#hexidecimal

[panienkaawesome]

HAVENT MADE REBOOT ART SINCE JUNE UGH

[fightabear]

my reboot charm designs

[tostawafle]

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[autism-purgatory]

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[swtorramblings]

Incorrect FFXIV: Shadowbringers quote:

"Why do I always end up lost in Lost Angles?"

[mellowfete]

Awake

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[mysticdragon3md3]

[garfzai]

OHHHHHH IM SO FUCKED IM SO DEAD OH GOD

I HAVE TO CODE A FAVICON WITH COLORS IN BINARY AND HEXADECIMAL IM SO FUCKED

I HAVENT EVEN STARTED OH MY GOD

[dvandom]

"Full of nulls, you say?"

"Fancy THAT."

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.

[rununcal]

So the potential of Scrapheads is..just.. infinite… so I made some and will probably continue! They are super fun to make with mismatching all the robotic parts and such!! Also you can put a Terminal on chicken legs ❤️❤️❤️

(The IDs are in the alts this time around cause I thought it would be less confusing with the different images)

Also the Mindflayer was inspired by this post!

Some lore for them: The Roving Terminal was one that found out a way to materialize stored weapons on parts of itself, and after it gained movement, sought out to sell things that could not normally be stored in its database. It’s prospects might be gorey or purely organic, however it claims to be an innocent scavenger of long-dead artifacts, and it “only uses the shotgun to make a quick getaway,”.

The Gorgon, unlike its predecessors, is a lone and powerful force, mastering Hell energy through the augmentation of its form. Its become indifferent towards Hell’s residents or surroundings, instead targeting machines. Because of this, it’s built itself to be purely detrimental to them. The hoses it carries will use different projectiles depending on what type a machine is, and it has put two metal tongs in place of its right arm. It will charge these up and then thrust them into the ground, sending an electrical shockwave that can paralyze most machines and slow the few who can resist.

The Mindflayers are one of the least analogous machine types because of them being obligatory scrapheads by definition. Most are crafters by heart, but some will branch out. This Mindflayer is a coder, and has picked a hardy plastic in order to showcase the cycling color animations it has coded into lights underneath its casing. Yet it has still prepared for battle, and uses the extra energy of the bulbs to blast things with sporadic and colorful beams.

[fightabear]

hello hello here is my third set of charms and its a set near and dear to my heart! REBOOT!

Here is a link to my Etsy!

We have Daemon, Hex, Megabyte, Bob, Dot, AndrAIa and Matrix! I hope to add Mouse down the line too, I just ran out of time this go around.

[datastate]

door 6 is still the funniest route in 999. junpei’s stuck with three people who already know the majority of the puzzles and bc they don’t want suspicion on themselves, they’re mostly hands-off & leave everything to him

[sploosh543]

Yo has anyone solved the encryption on the noisz starlight twitter yet? I'm stuck and it's driving me crazy