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Followers
1.4K
Account age
8 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
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📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
May 25latest
3
Avg engagement / post
1–3
Typical post (engagement)
0.2%
Engagement vs followers
69/100
Consistent reach
Jan 2018
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 1 and 3 likes + reposts (median 2) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: RE: https://infosec.exchange/@superruserr/116929054846426112 Sec · 6 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
1.4 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1.8×
Follows 814 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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ERA, in partnership with the Oxford Hardware AI Governance lab and the Heron AI Security Initiative, is now accepting applications for our new Frontier AI Security Residency: an 8-week, fully-funded residency for researchers & engineers wo…
Remember when I mentioned that HF was down because I was trying to reference an LLM on their platform.
Hold on to your hats. Here are the security disclosures from HF and OpenAI
https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026
http…
One thing I learned tinking with CoLab and HuggingFace - acceptance of using certain models. i.e Meta Llama, Google Gema requires approval on HF platform prior to using it with acknowledging their license. Makes you think about resiliency …
Playing around with Google CoLab and HuggingFace pipelines for translation examples, sentiment analysis etc
Learnt yesterday you can spinup instances on CoLab and run Jupyter notebooks on it.
You can spin up a free instance of T4 to run so…
HuggingFace was down earlier. So, two things noted for resiliency are usual SDLC - fallback on supplier downtimes, and ensuring to specify pipelines rather than going to a supplier default.
PS: if you are on it, my profile is at https://hu…
And submitted a wee patch about the course content because according to https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/api-key due changing standards in the Gemini API token, the Python Jupyter notebook check if the correct API key is being used ha…
Tools around agentic AI and LM engineering that I have been using for the past two months: OpenAI, Pisjover, Resend, Langchain, Serper, Polygon... now just got a Google Gemini API key for some tinkering.
I'm a mentor for a few going into cybersecurity (1 about to do Masters after CompSci-Psych degree, 1 currently doing a Masters in GRC, 1 a career changer dev doing a bootcamp going to SOC).
The subject of getting work experience has come u…
Just got the OK to participate in an exam writing workshop for one of the certifications. It's my first time being involved so good learning curve.
I am pretty much relieved to be ending a project after just over 4 years with one of my clients in telecommunications doing information security and compliance work.
This was one of those things that a chapter has to end to make space for …
Happy to continue volunteering for Women4Cyber program MAY edition! Two more mentees that I have yet to meet.
https://women4cyber.eu/mentorship-programme-2/
HuggingFace was down earlier. So, two things noted for resiliency are usual SDLC - fallback on supplier downtimes, and ensuring to specify pipelines rather than going to a supplier default.
PS: if you are on it, my profile is at https://hu…
And submitted a wee patch about the course content because according to https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/api-key due changing standards in the Gemini API token, the Python Jupyter notebook check if the correct API key is being used ha…
Tools around agentic AI and LM engineering that I have been using for the past two months: OpenAI, Pisjover, Resend, Langchain, Serper, Polygon... now just got a Google Gemini API key for some tinkering.
I'm a mentor for a few going into cybersecurity (1 about to do Masters after CompSci-Psych degree, 1 currently doing a Masters in GRC, 1 a career changer dev doing a bootcamp going to SOC).
The subject of getting work experience has come u…
Just got the OK to participate in an exam writing workshop for one of the certifications. It's my first time being involved so good learning curve.
I am pretty much relieved to be ending a project after just over 4 years with one of my clients in telecommunications doing information security and compliance work.
This was one of those things that a chapter has to end to make space for …
Happy to continue volunteering for Women4Cyber program MAY edition! Two more mentees that I have yet to meet.
https://women4cyber.eu/mentorship-programme-2/
🐘 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
Jan 2018
An OG fediverse account from Mastodon's early years — a long, established presence.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2018 — 8 years ago.
👁️Averages 3 views per post.
📤Posts about 1.4× 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 (~0.2% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Established account (8+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
💚 Brand affinity
EstimatedBrands HCS ▋'s audience is most likely to respond to — from detected sponsorships in this niche.
About
CISO, Snr Cyber Security Consultant, previously in SIEM / log management / blue team. Own opinions here. | DE: @toot.berlin/@superruserr | FR: @mamot.fr/@superruserr | Header image by @ovid
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