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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
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    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The point is that it could have. Or maybe some unknown 0-day gets used by someone out to cause chaos instead of collect random.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That's true

On one hand I hope people are smart enough to run updates to critical systems on a test environment, first. On the other hand I've learned that that is not at all the case yesterday.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Many security products have no test option. One I’m using has a best practice of a 15 minute delay between test and prod and no automation to suspend besides relying on the vendor to pull the update it within 15 mins if it were to go full crowdstrike.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

The problem her was that this wasn't a traditional update. It was delivered automatically as a "content" update (like how old av would have definition update). We were given no room to test.