Brendan Minish

@bminish
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Linux Sysadmin, Rewilder, Drug policy reformer, Amateur radio enthusiast

#AuDHD #ADHD #Rewilding #Cannabis #Electronics #Radio #Linux

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I'm about to have a go at migrating my mastodon account to mastodon.ie

I hear it's a simple process, but as a seasoned IT professional I'm bound to have some tricks up my sleeve to make a pigs ear of things ;-)

Another tiny world for the moss fans!

#Mosstodon : winter edition!

Can we make #TinyWorldsTuesdays a thing do you think?

There are a lot of people on here creating and exploring tiny worlds in all sorts of ways and I'd love to see more!

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For the photographers: this is Fuji Superia X-Tra 400, which really loves the cool winter light we get here.

#BelieveInFilm

BREAKING (AP): Senior U.S. intelligence official says #Russian missiles overflew #Ukraine and crossed into #Poland, killing two people. Poland is a #NATO member. Meanwhile in Poland, a meeting of the National Security Committee has been called (via Polsat News). https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-zelenskyy-kherson-9202c032cf3a5c22761ee71b52ff9d52
Poland: Russian-made missile fell on our country, killing 2

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland said early Wednesday that a Russian-made missile fell in the country’s east, killing two people, though U.S. President Joe Biden said it was “unlikely” it was fired from Russia.

Associated Press

via ABC News

A senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people

Polish PM calls urgent meeting with ministers after unconfirmed reports of Russian rockets landing inside the country's border

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/senior-us-intelligence-official-russian-missiles-crossed-nato-93346632
#News #Ukraine #Poland #Russia

A senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people

A senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people

ABC News
Leaving twitter isn't easy, but the reason for me wanting to do so happened long before musk. As someone who has struggled with ocd anxiety my whole life, the non stop deluge of ai-art, nfts and fascists in my daily experience was just raw sewage for my mental hygiene. However - I think it is important to remember how important twitter has been for large groups of people and I think this article captures something important: https://www.garbageday.email/p/one-giant-slow-motion-fail-whale
One giant slow-motion fail whale

Read to the end for a pic of the person who ran next to your car when you were a child

Garbage Day
Ugh, PayPal is going to start charging (European?) customers an inactivity fee. What a nightmare.

Deleted and reposting because I neglected to mention a major part of our team, @cirriustech and that needs to be set right.

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Hi all. I want to spend a moment expressing my deep appreciation for the infosec.exchange moderation team: @dnsprincess @apiratemoo @ScottMortimer @reg @jett @ClevVenger @SecureOwl @paco @cirriustech

I pulled this team together exactly a week ago, and in that week, they've made a world of difference in that short time. The respect, diligence, and professionalism they show in executing their moderation responsibilities is impressive. Not everyone is going to like every decision we make but know that it comes from a place of compassion and with the best interest of the community in mind.

I would also like to shout out to @dreadpir8robots, who has done a stellar job of organizing and transforming our wiki site.

In the coming days and weeks, we'll be adding additional people to the volunteer team for helping to reorganize the server infrastructure, provide ongoing infrastructure support, handle technical issues from the community, and so on.

I am taking some time off from work next week, and my focus will be filing paperwork to establish a non-profit to assume responsibility for the site, as I previously committed to do.

I'm very humbled by the community that's built up here so rapidly and I appreciate the patience you've shown as we scaled up fast and made mistakes along the way.

As people who have been here for a while understand, the fediverse is a much larger community than just infosec.exchange. While I have been running infosec.exchange for over 5 years, when it became clear that Twitter was likely to implode, I wanted to provide a reliable landing spot for people looking for a new site to connect with others in the industry and beyond.

While I hope to be deeply involved in infosec.exchange for at least another 5 years, it's important to understand that it's ok, and expected, that people who came in through the infosec.exchange front door to diffuse into the larger fediverse. I don't have revenue targets or account growth KPIs for infosec.exchange. There are no investors or advertisers to please. The only thing I am measuring myself against is that I created something useful for all of you.

But this ain't Twitter, and many people have let me know that, so some of you will conclude this isn't the platform for you for $reason, and that's ok. It's not for everyone.

Speaking of that, I think it's obvious that infosec.exchange runs on open-source software called Mastodon. That software is always looking for help - both in the form of code contributions and also financial support (see https:.//joinmastodon.org for more info). I took some of the donations I've collected and used it to help support the Mastodon project.

I wish all of you peace and love.

Jerry

This holiday season Twitter fires 4K workers, Amazon fires 10K workers, & Facebook fires 11K workers—all while US Billionaire pandemic wealth increased an absurd $1.7T.😳

A reminder that billionaires don’t create jobs—they exploit workers. Tax billionaires. Unionize workers.

I like the way mastodon adds a little constructive friction around alt text when you publish a photo. It’s a good reminder to make it the default practice!

The statements from govt following the death of #VickyPhelan are making me feel some kind of way.

Knowing that she *told* them that action on the issue was all she wanted and that she didn't want their weasel words and eulogies... here they all are, tiptoeing around the fact that they owe her and the others affected by the CervicalCheck scandal far more than any insipid statement.

Tiptoeing around the fact that they failed her. That they failed all of us.