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Followers
278
Account age
3 yrs
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🧰 Free analysis for Mike Spooner
📊 Post engagement
17
Avg engagement / post
6.1%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Yesterday's main local news, as reported on the national radio b · 47 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
2.3 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 10 text · 2 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
3.1×
Follows 91 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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There have recently been quite a few posts about oddball pinouts of ICs. Do any of you remember things like the NEC UPD78PG11E?
Quad-In-Line with additional 28-pin DIL socket-contacts on top...
#pinout #icpackage #oddball
Name that chip - as seen on TV, 1978
https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/name-that-chip-as-seen-on-tv-1978/6299
Some people were distressed by the events that transpired at the conclusion of the World Cup final, but we should perhaps be grateful that Infantino and Trump didn't try to kiss the players on the lips.
#rubialesdisgrace
AI coding tools keep hallucinating, and hackers finally found a way to profit off it:
"because naming conventions in tech are apparently decided by nine year olds with a Pokémon obsession"
https://e-e.beehiiv.com/p/your-ai-lied-elon-and-sa…
Unsurprising:
SpaceX StarLink support page which appears to only be available in Swahili, for some reason.
Five years after Windows 11 launched and silently removed taskbar features that users had relied on since Windows 7, Microsoft has quietly brought some of them back. This is the most Microsoft thing that has ever happened. They took your s…
Regarding the british idiom "as welcome as a ghost at a funeral"... toying around to make it more upbeat but equally painful:
The Ghost at Abigail's Party.
I wonder if this would fly on a T-shirt?
"...more than 4.3 million rooftop solar installations. On a clear midday, those systems push so much electricity into the grid that the market cannot absorb it at normal prices. Wholesale electricity rates go negative"
https://zirk.us/@imp…
Although they are having it much worse in the south-east of the UK, I am really struggling here at 28C and 96% humidity. Even with steady hydration and staying completely in the shade, I am almost at my wits end.
Antarctic temperatures as much as 20 degrees celcius above the June average.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2026-06-13/Record-high-temperatures-hit-Antarctic-20C-above-normal-levels-1NWp3E9yrbG/p.html
Sigh, damned datasheet. Spot the two errors.
🐘 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 17 views per post.
📤Posts about 2.3× 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 (~6.1% 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
Erstwhile UNIX programmer and system administrator. Windows Server administrator. Old hardware repurposer. Newish crown green bowler.
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