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Followers

394

Account age

3 yrs

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📊 Post engagement

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

0.9 / week

A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

1.8×

Follows 215 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post I have just uploaded a maintenance release of The Linux Command Line, Seventh Internet Edition. It fixes a few typos and a couple of bugs. #Linux #CLI #coreutils #LinuxBooks #shell #CommandLine https://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php ★ 11

How's your #Summer ? https://thisisnthappiness.com/post/823597747495108609/edie-medley ★ 1 #Fascism #border #customs #GraphenOS #illegalsearchesandseizures #illegalsearch US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/us-accuses-amer… ★ 7 #Security #Surveillance #Windows #Microsoft #Linux Microsoft Confirms Windows GDID Device Identifier That Cannot Be Disabled, Documented in FBI Case Filing - gHacks Tech News https://www.ghacks.net/2026/07/12/microsoft-confirms-windows-gd… ★ 1 Happy Fourth. #July4th #stateFair #fascism #america250 https://thisisnthappiness.com/post/821149355231887360/six-flags-over-fascism-via ★ 6 #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #zuckerberg Pluralistic: Zuckerberg’s increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers (27 Jun 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/27/zuckerstreisand-2/#autodisparagement ★ 2 New blog post: Management Responsibility In this episode I share my thoughts (such as they are) about the role of American citizens in their democracy. https://lcorg.blogspot.com/2026/06/rant-management-responsibility.html A good piece about the recent #German court ruling that held #Google responsible for the accuracy of its #AI #search summaries. #Law #ComputerScience https://youtu.be/ehsq_0Cw6e4?si=LbmYwFqYGe-77-al ★ 1 For you crime-solving pleasure... https://youtube.com/shorts/RC2pFHS0mgU?si=IJbgCLwmaQTl616D #Writing #Editing #Grammar ★ 3 Is the horror that is Facebook finally going to end? #Facebook #Meta #Zuckerberg https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-death-spiral ★ 2 RE: https://mstdn.science/@technikmensch/116465735356733619 Good start, but the period should be longer. I have a lot of appliances more than 30 years old that still work. Clarifications to Ubuntu's recent AI announcement. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-AI-Kill-Switch-Opt-In #Linux #Ubuntu #AI

🐘 Community & instance

Home server

mstdn.social

A large general-interest Mastodon server. On the fediverse the server a creator picks hints at their community — this one spans all topics.

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Proved ownership of a website linked on their profile — Mastodon's green-check verification, a real identity signal rather than a paid badge.

On Mastodon since

Dec 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 4 views per post.

📤Posts about 0.9× per week.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated

75/100

Good Credibility score

92%

Real Real audience

Low Fake-follower risk

High Data confidence

Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Engagement (~1.0% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
Verified account.
Established account (3+ years old).

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

Retired computer professional who wrote a book, takes pictures, studied #industrialdesign, thinks about the universe, and advocates for #Linux and #FOSS.

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