ENGINEERING: Who does installs directly into production? Only incomptent sys admins and sys engineers!

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

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No matter how hard I try, I can’t blame Crowdstrike for this being a “Global Outage”. I blame “Crappy Sysadmins”. The fact that 911 systems, hospitals and other “life & death” essential services chose to auto-install untested vendor updates with no internal vetting whatsoever makes me pretty mad. To say nothing of airlines, banks, schools, govt. and everyone else who should goddamn know better.

My company runs Crowdstrike and this didn’t impact us because of exactly that, we push updates in a controlled fashion through Test before releasing anything to Production which could take us down. We do this with MS Updates, Linux updates, Oracle, etc. etc., why would I ever allow Crowdstrike to auto-update on my systems?

/old man yells at cloud
//kids these days
///so over this nonsense 

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I swear to God that this is exactly what I thought when all these “production” environments went down from one update.  For heaven’s sake, didn’t anyone think that this could happen.  Disaster Recovery?  Information Security? Uninterruptible Service?  Life ’n’ safety critical?

If I was a CEO or CFO, them I’d fire the CIO and CTO in a heartbeat.

Argh!

Thanks FARK for making me think I am NOT the crazy one.

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MONEY: Use the two spot to be remembered?

Friday, May 3, 2024

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In years past, when the commanders of a US military base would feel like the locals were becoming less than appreciative of their presence, particularly local law enforcement, they would order up a huge stack of $2 bills and pay the lower-ranking soldiers in cash that pay period. And they did it precisely for one of the reasons on this list. There’s no real place in the cash drawer for them, so they stick out like a sore thumb when doing deposits. And since those local shop owners all knew the source of those $2 bills, it served as a stark reminder of how dependent the local economy was on the base for income. 

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I love the concept.

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DISCOURAGING: Africa IS “dependent on handouts…and philanthropic intervention.”

Monday, November 20, 2023

[TIP ‘o’ the HAT to: FARK for highlighting this one ]

https://www.fark.com/comments/13049658/165664230/I-dont-know-what-MrBeast-is-but-apparently-he-built-a-bunch-of-fresh-water-wells-in-Africa-with-his-own-money-Some-have-a-problem-with-that-because-of-reasons#c165664230

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https://www.outkick.com/mrbeast-hears-it-from-critics-wells-in-africa/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

MrBeast Is Hearing It From Critics After He Built 100 Wells In Africa…And That’s Completely Insane
by Matt Reigle November 8, 2023, 2:05 pm 

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YouTuber MrBeast is no stranger to critics, but those criticisms usually come in places you’d expect. Criticisms of his videos or his burger chain, stuff like that. What you wouldn’t expect is to see people pounce on the 25-year-old for providing drinking water to half a million people across Africa, but guess what? it happened.

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Take Saran Kaba Jones, founder and CEO of FACE Africa, for instance. According to CNN, that’s an organization that aims to improve water infrastructure and sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa.

“I’ve been doing this for 15 years, but we’ve been struggling to continue the work because funding, awareness, and advocacy all take work,” Jones said.

That’s all true. So then she must have been pretty jazzed that MrBeast decided to use his gobs of money to help in this endeavor instead of buying another Island or filling a swimming pool with Fanta or whatever it is he does.

Nope. She told CNN this: “(O)vernight, this person comes along, who happens to be a white male figure with a huge platform, and all of a sudden, he gets all of the attention. It’s kind of frustrating, but it’s also understanding the nature of how the world is.”

Wait, wait, wait. Hold the phone here. Shouldn’t she be ecstatic that half a million people have access to water and now there’s way more attention brought to it?

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So, it’s less important that ½ MILLION should get access to clean water than he took the spotlight for doing it.

Sorry, her ego got hurt.

And, later on in the article an “aspiring politician” is upset that it appears Africa is “dependent on handouts…and philanthropic intervention.” 

Well it is.  I’ve been hearing about “poor Africans” for more than SIX DECADES.  And, I’d assert that the reason they are poor is that the politicians and bureaucrats are robbing them blind.  In conjunction with the colonial powers that like them just that way.  Gandhi showed a nation how to free themselves, but did NOT show them how to get rid of the parasitic drone class.

Argh!

I’m speechless.  

Perhaps, the Second Amendment is the way to rid oneself of the oppression of dictators.

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