CrowdStrike is offering its partners a $10 Uber Eats gift card as an apology for crashing millions of computers around the world due to a defective software update.

“To express our gratitude, your next cup of coffee or late night snack is on us!,” says the email from CrowdStrike's chief business officer Daniel Bernard.

But some found that the gift card didn't work, while others got an error message saying the voucher had been canceled.

More from @lorenzofb: techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/crow…

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Switzerland passes law requiring #OpenSource software in the public sector. "All public bodies must disclose the source code of software developed by or for them, unless precluded by third-party rights or security concerns" Well done @maemst, great work!

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🚨 New pre-print – dark times for privacy. Not only announced Google yesterday to continue allowing cross-site cookies. We find that Android's central privacy options are ineffective and arguably misleading for consumers.

For 10+ years, Google has allowed #Android users to limit data sharing for online ads. We find that this setting does... NOTHING much. The same goes for Californians, when they exert their LEGAL right to limit sale or sharing of their data. #GPC

Link: arxiv.org/abs/2407.14938

When people start popping off with their opinions about how the world should work, one of my favorite questions to ask is "who is we?" Let's start to unpack who we're talking about, and what we're talking about in terms of changes in their words and actions.
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in reply to Marco Rogers

More importantly though, every actor in this dynamic feels that it's not their own actions that need to change. It's always somebody else that needs to change.

That's why I end up poking people about this. Even though I know it often just makes them defensive. Each of us has to understand that we don't have any control over what other people do. The only thing we can actually make a decision about is whether our own actions in the system match up with our stated values.

"Testes à covid-19. Autoridade da Concorrência condena laboratórios por "envolvimento num cartel""

"em setembro de 2020, o valor os testes covid em Portugal estavam ao nível dos preços na Europa, em junho de 2021 Portugal era o país europeu com o preço por teste mais elevado."

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Beyond parody. To quote Penny Arcade, how do you make fun of a clown? Insult his big shoes, his red nose?

CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm that crashed millions of computers with a botched update all over the world last week, is offering its partners a $10 Uber Eats gift card as an apology, according to several people who say they received the gift card, as well as a source who also received one.


techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/crowdstrike-offers-a-10-apology-gift-card-to-say-sorry-for-outage

This summer, #Kdenlive is all about the ASS. Yup you heard it right, .ass subtitle support is coming along with some nifty other features like multiple subtitle tracks. Stay tuned for more.

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#gsoc #gsoc24

@kde

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Sharing my plans for #MastodonForHarris fundraiser: Incredibly, it is now conceivable that we will hit the current target of $125,000 soon, maybe even today. When we do, I will adjust the target. I hope I have been clear from the beginning; each target is a a benchmark, not an endpoint. 1/ secure.actblue.com/donate/mast…
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I am continuing my efforts to contact key people in digital, outreach, and elsewhere in the Harris campaign. Eventually, I will get through, I’m sure. I’d like to have a list ready of qualified volunteers who could assist the campaign in understanding Mastodon and the Fediverse, setting up and maintaining an instance, and so forth. If you are interested in being contacted should an opportunity arise, please provide your details here opnform.com/forms/mfh-tech-vol…. 2/ #MastodonForHarris
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Open Source or Shut Down MastoMetrics?

Every day multiple people sign up for @mastometrics, but hosting is burning a hole in my pocket and I don't have much time to maintain it.

I'm open to cleaning up my code and making it self hostable as well as accepting code contributions. However, I still need donations to fund the free / flagship server.

So here's my pledge and call to you:

Ensure MastoMetrics stays online and help me reach €1500 donations: ko-fi.com/robertvh

Boosts = ❤️

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Heads up for Linux @thunderbird users: We have seen an issue where the new tray icon isn't rendering on daily.

Long story short it kinda helps if you install TB-symbolic.svg in `mach install` !

Please adjust your packaging for daily to ensure TB-symbolic.svg is now accounted for in chrome/icons/default/ - we've got `mach install` fixed now xD

hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/re…

The folks at TPGuy have finally made a Firefox extension for ARC Toolkit:
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…

I installed it yesterday. Nothing has caught fire. Appears to work as I recall it on Chrome.

#accessibility #a11y

Daily Song, Suno, my Lyrics, Brian's Production.

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'It is our day!': Monster-in-law wedding-shames the bride and groom for booking vegetarian meals with catering, claiming guests 'expect luxury food': Planning a wedding is like doing a group project with your parents. You're reminded of the pitfalls, the hierarchal shifts, and the shortcomings of every member involved in the group project and each person's role starts to get jumbled as various members either relinquish responsibility or dig their heels in. For most of us, we work better alone,…

I was just researching what is the best washing machine cleaning product, and tripped over a delightful five-star review on Amazon, wherein, after describing the olfactory crisis that precipitated the purchase in the first place, the author of the review said with great approval, "My washer stopped smelling like American politics after I used this product."

Source: a.co/d/7Svel4j

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CrowdStrike says the problematic July 19 software update that affected 8.5M Windows devices was deployed into production due to "a bug in the Content Validator" (Simon Sharwood/The Register)

theregister.com/2024/07/24/cro…
techmeme.com/240724/p5#a240724…

The 2024 Paris Olympic Games are almost here, and NBCUniversal’s coverage will be more accessible than ever before!

Read the Q&A on accessibility:
acb.org/2024-Olympics

Read NBCUniversal’s press release:
nbcsports.com/pressbox/press-r…

Enjoy the Games!

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Já třeba tady z tohoto účtu na mastodonczech.cz dlouho neviděl profilovou na alt účtu na mamutovo @tensob_@mamutovo.cz

U jiné instance se mi to zatím nedělo a to jsem jich stihnul nasbírat docela dost viz.:
mastodon.arch-linux.cz/@tensob…

@tensob_@mastodon.arch-linux.cz , @tensob_@f.cz , @tensob_@witter.cz , @tensob_@mastodon.social

N79 band private 5G + Liberty Phone = holistic security for gov/enterprise. Made in USA, custom options available. #5G #Security #Purism
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