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I am out of both yogurt and vegetables. I guess I have to make box mac and cheese for lunch. -- nm - ☀️ mandy chem ☀️ Jul 19, 09:05 11
- Make it last. There's no knowing when the cash registers at the grocery store will be working again. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 19, 09:19 1
  - Grab a case, drop a twenty, and walk out. -- nm - VMan Jul 19, 09:23
- Hah! I had to go home at lunch yesterday and realized i didn't have anything to eat. Then I found a box of mac&cheese in the back of my pantry - decline Jul 19, 09:13
- Nothing wrong with the box mac and cheese. I was craving some the other day. Now I am again. -- nm - sycor Jul 19, 09:08
- Crowdstrike got your fridge too? -- nm* - hollywood big shot Jul 19, 09:07
- Leftover jerk pork tenderloin. Probably with a salad. - znufrii Jul 19, 09:07 3
  - why was he a jerk? -- nm - decline Jul 19, 09:13 2
    - He knows what he did. - znufrii Jul 19, 09:14 1
      - Is this something you continue to make that came from one of your fresh food box services? sound great -- nm - Pippy Jul 19, 09:16
- I'm anti Mandy today: I went and got yogurt and vegetables and I'm still going for Chalupa Lunch -- nm - Pippy Jul 19, 09:07 1
  - Go soon cause this is about the time cannibalism hits society -- nm - eag Jul 19, 09:17
ICJ (International Court of Justice aka The Hague) finds Israeli settlement policies in Palestinian territories breach international law -- (link) - Beaker 🍺 Jul 19, 08:59 1
- Honestly, did anyone think it wasn't? They've re-created Apartheid and slowly building settlements into the segregated areas. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 19, 09:16
One of the reasons why Crowdstrike impacts everything: Gartner MQ. Corporations live off of MQ recommendations. -- (pic) - budice Jul 19, 08:57 [Attachment] 5
- We use 2 of the 6 in the top right. Sophos and Microsoft. -- (edited) - oblique Jul 19, 08:59 4
  - We use Sophos too -- nm - decline Jul 19, 08:59 3
    - I'm apparently not a part of that world as I keep reading Sapphos -- nm - JD Jul 19, 09:02
    - We just use them as our router, not on any endpoints. In the process of upgrading our virtual router to a hardware one currently. -- nm - oblique Jul 19, 09:01 1
      - we've used their endpoint for years. -- nm - decline Jul 19, 09:14
ST Poll: Had you heard of Crowdstrike before today? -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jul 19, 08:56 14
- No. I would have assumed it was a low tier Marvel villain. -- nm - Dano Jul 19, 09:12
- I thought it was a hacking group. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 19, 09:10 1
  - Encrypted messaging app used by Proud Boys, etc. for planning fascist violence. -- nm - znufrii Jul 19, 09:14
- No -- nm - Walt_Disney Jul 19, 09:09
- Nope. If asked I would have thought it was a video game because of Counter Strike. -- nm - Krusty Jul 19, 09:05
- Yep. - ReluctantCynic Jul 19, 09:01
- "Why it's the name on the tongue of every man, woman and child today! Say it to yourselves, folks, and get used to the wave of the future!" -- nm - Harold Hill Jul 19, 09:01
- I think so. But not at all familiar with them. Just heard the name I think. -- nm - sycor Jul 19, 08:59
- is it a mid-90s Jean Claude Van Damme Cannon actioner? -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 19, 08:59
- yes -- nm - decline Jul 19, 08:58
- No. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 19, 08:58
- Yes, they advertise on Fox News -- nm - Pippy Jul 19, 08:57
- yes -- nm - oblique Jul 19, 08:57
- nope. -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jul 19, 08:56
Does anyone know if gas pumps are working? Need it to recognize credit card and shopper card. -- nm - Meg Jul 19, 08:51 1
- more likely than not -- nm - budice Jul 19, 08:53
Weekend plans? -- nm - Andie Jul 19, 08:47 15
- Sailing. Car show. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 19, 09:09
- Playing No Man's Sky this evening. Volunteering at the FIDO pet food pantry for a few hours tomorrow. Frisbee golf and Pathfinder on Sunday. - ReluctantCynic Jul 19, 09:03 2
  - Huge patch for NMS just came out -- nm - eag Jul 19, 09:06 1
    - I started back up about 3 weeks ago. I'll post my friend code later today, too, for any other STers that are playing. - ReluctantCynic Jul 19, 09:15
- I need to spend some time cleaning. I might buy a new vacuum cleaner? -- nm - ☀️ mandy chem ☀️ Jul 19, 09:00 1
  - Well if you do, here's hoping it sucks. -- nm - JD Jul 19, 09:03
- rearranging furniture in the house, boating, church, scrabble night redux -- nm - Pippy Jul 19, 08:53
- Twisters -- nm - Jovian Jul 19, 08:53
- Indonesian Festival tomorrow. Brazilian festival Sunday. -- nm - Roger More Jul 19, 08:53
- Lunch plans tomorrow with some friends. Church stuff (I'm playing bass this weekend) -- nm - oblique Jul 19, 08:52
