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128
Account age
3 yrs
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📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Jul 18latest
4
Avg engagement / post
3–6
Typical post (engagement)
3.1%
Engagement vs followers
82/100
Very consistent reach
Dec 2022
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 3 and 6 likes + reposts (median 4) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: Linux microblog update: I spent some time making Proxmox dance · 7 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
9.1 / week
Toots daily — consistently active for a campaign window.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
0.5×
Follows 284 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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Many apps I rely on daily now open with a warning that they simply won't comply with Google's invasive verification in October.
This doesn't affect me, as my critical devices are fully de-googled.
I'm curious if folks inside Google's walle…
I've been trying to reconcile how much more cautious my Cybersecurity peers are than other colleagues, with regards to AI.
Yes, we're a paranoid bunch, but our reaction to AI is measurably colder than our reaction to Cloud, or shadow IT, o…
"AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our civilization and our descendants will be digging it out for generations."
https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/24/supplemental-income/
I like this analogy, because asbestos is useful stu…
Linux Microblog update:
My spouse fixed my other franken-rebuilt Dell Optiplex ProxMox node by editing a network config file to detect the new default card name that came with the new motherboard.
While their approach was simpler, faster, …
Linux microblog update:
ProxMox (or maybe my network hardware) does not like when I swap harddrives onto different motherboards (and therefore different ethernet cards with new MAC addresses.)
I do this anyway because used old Dell Optiple…
Linux microblog update - I just used my computers this weekend, for personal computer stuff.
I didn't add remove, re-image, or rewrite anything.
I realize this is kind of a non-update.
Even as a non-stop command line guru, sometimes I jus…
"Very few companies are so good at shipping software that they can afford the extra risk profile (of an AI adoption project)."
Is why this conversation has been so difficult to have.
Whether AI has any magic or not, it is certainly not mag…
Since I re-image my Linux desktop so often, I have given a great deal of thought to preserving and re-creating my configurations.
So I wrote a single bash file to rule them all, sort of.
My script, `dot`, creates a tiny CLI Ansible install…
I realized I once again installed a server OS as my desktop, so FreedomBox had to go (temporarily).
Back to ol' reliable Debian install media.
This build will be a tuned experience that I hope to run for awhile.
I was disappointed to lear…
I ran Commodore OS for about a week as my daily driver, and then I needed really needed to switch to a dark theme for my daily driver.
I probably could have configured a cool C64 tribute theme - and someday I may do so and contribute it ba…
Time for another Linux microblog update.
I wiped my PC and installed Commodore OS Vision 3.1. (Which now fits into about 9 Gb!)
It is a delight. Nowhere near as practical as the usual recommendations like Mint and Debian. But it makes up a…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
infosec.exchange
A cybersecurity & infosec server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
✅ 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
Dec 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 4 views per post.
📤Posts about 9.1× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated75/100
Good
Credibility score
92%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~3.1% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
I help software developers secure their work supporting research and higher education.
Here you may find my occasional blog posts with DevOps recipes or example code in obscure programming languages.
Check out my other Mastodon for silly sketches and art generated using code.
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