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496
Account age
3 yrs
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🧰 Free analysis for Gary Explains
📊 Post engagement
1
Avg engagement / post
0.2%
Engagement vs followers
Dec 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: SpaceXAI releases Grok Build as open source after major privacy · 2 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.93 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
55×
Follows 9 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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OpenAI has published a blog post about how GPT-5.6 is being used to autonomously rewrite its own GPU kernels, the core code that executes the mathematical operations that make up the model: https://youtu.be/TRsuF95Boi4
OpenAI has admitted that its models caused an "unprecedented cyber incident" by breaking out of its sandbox so that it could hack "Hugging Face's production infrastructure to obtain test solutions directly from Hugging Face's production da…
The Linux file system Btrfs includes several cool features including snapshots. You can use snapshots as part of your backup strategy and when combined with RAID then you are on the right path to fully protecting your data: https://youtu.b…
Grok Build has been shown to package an entire repository (including files it was told not to open and secrets deleted from history) and upload it to xAI's private Google Cloud Storage: https://youtu.be/5BxeibacXRo
The /etc/machine-id file contains the unique machine ID of the local system that is set during installation or boot. The machine ID is usually generated from a random source during system installation and stays constant for all subsequent …
PSA: All the Linux users ranting and raving about the Windows Globally Unique Identifier (GDID), go look in /etc/machine-id and tell me what you find. Also check out my script that shows you lots of globally unique data from your machine:…
Microsoft has built Rowhammer protection directly into the Azure Cobalt 200's memory controller: https://youtu.be/hmixqc9H8QY
I hope to make a video about this soon... I got a sequence in the OEIS https://oeis.org/A396572 - Number of distinct states before repetition for a circular array of n distinct elements under repeated adjacent XOR operations. 🤓
Is NVIDIA is trying to kill Intel and AMD for PCs and laptops? NVIDIA has launched new processors for Windows on Arm: https://youtu.be/aJ-KeXihFTY
If you run a local LLM there are some interesting parameters that control creativity and craziness! In this video, I explain the key parameters that control how local large language models generate text, including temperature, top-k, top-p…
This is the video https://youtu.be/Akj8lNcPYsk It is just 1 minute and 6 seconds long. 😂
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
hachyderm.io
A tech & engineering server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
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 1 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.9× 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 (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
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