#Software updates

[bathask]

Apple Cashとそのバーチャルカード本人認証無理で実質不可。ポイ活Microsoft RewardsをAppleギフトカードにし年末Apple Music Replay’24まとめ対策。発達障害アスペルガー/自閉スペクトラム症ASDのA型作業所通所前iPhoneに来ずPCのみ来たiOS17.6.1にソフトウェアアップデート。ビルド番号21G93→21G101

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Let's revisit some topics and talk more about them!

[demi-raven]

I love it 💜

Hardware and software updates could be useful explanation tools in many ways I think

[kactusnz]

DING DING DING DING DING you win a prize!

People keep telling me: oh just get the Curse app to automatically update all your addons/mods. Forgetting that last time people did that, they downloaded a virus and it stole their game account information (don't remember whether this included credit card info) and they lost their game account/characters/loot.

My mum refuses to pay any bills by direct debit/direct credit because last time she did that, a company overcharged her and she had a heck of a time getting them to pay her back.

You CANNOT trust automated systems if someone else is in control of them but you are the one who will suffer when they fail. And companies in charge of them trust their automated systems more than they trust you, so they won't believe you that anything went wrong.

You want me to turn on automatic software updates? The thing that made Murderbot commit mass murder?

[news-buzz]

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[henry-dexter]

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[mckitterick]

AP News source if you'd like to read more

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.

[liyahmackenzie]

It takes ages to update software. By the time the device’s gone through the list of apps to update, it has to go through it again and redownload even newer ones. It’s a game of Whack-a-Mole that never ends. That game messes with my life, to the point it’s no longer a game. It gets irritating to see the “update now” notification pop up. Those are the reasons why I disabled the automatic updates a few weeks ago. The majority of the updates didn’t do much besides costing more storage space. I won’t be under your tutelage, Google Play Store!

100 word story for the prompt "software updates".

[frog707]

flirting with Wilma

On Thursday I upgraded my laptop to version 22 of Linux Mint (code name: Wilma). The process took about 8 hours and kept me up past my usual bedtime. The upgrade appeared to be successful, but after booting it didn't detect my external monitor. I did a little troubleshooting, but eventually gave up and used TimeShift to revert to v21.3 . All better now.

Not sure what I'll do when 22.1 comes out ...

[creativemedianews]

Microsoft discreetly shut down a popular app, and supporters call it the 'end of an era'

Microsoft discreetly shut down a popular app, and supporters call it the 'end of an era' #advertisements

[bathask]

iPhoneソフトウェアアップデート来てOS18.1.1へアプデ。セキュリティ修正のみだし自閉スペクトラム症のA型作業所通所前サクッと。言語化言葉出すの一苦労で喋り苦手な為と常に過緊張高不安で安心感得るので,大人の発達障害やアスペルガー等ASD概念無い昭和時代より変聲エコラリア系verbal stimming多め

[bit-b]

It's good to be up-to-date.

[shrawfrog]

Some People are Just Cheap

Software update over the weekend at work is always a joy on the following Monday Morning. Especially so this Monday as we were told that the update was not going to affect our part of the business and was more centred on some other department. The usual turning on of the laptops, tentatively wondering if I would find myself in a loop of closing down and rebooting for a good hour waiting for the…

[itcsssolutionandstaffing]

In an era dominated by technology, the constant evolution of digital landscapes has brought unprecedented opportunities and conveniences. However, it has also paved the way for a surge in cyber threats that can compromise personal and organizational security.