Are we really so far down the "obligatory memetic envelope because apparently just stating opinions isn't socially acceptable any more" slope that we've dropped past "can't stop thinking about x lmao" and on to "i was talking to my sister and, get this, i said x"?
I guessed the same, but according to Wikipedia:
The name wallaby comes from Dharug walabi or waliba.
I'm not sure how modern anglicisation works but I assume what's given there is considered the most accurate spelling of the indigenous word. So "wallaby" isn't too far off.
I don't really know what the drama was, but from what I can tell this only involves lemmy.world. I'd suggest editing the title of this post to reflect as much, because Lemmy as a whole has no "ToS" and there are quite a few other vegan comms out there.
That aside, this looks like a really good collection of links. Thanks!
This is honestly quite mild by website bloat standards. If that's really the entirety of their Javascript it's already way smaller than e.g. Medium or what this blog post considers "slightly bloated". The fact that it's in one file in 13 lines is also very standard. It makes no difference to the parser whether there are newlines or not, and removing them will in fact be saving bytes.
I'm guessing the performance issues with the site are more to do with how it's coded. If it's really bad for what sounds like a simple use case it might even be a cryptominer or something. A lot of those "random utility as a service" sites are.
I don't think that's what's happening here. As far as I know it's an issue with a driver installed on the computers, not with anything trying to reach out to an external server. If that were the case you'd expect it to fail to boot any time you don't have an Internet connection.
Windows is bad but it's not that bad yet.
Looks like the laptops are able to be recovered with a bit of finagling, so fortunately they haven't bricked everything.
And yeah staged updates or even just... some testing? Not sure how this one slipped through.
There are reports of IT outages affecting major institutions in Australia and internationally.
All our servers and company laptops went down at pretty much the same time. Laptops have been bootlooping to blue screen of death. It's all very exciting, personally, as someone not responsible for fixing it.
Apparently caused by a bad CrowdStrike update.
Edit: now being told we (who almost all generally work from home) need to come into the office Monday as they can only apply the fix in-person. We'll see if that changes over the weekend...
after calling Australia's emergency line 001
So close.