markr

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[–] markr@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

There are a lot of misunderstandings about what happened. First, the ‘update’ was to a data file used by the crowdstrike kernel components (specifically ‘falcon’.) while this file has a ‘.sys’ name, it is not a driver, it provides threat definition data. It is read by the falcon driver(s), not loaded as an executable.

Microsoft doesn’t update this file, crowdstrike user mode services do that, and they do that very frequently as part of their real-time threat detection and mitigation.

The updates are essential. There is no opportunity for IT to manage or test these updates other than blocking them via external firewalls.

The falcon kernel components apparently do not protect against a corrupted data file, or the corruption in this case evaded that protection. This is such an obvious vulnerability that i am leaning toward a deliberate manipulation of the data file to exploit a discovered vulnerability in their handling of a malformed data file. I have no evidence for that other than resilience against malformed data input is very basic software engineering and crowdstrike is a very sophisticated system.

I’m more interested in how the file got corrupted before distribution.

[–] markr@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Nothing written here can possibly be correct.

[–] markr@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Everyone will be working multiple shitty service jobs that robots are not cost effective to automate. Our miserable wages will be just sufficient to keep the wheels on the cart from falling off.

[–] markr@lemmy.world 75 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Anything But The Guns.

[–] markr@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

That is almost entirely a myth. Yes, there are 'cross over votes' in states that don't have open primaries but facilitate party enrollment, but those cross over voters are almost always 'independent' voters who enroll and then unenroll and are not doing anything other than voting for the candidate of their choice in the primary that candidate is running in. So called 'strategic voting', as far as I know, has never made any difference in any presidential primary, but go ahead and bring up the bodies.

[–] markr@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It’s our version of China’s social credit score.

[–] markr@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The fact of the matter is that there is a 100% fatality rate for the set of people who have had even one mRNA vaccine. There is an identical fatality rate for the set of people who have had zero mRNA vaccines, but that isn't important.

Also I should mention the timespan for the fatality rate: 150 years, but I won't.

[–] markr@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I read these threads for the butthurt responses from the muskovites. They never disappoint.

[–] markr@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I’m in the road kill is vegan camp, so sure after Winnie croaks chow down.

 

I bake weekly using a levain. I preserve about 25g from the levain in the refrigerator as my starter. There seem to be two choices for how to do this:

  1. After feeding the old starter to begin the levain ferment.

  2. After the levain has fermented.

So I conducted an experiment. I now have two 25g starters in my refrigerator. The first is fed but not fermented. The second is fed and fermented.

Visually these starters are quite different. (1) is ‘ bready’ and full of bubbles. (2) is soupy and no visible bubbles, but on close examination there are fine bubbles in it.

Baking the same recipe for each I get approximately identical results.

As far as I can tell it makes no difference which method I use.