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11 views
You know, for a Dabao (大宝) board, I thought it would be bigger.
#badchinesepunattempts #electronics
8 views
This morning I noticed that my little home server's Home Assistant OS VM was configured with libvirt domain type="qemu" instead of type="kvm".
(As one does, I suppose?)
That four to three letter change makes quite the difference to CPU usage and power consumption!
I'd quietly judged Home Assistant for being unreasonably resource hungry, but the culprit was me and my footgun collection once again..
📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Jul 8latest
9
Avg engagement / post
4–11
Typical post (engagement)
0.7%
Engagement vs followers
66/100
Consistent reach
Oct 2022
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 4 and 11 likes + reposts (median 8) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: Someone knowledgeable has probably analysed this properly alread · 24 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
3 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 10 text · 2 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1.2×
Follows 1K back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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Shout out to the guy in the BYD Seal blasting Encore by Jay-Z at max volume as he rolls through the deserted Bendigo CBD at 6:45am
You know, for a Dabao (大宝) board, I thought it would be bigger.
#badchinesepunattempts #electronics
Addendum that the other option is "don't update anything" and that's basically what I've been doing this year while looking for a better approach. Doesn't seem totally sustainable in the long run.
But I'm not sure what the alternative is, apart from using only the built-in emacs packages (which tbf is a lot of functionality these days, but still doesn't include a bunch of stuff I use daily.)
The alternative packaging systems are eff…
When I started doing this I accepted the risk of pulling a malicious commit because I felt the risk/reward was not worth it for an attacker. Why target a few FOSS weirdos when you can target a billion VSCode users? (Note: My threat model i…
For years I have managed my #emacs packages with straight.el, which means I have a directory with 100ish (!) local packages as git working directories. Periodically I run straight-pull-all which literally "git pulls" them all to update. St…
Does anyone have a way they manage their Emacs packages that feels secure to them?
(Normally I'd consider a question about #emacs packaging security to be niche, but on Fedi it seems boringly mainstream if anything.)
Will explain what I me…
"If you want a yacht, publish blogs on the internet. The key to getting rich, you can learn in my online course, is to write factual and good journalistic articles that have high impact. You can make millions of dollars a year doing this."…
Interesting post from January laying out a security assessment of a Zero electric motorcycle.
https://persephonekarnstein.github.io/post/zero-days/
Attack surface for any modern car or motorbike really is immense, given it ranges from "phy…
Any fellow Aussies have a quality home weather station recommendation?
My parents gave us a Jaycar one when we moved in over eight years ago. It's been limping along for several years now, intermittently works.
I keep thinking about design…
This morning I noticed that my little home server's Home Assistant OS VM was configured with libvirt domain type="qemu" instead of type="kvm".
(As one does, I suppose?)
That four to three letter change makes quite the difference to CPU usa…
You know, for a Dabao (大宝) board, I thought it would be bigger.
#badchinesepunattempts #electronics
Addendum that the other option is "don't update anything" and that's basically what I've been doing this year while looking for a better approach. Doesn't seem totally sustainable in the long run.
But I'm not sure what the alternative is, apart from using only the built-in emacs packages (which tbf is a lot of functionality these days, but still doesn't include a bunch of stuff I use daily.)
The alternative packaging systems are eff…
When I started doing this I accepted the risk of pulling a malicious commit because I felt the risk/reward was not worth it for an attacker. Why target a few FOSS weirdos when you can target a billion VSCode users? (Note: My threat model i…
For years I have managed my #emacs packages with straight.el, which means I have a directory with 100ish (!) local packages as git working directories. Periodically I run straight-pull-all which literally "git pulls" them all to update. St…
Does anyone have a way they manage their Emacs packages that feels secure to them?
(Normally I'd consider a question about #emacs packaging security to be niche, but on Fedi it seems boringly mainstream if anything.)
Will explain what I me…
"If you want a yacht, publish blogs on the internet. The key to getting rich, you can learn in my online course, is to write factual and good journalistic articles that have high impact. You can make millions of dollars a year doing this."…
Interesting post from January laying out a security assessment of a Zero electric motorcycle.
https://persephonekarnstein.github.io/post/zero-days/
Attack surface for any modern car or motorbike really is immense, given it ranges from "phy…
Any fellow Aussies have a quality home weather station recommendation?
My parents gave us a Jaycar one when we moved in over eight years ago. It's been limping along for several years now, intermittently works.
I keep thinking about design…
This morning I noticed that my little home server's Home Assistant OS VM was configured with libvirt domain type="qemu" instead of type="kvm".
(As one does, I suppose?)
That four to three letter change makes quite the difference to CPU usa…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
aus.social
A Australia server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
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On Mastodon since
Oct 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 9 views per post.
📤Posts about 3× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated52/100
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 (~0.7% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Big ol' nerd. Interested in electronics, reverse engineering, open source, repairing things, cooperatives, bikes.
Variously part-time as: MicroPython maintainer, embedded systems consultant, EV reverse engineer, patter of good dogs.
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