Mastodon post: Jerry 3h • @jerry@infosec.exchange If you or someone you know has an account on mastodon.cloud, I would highly recommend migrating to a new server. Lots of instances are in the process of completely blocking mastodon.cloud which will sever all connections for people on mastodon.cloud. Mastodon.cloud is effectively abandoned, running very old and out of date software with minimal moderation resulting in a good deal of moderation work for those of us running other instances. I am posting this in hopes that some people on mastodon.cloud see it and decide to take action.

Why Mastodon is not ready for general use, part ∞

BSides Melbourne 2026 - Training Get tickets on Humanitix - BSides Melbourne 2026 - Training. SEEK, 60 Cremorne St, Cremorne VIC 3121, Australia. Friday 15th May 2026. Find event information.

There's still space for a few more uni students for Bruce Large and my SANS ICS310 community version at BSides Melbourne.

Learn about OT cybersecurity!

Free from us, only the conference $30 entry fee. events.humanitix.com/bsides-m...

It's a victorian tradition at easter to sit down with a coffee and hot cross bun and stare at the Bells beach 'on-hold, call at X' count down timer.
😂
#bellsbeach #surfing

4-panel comic. (1) [Black panel with white text boxes] TEXT BOX: And God said, "Let there be light," (2) [Sun radiating light.] TEXT BOX: And there was light. (3) [View of bright sun rising over Earth's horizo] (4) TEXT BOX: God saw that light was-- [Chat bubble from Earth] CHAT BUBBLE: Can you add support for dark mode? Open xkcd.com to view toggles for different modes.

CREATION

Happy April Fool's Day!

xkcd.com/3227/

oh, they did already exist. RFC8962.
I suppose I've earned myself a Raised Eyebrow for not checking References

I'm a little surprised that the Internet Protocol Police have only just been formed. honestly thought they already existed 🤷‍♂️

www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9948....

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I'm back, taking commercial speaking engagements in ANZ. www.saxton.com.au/speakers/le...

For the next 100yrs #Melbourne vs #Sydney debates will be resolved instantly when pointing out that Kyle and Jacqui O were loved in Sydney and were humiliated in Melbourne.

Sorry, I don't make the rules.

Screenshot: labcorp | Patient ⚠️[object Object]

I love actionable alerts.

Every school year, at exam time, many countries turn off internet access to stop cheating. Someone far more suspicious than me might suggest it is practice for more nefarious purposes.

sure, but the crossover cable is definitely useful. if you have to connect two hubs together. for reasons. 😆

Incidents and Warnings - VicEmergency Victoria's combined source of emergency information and warnings, helping the community to prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies across the state.

1st total fire ban of the year. When the official scale is at 'extreme' and 'catastrophic' its a sure sign we will have a bad day. emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/#!/w...

"all it took was a simple URL trick of adding 'download-all-users/' to the top-level domain."
0days are for losers 😂

Also there might be less spurious arguments about governance, allowing airtime for other important arguments about AI and global junkets. also yay!
Here is auDA's writeup www.auda.org.au/news-insight...

At UN, nations pledge people-first digital future, tighter AI safeguards UN Member States on Wednesday pledged to narrow widening digital divides and put stronger safeguards around artificial intelligence (AI), as the General Assembly concluded a major review of how the wo...

The world decided not to call multistakeholer internet governance mean names: news.un.org/en/story/202...

As someone who had to think about how transitioning the root would work, I always wonder how the scary UN takeover would be accomplished. That's been postponed. Yay!
#dns #internet

aust govt paid for ads on streaming svcs to remind ppl to patch their gear, amongst other advice. That site is a series of tips, no downloads.

This is specifically to shift more residential usage to the daytime. Peak residential usage is still early evening when solar generation has stopped in the north or is low in the south. More batteries and VPP might help but behaviour changes are the most effective.

I've heard from a lot of my ex-colleagues at #AWS in the last few days. Seems like the layoffs were brutal in #australia
Some who were not laid off are also leaving. The stress of waiting for the next round, which will come just after performance review time, is too much.

cameronmarkdoyle on Instagram: "Ya can't park that there 💥🚚 #montaguestreetbridgeView all 154 comments" Ya can't park that there 💥🚚 #montaguestreetbridge

www.instagram.com/reel/DQFfhhN...

with ppl talking about the #aws #DNS outage, do we need an explainer on phonebooks for Gen Zers?

Group of people at a funeral, gathered around a casket.

This you?

Can only hit like once. I want to hit like thousands more times. In fact, once for every time I hear it in a day.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Could we survive eating only humans? YouTube video by xkcd's What If?

Could we survive eating only humans?

Watch the latest What If? video collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social!

youtu.be/PUtI3xoaHx0

ok, so the mismatch rates have not entirely returned to previous levels. Without talking to the Swedish registry (IIS), I'm not going to know why. If I become rich, I'll retain lookup data to analyse this myself in the future.
#dns #dnssec #sweden #cctld #icann

Golden retriever takes baby koala for a joy ride When Steve Lamplough heard a commotion outside his south-west Victorian home, the last thing he expected to see was a joey koala riding his dog like a racehorse.

This isn’t as surprising as it might seem. Many marsupials have the instinct to climb on something fluffy and they can do it fast. Even when very young.
Luckily I only need to worry about ring tails and brushies climbing onto my dog
#dogs #dogsky #australia #aus
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

with Today's stats updated, its appears the spike was transient and probably the result of a large roll over. .ONLINE on the other hand has been trending higher mismatch rates for a while and has also jumped.
#dns #dnssec #dnssecurity

Daily CDS Usage Charts Charts showing CDS usage on the Internet. Updated daily.

If you're associated with .SE or .NU, is there an explanation why mismatch rates for CDS records suddenly jumped in those zones?

could be just a timing thing with a large operator rolling keys at the same time. I'm curious.

kalfeher.com/analysis/cds...

#dns #dnssec #domains

Daily CDS Usage Charts Charts showing CDS usage on the Internet. Updated daily.

I've updated CDS tracking charts to show 360 days of aggregated trends. TBH the trend is pretty clear. CDS usage overall is going down and TLD zones are less correct over time. possibly related
#dns #dnssec
kalfeher.com/analysis/cds...

ah, well, we get the mint ones