Notices by Paul Chambers (paul@oldfriends.live), page 2

🚨 #mastoadmin This week, New GitHub campaign abusing repos to push malware after a user opens new "issue" on a repository falsely claiming that the project contains a "security vulnerability" & urges others a counterfeit "GitHub Scanner" domain not associated with GitHub & tricks users into installing Windows malware

Users/contributors to such repositories receive "IMPORTANT!" email alert from legitimate GitHub server making this phishing campaign seem more convincing
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/clever-github-scanner-campaign-abusing-repos-to-push-malware/

@WarnerCrocker We still have some Tupperware from the 70's and 80's bought at parties that we use. It was top quality back then. The lids close like they are brand new.

@fuzzface Seems to die out at the 9th hop which is eqix-ch1.imperva.com [208.115.136.143]

Weird, there is a domain name I know nothing about at the end.

@fuzzface @FinchHaven

Some people are getting it great and some not so good, all from different locations and different isp's

@fuzzface @FinchHaven

I just put a support ticket in. With other people having the issue from different ISPs, locations, etc, my gut is it isn't me.

I am getting though ok with VPN but even on mobile data on phone it is bogging down. I wonder if whatever is going on will affect other sites?

Thanks to you and everyone for troubleshooting with me.🤓

@fuzzface @FinchHaven Definitely!

EDIT: Thanks everyone. What a great community I belong to. I have a ticket in to see what I can find out.🤓

Original post: Can somebody please ping my server, oldfriends.live and let me know what you get.

My end is horrible. #mastoAdmin

>ping oldfriends.live

Pinging oldfriends.live [199.192.16.81] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 199.192.16.81:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

3/ Another perspective from @maddad about the false claim that Haitian migrants in #Springfield, #Ohio are eating pets and how Elon Musk and others are getting on board spreading the false claim. #OHPol #USPol

It's false Colorado-like claims for Ohio. Are Republicans, the billionaires ruling class and Trump/Vance going to do this in every state, esp Swing States?

Media must fight back hard with the truth. Will they?

https://mastodon.world/@maddad/113110392613722616

Two Trump/Vance plants at a city commission meeting and local media is reporting as if it is true and without doing any fact finding or due diligence.
#USpol Other fake stories are worse than this one.

Sinclair is essentially reporting what the two people said at the meeting but nothing on the underlying truth of the matter. #OHpol

They are trying to make clicks so they can have search results for the next fake Colorado migrant takeover stories only in Ohio

https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/ohio-residents-plead-for-help-amid-migrant-crisis-i-want-out-of-this-town-springfield-city-commission-border-mexico-immigrants-wall-trump-harris-illegal-crossing-midwest-election

2/ ...after I saw the above organically, this came through my RSS reader addressing it. #OhioCapitalJournal hits it on the head!

🔗 Vance, Yost targeting Haitians in Springfield, Ohio with ignorant fear-mongering disturbs me deeply · Ohio Capital Journal

"Sometimes the disgusting sewer of presidential year politics hits a little too close to home..." #USPol #OHPol

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/09/09/vance-yost-targeting-haitians-in-springfield-ohio-with-ignorant-fear-mongering-disturbs-me-deeply/

@BeAware @chiefgyk3d

I have most of them blocked already because of trolls. It seems like the wild, wild west.

@chiefgyk3d

I looked around at some accounts and people there are tired of the replyguy spam accounts, also. There seems to be an issue right now with them.

@tux They're in my admin accounts list, also

Expressletter multiple instance signup Spam warning #MastoAdmin #MastoSpam #Spam

A simple search in the Admin >Moderation >accounts panel for expressletter should pull them up for quick moderating.

'Tootctl statuses remove' was interrupted when the internet went out and Putty disconnected. It got through the first phase and was on to removing now-orphans, and was like 90% done. It didn't get to the "Extract deletion target...' portion or beyond when it crashed.

Anyone know what affect this will have or what, if any cleanup, I need to do and how? #MastoAdmin .

@jerry I do too except I found myself in a unique position today where I had no choice.

On the bright side, on my 78-mile one-way journey into the belly of the #Cincinnati #Ohio MAGA suburbs, we only saw like 3 Trump signs. Normally, that area would be littered.

We did see around a dozen Harris/Walz signs, and one unique Lock him up banner. #USPol

Talked to a few Trumper #MAGA today IRL, and they got convinced that #Project2025 was developed by Democrats masquerading as Republicans in order to hurt MAGA and Trump...

Inquired where they learned this... They saw it on Facebook. #USPol

SMDH

Post office makes major announcement about mail delivery change

Some U.S. postal service customers could see a slow down as Louis Dejoy decides to let some mail and packages destined for rural locations sit in distribution hubs for extra days in order to "save" $3 billion.

Rural folks get the raw end. The FCC doesn't care if we get OTA tv and now we are sacrificed by the USPS.

The right will decry this move by right-wing DeJoy and blame Biden/Harris. #USPol

https://www.al.com/news/2024/08/post-office-makes-major-announcement-about-mail-delivery-change.html

@rolle LOL I read his "data" in a browser, incognito at that.

Gonna gripe a little, please don't take offense.

Having everyone post under #MastoAdmin solely that they updated their instance really messes with this tag that is primarily used to support each other in operating our instances as admin to admin.

The useless post hides real upgrade help and issues other admins post throughout the upgrade process.

People have been complaining of this habit for several years.

I really wish we could come up with an alternative.

Congrats on upgrading, though

@shanie I waited until the after the latest upgrade cycle to post this.

The fact that people were warning about a bad v4.2.11 update as far as the notification bug and to wait was hidden between so many "I just updated to v4.2.11" shows we need to come to a voluntary consensus about using the #MastoAdmin tag. Simply adding another tag with it, like #UpgradedMastodon or #UpgradedMasto would allow the upgrade posts to be filtered out.

I proud so many people upgrade and love to hear the stories.