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kescusay , 21 hours ago to news in Oregon wildfire explodes to half the size of Rhode Island.

I miss summers when everything wasn’t on fire.

kescusay , 4 days ago to news in Live updates: Harris has support from enough Democratic delegates to become presidential nominee, AP survey finds

That was remarkably fast.

kescusay , 4 days ago to news in House Republican Rips ‘DEI Hire’ Kamala Harris: ‘What About White Females?’

Hey, anyone remember those old peanut butter cup ads? The ones where some peanut butter and chocolate get mixed together accidentally and people realize they taste good together?

This is just like those ads! Except with misogyny and racism, of course.

kescusay , 4 days ago to news in Ohio GOP Senator Says 'Civil War' Needed If Trump Loses.

Suggesting that a war should be waged against the democratically-elected government of the United States seems… Well, it seems kinda treason-y to me. Just a smidge.

kescusay , 4 days ago to technology in Microsoft points finger at the EU for not being able to lock down Windows

Nope. It’s a lower level kernel API that has to be accessed at boot via a driver. The API I was thinking of - and I use the term “thinking” loosely, here - is an API that userspace applications can take advantage of to scan files after boot is already complete.

kescusay , 5 days ago to technology in Microsoft points finger at the EU for not being able to lock down Windows

I stand corrected. For some reason, I was thinking they used the actual Windows Defender API, which can be called programmatically from third-party applications, but you’re correct, it was a driver loaded at boot. Microsoft isn’t at all at fault, here.

kescusay , 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to technology in Microsoft points finger at the EU for not being able to lock down Windows

The thing is, Microsoft’s virus-scanning API shouldn’t be able to BSOD anything, no matter what third-party software makes calls to it, or the nature of those calls. They should have implemented some kind of error handler for when the calls are malformed.

So this is really a case of both Crowdstrike and Microsoft fucking up. Crowdstrike shoulders most of the blame, of course, but Microsoft really needs to harden their API to appropriately catch errors, or this will happen again.

I’m an idiot. For some reason, I was thinking about the Windows Defender API, which can be called from third-party applications.

kescusay , 5 days ago to news in Donald Trump donated to Kamala Harris' campaigns twice while he was a private citizen, records show

Honestly, he’s never been a Democrat or a Republican. Even now, if you go by what the Republican party was before he took it over. He’s always been a Trumpist, nothing more and nothing less. He cares solely, without exception, for one thing: Donald Trump.

kescusay , 8 days ago to news in To Fix CrowdStrike Blue Screen of Death Simply Reboot 15 Straight Times, Microsoft Says

Looks like Minecraft to me.

kescusay , 8 days ago to news in DOJ attorney who led prosecution of anti-Trump protesters hit with ethics charges for allegedly hiding exculpatory evidence from defendants

You didn’t share any.

kescusay , 8 days ago to technology in An angry admin shares the CrowdStrike outage experience

Seems like an argument for a heterogeneous environment, perhaps a solid and secure Linux server to host important keys like that.

kescusay , 8 days ago to news in How Russian propagandists spun the Trump assassination attempt

I mean, that’s not wrong, but what I was getting at is that trolls specifically try to deflect by preemptively claiming others are trolls, so when they’re accused of trolling, it looks like he-said-she-said.

Take that tool away from them by reporting them instead of responding. Or in other words… Don’t feed the trolls.

kescusay , 9 days ago to news in How Russian propagandists spun the Trump assassination attempt

The problem is that accusing people of being trolls/paid actors is also a troll/paid actor tactic. Banning that behavior limits the propagandists, and still allows you to report them.

kescusay , 10 days ago to showerthoughts in AI is like a hammer

I mean, I guess the way people use the term “AI” these days, sure, but we’re really beating all specificity out of the term.

kescusay , 10 days ago to news in 'Disturbing' recordings from inside child-predator sting shows police, MAGA operatives ignoring laws

That’s practically the checklist for child rapists:

☑ Older
☑ White
☑ Small town
☑ Conservative
☑ Well-respected

I’m guessing religious? Respected pillar of the church?

Yeah… These guys know how to present themselves in ways to avoid suspicion.