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mergy

@mergy@self.social

Tech pro in San Francisco. Posting on #technology, #nonprofits, #sysadmin, #cybersecurity, #infosec, #news, #philosophy, #SanFrancisco things, and attempts at humor.

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mergy, to philosophy
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Higher Education Needs More Socrates and Plato
https://mer.gy/pv

mergy, to ai
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Here we go criminals using toolkits to attack sites from a spun-up EC2 instance.

mergy,
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@outofcontrol Thanks for the heads-up. Wordfence for Wordpress-based sites also does a great job with user-agents and have f2b as the second layer. Appreciate the validation here. Thank you.

mergy,
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@outofcontrol Indeed!

screenshot of wordfence blocking pattern for the claudebot user-agent

mergy, to debian
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Posted the cobbled-together fix (it seems) for Linux folks here https://mergy.org/glibc-vuln-fix-for-debian-for-now/

At least you can see if your distro is similar or not.

andrewfeeney, to php
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and folks, what do you make of this?

https://youtu.be/kQdRT2odUIk

mergy,
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@andrewfeeney Workaround possibly for now >> GLIBC Vulnerability on Servers Serving PHP https://mer.gy/iconvglibcvuln (via Rocky Linux)

"First, let us check if the system has the compromised set, running

iconv -l | grep -E 'CN-?EXT'

If there is no output, the system is safe to this vulnerability."

Else -

Browse to /usr/lib64/gconv/gconv-modules.d

Edit gconv-modules-extra.conf

Go to line 1254 and comment out the following..."

mergy,
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@bobmagicii

sudo iconvconfig

after removal in Debian did it.

@andrewfeeney

mergy,
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@cabbey @valorin @bobmagicii @andrewfeeney

Kudos to Ubuntu...

mergy, to random
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My Dune Part 2 recap:

  1. Hey, who is that?
  2. What are they doing?
  3. Why do I care again?
  4. Wait, more people?
  5. Yeah, okay.
  6. I guess it's all serious and important because everyone talks slowly and deliberately.
  7. I'm out.
mergy,
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@RememberUsAlways
No doubt. Appreciate the positive response. Visually stunning but tough to connect if you don't have that book connection I think.

ian, to random
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Just rebooted the app server for phpc.social to apply OS updates. Mastodon v4.2.7 upgrade coming next.

mergy,
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@ian running your own mastodon server as a side thing is becoming more not a side thing in my case with all the emergency updates as of late...

mmasnick, to random
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I know that lots of folks here don't like Bluesky (and I understand most of the reasons why), But now that it's open, I tried to explain the reasons why I am excited about it and hope it succeeds. https://www.techdirt.com/2024/02/06/bluesky-opens-up/

mergy,
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@mmasnick Bluesky might be great for a Twitter replacement but, for many, the teardown of Twitter means we can move towards something else beyond a centralized environment.

Many, like me, have gone out at stood-up their own Mastodon instance and are either running their own single/small instance or hosting for others and working the economics and community fun around that.
It's no longer trying to play with Insta or X influencers or ballers or whatever. Such a breath of fresh air.

jackhutton, to random
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Haley's speech-- her posture, is better here now than its been; more aggressive. Clearly hitting back which is good to see. Perhaps too late but this is the stance, the voice, she should have taken at the outset. We'll see if this message resonates.

mergy,
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@jackhutton not bad if the party was semi-normal

TechBean, to NFL
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Anyone who takes 3 points off the board to go for it on 4th and 5 deserves to come up empty.

@nfl

mergy,
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@TechBean @nfl me

Bcfd Monkey GIF

qlp, (edited ) to debian
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Okay, I took the jump from stable to testing on my Debian DevTest laptop.

What could possibly go wrong? 😄

mergy,
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@qlp Hey - let us know how it goes!

mergy, to linux
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Many many years ago I was really into uptime on my servers. It wasn't uncommon to go a year or almost two if I could carefully wrangle it. I think kernel updates were much slower to roll-out.

I still look at that especially if there are known/seen memory leaks on stuff but just wondering how other folks feel nowadays. Do you reboot after 3-6 months or something just because if you don't need to now?

mergy, to random
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Any Purdy doubters should step forward now and be humble.

jerry, to random

People are weird

mergy,
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@jerry confirmed.

mastodonmigration, to USpolitics
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So, this very cool!

Just in time for the 2024 election cycle, Indivisible @indivisibleteam, has shuttered their Twitter account and relocated their social media presence to Mastodon.

With the goal of building a broad coalition of voters that support Democratic candidates to eliminate the filibuster, codify Roe, pass democracy reform and unrig the courts, Indivisible aligns well with Mastodon values.

Indivisible had more than 250K followers on Twitter. Let's welcome them here!

mergy,
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@mastodonmigration @indivisibleteam checks out.

jackhutton, to random
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Peak experience: Billy Bush being interviewed by Pamela Brown on CNN on Matthew Perry. Peak experience.

mergy,
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@jackhutton I mean that is like a combo that opens black holes right?

mergy,
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@jackhutton Very sad indeed.

mergy, to ai
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"the problem here generally isn’t the technology itself. will ultimately improve and become increasingly useful in a myriad of ways. The problem is the kind of humans implementing it. And the way they’re implementing it without involving or even telling existing staffers."

https://mer.gy/kv

ActionRetro, to random
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This is peak Linux desktop

mergy,
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@ActionRetro whoa. Flashbacks.

Daojoan, to random
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I shitcanned my Twitter 2 weeks ago.

Left behind 30,000 followers.

Only have 1000 here.

But I still get more traffic to my writing...

Which should tell you something about Birdchan.

Anyway, repost to support an indie transgender tech writer and journalist! ✍️🍕🏳️‍⚧️

mergy,
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@Daojoan "birdchan" = perfect

flexghost, (edited ) to random
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Mark Meadows just flipped.

Ex-Chief of staff Mark Meadows just flipped.

Ex-Chief of staff Mark Meadows who exchanged texts with 34 members of congress to overthrow the government then later burned piles of evidence just flipped.

He testified under oath at least three times already

2x before the special counsel’s office
1x to a grand jury

Trump suspected Mark Meadows would flip on him

Hey look, Trump was right about something!

🇺🇸

mergy,
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@flexghost Hey now, Trump never even worked with Mark Meadows. :)

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