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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • @rook
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    Summary of the recent crowdstrike report: 🧵https://infosec.exchange/@munin/112916974811882522

    Munin wonders if the weird writing style of the report might be because crowdstrike used an LLM to generate a summary of several source documents, which would be funny-yet-depressing if true.

    The actual causes of the incident probably won’t suprise anyone… “didn’t bounds-check, didn’t test parser on bad data, didn’t stage rollouts” in order of should-have-done-this-first-ness.

    • @V0ldek
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      64 months ago

      Minor, but it’s CrowdStrike not cloudstrike

      • @rook
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        94 months ago

        Oops, I’ve been trying to avoid calling it “clownstrike”, and didn’t quite manage to fix that initial syllable.

      • @bitofhope
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        84 months ago

        It’s a really weird name for a product. A crowd strike sounds like a terrorist tactic, not something that brings “security” to mind.

        • @selfA
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          94 months ago

          Tom Clancy’s CrowdStrike sounds like the kind of military fiction I’d accidentally buy from the thrift store

        • @froztbyteOP
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          54 months ago

          there’s a whole strain of extreme terribleness in the wider infosec industry ito naming and references, it’s so goddamn bad

          the most recently visible form of this is post-heartbleed how lots of researchers/groups now fall over themselves to give vuln publications Branding (logo, catchy name, etc), but also all kinds of other things that they constantly mix some terminology soup up

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        I think ClownStrike is the name they deserve

        • @V0ldek
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          74 months ago

          Completely agree, that’s why I nit, since “CloudStrike” sounds like an actual name for an actual product and I will not have that stand!

          • @froztbyteOP
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            44 months ago

            AWS probably has pre-filled patent documents ready for CloudStrike, just waiting on some acquihire or popular open source thing they can product-leech

      • @Soyweiser
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        74 months ago

        People are so trained to shout at Cloudflare for protecting the neo-nazi sites that this is every understandable.

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        Simpsons cartoon, Marge shouts ‘Cloudflare, no!’ to her left. Bart, with the Cloudflare logo on his head walks in from the right, ‘What?’. Marge apologizes to Bart, ‘Sorry force of habit’. Marge shouts ‘Crowdstrike, no!’.

        • @froztbyteOP
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          64 months ago

          while that’s also a problem, doesn’t really seem that’s what happened here

          • @Soyweiser
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            54 months ago

            I have seen a lot of people call it cloudstrike and not a lot of other variants, so I assumed it was due to crowdstrike and cloudflare being so similar.