Notices by ❄️☃️Merry Jerry🎄🌲 (jerry@infosec.exchange), page 7

@GossiTheDog well that is interesting because it means the article I linked is incorrect.

Oracle finally admits its cloud was hacked https://cybersecuritynews.com/oracle-acknowledges-data-breach/amp/

Perhaps the best part of Booker breaking the filibuster record is that he was talking about John Lewis as he broke it. For those that don’t know, the previous record was held by Strom Thermond set in 1957 when he was trying to derail the civil rights act.

After a long day of biting each other’s ears, chomping on necks, bunny kicks to the face, and screaming while fighting, I found these two sound asleep on our window hammock.

You’ve heard of Agile management

You’ve heard of test driven development

You’ve heard of pushing to prod on Friday before leaving for the weekend

You’ve even heard of vibe coding

But may I introduce you to “push driven Agile Vibe-based development”?

It takes the best parts of all these concepts and merges them into one seamless process, from starting development with no clear plan, to vibe coding, to no testing, with forced pushes to prod every Friday afternoon!

These spammers (bikinibots, cashapp, and investment scams, etc) seem awfully optimistic about their shot at pinching money from a bunch of out of work tech people operating on infrastructure supported by donations.

If it’s going to happen, I think Panda Express should sponsor the Egg Roll https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/23/politics/white-house-easter-egg-roll-corporate-sponsorships/index.html

@bernd crazy. I lot risky.af because there was no way to pay to renew it @GossiTheDog

@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.