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    • ?
      A Former User
      last edited by A Former User

      Google DeepMind on Instagram

      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:

      Screenshot_2024-07-12-17-26-09-95_40deb401b9ffe8e1df2f1cc5ba480b12.jpg

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      • ?
        A Former User
        last edited by A Former User

        The company I work for is affected by this:

        https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/crowdstrike-code-update-bricking-windows-machines-around-the-world/ar-BB1qfRpA

        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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        • tiggerT
          tigger
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          Maybe don’t use Microsoft for critical infrastructure? The world has gone crazy.

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          • tiggerT
            tigger
            last edited by

            Also, don’t use Texas software in your critical jobs? They are used to turning power off whenever…

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              Blanks @tigger
              last edited by

              @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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              • PakoonP
                Pakoon @A Former User
                last edited by Pakoon

                @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.

                Screenshot 2024-07-19 at 13.14.57.png

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                • PakoonP
                  Pakoon
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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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                  • ?
                    A Former User
                    last edited by A Former User

                    Jul 18, 2024  /  Apple News

                    CrowdStrike Says Global IT Outage Impacting Windows PCs, But Mac and Linux Hosts Not Affected

                    CrowdStrike Says Global IT Outage Impacting Windows PCs, But Mac and Linux Hosts Not Affected

                    A widespread system failure is currently affecting numerous Windows devices globally, causing critical boot failures across various industries, including banks, rail networks, airlines, retailers, broadcasters, healthcare, and many more sectors.

                    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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                    • PakoonP
                      Pakoon
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                      This is just AI training for the eventual war against humans.

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                      • ?
                        A Former User
                        last edited by

                        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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                        • ?
                          A Former User
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                          The tracking for my vanity is down too. Maybe the office will close today!

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                          • JamJ
                            Jam @A Former User
                            last edited by

                            @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?

                            "laissez les bons temps rouler!"

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                            • Gators1G
                              Gators1
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                              • ?
                                A Former User
                                last edited by

                                Lol, this is their website:

                                Screenshot_2024-07-19-20-51-18-84_cbf47468f7ecfbd8ebcc46bf9cc626da.jpg

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                                • JamJ
                                  Jam
                                  last edited by

                                  Your business can be brought down even faster than 62 minutes if you let Crowdstrike help!!!

                                  "laissez les bons temps rouler!"

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                                  • Lob12L
                                    Lob12
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                                    Well if all servers are down, can’t get your data stolen, right?

                                    [IMG] https://image.ibb.co/nhhF0Q/new_sig_lob12.jpg [/IMG]

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                                    • JamJ
                                      Jam
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                                      Damn it!

                                      I can’t adjust the temperature in the pool this morning using the Hayward App.

                                      What am I supposed to do now???

                                      Must I walk out back to the pool panel and make manual adjustments?

                                      Snap6.jpg

                                      "laissez les bons temps rouler!"

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                                      • Lob12L
                                        Lob12
                                        last edited by

                                        La misère des riches

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                                        • TazzT
                                          Tazz
                                          last edited by

                                          It was a CRS update patch that caused this.

                                          GTFO

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                                          • ?
                                            A Former User
                                            last edited by

                                            Let it all burn to the ground

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