Reminder to #mastoadmin / #mastoadmins:
A critical security upgrade for the Mastodon server software has been announced for Thursday, Feb 3rd, from 13:00 UTC, and instance operators are advised to update immediately.
If you're running a fork, it's probably useful to plan for a temporary shutdown until the patches have been ported, depending on what exactly the issue turns out to be:
https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/107718287079955422
Also #infosec probably...
@jeffcliff @dielan Honestly, you probably wouldn't even enjoy Bastyon anyway. It's a right-wing echo chamber.
@lanodan CLIs should have beep commands like in BASIC.
@beardalaxy A few weeks ago, both my parents tested positive. I probably caught it too, but I only had mild coughing fits while my parents were slightly more severe and they're vaccinated while I'm not. My Mom was worried about me dying even though I was fucking fine. My Mom even blamed me for spreading it to her. Granted, she will also get mad at me for skipping a flu vaccine which I have been doing for the past couple of years (no longer see a point in them).
@beardalaxy I kept on having visions of my parents tricking me into getting vaccinated by taking me somewhere to pick up a birthday or Christmas present only for it to be a COVID vaccine.
Luckily that hasn't happened.
@jeffcliff @dielan Goddammit the project is dead. Never mind.
@jeffcliff @dielan If you can't use Bastyon, there is also Twister. Completely different network but pretty much the same concept.
@jeffcliff @dielan It's possible to make alternative clients, though. It's just a blockchain.
@jeffcliff @dielan It's licensed under Apache...
but you can only see the license on GitHub dammit.
@jeffcliff @dielan The JavaScript code is FOSS.
@jeffcliff @dielan You can always just use their web-client if you can't download it.