Notices by Merry Jerry 🎄🎅🕎⛄️❄️ (jerry@infosec.exchange), page 4

@ryanc @Crell I used to work with someone who had this saying "the operation was a success, unfortunately the patient died". I feel like it's that sort of situation - we could indeed solve the problem by killing the patient.

@patrickcmiller oh my

And thus concludes the Puppy Bowl for another year

@missed_sla Puppybowl!

Perhaps there is a market for electric toothbrush shaped flipper zeros in Canada

People can be so kind to moderators when they dislike a moderation decision.

Also, other #mastoadmins may want to wary of this person.

@patrickcmiller @ronin3510 the @Mastodon org deserves a lot of credit for their communication campaign to instance admins and upgrade support

@ronin3510 @patrickcmiller we were patched ~5 minutes after the patch was released

There is a noticeable decline in the number of active users on Infosec.exchange lately. Where are the cool kids hanging out these days?

@eljefedsecurit about 5% drop

@eljefedsecurit I am not worried. Just curious. People are gonna do what they are gonna do. I am always interested in what I can do better to help foster a strong Infosec community, though.

Make sure the ops team feels needed - don’t forget to push your code to production on your way out the door for the weekend.

Hello everyone. I know that these are tough times for many people. If you derive value from the fediverse and have the means to do so, please consider donating to support your instance. Most instances rely on donations to pay the bills (infosec.exchange and friends cost over $3000/month to host).

Instructions on how to donate are generally available on your instance's "about" page (for example: https://infosec.exchange/about)

Also, I firmly believe that access to the fediverse should not be tied to one's ability to pay, and I think it's even more important for those in difficult situations to maintain the social connections that the fediverse provides, so (at least in my view) donations are welcome, but not required in any way.

And for those people who already donate, my hats off to you. You make the fediverse possible. :blobheartcat:

Eevee is helping with post processing

@mmby @ksaj bah, all the things on the internet I like turn out to be fake.

@Nonya_Bidniss @ksaj yeah, many, many, many (many) people pointed that out after I boosted it. It’s still beautiful “art” even if fake so I left the boost

@apologies I believe it is defined in this code: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/app/controllers/api/v1/trends/tags_controller.rb

I feel like there have been more IT workers laid off in the past year than there were IT workers 10 years ago. Totally unscientific observation

Looks like Ron is hanging up his heels.

@amitdoshi this resonated with me deeply