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Account age
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🧰 Free analysis for Stephen Hoffman
📊 Post engagement
5
Avg engagement / post
1.9%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: The Brave browser: Some cheery reading from Cambridge Analytics · 21 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
2.7 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1.3×
Follows 198 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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More details and a review of Albany's gonzo rainstorm:
https://theeyewall.substack.com/p/recapping-an-impressive-northeast
JFM: non-tropical
RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/117008034058808495
Or if you were programming a 32 KW PDP-11 the first time ‘round, ran off the end of the address space, and then had to learn about using overlays in the task builder (TLB, the RS…
NWS Albany NY on the current flooding: “An additional 0.5"-2.0" of rainfall is possible in the Flood Watch area...and some localized amounts to 3" or so are possible along the east facing slopes of the eastern Catskills, southern Greens an…
Clarity in Technical Reporting (NASA SP-7010, 1964)
A worthy document still, some sixty years onward.
https://archive.org/details/ost-technical-writing-19640016507/mode/2up
"FOREWORD
With the sharp increase in recent years of the volume of…
LG displays reportedly download adware via Windows Update, per Gamers Nexus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9uefFYe6bM
Buy an LG display, connect it to Windows, get McAfee ads. Yay.
More generally, vendor-provided storage and printer ad…
Reddit thread on IT management of Microsoft Windows, Azure, Entra ID…
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1uuas5j/it_admins_feel_overwhelmingly_sick_of_microsoft/
Selling into the C-suite worked for IBM aeons ago, until it didn’t.…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116903120796259321
The Amazon “top brands” checkbox provides something analogous, and with no browser extensions required.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@petrillic/116873873160487576
One of my all-time favorite examples of infographics, this one from Reuters…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@LukaszOlejnik/116882986602220458
This mess might (briefly?) make detecting (some) LLM-generated output (slightly) easier, at least until the LLMs adjust and omit these “canary” citations.
https://arxiv.org/html…
Politics: I built this kingdom up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was swamp. Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a se…
Many somebodies will be polling for the “bit flip” at eighteen, of course.
https://blog.vrypan.net/2026/06/29/260629-whats-wrong-with-eu-age-verification/
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@petrillic/116873873160487576
One of my all-time favorite examples of infographics, this one from Reuters…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@LukaszOlejnik/116882986602220458
This mess might (briefly?) make detecting (some) LLM-generated output (slightly) easier, at least until the LLMs adjust and omit these “canary” citations.
https://arxiv.org/html…
Politics: I built this kingdom up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was swamp. Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a se…
Many somebodies will be polling for the “bit flip” at eighteen, of course.
https://blog.vrypan.net/2026/06/29/260629-whats-wrong-with-eu-age-verification/
🐘 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.
On Mastodon since
Nov 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 5 views per post.
📤Posts about 2.7× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated80/100
Excellent
Credibility score
97%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 97% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~1.9% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
VSI OpenVMS, Apple macOS, iOS, iPadOS; Server & Network Security; IP & DECnet Networking; TLS, DNS, C et al. ⌘ irc·2600·net #vms pwd:VMS
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