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From the little I’ve been reading Kent Overstreet just sounds like an incredibly arrogant developer with some talent.

It reeks of someone whose opinion of themselves exceeds their ability.

I mean, the why is obvious. Whether anyone should do it is the real question ;-)

The probably started using it ironically and it fell into habbit.

There was a proto-meme back in the day along the lines of “URL? Who’s Earl?”

Sounds suspiciously like a director way out of their depth and has little or no idea wha they’re doing.

In order to feel like orlook like they’re adding value to the business they request changes they’re incapable of understanding themselves. Then get even more confused when things “magically” change: because to them it’s voodoo/magic.

That scene was the singular best piece of television in history.

May be with the Galactica jumping into and ramming the Cylon colony later on a close second.

I can weather the weaker parts of a story for the stong parts to shine beside. It’s all good.

Weeeeellll, mostly it’s all because Cavill is a sadist ;-)

But the OS crashing as a result of that systemic failure may actually be the most reasonable desirable outcome compared to any other possible outcome.

In which case this should’ve been documented behaviour and probably configurable.

Hmmmm.

More like standing there and loudly shitting your pants and spreading it around the stage.

Except “freak out” could have various manifestations.

In this case it was “burn down the venue”.

It should have been “I’m sorry, there’s been an issue, let’s move on to the next speaker”

Poorly written code can’t.

In this case:

1. Load config data
2. If data is valid:
   1. Use config data
3. If data is invalid:
   1. Crash entire OS

Is just poor code.

I always like to tell my BSG story.

1. Watch mini series, it’s good
2. Don’t get into the rest, forget about it
3. Come home one day to flat mate watching it on DVD, just as the Galactica jumps into the atmosphere on New Caprica and jumps out again.
4. Me: “I need to watch this from the start”
5. Flat mate ejects the disc right then and there and inserts the first disc of the first season.
6. We watch it every night until the end

Best TV ever made.

Each to their own.

I loved the ending, but that doesn’t mean you have to.

Having the data exposed to userspace via an API would avoid having to have a kernel module at all… Which when malformed wouldn’t compromise the kernel.

I’m actually willing to believe that CrowdStrike was actually compromised by a bad actor that realised how fragile CS was.

TL;DR: Because the underlying OS is garbage.

Whatever CrowdStrike’s “features” are should already be core security features of the kernel itself, or be exposed/extracted into user space.

NT was supposed to be a micro kernel. That this tool injects itself into the kernel immediately compromises the kernel. Edit: I should point out that it seems that CS injects drivers into the Linux kernel too, it might just be that Linux handles a driver crash more elegantly.

No different to the gaming anti-cheat kernel crap.

Having a “security” tool immediately compromise your actual security is absurd.

Urgh, I go to sleep, wake up, read soooooo much awful wrongness.

Thanks for the vote of confidence fact.

Specifically, purple is not a wavelength, unlike red(s) at ~700nm and blue(s) at ~400nm.

Purple is what human eyes see when the blue and red cones are both stimulated by their respective colours of light.

First one, then the other

If anything, it’s probably calmed P’n’S down a bit…

I was entirely satisfied enjoying that irony.