- Pirate drinking thing tonight, Happy You're In Remission bowling party tomorrow morning, Kenny Chesney concert in the evening - JD Jul 19, 08:52
- A hike tomorrow, Twisters Sunday. -- nm - Andie Jul 19, 08:51
- Camping - the intentional version of what's happening today -- nm - Fuzzy Jul 19, 08:50
- Nothing whatsoever, mercifully. -- (edited) - znufrii Jul 19, 08:48
- heading to the Lake -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jul 19, 08:47
A new study has found that smartphones are now the “most used screen” for watching new video content, ahead of television. -- (link) - decline Jul 19, 08:44 3
- Going to the root, it's because YouTube and TikTok. Arguably, this has been the reality for years now. - Mop🧹 Jul 19, 09:18
- Princess Disney watches about 50% on tv, but its basically all streaming stuff and no network stuff. -- nm - Walt_Disney Jul 19, 09:08
- does it do an age breakdown? my kids use their phones for watching everything, while wife and I still use TV/computer screen - Beaker 🍺 Jul 19, 08:46
So my work is down -- nm - eag Jul 19, 08:32 2
- fucking Microsoft man -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jul 19, 08:46 1
  - LOL -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 19, 09:15
Crowdstrike stock down 8%. Microsoft down .3% -- nm - Dano Jul 19, 08:25 6
- I wonder if anyone knew that Crowdstrike had the biggest market share of any AV company. Bigger than McAfee (Trellix), Symantec or Defender. -- nm* - Inigo Jul 19, 08:47 1
  - They do now -- nm - JD Jul 19, 08:49
- Is Crowdstrike owned by MS or are they there own thing -- nm - eag Jul 19, 08:46 1
  - Crowdstrike has nothing to do with Microsoft other than their software runs on Windows. -- nm - oblique Jul 19, 08:51
- Also insurance companies are down. -- nm - LMS Jul 19, 08:35
- so Cloudstrike has gone back up like 3-4% from people buying it on the low hoping for the bounce. -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 19, 08:34
RNC all stranded due to the issues -- nm - budice Jul 19, 08:25 6
- Now is the time to... crowdstrike! -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 19, 08:55
- Luckily they all love Milwaukee -- nm - Fuzzy Jul 19, 08:48
- gay grinder living the dream! -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jul 19, 08:26 2
  - Isn't "gay grindr" redundant? -- nm - Dano Jul 19, 08:28 1
    - it's like double secret probation - Pippy Jul 19, 08:34
- Let them eat cake. -- nm - Jovian Jul 19, 08:25
Facebook email alert: “So and So has commented on a comment you haven’t seen yet, from random, barely not a stranger, follower” -- nm - Trending Jul 19, 08:22 3
- Or: "So and so posted a new update" with an alert time 1 minute ago for an update they posted 6 hours ago that I already saw. -- nm - oblique Jul 19, 08:24
- "Maybe you'd like to get into a fight today with someone you've never met and never will" -- nm - Reagen Jul 19, 08:23 1
  - haha -- nm - Pippy Jul 19, 08:34
Mandatory Fun, Weird Al’s last album is now 10 years old. So today he dropped a new polka medley. -- (link) - Tim Jul 19, 08:14 [youtube] 1
- so many random references. -- nm - tRuMaN Jul 19, 08:38
Tennis shot of the year candidate -- (link) - Dano Jul 19, 08:06 [youtube] 3
- wow -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Jul 19, 08:14
- All from the core. No legs -- nm - JD Jul 19, 08:08 1
  - I wish the thumbnail didn't spoil it. -- nm - Dano Jul 19, 08:14
Kit Kat has your Crowstrike break covered -- (link*) - budice Jul 19, 08:06
Deadpool and Wolverine final trailer -- (link) - Remlik Jul 19, 07:56 [youtube] 1
- I might have teared up. I am SO angry I have a meeting Thursday. Luckily, I had booked two showings so I can go to the 9:30. -- nm - LFG Jul 19, 08:37
DTL: I'm #2, only behind rollo. Zone defense for the win! With my upcoming strength of schedule I will drop even if I win though. -- nm - Dano Jul 19, 07:49
If I'm Microsoft right now, I'm proactively sending people to every Fortune 500 company affected by this. - Mop🧹 Jul 19, 07:49 20
- I'll be honest, i assume this is Microsoft's fault so they better get ahead of that PR nightmare fast before worrying about anything else -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jul 19, 08:11 13
  - Precisely why I feel Microsoft needs boots on the ground, just to get ahead of this. - Mop🧹 Jul 19, 08:15 6
    - Also considering the major news outlets are essentially all blaming Microsoft -- nm - Jovian Jul 19, 08:23
    - Just got my email from Microsoft windows release health: "CrowdStrike issue impacting Windows endpoints causing..." -- (edited) - oblique Jul 19, 08:17 4
      - right, even with this I assumed Crowdstrike was just another offshoot of a microsoft subsidiary and they are just trying to blame them to save face -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jul 19, 08:21 3
        
