A little off topic for most of us here on RBlind but still worth posting for our instances Admins/Mods if no one else.

My very basic account security advice for Lemmy Admins

Have separate accounts for the things you do on an instance:

1. Only use Admin accounts for things requiring no less than an Admin to do.
2. Only use Mod accounts for things requiring no less than a Mod to to.
3. Use standard user accounts for everything else.

Be sure to log off of an account and close all apps and browser tabs and windows open when you used that account before trying to log in with a different account.

While there are a lot more things that can and should be done, using separate accounts is a good minimal place to start. It should help mitigate against UI exploits targeting admins account for compromise like we have seen with a few other instances recently.

Things can and probably will still go wrong but diligently using accounts of least privilege can helping reduce the risk of Admins getting caught up in some of the more simple traps.

At a minimum they had some hacked web UI mayhem going on along with at least 1 admin account compromised...now they are in an at least partially down state. Might be worth alerting the Powers That Be to see if they want to offer assistance and if any measures should be taken to protect servers federated with it.

Would avoid anything on that server where possible until we hear an all clear

Adding mention for Admins/Mods

@dhamlinmusic@rblind.com @dhamlinmusic@dragonscave.space @fastfinge@rblind.com @admin@rblind.com @Altrissa@rblind.com @OldManOnFire@rblind.com @noahcarver@rblind.com @rumster@rblind.com

Resolved (see comments). Thank you very much!

Hearing it say we apostrophe L L for we'll, I apostrophe m for I'm, and so forth irritates me so much that I have largely stopped using contractions in my writing...and I really like using them. They best match how I speak in real life.

@dhamlinmusic@rblind.com Hopefully this helps delay some of the real life shit for you.

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Make some noise!

...your silence makes you invisible.

I have tried to make it a habit to walk through my neighborhood and community a couple of times a day. Lately, I have started to notice a disturbing trend of people stopping in their tracks and going silent as they see me passing by. I am never quite certain if they really stopped or if I missed something and we are now on a collision course. I try calling out a greeting. Sometimes there is really someone there. Others there is no one there to answer leaving me to wonder if there was ever anyone there in the first place. I even get a "were you talking to me?" from somewhere I didn't expect it sometimes. Having someone go invisible like that can add a bit of uncomfortable excitement to those walks.

Message to people that see me walking by

If I cannot hear you I cannot see you so please make some noise. Anything will work. For example you could try:

• Saying hello
• Tapping your leg
• Shuffling your feet
• Even dancing a jig or singing a song

Do anything that lets me know where you are so I can stop worrying about colliding with you. My safety is ultimately my own responsibility.

I promise that you cannot catch my blindness by talking to me.

Thank you and have a god day.

About this post

This new site and the whole Lemmy/Fediverse thing is new to me. This post was more an exercise in how I can best use my screen reader and other tools to write and post here than anything else. I just decided to write out a thought that has been that has been building in the back of my mind to help give me somewhere to start.

Thank you and remember to take time out to enjoy the day.