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> Error error parsing created field: parsing time "1689093798000000000" as "2006-01-02T15:04:05Z07:00": cannot parse "093798000000000" as "-"
(His twts have been synced to your yarnd by yarnd's gossip protocol.)
> Hey so.. i just got an email from my ISP saying they will terminate my service. Did i break something @abucci ?
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> – https://txt.sour.is/twt/oohzbqa
In today's economy, nobody optimizes something if it can be just called good enough with the next generation hardware. That's especially the mindset of big coorporations.
Anyway, getting sidetracked from the original post. :-)
Mate, these are some really nice gems! What a stunning landscape. I love it. Holy cow, that wooden church looks really sick. Even though, I'm not a scroll guy and prefer simple, straight designs, I have to say, that the interior craftmanship is something to admire.
Blood red sunsetMore: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2024-07-24/
The bullet point 8.6 continues right away (I forgot the ellipsis in my initial quote, excuse me):
> \n Customer agrees that it is Customer’s responsibility to ensure safe use of an Offering and the CrowdStrike Tools in such applications and installations. CROWDSTRIKE DOES NOT WARRANT ANY THIRD PARTY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES.
And in the one before that:
> 8.5 No Guarantee. CUSTOMER ACKNOWLEDGES, UNDERSTANDS, AND AGREES THAT CROWDSTRIKE DOES NOT GUARANTEE OR WARRANT THAT IT WILL FIND, LOCATE, OR DISCOVER ALL OF CUSTOMER’S OR ITS AFFILIATES’ SYSTEM THREATS, VULNERABILITIES, MALWARE, AND MALICIOUS SOFTWARE, AND CUSTOMER AND ITS AFFILIATES WILL NOT HOLD CROWDSTRIKE RESPONSIBLE THEREFOR.
In other words: "Just give us your money and hope for the best. It might work. Maybe." Nope, of course it doesn't.
The bullet point 8.6 continues right away (I forgot the ellipsis in my initial quote, excuse me):
> […] Customer agrees that it is Customer’s responsibility to ensure safe use of an Offering and the CrowdStrike Tools in such applications and installations. CROWDSTRIKE DOES NOT WARRANT ANY THIRD PARTY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES.
And in the one before that:
> 8.5 No Guarantee. CUSTOMER ACKNOWLEDGES, UNDERSTANDS, AND AGREES THAT CROWDSTRIKE DOES NOT GUARANTEE OR WARRANT THAT IT WILL FIND, LOCATE, OR DISCOVER ALL OF CUSTOMER’S OR ITS AFFILIATES’ SYSTEM THREATS, VULNERABILITIES, MALWARE, AND MALICIOUS SOFTWARE, AND CUSTOMER AND ITS AFFILIATES WILL NOT HOLD CROWDSTRIKE RESPONSIBLE THEREFOR.
In other words: "Just give us your money and hope for the best. It might work. Maybe." Nope, of course it doesn't.
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> 8.6 \n THE OFFERINGS AND CROWDSTRIKE TOOLS ARE NOT FAULT-TOLERANT AND ARE NOT DESIGNED OR INTENDED FOR USE IN ANY HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENT REQUIRING FAIL-SAFE PERFORMANCE OR OPERATION. NEITHER THE OFFERINGS NOR CROWDSTRIKE TOOLS ARE FOR USE IN THE OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION, NUCLEAR FACILITIES, COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, WEAPONS SYSTEMS, DIRECT OR INDIRECT LIFE-SUPPORT SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL, OR ANY APPLICATION OR INSTALLATION WHERE FAILURE COULD RESULT IN DEATH, SEVERE PHYSICAL INJURY, OR PROPERTY DAMAGE.