        This isn't Boeing and Sprit AeroSystems. This is an actual competitor who has pulled the neat trick where they've screwed up and yet their biggest - JD Jul 19, 08:31
        
        You seem to really have it in for Microsoft 🤪 - JD Jul 19, 08:26 1
        
        true to the im - hence this: "Crowdstrike has admitted they were drunk and will be immediately entering a rehab facility" -- (edited) - Beaker 🍺 Jul 19, 08:26
  - Almost nothing of this is Microsoft's fault or issue -- nm - oblique Jul 19, 08:14 5
    - everyone will blame them though. already hearing family going nuts on them in FB chats -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jul 19, 08:20 4
      - Oh bigtime. Starting with CNN: - Jovian Jul 19, 08:22 [Attachment] 2
        
        It's lazy reporting at its finest. "Crowdstrike security software causes widespread IT outage. Here's why this is bad for Biden" -- nm - oblique Jul 19, 08:23 1
        
        Its yellow journalism at its finest. Its just now called 'lazy reporting' because that is the world we live in now. -- nm - Jovian Jul 19, 08:24
      - Thanks, Obama -- nm - oblique Jul 19, 08:20
- Fortune 500 companies have IT resources to address this. Microsoft should be resourced to answer their questions and assist with developing procedures - oblique Jul 19, 07:52 1
  - Oh, I have no doubt. This is about "showing you care". -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 19, 08:05
- Well, part of this is an Azure outage, too. It's just that the Crowd strike part is worse. -- nm - Inigo Jul 19, 07:51 3
  - Yes, there was an Azure outage last night. That cannot be ignored. It appears unrelated to Cloudstrike. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 19, 07:52 2
    - I mean more that Microsoft needs to apologize for that part first. Then I agree with the rest. Also, *Crowd*strike. 🙂 -- nm - Inigo Jul 19, 07:54 1
      - Are you mocking my lisp?! -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 19, 08:06
Open: Justin Thomas -3 after 1st round. Just shot 45 on the Front 9 -- nm - budice Jul 19, 07:45 4
- a brutal course, even so I'd love to go there one day -- nm - crash davis 😺 Jul 19, 07:48 3
  - The elements have been really bad, and the course is already groomed to give fits to even the most accurate golfers -- nm - Trending Jul 19, 07:53
  - I'll be at St. Andrews in a couple of weeks. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 19, 07:50
  - Carnoustie is unimpressed. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Jul 19, 07:49
The large company that I work for apparently doesn't use Cloudstrike. Yay? -- nm - JD Jul 19, 07:41 1
- If people get fired for Crowdstrike, can we get raises for not using it? :) -- nm - oblique Jul 19, 07:43
Twisters made $10.7 million in Thursday previews. - Inigo Jul 19, 07:40 1
- We're going on Tuesday for this one -- nm - oblique Jul 19, 07:42
Somebody needs to get Arnold from the future - eag Jul 19, 07:37
Farinaceous ˌferəˈnāSHəs ADJECTIVE Co nsisting of or containing starch. - crash davis 😺 Jul 19, 07:29
This reddit comment on The Boys finale made me LOL: spoils - Jovian Jul 19, 07:29
Bluey is 29% of all Disney watch hours. -- nm - Remlik Jul 19, 07:26 1
- That’s a lot, right? -- nm - znufrii Jul 19, 08:24
Hacks and outages that Cloudstrike could have prevented at my job? 0. - Mop🧹 Jul 19, 07:24 9
- I’m just hoping TEAMS is affected1-can use a day off from the sales guys asking stupid questions and pleading for ridiculous exceptions -- nm - Trending Jul 19, 07:41 2
  - I wanted it to be affected, too. No such luck. -- nm - Dark Callisto 🦊 Jul 19, 08:03 1
