday evening in oceania which is where it first started causing damage due to europe and na being asleep), crowdstrike pushed out an update to their windows users that caused a bug.

before i get into what the bug is, know that friday evening is the worst possible time to do this because people are going home. the weekend is starting. offices dont have people in them. this is just one of many perfectly placed failures in the rube goldburg machine of crowdstrike. there's a reason friday is called 'dont push to live friday' or more to the point 'dont fuck it up friday'

so, at 3pm at friday, an update comes rolling into crowdstrike users which is automatically implemented. this update immediately causes the computer to blue screen of death. very very bad. but it's not simply a 'you need to restart' crash, because the computer then gets stuck into a boot loop.

this is the worst possible thing because, in a boot loop state, a computer is never really able to get to a point where it can do anything. like download a fix. so there is nothing crowdstrike can do to remedy this death update anymore. it is now left to the end users.

it was pretty quickly identified what the problem was. you had to boot it in safe mode, and a very small file needed to be deleted. or you could just rename crowdstrike to something else so windows never attempts to use it.

it's a fairly easy fix in the grand scheme of things, but the issue is that it is effecting enterprises. which can have a looooot of computers. in many different locations. so an IT person would need to manually fix hundreds of computers, sometimes in whole other cities and perhaps even other countries if theyre big enough.

another fuck up crowdstrike did was they did not stagger the update, so they could catch any mistakes before they wrecked havoc. (and also how how HOW do you not catch this before deploying it. this isn't a code oopsie this is a complete failure of quality ensurance that probably permeates the whole company to not realise their update was an instant kill). they rolled it out to everyone of their clients in the world at the same time.

and this seems pretty hilarious on the surface. i was havin a good chuckle as eftpos went down in the store i was working at, chaos was definitely ensuring lmao. im in aus, and banking was literally down nationwide.

but then you start hearing about the entire country's planes being grounded because the airport's computers are bricked. and hospitals having no computers anymore. emergency call centres crashing. and you realised that, wow. crowdstrike just killed people probably. this is literally the worst thing possible for a company like this to do.

crowdstrike was kinda on the come up too, they were starting to become a big name in the tech world as a new face. but that has definitely vanished now. to fuck up at this many places, is almost extremely impressive. its hard to even think of a comparable fuckup.

a friday evening simultaneous rollout boot loop is a phrase that haunts IT people in their darkest hours. it's the monster that drags people down into the swamp. it's the big bag in the horror movie. it's the end of the road. and for crowdstrike, that reaper of souls just knocked on their doorstep.

Dude you have to listen to this DnD podcast the party has an edgy mean lesbian AND a melodramatic twink AND a muscle mommy AND a joke character. And get this: it's not good.

i legitimately forgot i had this on my os requirements when i sent it for steam approval anyways wishlist it now??? ( unofficial launch until i make a trailer) https://store.steampowered.com/app/3044100

this post's hypothetical by itself is already ridiculous but the thing that gets me is how the wording implies two very funny things that become funnier in tandem

1. "Accidentally, the pitcher tosses a Christian baby" means this is a mistake on the pitcher's part. i imagine the pitcher is breastfeeding on the field and they pitch and they look down at their hands and they see the ball still in the glove and they go "fuck"

2. hitting the baby will still win you the game

ok i almost wish he spelled this incredibly obvious fact out bc people are being dumb about it and it’s annoying me. if (when 🙏🏾) he’s reelected he gets to nominate the next 4 years of scotus justices. that’s what changes.