That's why all airports remained operational. Oh wait…
> 8.6 […] THE OFFERINGS AND CROWDSTRIKE TOOLS ARE NOT FAULT-TOLERANT AND ARE NOT DESIGNED OR INTENDED FOR USE IN ANY HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENT REQUIRING FAIL-SAFE PERFORMANCE OR OPERATION. NEITHER THE OFFERINGS NOR CROWDSTRIKE TOOLS ARE FOR USE IN THE OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION, NUCLEAR FACILITIES, COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, WEAPONS SYSTEMS, DIRECT OR INDIRECT LIFE-SUPPORT SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL, OR ANY APPLICATION OR INSTALLATION WHERE FAILURE COULD RESULT IN DEATH, SEVERE PHYSICAL INJURY, OR PROPERTY DAMAGE.
That's why all airports remained operational. Oh wait…
> Cybersecurity’s AI-native platform for the XDR era
Mo-mo-mo-monster bingo!
Someone archived this screnshot, that I've also seen yesterday: https://assets.chaos.social/cache/media_attachments/files/112/812/257/953/926/994/original/c9de6459751f2ebf.png „Your company can be ruined in just 62 minutes“ Luckily, ClownStrike can shorten this timeframe even more. :-D
@movq I hope all admins can at least tell management: Told you so! But of course, no manager gets fired for their bloody stupid decision.
@xuu We got several e-mails about this whole desaster at work.
Anyone who reads the CrowdStrike self-description and then buys the product has really earned a major fault.
This is exactly what's going to happen, movq. Zero lessons learned. No consequences. Maybe just a bit more snake oil on top.
This mindset _might_ come from today's kids who can build stuff only with gazillions of dependencies. And plenty of these suck, are full of bugs, vulnerabilities and bad code in general. So they have to be patched constantly. If one is always surrounded by that, it just feels normal. One might even come to the conclusion that it simply has to naturally be that way. And then, the incorrect deduction is that the project is abandoned, once there are no new commits in a week. It maybe doesn't occur to these people that it is actually possible to work out differently.
To be fair, there is also a lot of unfinished and truly dead code out there. So that assures their theory even further, once they stumble across one of those projects.
And the same doesn't only happen to private projects. All enterprise software systems also pull in so much stuff, that there is always something to update.
The lack of proper planning, just building and delivering buggy banana software in cycles and the mindset of shipping fast and often and doing things agile in general does not do this any favor. It just feels like today's sofware is never ever finished. And if it finally reaches such a point, it must be dead.
I know of some otherwise reeeeaaaaally great software developers who also think that way. I don't understand why they disagree with us here. :-?
The overcrowded train was run by GoAhead, the S-Bahn by DB. They're interchangeably bad.
Over fifty kilometers is a very long bike ride. That at least doubles my commute to more than six hours in total. No, thanks. ;-)
To make it better, throwing things away and starting over with the newly aquired knowledge would be the right thing to do. But that doesn't happen for a myriad of reasons. So you ended up with overly complex stuff.
A bit like building a prototype and keeping it alive forever. "Denn nichts hält länger als ein Provisorium." – "Nothing is more definitive than the temporary."
Then there comes in feature creep. And preliminary optim^Wfeatures, "hey, maybe somebody would like to bla in the future, let's add this".
Well, when I was waiting for my train home on the station platform. I didn't recognize that it was Acca Dacca, and I tried hard. In fact, the stage was 500 meters away, so it was just some music-like sound that found its way into my ears. Still kinda cool to know that I heard them live.
I had a barbie with my old workmates. That's why I have a story to tell now. On the way there, the train was hopelessly overcrowded with AC/DC fans. You couldn't fall down, simply impossible. It was like in the videos of Japanese subways, where guards press in passengers to utilize every square centimeter. At later stations, plenty of people didn't get in. Not a chance. This caused quite some delays. And boy, was it hot in there. Streams of sweat running down everywhere.