    - Last week, I had to listen to John Denver music for 1 hour, after a horrendous TEAMS day that included UPS Teamsing me about nonsense - Trending Jul 19, 08:34
- I would not want to be a BA on the team that tested that patch. -- nm - Dano Jul 19, 07:32 2
  - Like ty97 said, the post-mortem is going to be an interesting read. I can't imagine this is a straight bad code type error that didn't show up in - oblique Jul 19, 07:42 1
    - Yeah. If it hit a few companies maybe they had some weird configuration edge case that wasn't tested. This seems like a core problem. -- nm - Dano Jul 19, 08:19
- lol -- (link) - oblique Jul 19, 07:27 2
  - LOL -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 19, 07:51
  - heh -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jul 19, 07:28
Wow - our entire IT team is being mobilized to head out to all of our on-site locations for this. Healthcare is grinding to a halt here at SSM. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Jul 19, 07:23 10
- Same thing happened to mel. He was alerted at 5 am to come in. -- nm - Diva Jul 19, 07:47
- One IT Manager has already resigned here -- nm - budice Jul 19, 07:31 1
  - !! -- nm - Pippy Jul 19, 08:36
- BJC's got major disruptions as well. I was mildly surprised I could sign in today, but I'm on the Wash U side. -- nm - Baron of the Rings Jul 19, 07:28 6
  - Oddly enough - I'm in with access to everything. Had no issues. So weird. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Jul 19, 07:31 1
    - But it's affecting all kinds of people - docs can't enter our lab software...all kinds of shit. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Jul 19, 07:33
  - (including all the cafeterias since they can't take payments and don't accept cash) -- nm - Baron of the Rings Jul 19, 07:30 3
    - Starbucks downstairs isn't getting notified of app orders. They are just asking people what they ordered and giving it to them. -- nm - Andie Jul 19, 07:34 2
      - Free coffee for Andie! -- nm - Baron of the Rings Jul 19, 07:51 1
        
        Like a *fool* i just asked for my actual order! -- nm - Andie Jul 19, 08:11
this doesn't seem to be a life-threatening disruption but consolidation of power threatens to do to the internet what a Russian nuke strike couldn't -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jul 19, 07:22 2
- That tweet is a bit of hyperbole. -- nm - Mop🧹 Jul 19, 07:51
- There's always an XKCD -- (link) - oblique Jul 19, 07:23
I seem to be up and running now. My fix was keep trying until it works. -- nm - Dano Jul 19, 07:17 3
- Welcome to IT -- nm - oblique Jul 19, 07:20 2
  - update to the definition of insanity. -- nm - Reagen Jul 19, 07:49 1
    - The reality is probably that I just got some patch pushed to me behind the scenes and that fixed it. -- nm - Dano Jul 19, 08:03
"This is our Moment to Shine" -- (link) - mud Jul 19, 07:15 [youtube]
Even the IT Genius, Know-It-Alls at work are wishing they weren't on the clock right now -- nm* - budice Jul 19, 07:15
Light day at work today. yay! -- nm - sycor Jul 19, 07:13
LIR: Reagan. No. (spoilers) -- (link*) - oblique Jul 19, 07:12
ƃuᴉɥɔʇᴉlƃ sᴉ ʞlɐ┴ɹǝʞɔɐlS ʍou ʇɐǝɹƃ -- nm - prayformojo Jul 19, 07:09
Y2K24 -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 19, 07:08
Turns out money can buy happiness, actually -- (link) - znufrii Jul 19, 07:07 2
- "Killingsworth told the Guardian he was surprised by how big the overall difference in happiness is between people who are wealthy and those who are low income" -- nm* - is this dude obtuse? Jul 19, 07:15 1
  - Brought to you by the same people that did the study on "Hitting Yourself With a Baseball Bat Hurts, Actually" -- nm - Reagen Jul 19, 07:27

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