Lots of Linux vulnerabilities lately. Time to move the instance to Windows.
@jerry there must be at least one mastodon instance running on IIS
@jerry morb@cloudse:~$ grep IIS results.txt
social.ersei.net,Server: Microsoft-IIS/10.0
mastodon.unknownrealm.org,Server: Microsoft-IIS/10.0
@jerry I dunno... i haven't heard about any OS/2 Warp vulnerabilities lately.
@gangrif @jerry BeOS or gtfo

@lastofthem @gangrif @jerry

Brilliant idea! Proceed

https://m.slashdot.org/story/454813

At least a dozen actively exploited Zero days. Unfixed for weeks

Slashdot

@gangrif
I loved that OS...'specially their Office suite

@jerry

@gangrif @jerry RISCOS is literally *right there* AND it's arm-native, I mean c'mon now lads
@brad @gangrif @jerry oh I used to love that so much back then. Still have an A3000 and a RISC PC in the attic
@jerry Reject operating systems. Vibe code a bare metal version.
@varx @jerry hmm, a webserver in EFI. Sounds "fun."
@jerry Something something don't feed the trolls. Ha
@jerry come now, MacOS is the only true option left!
@jerry Clearly you need to move to NetBSD
@jerry nobody publishes vulns about irix
@onyxraven @jerry
Haven't had any mentions of DEC/OSF or prologue also.

@jerry

Never leave home without your copilot 

@jerry on Windows you can also leave the boring administration stuff to Copilot!

@jerry Heard that they fixed the driver issues in the latest NT4.0 build.

I see no reason not to.

@jerry No, CP/M. I saw on The Computer Chronicles that CP/M is the premier operating system, and I'm sure The Computer Chronicles is a completely unbiased source on the matter.
@isaackuo @jerry I am also almost 100% sure there were no CP/M vulnerabilities found in last 20 years.

@isaackuo @jerry CP/M had no remote hole in the default install, ever.

Primarily because CP/M had no remote anything, but that still counts.

@jerry

looks for a good deal on a Radioshack Color Computer

@jerry

Honestly, anyone setting up anything on an old Tandy computer has only two questions,
What? & How?

@jerry …this feels like walking into a saloon and insulting the horse of every gunslinger there šŸ˜…
@JoscelynTransient @jerry I love this analogy, adding to my list of horse quotes.

@jerry

The #Fediverse as a whole needs to migrate to pneumatic tubes.

@jerry
Didn't you use to work for IBM? AIX is right there. Lets just get you some cosy POWER hardware for it. I'm already looking forward to the smitty modules for mastodon server mamagement.
@jerry It's been terrible in general as of late
@jerry Not safe enough, Windows has WSL.

@jerry

🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

@jerry more like time to stop using OSes & networks
@jerry The windows vuls are still pouring out but it's easier to hunt on linux because the source is available

@jerry Someone, somewhere in a ā€˜C’ suite, who thinks they have their finger on the pulse, is asking a tired Tech Director that question.

Betcha.

@jerry

might have to get a few costco sized bags of popcorn to last it out while i watch this... and something to read. maybe "war and peace".

@jerry Let's see if we can find a Multics port.
@jerry Clippy the Protector

@jerry

At MS, there was a big project to unify all of the Windows-derived things. Apparently some folks had a build working that booted to WSL, with no Win32k. I did wonder how secure that would be: at the very least, I doubt there are many people who know how to attack the NT kernel via the Linux syscall interface.

@jerry Its better to get hacked by some guy sitting in his parents garage than getting our data stolen by corporations to feed the AI.

@jerry Also, pwn2own with zero findings in Microsoft Internet Explorer for several years meanwhile (!).

Time for our blue friend to take back the web, not sure why we even abandoned the king of browsers.

@[email protected] try BSD then, I'm running OpenBSD and feel safe, security by default, my respect to developers, I cannot imagine what will be if I run windows as a server ;)

@hey @jerry the issue lie in "feel" safe, when massive AI assisted code exploration will hit BSD i also expect a bunch of critical vulnerability.

Because the AI find thing human brain is not wired to see.

It's not a proof something is not secure tough, pretty sure BSD, Window, Mac, ETC are also full of those issue.

CC: @[email protected]
@[email protected] of cours in any system have issues, even very minimalist systems written only in C lang have some issues with security.

But we also can use A.i to find these holes in System;)