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Followers

375

Account age

9 yrs

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📊 Post engagement

📊 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 206 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post RE: https://mastodon.social/@CVE_Program/116880207023138947 Adding one more tag to this: #illumos . ★ 14

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… ★ 11 That feeling of: Liz: What a week! Jack: Lemon, it's Wednesday. But a day early. ★ 1 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... ★ 2 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 ★ 2 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… ★ 2 The fine folks at @SystemsAppr posted this beaut. I do feel officially old now. https://systemsapproach.org/2026/04/20/not-your-fathers-internet/ ★ 5 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

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✅ 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

Estimated

52/100

Fair Credibility score

76%

Mixed Real audience

Medium Fake-follower risk

High Data confidence

Est. 76% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
Low engagement (~1.3% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive 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, BEAGLE DAD, #illumos :illumos: core team, 2nd-wave Internet settler, early IPsec & IPv6 builder, and Oxide SW engineer. Michigan ( #goblue ) and Arizona alum. Ex-{NRL,Sun,Nexenta,OmniTI,Joyent,MNX}. Visit my homepage (see below) to find my other socials.

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