Notices by Merry Jerry 🎄🎅🕎⛄️❄️ (jerry@infosec.exchange), page 7

I continue to be squeezed by both sides of the threads situation. I am operating on the premise that people who think I’m a terrible person and this is a terrible instance for allowing any interaction with threads have left and/or blocked, those remaining seem to want to either have nothing to do with threads at all and are mainly concerned with their data, and those who want to seamlessly interact with threads. I have threads limited/silenced on Infosec.exchange, but that isn’t seamless, and it’s also not fully blocking. So, here’s my proposal:
I remove the limit from threads, and run a job to domain block threads for each account. Any account who chooses can undo the block (or ask me to do it) and then they can seamlessly interact with threads, and those who want nothing to do with them get their way.

Thoughts?

@eloquence while many people like this option, and I personally think it is the best way to navigate it in the near term, I’ve still been accused of supporting genocide, being friends with Zuck, taking paychecks from Meta to kill the fediverse, and so on. I hope you are having a better go of it.

Time for one last beach trip for the year…. Have a great weekend everyone.

@feld @ryanc if there is a sad part in this story going forward it’s that he is almost certainly going to have no ability to pay

@ryanc he was ordered to pay $148 million in damages to the two Georgia election workers he defamed

It appears that Mr. Giuliani has squarely entered the “find out” phase

To those leaving due to my “heavy handed”, “ethically questionable,” and “morally bankrupt” decision to let people decide whether to interact with Threads: I am sorry it didn’t work out.

To people on instances who will soon block me/us because I did not block Threads, thanks for being there, I wish you all well.

💕

I look forward to the day that we can get back to arguing about things like why vim is so much better than emacs.

Super excited excited to watch the fediverse start eating itself again over Threads :blobsadleft:

Good night, friends. I will try to do better tomorrow. I wish you a good Tuesday.

I knew today was going to be a difficult day. It far exceeded my expectations.

@deadbeefmonster I had an incredibly tough day at work for 13 hours, came upstairs to a disaster kitchen, ate dinner and started washing dishes and managed to knock a stack of good bowls on the floor, smashing to a million pieces, of course one of the bowls had a concoction that somehow reacts with whatever is on hardwood floors to create the most durable substance known to man, meanwhile cats and dogs are trying to eat it and the broken glass it contains.

I need a mulligan

I am on a quest to get below 100 meetings per week starting in the new year. Wish me luck.

I just saw a very old thread about the CVS pharmacy website giving an error message about using a modern browser in response to unexpected user agent strings. The consensus is that’s a bad thing. I would otherwise agree, if not for running Infosec.exchange. I sort through a significant number of issues that turn out to be incompatibilities with older browsers that don’t support certain features. As a bonus, sometimes the person experiencing the issue sees errors in their browser console and accuses me of trying to hack them. I can’t imagine a website with 1000x the visitors, as CVS likely has.

@Rairii it’s often privacy or security wizards without practical experience that have every privacy and script blocking plugin known installed in their old, back level fork of chrome, convinced they understand that what they are looking at in the console.

@Rairii also, I’ve had perhaps a dozen people over the years see the web socket connection and interpret it as a command and control channel for ransomware

@Sempf most people seem to like Tusky, at least that was the case in the recent past.

It's that time of the month where I ask for people who are able to donate to support their fediverse instance (assuming your instance accepts donations).

Fediverse services usually provided for free, however they are not free to operate. As I've said many times before, I feel strongly that this service be available to all, regardless of ability to pay or donate.

So here I am asking for your support or continued support to keep this awesome thing going. You can usually find how to donate/support your instance by going to your instance's about page (ex., https://infosec.exchange/about).

My thanks to everyone who supports your instance. I appreciate you.

I hope everyone has a great holiday season.

I just had a need to look at something on X and it’s interesting, though perhaps not surprising, to see the number of people who have abandon the fediverse and moved back there.

In any case, we have this very nice place on Infosec.exchange with 16,508 active accounts. It may be shrinking, but it’s a good bunch of people left.