Notices by Jerry Bell (jerry@infosec.exchange)

Resetting….

I just read another news article about why mastodon didn’t make it and is dying. It’s very sad to hear and probably explains why I have to keep adding more server capacity to handle all the people quitting mastodon.

Looks like things are going great on reddit

The fedia.io server is a trooper:

I humbly present to you https://fedia.io - a general interest kbin instance.

I’m not much one for sharing TikTok videos here, but this one seems like one that will be taught in history classes some day

Post 4.0.1 upgrade feeling

Happy Monday! Time to get back to cybering

FYI - major media is covering the twitter to mastodon migration. We are far from out of the woods. I have a 4 servers with 16 core/32 thread, 128GB ram, 4TB nvme ssds sitting waiting for me to configure them. help is coming...

Live video from twitter HQ

Interesting study that finds people who oppose scientific consensus are generally less knowledgeable on a given topic, and apparently unaware of their ignorance, and overconfident in themselves. It’s basically quantifying the Dunning-Kruger phenomenon in novel ways.

I personally believe there is a common misunderstanding of the scientific method, what theories are, and what “research” is.

Of late, it seems like there’s also a concerted political movement that makes going against scientific consensus something of a defining characteristic of a party, at least in the US.

Hopefully some day we can get to a point where science isn’t partisan.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abo0038

Today was a challenging day, and work and personally. I noticed my dog was walking a little off and chewing her foot. Took her to the vet. $800 later, I learn her hip joints are shot. Now need to figure out why. (Hip dysplasia, bone infection, bone cancer). And she has a tumor that likely needs to be removed.

Poor girl.