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patrick @piefed.social

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CrowdStrike unhappy with “shady commentary” from competitors after outage

  • Microsoft did not "give Crowdstrike access to push updates". The IT departments of the companies did.

    The security features that Crowdstrike has forces them to run in kernel-space, which means that they will have code running that can crash the OS. They crashed Debian in an almost identical way (forced boot loop) about a month before they did the same to Windows.

    Yes, there are ways that Microsoft could rewrite the Windows kernel architecture to make it resistant to this type of failure. But I don't think there are very many other commercial OS's that could stop this from happening.

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    Microsoft will try the data-scraping Windows Recall feature again in October

  • Because it actually seems useful for a lot of people? I'd actually want to run this, but I don't use Windows.

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    How to make the Threadiverse a nice place and effectively make it grow

  • I think if you want Mods/Devs/Admins to have better impact, they actually need to have funding. People focus on funding hosting costs, but everyone seems to be assuming that Mods/Devs should be volunteers.

    If you're not donating in some way to the instances/software you use...please start.

    As an example, lemmy.world is run by https://fedihosting.foundation, who also run mastodon.world and many other instances. AFAICT the whole group takes in a little over $1000 a month through Patreon/ko-fi. That's barely enough to cover hosting costs for so many huge instances, much less compensate the several dozen volunteers.