Notices by Merry Jerry 🎄🎅🕎⛄️❄️ (jerry@infosec.exchange), page 5

Remember, if you’re cold, they’re cold. Bring them inside

@ryanc that is sad. I was only able to get to one of them, but it was a very informative conference

Watching the emergence of topical AI bots on mastodon is both fascinating and a bit alarming. The ones I am seeing are somewhat easy to detect, but it’s not hard to think those rough edges will get smoothed over soon

@feld I think we’ve likely crossed a threshold where it’s not a hypothetical concern any longer, now that we have 20k instances. @gearhead @tw000 @steveo1049 @Teri_Kanefield

@gearhead I can't find the issue right now, but there is a githb issue in the mastodon issue list to generate the preview card for a link on the instance the link is posted from - and have the preview card distributed with the post, rather than expecting each instance to create their own card.
@steveo1049 @tw000 @Teri_Kanefield

Rolling into Wednesday like…

So long, Juniper. We hardly knew ye

@Viss think of all the people who were employed trying to keep them patched and responding to incidents caused by Juniper devices. 😢

Just need to stay away for one more meeting 😴

Here comes Monday

Hi all. Just a reminder that I created infosec.space for people who do not want any interaction with threads.net, while infosec.exchange will let members choose whether to interact with threads or not*.

• blocking another instance at the account level is not as effective as instance level blocks, but still good at preventing access to posts.

Since it has been the source of some confusion:

Infosec.space is running on much, much smaller hardware than Infosec.exchange. Both have ample room for substantial growth, however. I continue to identify and address bottlenecks, but things are quite stable now.

You can download your posts by clicking the “request archive” button at the bottom of the settings, import & export page.

Mastodon does not support importing posts. Setting up shop on a new instance is starting over from a posts perspective. Your followers will transfer automatically and you can refollow based on an export of your follows (not automatic). There are some GitHub issues open against mastodon to support this, but it’s not on the roadmap as far as I am aware. Firefish and iceshrimp do support important posts, but the software is much less refined than mastodon is. Infosec.town and fedia.social both run this software.

It’s interesting hearing my 24 yo son and his fiancé talk about Sept 11 2001. He was about 1 and she was not yet born when it happened.

It makes me wonder how people will talk about January 6, 2021 in 20 years when we have adults that weren’t alive for it. I suppose that, in large part, will depend on what happens this year.

@tchambers FWIW, as an admin of an instance with a LOT of follow relationships back and forth with indieweb, I can say Tim is doing an excellent job. @maybit

In positive news, I set a few personal bests already in 2024… I made it 8 hours before being DQd for husband of the year and an amazing 12 hours before falling out of the running for father of the year.

@dhw threads.net will eventually be unblocked on Infosec.exchange

Ok, https://infosec.space is open for business. As a reminder, infosec.space hard blocks threads.net and otherwise follows the same rules as infosec.exchange.

@jkmcnk I decided to go with .space instead

@jkmcnk I spent $430 on the domain - I was going to use it :)

@feld it will work as a backend for dashboards written for Prometheus?