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Followers
440
Account age
3 yrs
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📊 Post engagement
2
Avg engagement / post
0.5%
Engagement vs followers
Dec 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: There is a good reason to use AES-256 instead of AES-128, whenev · 4 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.92 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
3.3×
Follows 133 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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Just got back from the butcher shop. The butcher said he’s not interested in doing business with me and I shouldn’t come back. What a great day!
I read that the trend is for men’s shorts to keep getting shorter. I decided I needed to raise my tan lines accordingly. Unfortunately, I fell asleep at the beach and now I have a sunburn. Been off the court for multiple days now.
Other th…
Imagine that X25519, ChaCha, and Poly1305 hadn’t been developed and standardized during the 2010s.
Would they get standardized if the effort started today? (Ignore politics and mailing list etiquette.)
Would the TLS adoption curve have h…
With X25519MLKEM, we are concerned that MLKEM might be broken *xor* that a quantum computer might break X25519. But, we’re not concerned about the case where MLKEM is broken *and* a quantum computer breaks X25519?
What’s the best write-up…
Of course one could/should “just” use something like Nix or Bazel or Buck2. But that rarely gets accepted as a solution, especially early on.
Anyway, whoever updates the scripts has to update the hashes for the integrity checks. This basically becomes a TOFU authentication system, at best. Sometimes they just copy the hashes from the most convenient place they can find some.
It …
Usually when I join a project I put in some effort to automate the installation of the development tools being used, including authenticating whatever is downloaded before it is installed. This also establishes a baseline of what’s support…
A nice proposal for reducing the attack surface of the Lean VSCode extension, eliminating unmaintained dependencies and separating the parts that download/install executables from the core functionality: https://github.com/leanprover/vscod…
The Apple container tool, on the main branch as of yesterday, will verify the SHA-256 of the kernel image it downloads, before using it. https://github.com/apple/container/issues/1687
It seems I guessed wrongly. There is a small optimization that is curve-specific, but we do that even in classical implementations. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.02235 shows the curve-specific optimization isn’t a huge factor.
Interesting clip from my long-ago boss on how Linkerd went from the edge of bankruptcy to profitability with a simple change to their open-source vs. paid maintenance model. Basically, pay-for-stability replaced stability-for-free, not unl…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
indieweb.social
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
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 2 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.9× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
66/100
Good
Credibility score
89%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 89% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.5% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
https://briansmith.org. @BRIAN_____ on Twitter.
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