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Account age
3 yrs
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📊 Post engagement
2
Avg engagement / post
1.7%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric · 4 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.5 / 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×
Follows 117 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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Ken Thompson wrote in the original Reflections on Trusting Trust that he picked the C compiler but he could have picked any program-handling program.
This presents a proof-of-concept using the "strip" utility which does transforms directly…
Fil-C, the C tool-chain for full memory-safety, has a new release!
https://github.com/pizlonator/fil-c/releases/tag/v0.679
In the final end-of-game text, nethack 5 lists achievements of the run!
ssh nethack@alt.org
The NetHack DevTeam is announcing the release of NetHack 5.0.0 on May 2, 2026
https://www.nethack.org/v500/release.html
Yes! @powerprogress reports that Open Hardware PowerPC boards are ready for prototype production!
https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/2026/03/we-are-ready-for-prototype-production/
Back when I ran Cross Linux From Scratch as my main machine, I never got a Java environment running.
My friend @bneumeier worked out what was needed and how one could do it, but there were a lot of devils in a lot of details and I never fi…
Creating an issue in the repository to address an unfilled FOSS developer position seems like such an obvious idea, now that I've seen someone do it:
https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/164943
From:
https://www.sovereign.tech/news/2026-fellowship-applications-open
The Sovereign Tech Agency is continuing and expanding the Sovereign Tech Fellowship program. We invite open source maintainers, community managers, and technical write…
https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n3830.pdf
Pretty please!
https://nltimes.nl/2026/02/26/dutch-regulator-approves-digid-takeover-us-firm-despite-geopolitical-concerns
"The Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has approved the acquisition of Solvinity, the company managing DigiD, by U.S.…
And @ronnylam also pointed me to the sister article in The Correspondent... https://decorrespondent.nl/16752/de-correspondent-en-follow-the-money-gaan-samenwerken-om-onafhankelijker-te-worden-van-amerikaanse-big-tech/22ae026f-b3f1-050f-183…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
mas.to
A large general-interest Mastodon server. On the fediverse the server a creator picks hints at their community — this one spans all topics.
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 2 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.5× 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 (~1.7% 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
Free Software and Open Hardware hacker and do-it-from-scratch-er exploring a strange and wondrous universe.
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EstimatedEstimated shared audience with similar creators — useful for avoiding overlap (or doubling down) when planning a campaign.
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