e. hashman / is on Nostr

International florespondent, 🇨🇦 settler south of the medicine line, exhausted tech worker. Tea aficionado. Amateur botanist, naturalist, and radio operator. Godmother of cloudisland.nz ☁️🏝️ אין אלע גאסן וווּ מען גייט...

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2024-07-21 23:14:12

Idk who needs to hear this but USPS is selling a pack of Dungeons and Dragons forever stamps with 10 different designs https://store.usps.com/store/product/dungeons-dragons-stamps-S_485404

2024-07-21 21:56:32

Right now is an excellent time to take action and help mobilize voters.
There are many organizations working in this space but I'm most connected to the Worker's Circle, which is partnering with a number of other organizations in order to phone bank, help voters get ID, and send postcards. I've sent postcards with them before and I'll probably sign up again! https://www.circle.org/hotdemocracy

2024-07-19 17:22:11

What's going on with the computers, for those who don't care about computers generally:
A security company (Crowdstrike) pushed out a bad update that broke a huge number of Windows computers and will probably require a lot of painful work to fix. This has resulted in, among other things, airlines grounding flights, hospitals locked out of their systems, and Starbucks in-store ordering being broken.

2024-07-19 16:36:57

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I would have thought at Crowdstrike's scale that SURELY they use a slow-rollout/canary model for global updates. But the scale of this outage suggests otherwise. There's no way the rollout should have continued with 100% of clients not checking in.

2024-07-19 16:28:39

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They also have a mac client, though it looks like neither Linux nor Apple machines were affected by the bad update.
I'd view that as pure dumb luck until I actually see an RCA. Because of the way their agents work, any system could be utterly borked.

2024-07-19 16:21:07

Fun fact: when I worked in security I used to install and maintain Crowdstrike agents (among other security vendor products) on customer machines. It's not Windows-only, they also have a Linux client. Which runs as a kernel module and requires auditd.

2024-06-27 02:42:48

Absolutely outrageous and beyond the pale. University of Waterloo sues its students for "C$1.5m in damages" over its pro-Palestine encampment. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/canadian-university-takes-students-court-over-encampment-palestine

2024-05-28 21:55:07

There's 4 days left of #MEAwarenessMonth left! That also means 4 more days that I'm still matching donations to US-based ME/CFS charities!
Which ones? I wrote a blog about my illness to better share what my life has been like the past ~year with friends and colleagues. There's a call to action at the end that also includes some no-cost advocacy opportunities. https://hashman.ca/me-cfs/

2024-05-25 23:02:31

I keep seeing Linux discourse everywhere so this is my hot take: for newbies, Linux Mint is a very friendly option and has Just Worked for over a decade at this point.