ML2 @mathlover@qoto.org

I'm sad. Very sad. We lost a nurse colleague to suicide. Our hearts are broken. So many questions. We are mourning. Crying through our shifts while still caring for patients & working short-staffed.

Please check on nurses. Fight for nurses. We wonder who else is struggling 😢

Twitter changed the way you report a tweet and it's really hard now to report verbal abuse.

Say, you see someone being calling off due their political inclination.

You can't report that. The report now requires that the attacker must be attacking someone's identity (religion, sexual inclination, whatever), but political inclination is not identity, so...

Lol, there's no better endorsement of Mastodon than the fact it's apparently become the new "pronouns in bio" to right wing chuds

I've been using #Twitter significantly less recently, and only to read stuff others have tweeted (not that I was ever a prolific poster anyway).

The one thing that really stands out, however, is just how toxic that place was. I didn't really notice until I left... It was so common that I became almost immune to it, like it was normal or to be expected.

Whether it was posts about #infosec or #Brexit or #Covid or Greta Thunberg... Tweets just constantly seemed so argumentative and intentionally divisive. It's such a more pleasant experience overall here on Mastodon!

There is some talk of the possibility of the UK rejoining the EU again. While I would love to see it happen, I wrote a piece last year for @CentralBylines highlighting some of the obstacles to re-joining, not least the need for a cross-societal consensus in the UK (assuming there will be a UK) to convince the EU and its member states that the UK would be a stable member state. https://centralbylines.co.uk/always-with-eu-some-realism-about-rejoining/ #Rejoin

Live Nation and Ticketmaster were allowed to merge in 2010. The result?

They now control 70% of the primary ticketing and live event venues market.

They exploit all of us — and we simply have to take it.

Big mergers are terrible for everyone but super-rich CEOs.

The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don't know you're a member of the Dunning-Kruger club.

‘Our identity lies in these songs’: saving the music of #India’s Biate - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/03/forgotten-songs-collective-saving-music-biate-indian-hill-tribe-global-audience so much wonderful culture is being lost around the world; more must be done to capture it before it is too late... #ethnomusic

In a democracy, the private depends on the public.

Businesses depend on public resources: roads, bridges, highways, sewers, a water supply, airports and air traffic control, a patent office, public education for your employees, public health, the electric grid, the satellite communications, the internet, and more.

Individuals depend on clean air, water, safe food, public safety, access to education and health care, housing, employment ...
Without such public resources, you are not free.

Last week, I discovered a public Amazon S3 bucket belonging to a French bank that contained approximately 16GB of data (122 339 files), including static assets such as CSS, JavaScript, and images, as well as official documents, schema, unverified IBANs and API documentation.

While the bucket was intentionally left open, the bank's security team promptly responded to my report and corrected the issue.

However, there are several potential risks associated with leaving an Amazon S3 bucket open to the public.

By knowing the name of the bucket, I was able to download its entire contents, potentially gain access to sensitive information (naming convention, API endpoints), and even deduce the bank's AWS Account ID (prod?) and AWS Organization ID.

In today's AWS Security landscape, it is generally considered best practice to use a CloudFront distribution to expose static files rather than leaving S3 buckets open to the public.

As a fun side note, I discovered that Google was also indexing the bucket's contents.

Despite the security lapse, the bank was grateful for my report and even rewarded me with a $10 credit as a customer.

Overall, it was a reminder that security is an ongoing effort, and we should all be vigilant in protecting our assets.

#AWS #Security

I started a new account on Twitter to see what would happen. I made no posts and followed 8 others; weather, traffic, local police and news. My time line is NOTHING but right wing hate, absolutely nothing else. #Twitter #elonmusk #rightwinghate

@jesse soft launch. We are kicking the tires and making sure the instance works.

Day 28 of 28 under the linear accelerator for stereotactic radiosurgery for a recurring brain tumor that pops up every few years to try and kill me.

I feel bad at this point, functioning, but strange, fatigued, dizzy, and clumsy.

I'll know in March if I'm cured.

Please feel free to reach out if you're in for a #craniotomy or three, or have a #schwannoma or #AcousticNeuroma, or if you need the support of someone who has survived some hard life lessons.

To a better 2023!

"In the meantime, Henry said, his business boomed. If some potential clients avoided him because of the statues, more sought him out. “We’re busier than we’ve ever been,” he said; Team Henry has grown to 200 employees after starting out 15 years ago with just four."
~https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/01/02/devon-henry-confederate-statues-richmond/

#Virginia

Let's all take a moment to appreciate that Mastodon, Twitter's current heir apparent, is completely devoid of all the web3, tokenized, blockchain/nft bullshit that crypto cultists have been feverishly mansplaining will power the internet going forward. None of it is necessary to build a robust, decentralized infrastructure. It was all a bunch of lies and self-deceit to lure suckers into the shitcoin casinos. Let 2023 be the year that crypto dies with a whimper.

#web3
#crypto
#blockchain
#nft