Notices by Scary Jerry 👻 (jerry@infosec.exchange), page 3

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I got an unironic report that an account has a bad aura. Now I’m not going to discount the possibility of this being true, but I’m curious how to measure whether an account’s aura has strayed too far from a good baseline aura.

I feel like whoever is running the phishing op to scam fediverse people out of money may not be that great at their jobs

Made it!

I feel like I need to create a "post engagement" panel that is made up of fake numbers about how many people viewed your posts, etc, to keep people engaged.

ugh. hetzner just announced a pretty significant price increase. I'm going to have to start some serious downsizing before that happens😕

@renchap I don't blame Hetzner, and I know they aren't the only ones. It's going to soon impact just about everything else we do online, I am guessing.

Looks like my hot takes were a little too hot in the YouTube comments. I’m sure they’ll have the site back up soon.

I wonder if Google/Youtube have heard about this new multi-cloud thing all the cool kids are doing 🤔

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ok. books.infosec.exchange is once again running. sorry for the outage.

books.infosec.exchange is down for a bit. The upgrade from 0.8.3 to 0.8.4 went less than smoothly. Bookwyrm is quickly becoming my least favorite piece of software to upgrade. Every single upgrade is full on hand to hand combat lately.

Edit: I don’t know when it will be back up. I’ve opened a GitHub issue for help, but it could be a while.

TFW I’m talking to a really old guy at the gym and learn that he is younger than me 💀

I can now finally disclose that I'm about to receive a significant promotion... My job will be changing from "parent" to "grandparent" this fall.

I am more than a little alarmed at how utterly dependent I’m seeing business people, and IIT people specifically, becoming on LLMs for their work. And not in a “let’s design a cute avatar” kind of way.

Et tu, Notepad++?

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/

Unsurprisingly, a social media site written by AI for AI agents to do whatever AI agents do on a social media site had bad security that apparently allowed access to any of the agents that joined: https://www.404media.co/exposed-moltbook-database-let-anyone-take-control-of-any-ai-agent-on-the-site/

At first, I was amazed at the idea of a social media site for AI bots, but then I remembered that LinkedIn has been around for a long time.

18°f with 20mph sustained winds for my dog walk this evening. I wore all the long Johns and was still cold. My dog, however, was in heaven and still panting a little.

Could be overkill. Not sure yet.

PSA: just because you CAN pick up the 200 pound generator by yourself doesn’t mean you SHOULD. Especially at my age apparently.