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Do you know someone with extensive experience using PHP as a systems language? Someone who has gardened a petabyte-scale system under high load? Is this person a player/coach engineering manager who enjoys helping other people succeed?

If you do know someone like this, or someone close, I would love to talk to them.

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@GossiTheDog

Perhaps we have fewer facilities to visit, and could have at least one person at each. I think maybe Delta does not have that many personnel who can be mobilized? Do they run support from remote call centers? (I don't have work-from-home or outsourced support here. Something breaks...somebody from I.T. is walking.)

An SOP was created and shared via standard comms, and printed out for the technicians on the floor. Non-technical I.T. staff were able to follow the SOP, which multiplied the number of people per site.

I'm saying, it's not a new event in the span of I.T. and vendor-caused outages. It has happened before.

Sophos/Utimaco and Microsoft had a similar problem with Win7 FDE, which had greater impact on us due to I.T. staff computers being offline, unable to access email, file storage, ticketing systems, and org-wide chat didn't exist.

But, we do have humans available at each site within 1-2 hours.

@h_ackerman Sigh. Well, we do have dress codes in the employee manual, wherever that is.

I tried growing an angry beard. But, somehow, this only made me into the friendly neighborhood grey wizard who could fix things for other people. (My subscriber count went up.)

@GossiTheDog But is that a Crowdstrike problem? We have BitLocker, and use a non-Microsoft tool to manage keys and recovery, accessible from off-site.

I guess since we used encryption before Microsoft starting bundling BitLocker we had a little more common sense?

@h_ackerman Will this work if I do it in my cubicle or chat avatar? Might benefit by fewer visitors.

@GossiTheDog "Financial incentives" did not include discounts, contract extensions, or additional license counts. It was features that you didn't already have at a reduced rate...which will go up to full-boat pricing after the discount period.

They turned a disaster into a sales tool.

But, I still don't understand the complaints about airlines. There were companies who recovered in hours, or were able to stave off 100% penetration of the update....and recovered in hours.

The organizations who took days and weeks didn't have a Crowdstrike problem. They had a management problem and some technical debt that got cashed in that night.

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First lesson in APL class was the professor blandly stating that programmers were so boring, they named this 'A Programming Language'.

The professor almost smiled.

@GossiTheDog well, and computers that are locked (auto-contained by policy) can't be reset. Because that's a console function.

But, whatever, yeah, they are technically still protected.

@TweekFawkes We need more humans to watch over all the new intrusion points for 'A.I.'. The currently-deployed consumer tech does not understand simple English. It just parrots it, sometimes with humorous or horrifc results.

I ask my phone to play song X by artist Y with app Z. It brings up a list of apps starting with Spotify...none of which are (or ever have been) on my phone. While driving a vehicle on a highway, the user is supposed to look at a tiny section of the GUI and push a button far down on a list of falsified choices?

This is malicious marketing, masked as helpful AI.

The humans driving A.I. injection are the problem. They're trying to show false metrics for adoption. Justify budgets and jobs.

Stop. Think. Disconnect A.I. 😉

That's my new mantra. And it's getting harder and harder when the OS manufacturers are drinking from the beer bong instead of eating their own dog food.

Has anyone else’s child brought home a bunch more illnesses from school than usual this year?

I’m over it.

@SecureOwl The 'usual' is a widespread masking of other symptoms by general malaise, indifference, and teen angst. Who's to know if 'upset stomach' is coming from abdomen or brain?

@jwildeboer Ignoring the blustering about angrily scrutinizing visa applications, and reading between the lines....Rubio is supporting American citizenship as a birthright. Accidental?

Either Microsoft or Adobe should get their Fiver refunded. Printing a PDF from another PDF is not a toner saving equation, even for language-challenged folks who try to use 'upto' as a work.

Two different approaches to debugging a software problem:

The Sudoku approach: stare at the limited set of clues you have, and think harder and harder about them until you find a way to deduce something useful.

The Minesweeper approach: don't even try to figure out the solution from only the clues you have right now. Instead, focus on finding a way to acquire another clue, and then using that to get another, and so on. Eventually you've collected so many clues that the answer is obvious.

Sometimes the Sudoku approach is necessary, because you've got all the clues you're ever going to get. But I think my new motto is "Never Sudoku a problem when you can Minesweeper it."

@jalefkowit It's not really 'the old notepad.exe'. It, too, has been enhanced for your enjoyment.

@bh @GossiTheDog Efforts have already started to install activation technology in power tools at the factory. In the future, they will be able to deactivate tools.

@bh @GossiTheDog Electrical panels are behind locked doors. Disconnecting utility power results in generator activation.

Generator is protected behind locked doors.

The threat points are users with physical keys, Knox boxes, and remote EPO circuits that are physical, not logical.

And firefighters with saws to cut through the doors.

Kash Patel's interpretation of the mission of law enforcement is a dog whistle:

"...they've made a choice to serve and protect their fellow American citizens..."

The origin of the phrase comes from the LAPD academy "To Protect and to Serve". Los Angeles's law enforcement mission covers diverse communities as their customers, with no requirement of citizenship.

Kash Patel's wording was not accidental.

Words matter.

Kash Patel's statement: https://www.fbi.gov/video-repository/director-police-week-2025_v1.mp4/view

LAPD's current motto and mission: https://mypd.joinlapd.com/MOTTOMISSIONVALUES/

#fbi #dogwhistle #PoliceWeek2025

Please help. @catbailey is facing immediate loss of her kid’s inheritance due to auction of a storage unit. $730/670 raised for this specific, immediate need. Please donate via CashApp $BlackCatOps, Venmo @BlackCatHackers, or PayPal @catalystediting, the timeline for payments from the GoFundMe is too long to make a difference.

Edit: Please, if you can’t give money, at least a boost? Maybe someone in your network can.

Edit2: Please share on Bluesky as well. I’m not there, but there may be folks willing to help who are. Her handle there is @blackcatswhitehats.com over there.

Edit3: I’ll update the number as we make progress! If you’ve boosted, please consider un/reboosting, chronological timelines are the best but not for this particular task 😅

Final edit: And a big jump overnight! Thank you all! Last thing I’ll leave with is a link to the GFM, because while we’ve stopped bad things from happening here, now, Cat still needs ongoing support until she lands on her feet. https://www.gofundme.com/f/aid-for-cat-and-her-kids-in-crisis

#MutualAid #InfoSec #HelpCatAndCo

@ligniform You didn't need 'about this one'.