Welcome to Episode 129a

Main Topic

Mastodon, with Jerry! 

• Setup and Background
  • Is he a Llama?
  • Twitter changed hands
  • New owner appears insane
  • People are afraid that their social network of choice is going down the tubes
  • They are looking for a place to go
  • Decentralized, and federated
    • The platform isnt controlled by one party
    • It effectively cannot be taken away.
  • Why is that important?
  • Fediverse? Activitypub? what’s that all about?
  • Open Source
  • Why is _that_ important?
• Who is Jerry?
• A little about Twitter, just for reference
• Why did people like Twitter to begin with?  Why not one of the other social networks? 
• What is Mastodon?
• So What’s it like when your hobby becomes a life raft?
  • What is that?
  • What made you decide to start it up?
  • And what happened in the past few weeks? 
  • How is it hosted? 
  • Cloud? Metal? Vms?
  • How do you afford it??
  • https://liberapay.com/Infosec.exchange 
• Infosec.exchange
• Links and things
• https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon 
• https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/switch-twitter-mastodon
• https://www.undrground.org/2022/11/13/building-a-mastodon-instance-to-vacate-birdsite-on-rhel-in-podman/ 

 

 

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Welcome to Episode 129b

Announcements

• Patreon Update
• American Cancer Society Funds are up to $297.66
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• Jeremy
• Arinomi
• Andrew
• Tatro
• Bruce
• Robert
• David
• S0l3mn
• LiNuXsys666
• Mark
• The Mentor
• Marc
• Julius
• Andi
• J
• Charles
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Reviews

• Nothing New

Chat

• Nate 
  • https://social.undrground.org/@gangrif 
• mastodon instance
• car is broken
• pto coming up
• re:invent 
• Unclemarc – at https://social.undrground.org/@unclemarc
  • Persona 5 has me sucked in
  • New wireless headset
  • Scripts for collecting and grabbing screenshots
  • Battle.net on it
  • IT’S A LINUX BOX, YO!
• Nuked Facebook off my phone right before this
• Steam Deck continues to be a wild ride
• Daughter getting married Saturday after Thanksgiving, so that’s a thing
• XenoPhage (he/him/his) (@XenoPhage)
• Refactoring the house
• I beat WatchDogs: Legion..  FINALLY…

News

• https://www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusfarivar/2022/11/14/musk-fires-twitter-engineer-on-twitter-cowards/ 
• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-govt-iranian-hackers-breached-federal-agency-using-log4shell-exploit/ 
• https://venturebeat.com/ai/intel-unveils-real-time-deepfake-detector-claims-96-accuracy-rate/
• https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-37-Released 

 

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