Notices by Scary Jerry 👻👻💀🎃 (jerry@infosec.exchange), page 7

@ai6yr @puppygirlhornypost2 they appear to mostly be coming from the same account - I am going to bet it had a lot of posts and they just tuned on auto-delete

Y’all… I finally made it. It’s like the Disney World of gas stations.

PSA to those who use Mastodon’s automated post deletion: please pay close attention to the options you have selected to ensure all the posts you expect to get deleted do get deleted, and the ones you don’t want deleted aren’t deleted.

Thank you for your attention.

I hope we get an “Alien vs Moopsy” and “Predator vs Moopsy” movie some day.

Wild. The same storm system spawned tornado watches at both my home in Atlanta and here at the beach at the same time.

300 miles away.

I don’t like to butt in on the moderation happenings on another instance, but since people on my instances are now getting involved, I feel I have to. Hachyderm’s mod team removed a post from one of their members, believing it to be incorrect information after it was reported to them as being incorrect information. The person whose post was removed got upset and that has caused a bit of a firestorm response. @quintessence has been trying to answer questions but I want to add some context as a fellow admin/moderator.

The first thing to know is that moderators are not perfect. We make mistakes. I make them all the time, as some of you will no doubt recognize. Like Quintessence with Hachyderm, when anything goes awry, moderation-wise, it is my job as admin to stand in front and take the heat from whatever went wrong. We DO. NOT. throw the mod team under the bus, assuming the moderators are acting in good faith.

The next thing to understand is that this is a thankless job. People get mad at us for taking action, for not taking action, for being too fast, for being too slow, for permitting something someone thinks should be blocked, and for blocking things someone thinks should be permitted. We see some awful shit. We get threats of harm. We get doxed. We get angry letters from lawyers.

We also don’t have a team of fact checkers at the ready. We generally process dozens of reports per day. We have to apply a reasonableness test to incoming reports and respond based on the rules and guidelines we’ve set for our community and then move on, and if we made a mistake, we go and fix it.

I would ask that y’all afford some grace and understanding to the Hachyderm team and to the admins and moderators of fediverse instances generally. We aren’t the enemy. We are trying our best to manage a community at a time of unprecedented levels of tornadic bullshit, fear, anger, and hate.

Peace.

@briankrebs a video of the moderators and I trying to keep up with the spammers

Sure the world is burning, but I won bar bingo twice (so far)

The notorious crime organization known as Habitat for Humanity is going DOWN

https://newrepublic.com/post/192660/trump-fbi-charge-climate-organizations

Oof. The subsidy on my COBRA medical coverage ended this month. I’m now paying $2500/month for basically no coverage except catastrophic.

That hurts https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/11/doge-axes-cisa-red-team-staffers-amid-ongoing-federal-cuts/

An observation: people used to come to the fediverse to complain when Twitter was down. Now they go to bsky to complain.

@bielsubob only if twitter and bsky are down. but they may also go to threads to complain...

Some 🔥hot🔥 takes about that ESP32 report. Wowza

Here’s my hot take https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jbF-k78EaL4?si=Ua0NIGh-VMlm498R

This is wild, y'all. A law firm in the UK is trying to silence @PogoWasRight from reporting about a data breach.

https://infosec.exchange/@PogoWasRight/114117571132408823

@queserasera kind of like Madonna’s “Like a Prayer”, I suppose.

@GossiTheDog this is the sort of vulnerability I really feared when I was responsible for securing a public cloud

So long, screaminggoat! You will be missed 😕

(Note: screaminggoat is fine, but leaving the fediverse)

@briankrebs @pthenq1 all that said, I think GDP is going to be materially down, even if we exclude government spending. Also, I’m not even sure how they think they can exclude government spending. It’s clear that they can exclude what they spend directly, but their suppliers and their suppliers suppliers and on and on will have reduced spending. And farms that supplier USAID and so many more - I just have no idea how they would approach that.