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On Monday night, Variety reported that film editors around Los Angeles who had Avid Media Composer software installed were suddenly finding that their Macs were unable to reboot. The publication speculated that malware may have been the cause. On Wednesday, Google disclosed the real cause—a Chrome browser update.
Specifically, it was a new version of Chrome's Keystone updater that caused so many Macs to stop rebooting, according to this Chrome open bug post. When the update was installed on Macs that had disabled a security feature known as system integrity protection and met several other conditions, a crucial part of the Mac system file was damaged, a Google employee said in the forum.
"This appears to be an issue with a new version of Google Keystone," a different Google employee wrote earlier in the thread. "We have halted the rollout and are working on remediation right now."
[...] Google has instructions for restoring unbootable Macs here. The process involves booting into recovery mode and then opening a terminal window, which among other ways can be accessed from the utilities folder. From there, run the following commands:
chroot /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD # "Macintosh HD" is the default
rm -rf /Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle
mv var var_back # var may not exist, but this is fine
ln -sh private/var var
chflags -h restricted /var
chflags -h hidden /var
xattr -sw com.apple.rootless "" /varThen reboot.
If everything goes right, the Mac will restart with the buggy Chrome update no longer installed and with the damaged file system repaired. It wasn't immediately clear when a fixed version of the Chrome update will be available.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday September 28 2019, @02:06AM (6 children)
They call you crazy, and maybe you are, but the world is so insane than your particular brand of maybe-crazy makes a hell of a lot more sense than what passes for sanity these days.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Saturday September 28 2019, @09:22AM (5 children)
(i keep hitting the wrong reply button, they are tooooo closely placed together so i posted this as separate comment first, apologies)
There was a time even I couldn't believe what I was seeing and I was uncertain about a path forward, or thought I had nothing to contribute. I am still astounded that so many suit wearing flag worshipping americans are selling out our country to crass plutarchs and foreign countries, I always kindof thought they would have *some* kind of backbone. The soldiers and officers and police I have met sure don't seem like such cucks, but here we are getting epsteined. And then on top of that so many people who chose to be police officers and military officers are gaslighting the hell out of the civilian population while epstein flies around with Bill Clinton and Ehud Barak.
I used to wonder but those days are past, too many things I predicted have come true and now I know what we can do. Some paths forward are on my website, and a lot of that is links to the work of other people smarter than myself. I am just getting started.
Call me crazy, call me wrong, I will argue/discuss with you as long as I am drawing breath and you are polite, but I am a single human being and I am neither a robot or a shill. And if I toot my own horn for a second, I am one of the best and most prolific writers in the history of the english language. That's what I think people really hate when they say I'm crazy, I write how they wish they could. Freely.
Crazy is when you keep doing the same thing over and over without success. I have tried so many things, but I haven't tried what I am doing now.
The truth is crazy, people are destroying their own planet for fantasy $'s in computers which have no tangency to reality, there are no longer enough goods and services in the world for all of those 000,000's. I have no allegiance or buy in to this system, I have only survived by maintaining my own mental space independent of it, as I suspect have many.
Try not watching CNN for a year then have a conversation with someone who does, they will call you crazy too. I stopped watching tv news completely so long ago I can't remember, the concept is abhorrent to me, it's clearly one of the major roots of all of the problems, the ease with which people are shortcircuited with graphics and flashing lights to believe literally anything, like that there is proof epstein is dead.
I have been preparing for this world, the predictions I did not want to come true came true despite my best efforts, so it should be no wonder to people who have been more gullible I appear wildly incongruous or 'crazy'(to people with a limited vocabulary and a penchant for unqualified armchair diagnosis over distance)
Thank you for the kind words, made my day. But I am also not joking that I could use a hand, if I cannot earn money by writing and speaking my viewpoint, or share my story with a journalist who understands the gravity of what I am saying, this system will crush me and everyone like me, and my zerzetzung post will become lore when it could become fact, freeing people from a vast nearly invisible tyranny they do not know is holding them down.
