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Danish science nerd and IT admin

Crowdstrike statement: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cnk4jdwp49et?post=asset%3A0c379e1f-48df-493c-a11a-f6b1e3d1eb63#post

Basically 'it's not a security incident... we just bricked a million systems'

Chaos persists as IT outage could take time to fix, says cybersecurity firm boss

Airports, banking and healthcare were all hit when a Crowdstrike update triggered huge Microsoft outages.

BBC News

I'm seeing people posting scripts for automated recovery.. Scripts don't work if the machine won't boot (it causes instant BSOD) -- you still need to manually boot the system in safe mode, get through BitLocker recovery (needs per system key), then execute anything.

Crowdstrike are huge, at a global scale that's going to take.. some time.

Hvis jeg nogensinde får et transportfirma, der kører med små pakker af blandede størrelser, skal det hedde Tetr I/S

#badabumtjis

Good night folks !

I am so, so tired of hearing people say that we will face a climate crisis unless we reduce carbon emissions immediately. The opportunity to avert a crisis ended around 2000. Since then, we've had the opportunity to make the crisis less devastating, with the minimum possible level of horror and misery increasing with each year we fail to act. What's more, even if we halted all carbon emissions tomorrow, global warming would continue for decades.

We are in the crisis RIGHT NOW.

#ClimateChange

via @scalzi:

“Twitter was a place, with people…Musk took a city with thriving neighborhoods and decided to run a fucking interstate through the most interesting parts of it, and the interstate doesn’t actually go anywhere good; it just runs from Bitcoin Town to Fascistburg”

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2023/07/24/preparing-my-x-it/

Preparing My X-it

Overnight, not unlike an NFL owner silently absconding with a whole football team to move it to a new town, Elon Musk decided to change the name of Twitter to “X,” which, for those of y…

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@for @mutter01 @saederup @kimschulz
Det er korrekt at den syntetiske banan smag er udviklet ud fra en banan der stort set uddøde pga sygdom Gros Michel bananen. I dag spiser vi Cavendish der er resistent https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/why-dont-banana-candies-taste-like-real-bananas/
Why Don’t Banana Candies Taste Like Real Bananas?

Actually, it does. The story of artificial banana flavoring is, well, bananas.

Science Friday
@me @stefan @caseynewton @zoeschiffer Already muted him. I get angry reading his bull so just protecting my sanity 😊