Originally, I wanted to meet up with a workmate in a city train for the second part of the trip. Due to a signal failure, his train was delayed, though. It got delayed even more and more and was finally cancelled altogether. I eventually got my connecting train while he was still stuck and decided to abort mission and go home after 40 minutes. Catching my connection was another adventure. It was rerouted to another platform, of course without announcement. Because why would you? Fuck the passengers! Luckily, I noticed that it took a different branch at the switch on arrival and ran down and up the stairs to the other platform. The delay counter in this train showed 40 minutes when I finally got off.
With the exception of Acca Dacca, the way home was pleasantly uneventful. Just a few minutes delay and a relatively low passenger volume.
I'm so grateful for not having to experience all this shit on a daily basis anymore. Not looking forward to the next time I have to go into the city. Not at all.
But you're right, yarnd has potential for improvement, too (what doesn't?). Rest assured, there are several universes between the two. And yarnd is lightyears ahead.
I will not use WhatsApp in a million years. It's not worth it. Might be trickier with family members, but I also refuse to use such stuff. It definitely degrades some friends to aquaintances, but oh well. If I don't know what I'm "missing out" on, then I simply cannot miss it. On the positive side, it frees my time for other things. :-)
I don't send my bank or insurance company any bug report e-mails or the like. I'm talking about mailing software developers or projects. On a side note, though, I've seen lot of (German) companies use GMail & other terrible mail providers. My former employer fell also in this category (so does my current one, but at least I receive all e-mails).
Blackbird on a ridge with a slightly colored sky in the background
@movq No, both are a manmade lakes and ponds, but the fish are real. :-) In fact, the fish are in the much smaller "tadpole pond" as I call it. The tadpoles are now all gone and we've seen tiiiiiny frogs jumping around. But we were not successful in capturing them on film. Maybe fish were brought in these artificial lakes by mankind, too, I don't know. Good question.
I reckon if someone really wanted to participate, they will. Despite where it is hosted.
I just also see the issue with smaller mail servers being blocked by the large ones. This also happened to me I believe. My mails just never made it to the people. Or they were ignored, I cannot tell.
Three butterflies
We then decided to continue our return in the light drizzle. But it then got much heavier again and we got completely soaked. With the wet t-shirt and the wind it actually felt rather cold. I anticipated to get rained on, so I left my camera at home. Plenty of paths turned into brook landscapes, several centimeter deep creeks ran down the hilly trails. Quite fascinating. :-)
The sunset a few minutes ago wasn't too bad:
Sunset
I didn't know that a command line usage error is supposed to report exit code 64. In the past I either simply exited with 1 or sometimes each
exit statement got its own dedicated number. The latter came in useful for debugging shell scripts. I exactly knew which branch was executed. That was handy when the error messages were similar or even the same.I was always wondering if there is some kind of a standard, but I never did my reasearch. Looking at other people's code, it always seemed to me that everybody just did wantever they wanted to in regards to exit codes. I just looked up what else is out there and systemd also defines heaps of errors. It even references the FreeBSD one and links to the Linux Standard Base specification, too. Cool, cool!
Do you guys know of these conventions and make use of them?
> And then be very thankful that we don’t have to deal with this anymore today. 😂
That's exactly what I thought when reading your explanations. :-D
> Error error parsing created field: parsing time "1713565714000000000" as "2006-01-02T15:04:05Z07:00": cannot parse "565714000000000" as "-"
And now it's even offline according to Clownflare…
I played around with my torch's green light and the camera for the first time. I have to practise and learn quite a bit. The tripod was definitely needed. With full zoom, the tripod was not rigid enough, though. Pressing the trigger button moved the cam quite a lot.
You might be able to make out Ursa Major in 06 in between the pixel errors. The clear night sky was very beautiful, I enjoyed it a lot. I also saw a bunch of satellites flying around. No shooting star, though.
https://lyse.isobeef.org/nachtwanderung-2024-07-07/
The rain finally got me, it was forecast to arrive later. Oh well.
Loud music from town blasted uphill into the forest. And fireworks reverbed with loud bangs over the hills in the middle of nature, holy crap!
