The... Crowdstrike Issue Is Not Being Resolved... At All...

The... Crowdstrike issue is not being resolved... at all...

The issue was not a bad update.

The issue was no testing. Pushing late friday. Pushing to all users at the same time.

And that is the easy-to-get-right stuff that we can see. Most likely the firm is a complete fucking from top to bottom. Because it basically have to be to let something like that happen.

And that is not getting fixed. Not for Crowdstrike or the tech industry in general.

Hell, the CEO of Crowdstrike have had THIS EXACT SAME PROBLEM with lack of testing and structure in previous firms he have been CEO of.

But since his strategy of removing all safety and structure makes money in the short term, IE is good for stock owners, IE the already filthy rich, he gets to keep being CEO of important firms.

NONE of that is getting fixed. We got solid proof that the biggest danger to modern infrastructure is not hackers or the people all the invasion-of-privacy tech and laws target.

It is the massive for profit organizations with root access to everyones machines. Meaning the laws and tech that are being rolled out RIGHT NOW to spy on everyone and gain access to everyones machines is not only sacrificing privacy. It also makes you LESS safe.

But that lesson is not allowed to be learned. So we have done nothing about this, and we will do nothing about this.

the crowdstrike catastrophe is getting resolved but the intel 13th and 14th gen CPU nightmare is just beginning. damn

"If voting changed anything they wouldn't let people do it-" grabs your face THEY DIDN'T JUST "LET" PEOPLE DO IT, MOST PEOPLE COULDN'T VOTE FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS. PEOPLE OF COLOR ONLY GOT THE FULL RIGHT TO VOTE 50 YEARS AGO IN THE US, THATS BARELY A GENERATION.

IF IT DIDNT MATTER AT ALL WHY WOULD THEY SPEND SO MUCH TIME GERRYMANDERING THE SHIT OUT OF EVERYWHERE?? WHY CAN'T FELONS VOTE?? WHY CANT PUERTO RICO VOTE? WHY DO THEY KEEP SWITCHING DATES AND LAWS AND TIMES AND WHATEVER THEY POSSIBLY CAN TO STOP PEOPLE FROM VOTING?? WHY DO THEY MAKE EFFORT AT ALL??

BEING DISILLUSIONED IS A REASONABLE RESPONSE. BUT PEOPLE FOUGHT AND DIED AND ARE STILL FUCKING DYING FOR THAT RIGHT, DONT SPIT IN THEIR FACE.

And we sometimes forget that we create those limitations. For example, nearly all robots with cameras use red, green and blue sensors...

Despite... they don't have to

every single thing involving a computer is designed to put something into our senses. until a human looks at it, and interprets it, it is nothing. it isn't 'data'. it isn't 'ones and zeroes'. it's just some electrons and photons moving around, as is their wont.

but if we arrange those electrons just so, and let them do their thing, we can create a pattern that someone will experience as bits, registers, numbers, letters, instructions, algorithms, messages, financial transactions, videos, thoughts, worlds, etc etc.

the whole project of computer programming is corraling the electrons into situations where they will obey rules we have in our heads. electrons are surprisingly predictable, so this isn't a fool's errand. but every layer of the stack of abstractions is something we built: arranging one thing to produce a pattern we want to see. the chip arranged so the 'high and low voltages' fit our idea of 'bits' and 'logic gates'. the screen whose lights create a 'field of colour' for an organism that has this level of visual acuity, this frequency response in its cone cells, this capacity to see shapes and edges. these bits and logic organised into an 'algorithm' that takes 'data' that we think of as 'vertices' and 'triangles' and produces the appearance of 'perspective rendering', which approximates our concept of a '3D object', of even a 'virtual world'.

we have gotten so very very good at producing these patterns that it's easy to see them as something natural, and miss all the layers of orchestration behind even the simplest operation. computers are a game played between humans.

It is a cheap attack on nonmonogamy. I have also heard "ethical polyamory. When I asked what the heck that was, I was told "polyamory but where everyone involved is consenting and in the know".

Basically the idea being made is:

Monogamy is ethical, normal and good by default.

But non monogamy is corrupting, unethical and destructive by default. So you MUST specify that the one you are talking about is ethical. Because he default is unethical.

In short, it is bullshit

The term "ethical nonmonogamy" confuses me. Like is that just a weird way of saying polyamory/dating but not having sex monogamously or is it something else and I'm totally off base?

Hey now!

Kotlin is a wonderful language!

For example, when exiting a coroutine, Kotlin AUTOMATICALLY throws a specific exeption and automatically catches it, to show that the coroutine exited normally.

Now, you may think it is bad to use exeptions as part of normal programming flow, but it is NESSESARY to re-invent GOTO's in a high level langauge like Kotlin!

/s

this year i'm in the mobile development trenches and it feels like it just gets worse every time i get back into it. if i never have to hear the words "gradle" or "kotlin" again i would be very happy. whatever those even are

I love my works automated "How have your onboarding proccess been?" Surveys.

It is basically me explaining that there is no such thing. My onboarding was "Here are the emergency exits, this is your onboarding buddy. Go"

Was not given tasks. Did not know what my team does ( Still do not, but now I know that NO ONE knows ).

And explaining that there CANNOT be a good onboarding proccess since there is no plan ( several things are 'Highest priority" for example. A clear sign of no plan ) and no command or decision structure.

And when there are no plan and no structure... you can only onboard people to chaos