#what is cpu in computer

[fernsnailz]

chipset and database learn about internet scams

[misocupnoodles]

im alive (stc) im sorry

time to disappear until future notice

[syqy]

had a nap dream where amon was trying to explain how allagan computers worked to my wol

[sotc]

i am gone for one week to enjoy time with family and come back to everything turning to shit. im worried about roxy's teeth and being potentially in pain so im taking her to the vet next week. shaxx's skin has broken out into another flare up so im monitoring him. my kitchen sink is clogging and i tried to fix it and it won't unclog so i need to call a plumber. and now my husband's computer is bsod'ing kernel errors again-- no i should stay STILL. i'm so fucking DONNEEEEE

[ridragon]

You're telling me that helldivers 2's ai system works on socialism

[ozzyfromthecafeteria]

eyes up computer parts evilly

[rohirric-hunter]

I hope a lot of people who work in corporate IT learned a valuable lesson this weekend about why it's not more okay for a corporate computer to have programs that fuck around with your system than it is for an individual computer

[babblingbat]

Veilguard is driving me NUTS why won't it WORK? I have 20gb RAM, I've got better than the minimum processor, and yet every time I open it, it freezes on the very first loading screen and just. SITS THERE. WHY

[betagrove]

That tweet about each ai prompt wasting a full 16oz of water isn't true like at all

[manyblinkinglights]

I'm happy, wireless with fullbody is a rock steady 12-13fps with per-eye resolution turned down to 20%. And that's at a music instance with 50+ people, and the mirror on. (I am easy to please.)

[mjlol52]

anybody interested in discussing computer scalability and the concept of theoretical infinite scaling

[crimmson]

between my computer deciding to rebel, and work, and life, and I feel like I have a perpetual minor cold with that kinda slightly stuffy feel and that taste in the back of my throat,

I am kindly requesting someone to just Old Yeller me at this point

[forthedancingandthethriving]

I met a traveller from an antique land

A crack appears in the sky, and three birds fly through.

The sky is foggy, with no sun in sight. The ground is covered in sand, and large pillars of stone jut out from below. They're crumbling, with stones around. Wind howls around, merciless against the birds that fly through the air.

Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,

A red harpy eagle, a red and pink eagle, and a yellow and red crowned eagle land on a pillar made of crumbling stone. Their eyes narrowed, watching below. Waiting for something.

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

The crowned eagle spreads a wing, gesturing to a large monument below. The eagle rolls his eyes while the harpy eagle his head. The trio take off into the air and fly down to the monument below.

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:

The trio land in front of the monument, the harpy eagle in the middle. All threes' eyes narrow, leaning in to look at the inscription.

And on the pedestal these words appear:

‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’

The eagle shakes his head, disgusted. The crowned eagle looks up and around, watching for something. Looking. The harpy eagle raises back to full height, looking around as well.

Sand begins to shift around them.

None take the chance. Powerful wings launch all three high into the air as the sand continues to shift below.

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

A giant snake's head slowly appears from under the sand. Piercing yellow eyes kook up at the trio of birds and a low rumbling hiss eruptes, filling the air and silencing the wind.

The eagles don't take a chance. They take off back towards the crack in the sky.

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

A louder hiss erupts, the ground rumbles and shakes, pillars falling as a large snake's body rises from the sand. It chases the after the birds, eyes glaring.

It shoots up from the sand, jaw unhinging. The snake's scales of code glint, a pale silver. Scars litter its body from a battle long ago.

The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

The birds shoot through the crack in the sky, which repairs itself behind them quickly. The snake clamps its jaws down too late, missing the birds.

It stays there, eyes staring at where the portal once was.

The snake lowers its head, contempt filling its eyes. Trapped in a prison of its own code, designed by its jailers. The other prison too weak to contain something of its magnitude, so it's jailers had to be crafty.

Make it imprison itself.

Ozymandias turns its body and dives under the sand once more. Once a feared virus, it was lost to history, only surviving in the memory banks of those it contempted.

It 'sympathized' with the king whose name it stole. It, too, was forgotten. No longer feared by the viruses it used to command.

As Ozymandias dives deeper beneath the sand, it hears the wind howl again.

One day, it promised, it would remind its jailers just why they struggled tricking it into even making this prison.

[ln-ofx]

This is only weeks after HP tried to nuke my computer with a faulty auto-update on an app I didn't even know I had. Wtf is going on in

idk if people on tumblr know about this but a cybersecurity software called crowdstrike just did what is probably the single biggest fuck up in any sector in the past 10 years. it's monumentally bad. literally the most horror-inducing nightmare scenario for a tech company.

some info, crowdstrike is essentially an antivirus software for enterprises. which means normal laypeople cant really get it, they're for businesses and organisations and important stuff.

so, on a friday evening (it of course wasnt friday everywhere but it was friday evening in oceania which is where it first started causing damage due to europe and na being asleep), crowdstrike pushed out an update to their windows users that caused a bug.

before i get into what the bug is, know that friday evening is the worst possible time to do this because people are going home. the weekend is starting. offices dont have people in them. this is just one of many perfectly placed failures in the rube goldburg machine of crowdstrike. there's a reason friday is called 'dont push to live friday' or more to the point 'dont fuck it up friday'

so, at 3pm at friday, an update comes rolling into crowdstrike users which is automatically implemented. this update immediately causes the computer to blue screen of death. very very bad. but it's not simply a 'you need to restart' crash, because the computer then gets stuck into a boot loop.

this is the worst possible thing because, in a boot loop state, a computer is never really able to get to a point where it can do anything. like download a fix. so there is nothing crowdstrike can do to remedy this death update anymore. it is now left to the end users.

it was pretty quickly identified what the problem was. you had to boot it in safe mode, and a very small file needed to be deleted. or you could just rename crowdstrike to something else so windows never attempts to use it.

it's a fairly easy fix in the grand scheme of things, but the issue is that it is effecting enterprises. which can have a looooot of computers. in many different locations. so an IT person would need to manually fix hundreds of computers, sometimes in whole other cities and perhaps even other countries if theyre big enough.

another fuck up crowdstrike did was they did not stagger the update, so they could catch any mistakes before they wrecked havoc. (and also how how HOW do you not catch this before deploying it. this isn't a code oopsie this is a complete failure of quality ensurance that probably permeates the whole company to not realise their update was an instant kill). they rolled it out to everyone of their clients in the world at the same time.

and this seems pretty hilarious on the surface. i was havin a good chuckle as eftpos went down in the store i was working at, chaos was definitely ensuring lmao. im in aus, and banking was literally down nationwide.

but then you start hearing about the entire country's planes being grounded because the airport's computers are bricked. and hospitals having no computers anymore. emergency call centres crashing. and you realised that, wow. crowdstrike just killed people probably. this is literally the worst thing possible for a company like this to do.

crowdstrike was kinda on the come up too, they were starting to become a big name in the tech world as a new face. but that has definitely vanished now. to fuck up at this many places, is almost extremely impressive. its hard to even think of a comparable fuckup.

a friday evening simultaneous rollout boot loop is a phrase that haunts IT people in their darkest hours. it's the monster that drags people down into the swamp. it's the big bag in the horror movie. it's the end of the road. and for crowdstrike, that reaper of souls just knocked on their doorstep.

[jaredwormsboyslizardsquad]

DAMN all of you with your 6 core cpus my computer is only 3 years old but apparently its too Shite to run the remake on it