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Followers
375
Account age
9 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$40 – $65 / sponsored post
Estimated from audience size & typical reach — every deal is negotiable and held in SocialDB escrow.
🧰 Free analysis for Dan McDonald
📊 Post engagement
5
Avg engagement / post
1.3%
Engagement vs followers
Apr 2017
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: RE: https://mastodon.social/@CVE_Program/116880207023138947 Addi · 14 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.78 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1.8×
Follows 205 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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Time for my occasional reminder that the #illumos ptools are amazing and highly productivity enhancing.
On my MacOS workstation this is a common work flow:
ssh $ILLUMOS 'pwait `pgrep something`' ; say {-a other-speaker} SOMETHING IS DONE
C…
That feeling of:
Liz: What a week!
Jack: Lemon, it's Wednesday.
But a day early.
An odd request: Does anyone know the Vernor Vinge "Zones of Thought" books well enough to have an identifiable character, place, or quote that starts with the letter 'Y'?
Asking for a friend...
Today (oops, yesterday now) was the anniversary of the death of legendary Michigan Marching Band director William D. Revelli. I was lucky to meet the man myself as a Freshman, and we MMBers are all part of his legacy.
https://kebe.com/blog…
I RP-ed something just now, but went to the source to make sure I wasn't dreaming:
https://www.spglobal.com/ratings/en/regulatory/article/-/view/type/HTML/id/3592348
For techie friends/followers/etc.
Do you know what I'm talking about when I mention, "The DeWitt Clause" ? And if not, do yourself a favor and read about it. It explains a lot about a certain tech executive.
BTW Apple Support was useless, likely by design to prevent accidental disclosures that might, oh I don't know, cause a password-reset to maybe succeed?
So I'm not as angry as I first was about it.
THANK YOU 2FA!
My Apple devices pinged me to "reset my Apple Account Password". I refused. I'd LIKE to know what events (and what IP, etc.) triggered that Apple Account Password reset.
Any ideas on how to diagnose how far someone got? I…
THANK YOU 2FA!
My Apple devices pinged me to "reset my Apple Account Password". I refused. I'd LIKE to know what events (and what IP, etc.) triggered that Apple Account Password reset.
I know some of you WORK there... any ideas on how to…
The fine folks at @SystemsAppr posted this beaut. I do feel officially old now.
https://systemsapproach.org/2026/04/20/not-your-fathers-internet/
This looks VERY cool, and I wish Big Ag would think about something like this.
I wonder if actual-farmer @sarahtaber may have an opinion on this?
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
hostux.social
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
✅ Link-verified
Verified link
Proved ownership of a website linked on their profile — Mastodon's green-check verification, a real identity signal rather than a paid badge.
On Mastodon since
Apr 2017
An OG fediverse account from Mastodon's early years — a long, established presence.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2017 — 9 years ago.
👁️Averages 5 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.8× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated89/100
Excellent
Credibility score
99%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 99% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~1.3% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Verified account.
- Established account (9+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Dad&Husband, #illumos :illumos: core team, 2nd-wave Internet settler, early IPsec & IPv6 builder, and now at Edgecast working on #SmartOS ( @smartosorg ) & #Triton ( @triton_dc ).
Michigan ( #goblue ) and Arizona alum. Ex-{NRL,Sun,Nexenta,OmniTI,Joyent}.
Visit my homepage (see below) to find my other socials.
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