I don’t believe there was any specific API in use here, for virus scanning or not. I suppose maybe the device driver API? I am not a kernel developer so I don’t know if that’s the right term for it.

Crowdstrike’s driver was loaded at boot and caused a null pointer dereference error, inside the kernel. In userspace, when this happens, the kernel is there to catch it so only the application that caused it crashes. In kernelspace, you get a BSOD because there’s really nothing else to do.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=wAzEJxOo1ts

“See? We got something in common, you and I. In fact you could say… you could say I’m just like you.”

See also “ornitho” (relating to birds) and “pter” (wing) creating the term ornithopter for a heavier than air vehicle that flies by flapping its wings. Famously seen in Dune, but I think also back in the day people actually tried to make them, long before aircraft existed.

Misread this as “wolf sculpture may be not” at first, which seems altogether more threatening.

The ATO’s myTax system is pretty great, I hope with this you guys finally get something as nice.

I did this ages ago now. Was a non-issue.

Edit: To clarify, I’m not endorsing MS on not fixing this. Just saying I did it and had no issues.

It’s true tho… for some new users. If the new user wants to learn linux fundamentals, there’s no better way than hand installing Gentoo or Arch. Ideally on a second PC and using it as a home server.

Now if they just want an alternative OS for their main PC, yeah, go for something else.

Addictive is right. I’m in the process of building myself a smart mailbox with a couple proximity sensors and an ESP32. It’s been quite the undertaking, and quite expensive if you count the tools I bought for the project.

There will come a time where the old fridge that is being replaced but still too good to throw away so it becomes the secondary fridge that lives in the shed… has internet. Assuming manufacturers don’t figure out a way to make it shut down when you stop subscribing, anyway.

Wait, please explain the acorn thing. That’s a joke right?

“It’s Minecraft, not mind-”

“That son of a bitch…”

Hey, that guy is listening to Pink Floyd in his head without paying a licensing fee!!