Marian Ellis Rowan (1848-1922, Australian) ~
One hundred and fifty-eight medium- and small-sized moths, in seven columns. A wide range of families is represented, including the NOCTUIDAE, ARCTIIDAE, LASIOCAMPIDAE, LYMANTRIIDAE, GEOMETRIDAE, PYRALIDAE, SESIIDAE, etc.
hot (bitter) take but getting asked for your pronouns is kind of useless when you use anything but One of the big three. cis people short circuit when you answer with it/its or neopronouns or even just multiple alternating sets
one time a girl asked my pronouns, i told her it/its, she tried ONCE before asking if she could just use they/them. right in front of my salad. like why even ask me at that point
people have talked about how it’s not okay to they/them someone who you know uses she/her or he/him but it’s also not okay to do that to someone who uses any other pronoun set. neopronouns & it/its are not interchangeable with they/them! xe/xyr is not code for “if you want a challenge try this out but otherwise they/them me because all non-binary pronouns are basically the same anyways” that is the devil talking!!!!!!!
YOU ARE STILL MISGENDERING PEOPLE EVEN IF THEY ARE NONBINARY AND YOU USE THEY/THEM IN PLACE OF THEIR ACTUAL PRONOUNS
my mom is soooo upset because she dropped and cracked one of her chicken’s eggs that she knew was fertilized. it’s her first time trying to hatch chicks and she was so excited. this was one of two eggs she’d seen moving while candling them. she feels so bad.
thank god, says man who was seriously considering sneaking chicks into his mom’s chicken coop to save her from sorrow
mother hen accepted the fraud chicks. no signs of hatching on her eggs.
FANTASTIC news, for everyone following this story. the egg that started this whole thing, that made my mom so guilty she bought 4 chicks for her broody hen, that egg hatched:
look at its angry little face. so mad.
here they are, all fluffed up. learned to walk and immediately got trapped in the feeder….
i just remembered when i used to read on fanfiction.net my next chapter button just stopped working one day for some reason and i could never read the next chapter so i would just manually change the link
when i was younger at my grandma’s for the holidays for 2 months straight i could only get wifi for a few minutes in the morning from my aunt’s hotspot so i would find long fics on fanfic.net and copy the link of the first chapter of the fanfic then press new tab, ctrl v, and manually change the chapter links till i could read the whole fic without wifi and continuously open each tab throughout the day so it wouldn’t refresh the page and make me lose a chapter
if i was lazy that day i wouldn’t bother doing that for long fics i would just look for oneshots and right click to open them and do the same thing without needing to change links
i also played candy crush soda saga when the links would refresh and i couldn’t open anything i got to like level 1500 or something
i just remembered when i used to read on fanfiction.net my next chapter button just stopped working one day for some reason and i could never read the next chapter so i would just manually change the link
when i was younger at my grandma’s for the holidays for 2 months straight i could only get wifi for a few minutes in the morning from my aunt’s hotspot so i would find long fics on fanfic.net and copy the link of the first chapter of the fanfic then press new tab, ctrl v, and manually change the chapter links till i could read the whole fic without wifi and continuously open each tab throughout the day so it wouldn’t refresh the page and make me lose a chapter
if i was lazy that day i wouldn’t bother doing that for long fics i would just look for oneshots and right click to open them and do the same thing without needing to change links
You people know you can use Ctrl + S to just save the webpage to your computer, right?
OK so the reason why this wasn’t even MORE of an issue than it could be is that as the faulty update has been rolled back pretty quickly, computers that were turned off during that time were unaffected and after turning on, the still-old-version of the Falcon Sensor (the software that caused the crash) would not install the faulty update.
As it was still night in USA at the time, this probably saved tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of computers from the bug.
they concluded that the rats were having fun partially bc the rats voluntarily initiated games, hopped around joyfully and teased researchers by pretending to come close and then skittering away. rats are Very Good
These scientists are getting grant money to play games with rats all day and that is just, living the dream.
We love a global IT outage while I’m working. Like the Kmart in my Westfield had to close, Woolies was having issues and I was stressing over at target.
Couldn’t do any transactions over like $150 with a lot of other issues.
Windows users globally are experiencing the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) error, causing systems to suddenly shut down or restart. Microsoft announced that the error is due to a recent update of the CrowdStrike ‘Falcon Sensor.’
Nearly 1400 flights cancelled worldwide. Read full article here :-
So Crowdstrike has crippled possibly about 24,000 organizations’ Windows systems (the orgs are clients of Cloudstrike) & has not yet restored them.
This is across multiple industries & in many countries. Flights canceled, railways delayed, hospitals knocked offline, emergency services of entire state of Alaska affected, news system of London Stock Exchange impacted, & more.
If your IT security firm does this to you, who needs enemies.
just heard the news about the global cyber outage. terrifying how one faulty software has caused such a wide and devastating impact. airports here have stopped operating
however bad of a day you’re having, know that it’s not nearly as bad as whatever the Crowdstrike security team is going through since waking up this morning
For non-tech people, the crowdstrike situation is much like if a surgeon fucked up and left a used condom inside a patient during an appendix removal.
