ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

LastPass users: Your info and password vault data are now in hackers’ hands https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/lastpass-says-hackers-have-obtained-vault-data-and-a-wealth-of-customer-info/

PARENT: "Have you finished writing your letter to Santa?"

CHILD: "I'm don't believe in Santa anymore. Now I believe in a decentralized network of independently operating elves who federate using an open protocol called ActivityPub to share information about children's Christmas wishes and source gifts to fulfill them"

Washington Post will be creating their own instance. They will add #mastodon accounts to journalist profiles.

Institutional #journalism embracing the #fediverse is important.

#commodon #journodon @communicationscholars

We found 1000 of our Twitter followers on Mastodon.

It struck us that this could make an interesting anecdotal snapshot of which technical instances #observability #sre #devops folks flock to.

23% on hachyderm.io
4.5% on infosec.exchange
2.8% on fosstodon.org
1.3% on techhub.social
1.3% on indieweb.social
1.3% on ruby.social
0.9% on tech.lgbt
0.9% on macaw.social
0.8% on awscommunity.social
0.6% on discuss.systems

The other 62.5% are on smaller tech servers or general topic servers.

💙 Commodore 64 Memories ...

Title: Leaderboard
Developer: Bruce Carver, Roger Carver
Company: Access Software
Publisher: Access Software, Kixx, U.S. Gold
Released: 1986

#Commodore #Commodore64 #C64 #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #80s

Ill be posting some past work on here, seeing the great response from my current project. This is an 1959 IBM 1401, 1:16 scale, scratch build, 100% hand made

This old tree produces no leaves, shows no sign of life but it's home to many creatures. A thing of beauty in my eyes.

Photographed by my husband on a frosty morning

#ThickTrunkTuesday #IsleofWight #Photography

@cwebber @dthompson It's been my experience that "if you choose X, you're not going to be able to hire anyone" really means "if you choose X, you won't be able to hire replaceable people".

I think it's models in conflict:

The modern: assembly line workers with no specialized knowledge, everything decoupled, everyone replaceable.

The humanistic model: craftsmen/renaissance people.

I like the humanistic model for many reasons, but when you're pushing boundaries, I'll take it over cogs any day.

Enjoy this short clip of the raccoon that is currently trying to catch snowflakes on my deck. 🦝 ❄️

RT from Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD)

47. And the pressure from the FBI on social media platforms continues

In Aug 2022, Twitter execs prepared for a meeting with the FBI, whose goal was “to convince us to produce on more FBI EDRs"

EDRs are an “emergency disclosure request,” a warrantless search.

GoFundMe wouldn't let me sign in without adding my phone number for SMS 2FA so I got them to delete my account over live chat using email verification.

Please use any other MFA except SMS. 🙏

Petty win. ✍️

GitHub Expands Secret Scanning, 2FA Across Platform https://www.darkreading.com/dr-tech/github-expands-secret-scanning-2fa-across-platform

A kind observation that exclusively calling this place "Mastodon" has a bit similar energy as saying "I just sent a GMail."

"Fediverse" (or "fedi") is a more inclusive, general term.

Mastodon is just one of many software projects that talk to each other to create this multi-instance social network:
https://axbom.com/fediverse/

(kudos to @axbom for this fantastic infographic!)

There are blogs, Reddit-like communities, video instances and many more, all part of fedi.

#TwitterMigration #NewHere

We are thrilled to announce that the outstanding mitochondrial probes PKmito ORANGE , RED and DEEP RED will be available at Spirochrome through its distributors network in January 2023.
PKmito probes are gentle to the cells and allow long term imaging as well as recording amazingly crisp STED images of mitochondrial cristae.
Read more about PKmito ORANGE in the fresh article from Zhixing Chen and Stefan Jakobs labs out in @PNASNews
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2215799119
#mitochondria #LiveCellimaging #PKmito

I often cite Forbes with the caveat that it is "Capitalism's self-consciousness often has insights that are denied the unwashed masses of cable TV."

I excerpted portions of a Forbes article by Martine Paris, WITH ATTRIBUTION to Forbes, and a link to her Mastodon account in the body of the list, but had truncated the introductory line which referenced her. Fair enough that she DM'd me to ask for the correction.

The truncation was error on my part, rapidly corrected. The reason for it was that I have been developing uploadable CSV files of evil domains based on Mastodon instance block lists. These are not usable without extensive deletion of surplus comment. I was fresh off of some of that work when I thought I would provide some positive lists in addition to the evil domains lists. By sheer inertia, I over-cropped the material. My bad.

As soon as this was pointed out to me I immediately added (1) a link to her profile page, which listed the article, and (2) and additional mention at the bottom of the article, amounting then to three mentions for the writer and one for the publication.

Nevertheless, it seemed that she continued contacting people who had boosted, as if the OP had not attributed Forbes in the first place. Nor did her comments reflect the fact that the corrections had been made.

Edit: TBH latency in the system might have caused it to appear as if she was making these contacts post facto.

The interesting mentions at the top of her list were identical to what many instances provide as "suggested accounts to follow" when you sign up. I don't quite buy her characterization of "accounts-to-follow" as the labor of Sisyphus.

Now if she or other journalists are interested in the #IntellectualProperty beat, they might want to look into

(1) that dude who build 4,000 followers his first month by taking the funniest short toots he found on #Explore, completely stripping any attribution, and posting them as his own clever takes to 3,999 fawning admirers.

And (2) the #AIart crowd, which is systematically ripping off every digitized piece of art in the world, largely for the profit of one #ElonMusk

In any case, I imagine Forbes pays pretty well and I don't get a plug nickel for what I am doing and I could be out there doing compensated work rather than building up a bulwark of safety for journalists who are in the trenches.

I am primarily interested in the journalists who are on dangerous or controversial beats and need boosting and the infosec people who protect them.

I included her in my OP only as she had herself listed as a "Celebrity" reporter.
[Dead Horse Thoroughly Whipped on Both Sides]

Yes, we all already know about:
George Takei,
Jim Acostsa,
Mike Mesnick,
Molly Jong Fast
Taylor Lorenz

Now Imma gonna link to this one call it what you will :
Mehdi Hasan, MSNBC (39K) @mehdihasan
I have been boosting him since his first day on Mastodon, from my old account.

In fact, they were recommended to us already by Mastodon.

Now props to Martine for pointing out these accounts:

Donie O’Sullivan, CNN (41K) @donieosullivan
A funny guy I like to watch and who doesn't?

Micah Lee, The Intercept (37K) @micahflee
Now that they have gotten rid of [name redacted not giving exposure to the worst turncoat in the history of journalism], I am all in on the Intercept

Mike Masnick, Techdirt
@mmasnick@mastodon.social
One of the accounts banned on Twitter, for reporting...tech news.
Thus is free speech in the reign of #ElonMusk

Steve Herman, Voice of America @w7voa
Been boosting VOA for a long time with my pod cast partner.

If you 'd like to see her full list you can find it on Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/martineparis/2022/12/17/elon-musk-bans-journalists-on-twitter-as-more-flee-to-mastodon-heres-who-to-follow/

OP: @theghostoftomjoad
is also

@avid

As many know, December + brain research = @markdhumphries. And he's joined us just before we say farewell to 2022. Welcome Mark - so glad to have you here!

Mark is a computational neuroscientist who works on an array of exciting issues, from neurons to networks:
https://www.humphries-lab.org

He also wrote one of the best and most unique books out there, The Spike:
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691195889/the-spike.

Follow @markdhumphries.

I just sponsored Mastodon at the $500 a month tier. Gotta keep those servers chugging!