Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Facebook jettisons a tool that many, many disinformation fighters (including me) found essential to our work. The replacement is, relatively speaking, junk. https://www.proofnews.org/meta-is-getting-rid-of-crowdtangle-and-its-replacement-isnt-as-transparent-or-accessible/

Two things are still true:

1) If enough Black people in swing states re-check their registration, and sign up for mail-in voting, early voting, or ballot drop off, then Biden can't lose.

2) The Dem party has spent significantly more time, money, effort, and attention, trying to get Kamala Harris out of the Whitehouse, than it has spent registering Black voters in swing states or telling them about mail-in voting or early voting. 🤡

The "despair" is unnecessary and self-inflicted.

Hey, #wizzair , are you serious?

If I ask you to delete my personal data, but you don't have any, then... now you have my data and keep it?

This is a joke.

https://wizzair.com/en-gb/information-and-services/about-us/data-subject-rights

"In case you provide such personal data, which are not being processed by us, we will retain them for 6 years following the closure of the of processing your request."

Also, 5 years ago you deleted my data, and now I get a marketing email? You get 1 chance to explain before I complain.

#gdpr #privacy

@GossiTheDog If it wasn't for the fact that people are posting about it left and right, I'd have no idea this was even happening. None of the websites I go to are even down. I think "critical" might mean different things to different people.

And hey, if you got "critical" infrastructure running on Windows, maybe the lesson today is yours :p

I can only speak as an outsider, but this interview with Marjorie Feld useful about the *long* history of tensions between Zionist and Anti-Zionist American Jews seems useful and informative: https://kpfa.org/episode/against-the-grain-july-16-2024/

The saddest thing about this global Microsoft Windows calamity is that almost no one is going to learn the *right* lessons. That's because they're all so completely invested in doing things the wrong way. Key lesson: monocultures are very very bad.

Wow! 😲

CrowdStrike’s CSO sold $1.5M worth of stock right before the outage today!

I repeat, the Chief Security Officer sold $1.5M worth of stock!

https://www.barrons.com/articles/crowdstrike-insiders-sold-stock-cac5e509?siteid=yhoof2

@varx lol! We're locked out of our perfectly maintained and fully running 100% Linux cluster because Windows is probably somewhere in the chain for authenticating/authorizing SSH sessions.

On this day in Anarchist history, July 19th we remember the start of the Spanish Revolution, when thousands of Anarchists took control of Barcelona.

https://kolektiva.media/w/cBm5s2K8XTgcvjrcRnancD

Via Scientific American:
ChatGPT Isn’t ‘Hallucinating’—It’s Bullshitting!
It’s important that we use accurate terminology when discussing how AI chatbots make up information

https://archive.ph/nMUTI#selection-221.0-226.0

The Big Tech companies responsible for this should be required to reimburse victims for the economic and other damage they've caused.

Sorry, kidding. Accountability doesn't exist for the damage caused by huge, arrogant corporations. https://www.reuters.com/technology/global-cyber-outage-grounds-flights-hits-media-financial-telecoms-2024-07-19/

This might be the very first time I've ever seen a major global IT issue described as it should be: a "Microsoft Windows problem". https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/19/microsoft-windows-pcs-outage-blue-screen-of-death

No one is getting fired over this, right?

Correct. HR systems are down too.

Luckily, almost none of the important infrastructural parts of the Internet depend on enterprise Microsoft products.

Our #cellarDoor POS runs on #Linux and we accept #cash - we’re open from 11am to 5pm at the #brewery on Saturday in #UpperHutt

Companies rushing to uninstall CrowdStrike enterprise-wide because “it’s a risk”: very many

Companies understanding that the exact same risk exists in every single Very Enterprise Security Software Tool: approximately zero

The thing that needs to be shouted from the rooftops is this:

Markets don't efficiently provide public services. They do, however, love to cannibalise them, by asset stripping and turning core departments into vehicles for rent seeking.

We tried neoliberalism for four decades. It's destroying everything except the balance sheets of the ultra wealthy. Time to kill it and move on.

Watching what some are pronouncing "the world's worst IT disaster" unfolding from the comfort of a completely Enterprise-Windows-free zone that is, unsurprisingly, entirely unaffected. Sorry for those poor sods who're having to mop up this mess - created by IT policy makers who probably don't have to do 'call'.