To be clear, the record label is Death Row Records. He was initially charged with attempted murder but that was dropped and he wasn’t ever facing the death penalty. He was behind bars for 33 years for running a “nationwide drug trafficking operation that brought in nearly $2 million daily.” Snoop now owns Death Row Records.
Why use separate partitions over subvolumes within btrfs?
Well at that point, just don’t install any kernel mode EDR software at all.
NixOS can be set up for impermanence where all config is recreated every boot and nothing persists besides the nix store. There’s helpers for ephemeral home also, so you can have something like TailsOS. I’m sure you could do that with other distros but you’d need absolute discipline to have everything the machine needs provisioned at boot.
I think having an A partition and a B partition (I’m assuming that’s how SteamOS works) wouldn’t help in this case. If the A partition downloaded the definition file, crashed and failed to reboot; the bootloader could failover to the B partition - which would then download the definition file, crash and fail to reboot. It would have to keep rolling back to a last known good snapshot until the update got withdrawn.
You could have an ephemeral set up that wipes /var and /etc and recreates them every boot. I don’t think these EDR tools would like that very much though.
Yeah, you’d need to snapshot their data directory and roll that back. The previous kernel module may well have had the bug already, just not a malformed config file to trip it.
Also, if the driver booted ok, but then panicked soon after, would that count as a bad boot? The description seems to indicate the boot counters get reset as soon as a boot succeeds.
This doesn’t really answer my question but Crowdstrike do explain a bit here: https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/technical-details-on-todays-outage/
These channel files are configuration for the driver and are pushed several times a day. It seems the driver can take a page fault if certain conditions are met. A mistake in a config file triggered this condition and put a lot of machines into a BSOD bootloop.
I think it makes sense that this was a preexisting bug in the driver which was triggered by an erroneous config. What I still don’t know is if these channel updates have a staged deployment (presumably driver updates do), and what fraction of machines that got the bad update actually had a BSOD.
Anyway, they should rewrite it in Rust.
Does anyone know how these Cloudstrike updates are actually deployed? Presumably the software has its own update mechanism to react to emergent threats without waiting for patch tuesday. Can users control the update policy for these ‘channel files’ themselves?
I would encourage you not to split things up too finely. A single repo for your environment would allow you to see all related changes with git. E.g. if you set up a new VM it might need a playbook to set something up, a script to automate a task, and a DNS entry. With a well put together commit message explaining why you’re making those changes there’s not much need for external documentation.
Maybe if you want some more info organised in a wiki, point to the initial commit where you introduced some set up. That way you can see how something was structured. Or if you have a issue tracker you can comment with research on something and then close the issue when you commit a resolution.
Try not to have info spread out too much or maintaining all the pieces will become a chore. Make it simple and easy to keep up.
Usually aluminium or glass. There’s a metallic coating applied to the outside surfaces that stores the data. That layer is very thin though, so most of the material is the substrate.
Oh right, that makes sense. I was only thinking of Matter as serving low bandwidth devices but it also runs over WiFi and ethernet so I guess it can do video for security cameras etc. and evidently Casting audio and video also.
Also Matter is the smart home interop standard. Seems close enough for some confusion in what Matter compatible means on a device.
No, that’s crows. Your thinking of school.
For sure. It’d be nice to have the units in a separate namespace but at least Numbat won’t let you override identifiers already defined in the system of measure. I use Pint on Python - I usually keep the units in an identifier named u so they can’t get accidentally overridden. That means either using u.km for single units or u('g/cm^3') for composite units. It’d be great if the language could separate units e.g. as [] or `` but getting a compact syntax to distinguish the units namespace without colliding with other language features would be tricky. I remember F# having a good syntax but didn’t dive that deep since it’s not used widely in my field.
Ah, you’re travelling in to London’); DROP TABLE Airports;-- today? And how is the weather in North Korea?
Core utils has this AI built in: yes
Liberté, égalité, fromagé ou la mort!
Make sure it doesn’t go from suck to blow!
I think they mean turning off the ability to submit non-text posts entirely. It’s much better that a user can’t do something that isn’t allowed than to have a bot fix up the situation after the fact.
You know the person who had the greatest positive impact on the environment on this planet? Genghis Khan, because he massacred forty million people.