ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

Woah. Watching Twitter misuse our research by putting warnings on links to Mastodon.

Here for example is the warning that @georgetakei "may be unsafe."

In a study led by Ben Kaiser at Princeton, we tested the effect of interstitial warnings on user behavior.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/warnings-work-combating-misinformation-without-deplatforming

Do what you’re good at.
#Humor #Irony

#twitter just banned @Mastodon and that's actually unexpected.

GitHub is rolling out support for the free scanning of exposed secrets (such as credentials and auth tokens) to all public repositories on its code hosting platform.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-rolls-out-free-secret-scanning-for-all-public-repositories/

Today, Twitter suspended It's Going Down (@igd_news), a longtime anarchist and anti-fascist news source that had never previously run afoul of the Twitter rules. At the time of their suspension, they had 108,000 followers.

Elon Musk was lying through his teeth when he said he believes in free speech. He bought Twitter in order to suppress the voices of those who seek an egalitarian society. Since taking over the platform, he has reinstated avowed neo-Nazis and taken guidance from those who explicitly support fascism as he targets journalists and activists.

More background:

https://crimethinc.com/TwitterCanary

You can follow IGD on Mastodon here:

https://kolektiva.social/@igd_news

At the urging of a few folks here, I decided to run a test to see which social networks clicked through most on this week's scoop about a hack of the FBI's InfraGard program.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/12/fbis-vetted-info-sharing-network-infragard-hacked/

LinkedIn tells me I have ~100k followers there. 80 Linkedin users commented on that story, but it looks like only about 25 of them actually clicked the link the first 24h!

A number equal to about 2 percent of my 350k Twitter followers clicked on the story (6600).

In contrast, the story posted here generated 3300 impressions in the same time period, even though I had (at the time) only about 15,000 followers. Also, That 3300 number would probably have been higher, but for the fact that I forgot to add the versioning link and edited that into it afterwards.

That tells me that, for now at least, engagement on Mastodon is significantly higher than on either LinkedIn or Twitter.

A mob of red deer stags in Richmond Park, they were on the edge of the woods and unless you stopped to look from most angles they were perfectly hidden, I crouched down to take the shot, that's when I could see how many there were (shot with a long lens it looks like I was a lot closer than I actually was). #RichmondPark #RedDeer #Stags #RedStags #WildLifePhotography #Nature #Photography #AltText

#throwbackthursday to this day 5 years ago when I found the chosen one while going for a walk in the woods
#tirol #austria #winter #photography #shotoniphone #NaturePhotogaphy

Guys, I passed my Security+ today, and I can’t stop thinking about it. I’m so proud of myself.

@gsuberland I've only ever been a consumer of SAP HANA systems (apart from the tiny one I setup at home for fun), but big enterprises just end up treating it as the "the database" and push for as much data to end up in a central location as possible - usually leading to a nice mess.

I've seen management try to use this data to create a "single pane of glass" for the org without realising that the data is very fuzzy/hard to tell a story just looking at raw numbers.

Proof that I posted this from toot!

I ran @p_malin's program and got this.
Source: https://bbcmic.ro/?t=6SBoC #bbcbasic

Is it weird that all the Web3.0 and crypto people seem to have based their entire worldview on a handful of Neil Stephenson/William Gibson novels and then TOTALLY MISSED THE POINT of what those novels were actually about?

Because I clearly remember in "Cryptonomicon" how the fact that cryptocurrency is basically worthless until/unless it's actually BACKED by anything (e.g. a several tons of lost Japanese gold as a Mcguffin) is a major driving plot point. I just as clearly remember that the whole premise of the Metaverse in "Snow Crash" was that a bunch of clueless tech bros tried to create a giant virtual reality playground and nobody wanted anything to do with it until Juanita figured out how to make avatars' faces -- and eyes especially -- accurately reflect the emotions of the people using them. And then WENT ON to explain that the Metaverse had become a vector for widespread corporate-sponsored mind control funded by a psychotic televangelist so obscenely wealthy that he owned an actual aircraft carrier as a yacht.

Just getting a lot of "Don't Create the Torment Nexus" vibes from the entire tech industry right now.

WOW if you think I’m just gonna keep paying for all these streaming services as they multiply, rack up prices, and far exceed a cable bill then you are correct, that is exactly what’s gonna happen

Do you know any #PostgreSQL people or #Citus people? Please help spread the word that the #CFP is *OPEN* for Citus Con: An Event for Postgres 2023, a virtual event happening in April.

📣 An event is only as good as its speakers! Which is why we need to boost this post high & low.

🐘 Looking for talk proposals on
- PostgreSQL
- Citus database extension
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL
- Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL (aka Citus on Azure)

#CitusCon #CfS #Azure #Microsoft

https://www.citusdata.com/cituscon/2023/cfp/

New, by me. Two weeks ago, LastPass said it was hacked for a second time this year. In a notice, LastPass said an intruder gained access to customers' information, but LastPass has said little else about the breach since

I parsed LastPass' data breach notice to explain what LastPass is and isn't saying, and how it impacts users.

More: https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/14/parsing-lastpass-august-data-breach-notice/

On the Fediverse, you can post about Elon Musk's private jet.

#FediTips