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   Viss (viss@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 11:36:47 JST Viss

   come, internet
   sit by the fire.
   tell me a story

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     Josh Bressers (joshbressers@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 11:36:43 JST Josh Bressers

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     @accidentalciso @Viss @mttaggart

     I have a theory about this, but we shall see how it plays out

     Twitter started out fun, but I don't think it's for the reasons everyone thinks it is. Nobody knew how to appease the outrage robot overlords, so everyone just did whatever, and that was fun

     But some people figure it out, and that's what made it less fun

     I have no doubt the robot overlords will be appeased much more quickly this time, maybe too quickly

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     Viss (viss@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 11:36:44 JST Viss

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     @mttaggart the chief reason those 'cool kids' showed up in the first place was because bsky was invite only. you were only a cool kid if you ran the gauntlet to get an invite and were let in. the moment the invite only part fell off, that luster vanished overnight, and now since anybody could join, the people who worry their cool kid card was revoked are now desperately trying to keep it cool

     but i dont think its working.

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     Accidental CISO (accidentalciso@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 11:36:44 JST Accidental CISO

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     @Viss @mttaggart I didn’t use it much for the last year because I wasn’t cool enough. My “on topic” infosec material want a fit for happy hour over there. I’m giving it another shot again and hoping that with the influx of people, the culture will change a bit.

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     Viss (viss@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 11:36:45 JST Viss

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     @mttaggart i get the imrpession that unless youre a celeb of some kind, brought tens of thousands of followers with you from another platform, or only talk about bluesky or politics, you're just going to get overlooked.

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     Taggart :donor: (mttaggart@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 11:36:45 JST Taggart :donor:

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     @Viss It's funny. I'm seeing a lot of the old "cool kids" show up but... absolutely zero substance.

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     Viss (viss@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 11:36:46 JST Viss

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     just for clarity's sake - i asked this same exact question on bluesky at the same time.

     not one like, not one repost, not one reply. 100% completely ignored.

     _CLEARLY_ the better converations are happening here.

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     Taggart :donor: (mttaggart@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 11:36:46 JST Taggart :donor:

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     @Viss Yeah I mean I don't wanna tell you a story 300 characters at a time

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     Viss (viss@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 11:36:46 JST Viss

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     @mttaggart apparently neither does ANYBODY on bluesky.

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     Taggart :donor: (mttaggart@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 11:36:46 JST Taggart :donor:

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     @Viss Jokes aside though, no you're totally right. I've had engagement over there but it's so low-value compared to what we get up to over here.

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     Taggart :donor: (mttaggart@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 11:44:20 JST Taggart :donor:

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     • Josh Bressers

     @joshbressers @accidentalciso @Viss Very possible, but the quick-block culture is a positive complication for that dynamic. As ever, I'll remain optimistic and open to being wrong.

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     Paul_IPv6 (paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 10:58:32 JST Paul_IPv6

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     @Viss

     i was a very early employee at one of the first two commercial US ISPs, UUNET.

     all of us were using cisco routers. there was a bug where at about 24-26 hours, the BGP session in them crashed, causing waves of BGP convergence issues, affecting all the tier 1 providers.

     the solution was to reboot carefully at about 22 hours. we waited desperately for cisco to get us a patch.

     we were at a usenix conference in the terminal room at about 11pm when we got an email that they'd isolated the bug and thought they had a fix. at this point, the senior router folks for UUNET, MCI, and Sprint sat in the terminal room, waiting.

     about 1:30am we got email that tony thought he'd fix it. we asked how much testing he'd been able to do.

     tony: "it booted in the lab"

     us: "we'll take it!"

     then, all 6 of us downloaded the code and proceeded to reboot about 70% of the internet backbone to start using the new code, all of UUNET, MCI, & Sprint.

     fortunately, in those days, cisco let their senior engineers talk directly to customers and they got things fixed fast.

     this never made the newspapers at the time. i can't even imagine any ISP these days allowing engineers to reboot their entire backbone from a terminal room with code that "booted in the lab".

     kind of miss those old days.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 10:59:08 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

     @paul_ipv6 @blogdiva @Viss
     > the solution was to reboot carefully at about 22 hours

     Early Internet: The Battlestar Galatica Era