If it continues the way it is going, if the bill of rights goes away, I promise you this will be no planet anyone like you or me will want to live on.
I'm not kidding around, there is a lot at stake here. I hope you can see that. If you have any ideas how I might be more effective, besides never making typos, I am all ears. I think your work here is important too btw fwiw, keep it up.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday September 28 2019, @01:45PM (4 children)
There's no way around that. History is as unstoppable as a speeding train and individual humans rarely change it unless they are very fortunately positioned. I've known for a long, long time what was coming, and even still some of it surprises me a bit. Just try and disappear, make your death as peaceful as possible, and defend yourself until then. People are not worth the effort of trying to save. To hell with them.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Saturday September 28 2019, @08:29PM (3 children)
I really don't think I could hide anymore, nor could I afford it.
I'm kindof like stuck here and all I have left is a keyboard and the truth.
I don't think it's really that bad, all these problems are in the mind.
And if we can't change it, the bunker life is going to bite.
What's that saying, never doubt a few people can change the world, it's all that ever has?
And have you been around the kids at all? They sure aren't giving up, are you going to be the one to tell them to?
They're not going to have a chance if every single attempt they make to organize is subverted by undercover police and no one warned them about it.
You have to pick a side. The kids will find your bunker and root you out. They are going to be pissed at everyone who doesn't help them.
I was once a kid and every attempt I made to organize was subverted by undercover police.
I'm not in a good mood about it.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday September 29 2019, @01:36AM (2 children)
I've already long since decided that if we end up in either another civil war and people are killing one another in the streets for food, or if we end up in East Germany 2.0 (now mit uber-AI fur das Kurtintwitchen und der neighborspyin!) I'm just going to commit suicide. I have the knowledge, the means, and the method; it involves the metabolic properties of a certain tertiary alcohol, a large dose of dopamine D2 antagonists, and a bunch of old beta-blockers I have lying around just for extra insurance. There's nothing left for me in this world and nothing worth learning that's equal to the price of the suffering that will come with it in that milieu.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Sunday September 29 2019, @08:34AM (1 child)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatalism [wikipedia.org]
So in the face of people and organizations you despise, before anywhere near the point where there is any actual reason to give up, when you actually have time to actually do something, you give up anyway.
And post in clearnet your actual suicidal ideations.
I just don't find that appropriate or in any way constructive, it would have been better left unsaid.
And fits a distributing pattern of what I call 'craven negation' of my ideas.
There are literally 100 or 1000 jumping off points in what I am writing for things anyone could do, and instead I find people who respond like this.
It goes like this 'everything sucks!'
I respond, 'I agree, but after long term analysis of the problem, here are some people working on things who need help, and here are some thing I need help with which could really make a difference. At least we can try and help the kids out.'
Response 'YOU'RE CRAZY! WHEN THINGS GET BAD I'M GOING TO FINALLY DO IT, BABY!'
really wtf color me disappointed
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday October 02 2019, @02:42AM
Maybe I just don't have the same fire in the belly you do. I'm tired, that's all. If things don't all go straight to Hell, then I'll keep on going, but I've seen enough history to know where this could go and can read the waves of probability well enough to know where it's likely *to* go. Killing myself is a last-ditch emergency escape; it's not going to happen until things get completely anarchic here, think "widepsread food riots, infrastructure utterly decayed, mass shootings on a minute-by-minute basis."
What would be the point of living in a world like that? What would I learn from a death by slow starvation or fast lead? If we get to the point where, as I've said before, the Grim Reaper is (metaphorically) sitting across the room from me, cleaning her nails on her scythe and passing remarks along the lines of A BIT LOUD OUT THERE, HMM...?, then I'm not going to keep her waiting. Death holds no fear for me; I've lived the best I could, done much more good than harm, and have nothing more to learn from that sort of torturous fate. When the dunghill hits the windmill, I am out before I suffocate in falling shit meteors.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...