The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread
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As a tech demo vid, the above fails pretty hard in an amusing way.
First there’s the obvious cut to not show how long it took Gemini to work out the answer to the question.
Second there’s the way they sped up the footage to not show how slow the gimped robot moved (but somehow made it look slow despite that.)
Third there’s the pained look of sadness on the engineer’s face in the video thumbnail:

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The company I work for is affected by this:
Computers crashing and then can’t reboot. People where I work have been told to attempt to boot in safe mode and, if that fails, BYOD (use their own PCs). I’m a contractor so already use my own laptop and I wouldn’t put that shit on my machine even if I’d heard of it before today.
I’d hate to be a CrowdStrike employee right now.
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Maybe don’t use Microsoft for critical infrastructure? The world has gone crazy.
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Also, don’t use Texas software in your critical jobs? They are used to turning power off whenever…
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@tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Also, don’t use Texas software in your critical jobs? They are used to turning power off whenever…
Their inferior electrical grid is how they stick it to the man and let ‘em know that Texas could secede if they wanted to!
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
I’d hate to be a CrowdStrike employee right now.
I hate to be a Crowdstrike shareholder right now.

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To be honest, I was expecting a worse reaction, but we’ll see when the market opens. I’m not selling, though.
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The workaround to break the infinite boot cycle on affected Windows machines involves manually booting into safe mode, navigating to the CrowdStrike directory, and deleting the system file that caused the problem.
They can’t roll out a fix remotely and the place I work has over 10k employees spread across timezones all over the world. What a headache.
Edit: at least there is a fix. I can’t imagine the size of the lawsuits if they actually bricked all those PCs. The disruption to business would be horrendous.
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This is just AI training for the eventual war against humans.
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Well now I’m conflicted:
several rail networks over the world have ground to a halt.
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501525799/worldwide-windows-outage-hits-trains-planes-and-banks/
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The tracking for my vanity is down too. Maybe the office will close today!
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@Zeppelin said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
The tracking for my vanity is down too. Maybe the office will close today!
The office watches you shave in the morning?
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Lol, this is their website:

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Well if all servers are down, can’t get your data stolen, right?
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La misère des riches
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It was a CRS update patch that caused this.
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Let it all burn to the ground


