ML2 @mathlover@social.cleverlibre.org

Iranian cyberspies exploited Log4j to break into a US govt network

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2022/11/16/iranian_cyberspies_log4j/

I’m boldly going where I haven’t gone before, which is right here at this site. Apparently this is a “toot.” I would appreciate a follow!

Everyone please be aware that the service we used to use that provided tickers went down and doesnt plan to go back up.. This unfortunately slows down the default theme.

As such I switched the default theme to the no-ticket theme and this works just fine. However im not sure it will help for people already signed up on the server.

To fix the problem please go intto your preferences and change the theme to the no-ticket theme.

George Takai has just popped up on mastodon. (@georgetakei). It's a pretty big deal when people with 3.4M Twitter followers switch over.

Babe, wake up, a new #JWST image just dropped.

Light from the protostar L1527 escapes above and below an edge-on protoplanetary disk (the dark line at the center of the image), creating an hourglass shape. This illuminates the cavities carved as ejected material from the star collides with the surrounding, dusty nebula.

Dust scatters shorter wavelengths of light, so blue areas are where the dust is thinner and orange areas are where the dust is more dense.

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2022/news-2022-055

#astronomy

@georgetakei has arrived and he wants us to follow him, which, of course, we should do....

Current state of the bird site

It only lasted for a moment. Still...

some of these people's "takes" about Mastodon are laughable at best, misinformed at worst https://twitter.com/zzsleeps/status/1591955867435663360

@atomicpoet Yep, we gotta keep reminding that: Mastodon is no more the #Fediverse, than AOL was the Internet back in the day. Mastodon is one of many software apps that talk a common language, so instead of needing giant corporate servers costing billions, the cost of computing is shared by smaller, privately owned servers that can't be burned to the ground by people like Elon Musk. It's going to all be wired together fairly well , as the web eventually was. So enjoy the ride. I know I will.

Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing the creator of Mastodon, Eugen Rochko (@Gargron). We talked about how crazy the past few weeks have been, why the site was built to resist the kind of takeover that Twitter has seen, and what he makes of Elon's tweet poking fun at Mastodon: wired.com/story/the-man-behind-mastodon-eugen-rochko-built-it-for-this-moment/
#mastodon
#twitter
#TwitterTakeover

I have been informed that until we buy a house I am disallowed from using a tube amp so the neighbors don't think we're assholes.

It's time to buy one of them newfangled modeler floorboards. Anyone have strong opinions on the Helix vs. Fractal FM-9?

Iran Votes to Execute Protesters, Says Rebels Need 'Hard Lesson

"On Tuesday, parliament did just that, voting to impose the death penalty on all protesters in custody as a "hard lesson" for all rebels. The majority in favor of the penalty was considerable, 227 out of the 290 total members, matching the number of lawmakers who signed the letter."

Hold the line, Iran!
✊🏼 😠

#iran #politics
https://www.newsweek.com/iran-votes-execute-protesters-says-rebels-need-hard-lesson-1757931

@War_Kittens
10/10 would NOT recommend Google 2FA

With 2FA being borked you have two options IF you're still logged in.

— Go in to your settings > security > 2FA > backup codes and write those down in a safe place.

— Switch to using an authentication app, which currently works but do we have faith that it will continue to do so?

This is such a fucking disaster. The software I supported in the early '00s was a trash fire that dealt with ACH transactions and we never borked anything this badly.

Huh…so Michael Moore got it right. Some good points here, I think, about how the Democratic Party communicates with voters. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/14/us-midterms-film-maker-michael-moore-blue-tsunami

I've prepared my last tweet.

Measles cases per 100,000 people before and after introduction of the measles vaccine
http://graphics.wsj.com/infectious-diseases-and-vaccines/