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48
Account age
2 yrs
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Known for
6 views
Photo post
1 views
THIS is the appropriate distance…
(Actually, it's still a little short, the moon would have to be on my front porch.)
1 views
Recently received an old light-up globe that happens to be the perfect scale for our light-up moon. (18" to our 4.5" moon, near-perfectly matching the real Earth-moon size ratio.)
But… What is the appropriate distance at this scale? It isn't this.
📊 Post engagement
2
Avg engagement / post
4.2%
Engagement vs followers
Feb 2024
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Photo post · 6 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.27 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 7 text · 4 image · 1 video.
Follower / following
1×
Follows 50 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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The bar is so low now, that SCOTUS having a couple "well duh, of course they overturned Trump's overreach" are seen as huge wins. The mere fact that people thought those cases were even possibly going to go for Trump is such a sad state of…
Person on Zoom call, it may be time to retire that T-shirt. It absolutely looked like it said something else when just a thumbnail with the bottom word cut off…
CW: Text that is easily misread as a slur.
Microsoft just announced an Nvidia ARM-powered Surface device.
I managed to get my hands on one, and it’s not that impressive…
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THIS is the appropriate distance…
(Actually, it's still a little short, the moon would have to be on my front porch.)
Recently received an old light-up globe that happens to be the perfect scale for our light-up moon. (18" to our 4.5" moon, near-perfectly matching the real Earth-moon size ratio.)
But… What is the appropriate distance at this scale? It isn…
“Microsoft uh-zhur? aah-shure?”
“Microsoft Blue”
“No, wait, not Microsoft Blew, Microsoft Blows.”
LOL. An article about something Shakespeare-related has this in the middle of the article:
"Shakespeare was a poet, playwright, and actor born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon and his plays are still performed all over the world."
In good news, I'm returning to the land of the employed - for my prior employer Horizon3.ai. Under a different manager in a different team, with a new title, but doing basically the same work I had been originally hired for.
Because over 1…
Anyone in the Portland metro area own a Tesla and willing to come over to my house and test a home wall charger for me? (I'm beta testing an EVSE for a company, and my Tesla has problems with it, but not with my other EVSE, and my non-Tesl…
Okay, third party accessory makers, give me an iPhone Air battery case that makes the total thickness the same as the camera bump uniformly across the entire back. So instead of "ultra-thin over most of it, with an even more obvious camera…
Gotta catch 'em all.
https://www.credly.com/users/ed-hurtley/badges#credly
Person on Zoom call, it may be time to retire that T-shirt. It absolutely looked like it said something else when just a thumbnail with the bottom word cut off…
CW: Text that is easily misread as a slur.
Microsoft just announced an Nvidia ARM-powered Surface device.
I managed to get my hands on one, and it’s not that impressive…
▶
THIS is the appropriate distance…
(Actually, it's still a little short, the moon would have to be on my front porch.)
Recently received an old light-up globe that happens to be the perfect scale for our light-up moon. (18" to our 4.5" moon, near-perfectly matching the real Earth-moon size ratio.)
But… What is the appropriate distance at this scale? It isn…
“Microsoft uh-zhur? aah-shure?”
“Microsoft Blue”
“No, wait, not Microsoft Blew, Microsoft Blows.”
LOL. An article about something Shakespeare-related has this in the middle of the article:
"Shakespeare was a poet, playwright, and actor born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon and his plays are still performed all over the world."
In good news, I'm returning to the land of the employed - for my prior employer Horizon3.ai. Under a different manager in a different team, with a new title, but doing basically the same work I had been originally hired for.
Because over 1…
Anyone in the Portland metro area own a Tesla and willing to come over to my house and test a home wall charger for me? (I'm beta testing an EVSE for a company, and my Tesla has problems with it, but not with my other EVSE, and my non-Tesl…
Okay, third party accessory makers, give me an iPhone Air battery case that makes the total thickness the same as the camera bump uniformly across the entire back. So instead of "ultra-thin over most of it, with an even more obvious camera…
Gotta catch 'em all.
https://www.credly.com/users/ed-hurtley/badges#credly
🐘 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.
✅ Link-verified
Verified link
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
Feb 2024
An established account with real history on the platform.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2024 — 2 years ago.
👁️Averages 2 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.3× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated79/100
Good
Credibility score
95%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
Medium
Data confidence
- Est. 95% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~4.2% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Verified account.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Information Security "Customer wrangler". I fight for the users!
Currently Sr. Dedicated Support Engineer @ Horizon3.ai
Previously Sr. Technical Account Manager @ Eclypsium
Collector of vintage computing devices and electric vehicles.
Zoom calls may be interrupted by floofy cat tail at any moment.
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