It's itching everywhere, mozzies ate me alive.
Oh damn, water being pushed in through cracks in the walls? Holy crap! O_o That doesn't sound confidence-inspiring at all. How much water managed to get in? Any damages or just a moist floor/walls?
And here's the next thunderstorm lining up. Luckily, the rain barrel upgrade is completed. Also widened the funnel so that water running along the cable to the left is also caught. While typing, the rain gets stronger. Gotta check now. ;-)
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Two larger streams were pouring out of the now porous looking mortar around the cables. Cool fountain in the basement. You would have thought that the right one was the bad one, but no, that one only dripped. I caught it just in time, not even half a minute later and the bucket would have spilled over. I estimate 60-75l water in total were about to mess up the floor again. Crisis averted.
[](https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/wassertrichter-in-eimer/02.jpg)
Gotta upgrade the bucket to a rain barrel until this is fixed.
Shortly after, I heared the fire brigade responding a couple of times.
I just returned from another trip into the forest. This time, I went deeper, there was some beautiful firefly activity. When I checked on yesterday's spot on the way home there was barely anything. But I saw some presumably females sitting on the leaves in the shrubs. I didn't notice a single one yesterday. Their illuminated parts were really huge compared to the flying males. The biggest was the size of a small finger's nail (contrast that with a tiny shining dot of maybe 2-4mm max). I could even see the three distinct sections being lit up. That must have been a common glow-worm (großes Johanniswürmchen), I'd say: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Lampyris_noctiluca.jpg The others might also just have been the smaller species. I don't know.
There were also some toads on the paths. A very lovely evening stroll. I'm very happy now. The dayjob's stress is completely forgotten.
I really do enjoy that I am in the woods in about 10-15 minutes afoot. The most dangerous animals here are ticks and then come the boars. And that's really it. Well, mozzies might be in the list, too. Some adventive ones can carry diseases, luckily, I haven't encountered them here yet. Today, a bunch of gnats wanted to eat me. Yesterday, I had my peace, though.
I'm now really looking forward to a night hike soon.
Actually a war memorial on Mt. Hohenrechberg, but it always looks totally like a duck to meIt was a really nice hike, there was hardly anybody outside. The weather wasn't bad at all, around 22°C and cloudy most of the time. The drizzle got me a few times, but it wasn't terrible. It just raised the humidity. A bit more wind would have been nice, it was very calm, even at the summits.
On the way there I had to kill a tick that I found on my trousers. Those bloody suckers! What benefit do they bring nature? At home I checked and couldn't find any others. Phew.
On the way back from Mt. Hohenrechberg I saw a deer and hare. It's been years that I came across hares in the wild, so that was really cool. I decided to watch the sunset from Mt. Hohenstaufen, so I took a small detour. Absolutely worth it:
SunsetA group of hippies eventually joined me at the sunset lookout, lit joss sticks, played some weird music on a metal pipe thingy (a bit like a single windbell) and sang a sun dance song. Said song had gone missing for a very long time and was recovered only lately, they told me. Okay. Some other really crazy dude told us that the mountain we're on had been raised in the Young Stone Age. That period where harvests were plentiful and people had a lot of spare time. WTF!? I mean they all were super nice and friendly and talking to them was also actually lovely, but what… err… interesting mindsets.
On the final return I saw another three deer on a paddock. And now for the very, very best part of the whole trip: in the forest I encountered 83 fireflies before I stopped counting. In the end it must have been 500-600 in total. One even nearly hit me in the face if I hadn't ducked at the last second. :-) Man, this was soooo fricking amazing! Fireflies for round about 1.5km! Didn't even try to take photos in this darkness, though.
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An alternative would be to make the session lifetime configurable in the user profile. So bender would then set this to forty-two years. :-) Definitely something for power users who know what they're doing. More dangerous for the average Joe, though.
Sunset