Notices by Scary Jerry 👻 (jerry@infosec.exchange), page 2

Bad news: changing profile pictures was b0rked on infosec.exchange, infosec.space, ioc.exchange, and convo.casa.

Good news: it's fixed now.

I guess the music wasn’t going to last forever https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/cyber-experts-salaries/

I’m just saying my wife doesn’t need to be so happy when the UPS and Amazon deliveries get here

Youngest son’s wedding about to start.

@blogdiva I am not very good at composing pics like that 😅

AI? In vim? Maybe it will help me exit now?

Today was not a good day. I hope it was for some of y'all. Please send cat pics.

Due to ongoing pressure from governments globally, we are instituting an age verification program. Recognizing that it is not possible to confirm your age based on a picture of your face, we will instead be counting the number of rings you have. We understand this is the most accurate measure of age.

@feld but it has that train... that you can walk faster than.

@InsiderTreat is it even a real instance if it has no @catsalad account?

If you or someone you know has an account on mastodon.cloud, I would highly recommend migrating to a new server. Lots of instances are in the process of completely blocking mastodon.cloud which will sever all connections for people on mastodon.cloud. Mastodon.cloud is effectively abandoned, running very old and out of date software with minimal moderation resulting in a good deal of moderation work for those of us running other instances.

I am posting this in hopes that some people on mastodon.cloud see it and decide to take action.

FYI for those in the US (at least) with expensive prescriptions for pets - Costco prices for pet meds is really good. I am saving about half from what my vet charges. We were getting into the $300/month range

I’m going to update mastodon across the infosec, ioc, and convo instances today. There shouldn’t be any downtime but there are user interface changes and for that I will apologize in advance to everyone who doesn’t like their cheese moved. There isn’t an option to keep it like it was. And yes, this will probably continue the trend of breakage on old devices with browsers that can’t handle newer functionality. I’m sorry for that too.

In related news, I have to get more selective about the shots I take. I saw those planes for maybe 5 minutes and got close to 100 shots.

The Thunderbirds were practicing outside my building for the air show this weekend

Do you ever just really need a nap?

@SecurityWriter it’s hard to say. Outside of the U.K., most country laws place limits of applicability so that they are really focused on larger platforms. We don’t have a U.K. presence and it seems very unlikely we will pop on their radar.

Mastodon recently added a requirement to add your age on signup and lets admins set a minimum age, but that’s basically cosmetic. I don’t see a future where we can do anything more that that. If it becomes too legally perilous to continue, I and likely most all other operators will close shop. I love yall, but I’m not sitting in jail to protest a policy that I have no hope of changing.

Anyhow, things like this have happened every few months for the now 9 years I’ve been running the place and it’s never once been an issue.

@GossiTheDog I would guess 30% of that .7m are spam accounts. It’s a little sad.

I’m catching up on the news today and see that Nvidia forecasts $1T in GPU sales over the next 18 months. That is crazy. I don’t know how that works at any level.

Also on the nvidia news front, they are making a version of the gpu for orbital datacenters. Now I’ve been around for a long, long time and I’ve heard some pretty dumb ideas in that time, and I feel like orbital datacenters is at least in the top 10.

Oil futures are up 30% tonight. Just tonight.