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Followers
356
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$40 – $65 / sponsored post
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Known for
📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Nov 19latest
3
Avg engagement / post
1–4
Typical post (engagement)
0.8%
Engagement vs followers
67/100
Consistent reach
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 1 and 4 likes + reposts (median 2) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: You want some real retro cyber? In the late 1980s a friend's dad · 8 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.35 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1.9×
Follows 188 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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Chaotic retro: USB is just switched HDLC.
All aspects of this post about 88x31 buttons for modern services are retro. Even the platform is retro.
https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1506382
(via https://social.last.nl/@lil5/statuses/01KVF5XCP6SDJJ1E9QVJ2G8K9N)
When marketing was done with understatement in 88x31...
https://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/index2.html
For family, I ran NetWare once. I still have the disks - even the license! You just went to a store and bought a disk set, in a heavy box with paperback manuals. It was so expensive, you would keep the packaging. For "some reason" a lot of…
Hobbies.
An "operating system" is not just software but a choreography of human behavior, and to me that's one of the main reasons why they're fascinating. In fact, I believe that the "operating" is about the humans, and not the machines.
Gotta love how PDAs make computing an accessory.
Abort = Meow?
Retry = Meow.
Fail = Meow!
Command-line utilities should output their help text in Markdown, so that little C programs don't need to spend any overhead to document their command-line parameters, and it would be easy to render with a pipe?
Normies: "there is no button for it in the application"
Nerds: "there's 100+ buttons on your keyboard"
Here, let me demonstrate:$ alias xtime=$(which time)
$ for j in 1 2 6 10 14 18 22 32 64; do
echo -ne "J=$j:\t"
make clean > /dev…
The ultranerd will come and create a new modern Emacs, complete with a language that beats Common Lisp. It will bend the static empire to its knees, and bring the language flaming lands and the editing isles, a hundred or a thousand years …
Hobbies.
An "operating system" is not just software but a choreography of human behavior, and to me that's one of the main reasons why they're fascinating. In fact, I believe that the "operating" is about the humans, and not the machines.
Gotta love how PDAs make computing an accessory.
Abort = Meow?
Retry = Meow.
Fail = Meow!
Command-line utilities should output their help text in Markdown, so that little C programs don't need to spend any overhead to document their command-line parameters, and it would be easy to render with a pipe?
Normies: "there is no button for it in the application"
Nerds: "there's 100+ buttons on your keyboard"
Here, let me demonstrate:$ alias xtime=$(which time)
$ for j in 1 2 6 10 14 18 22 32 64; do
echo -ne "J=$j:\t"
make clean > /dev…
The ultranerd will come and create a new modern Emacs, complete with a language that beats Common Lisp. It will bend the static empire to its knees, and bring the language flaming lands and the editing isles, a hundred or a thousand years …
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
oldbytes.space
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
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 3 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.4× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated43/100
Fair
Credibility score
73%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 73% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.8% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
The future of technology was invented in the past. Let us try and find it.
Toots retro appreciation, and occasional system programming.
Made by @promovicz - where I engage in other mischief.
#openvms #vax #pdp10 #pdp11 #cray #mainframe #mvs #dos #unix #linux #palmtop #pocketpc #handheldpc #libretto #hp200lx #newton #palm #psion #workpadz50
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