Like, yeah, accidents can happen sometimes and even the best people will slip up. But for this case, the fact this was something that could happen accidentally means that were already an insane amount of things going wrong with the fundamental process, let alone it actually happening.
There is nothing that could possibly go wrong with a single company having control over an incredible amount of infrastructure and capable of automatically pushing changes en masse that must be manually reverted even in critical software for emergency services.
There is nothing that could possibly go wrong with a single company having control over an incredible amount of infrastructure and capable of automatically pushing changes en masse that must be manually reverted even in critical software for emergency services.
There is nothing that could possibly go wrong with a single company having control over an incredible amount of infrastructure and capable of automatically pushing changes en masse that must be manually reverted even in critical software for emergency services.
Back in my CS undergrad, one of my professors told me you aren’t truly a programmer until you’ve accidentally bricked at least one computer. Therefore, whoever is responsible for the CrowdStrike situation must be a coding god.
I can’t wait for the Americans to wake up and learn that the rest of the world has been dealing with all the banking/airport/commercial computers blue screening
I love that it didn’t even take an actual cyberattack to cripple the entire planet, just a faulty cybersecurity software update. What a thing to wake up to
the issue appears to be with crowdstrike falcon, a form of antivirus software widely used in the corporate world – with emphasis on the world. there have been reports from the us, uk, australia, germany, india, france, japan and more. places affected include (but are not limited to) supermarkets, banks, basically every airline, public transport networks, major broadcasters, emergency services, corporate offices, healthcare providers and stock exchanges.
emergency service lines are currently experiencing problems within the american states of alaska, arizona, indiana, minnesota, new hampshire and ohio. similar problems likely plague other areas of the world, they just haven’t been reported on yet. australian emergency services are operating, and critical infrastructure remains stable. be sure to check in with the local news stations still online for more updates.
idk if people on tumblr know about this but a cybersecurity software called crowdstrike just did what is probably the single biggest fuck up in any sector in the past 10 years. it’s monumentally bad. literally the most horror-inducing nightmare scenario for a tech company.
some info, crowdstrike is essentially an antivirus software for enterprises. which means normal laypeople cant really get it, they’re for businesses and organisations and important stuff.
so, on a friday evening (it of course wasnt friday everywhere but it was friday evening in oceania which is where it first started causing damage due to europe and na being asleep), crowdstrike pushed out an update to their windows users that caused a bug.
before i get into what the bug is, know that friday evening is the worst possible time to do this because people are going home. the weekend is starting. offices dont have people in them. this is just one of many perfectly placed failures in the rube goldburg machine of crowdstrike. there’s a reason friday is called ‘dont push to live friday’ or more to the point 'dont fuck it up friday’
so, at 3pm at friday, an update comes rolling into crowdstrike users which is automatically implemented. this update immediately causes the computer to blue screen of death. very very bad. but it’s not simply a 'you need to restart’ crash, because the computer then gets stuck into a boot loop.
this is the worst possible thing because, in a boot loop state, a computer is never really able to get to a point where it can do anything. like download a fix. so there is nothing crowdstrike can do to remedy this death update anymore. it is now left to the end users.
it was pretty quickly identified what the problem was. you had to boot it in safe mode, and a very small file needed to be deleted. or you could just rename crowdstrike to something else so windows never attempts to use it.
it’s a fairly easy fix in the grand scheme of things, but the issue is that it is effecting enterprises. which can have a looooot of computers. in many different locations. so an IT person would need to manually fix hundreds of computers, sometimes in whole other cities and perhaps even other countries if theyre big enough.
another fuck up crowdstrike did was they did not stagger the update, so they could catch any mistakes before they wrecked havoc. (and also how how HOW do you not catch this before deploying it. this isn’t a code oopsie this is a complete failure of quality ensurance that probably permeates the whole company to not realise their update was an instant kill). they rolled it out to everyone of their clients in the world at the same time.
and this seems pretty hilarious on the surface. i was havin a good chuckle as eftpos went down in the store i was working at, chaos was definitely ensuring lmao. im in aus, and banking was literally down nationwide.
but then you start hearing about the entire country’s planes being grounded because the airport’s computers are bricked. and hospitals having no computers anymore. emergency call centres crashing. and you realised that, wow. crowdstrike just killed people probably. this is literally the worst thing possible for a company like this to do.
crowdstrike was kinda on the come up too, they were starting to become a big name in the tech world as a new face. but that has definitely vanished now. to fuck up at this many places, is almost extremely impressive. its hard to even think of a comparable fuckup.
a friday evening simultaneous rollout boot loop is a phrase that haunts IT people in their darkest hours. it’s the monster that drags people down into the swamp. it’s the big bag in the horror movie. it’s the end of the road. and for crowdstrike, that reaper of souls just knocked on their doorstep.
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