Amanda Unvarnished

Public Notice

Lots of reports of crypto spam attacks coming in from multiple instances today.

Seems like the bad guys are getting kinda worried about Mastodon.

Instance admins are taking this very seriously and working hard to fend off the attacks.

What can you do? If you see a crypto scam post, don’t engage with it. It’s just a bot anyway. If you block and report the post it will help administrators isolate the attacker account.

We got this!

#CryptoSpamAttack #CryptoSpam

—@mastodonmigration

So you missed last night’s fantastic webinar on Audio gaming? that’s okay. The archive is now available on Youtube! https://youtu.be/Pjk8YI_4kkw

—@liamerven

On this #GAAD of 2023, spare a though for all the accessibility specialists at large companies who have spent the day doing the same basic exercises as they did last year, mostly for the same people at a stand in the company lobby. Because nothing ever changes. 🥴

—@philsherry

In an exclusive interview, I sat down with Libo Cao Meyers, a top engineering executive at Apple, and talked with her all about her having polio, immigrating to America from China, working in tech, her new memoir, and giving back to the disability community.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenaquino/2023/05/18/how-a-disabled-chinese-immigrant-turned-polio-and-ableism-into-becoming-an-apple-executive-and-author/

—@steven_aquino

Closing the email subscription pop up

so I can dismiss the browser cookie settings

so I can close the autoplaying video

so I can hide the social media sharing widget

so I can see that the page

doesn’t have any of the information the search engine said it would.

—@troublewithwords

#Google just announced that going forward, any account not logged into for two years gets deleted.

This means huge amounts of rare or unique #video is about to disappear from #YouTube as accounts get flagged as inactive, such as when the user dies. Families’ #HomeMovies (often posted by an older relative for their family’s benefit), historical footage, rare #television clips, etc. What an incalculable loss to human #history and culture!

If there are videos important to you on someone else’s video channel, find a way to download them. And if you have rare #media of historical importance, consider leaving it to institutional #archives or lending it to archives for digital preservation.

—@StevenCapsuto

If anyone wanted to try #MicroBlog they are hosting a sale! A fabulous discount on their managed hosting. $1 monthly! http://micro.blog/summer #Blog small #Podcasts

—@weirdwriter

Hugops to every other #mastoadmin having to deal with this spam wave. We have been fighting is on mastodon.social for days, and were forced to close registrations yesterday until we could emergency-deploy countermeasures.
Unfortunately, this made them realise they are other servers in the Fediverse to target.
If any admin needs help fighting this, please ping me either on the server admin discord, or directly here, and I will gladly help.

—@renchap