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Followers
359
Account age
2 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$40 – $65 / sponsored post
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🧰 Free analysis for Paul Hoffman
📊 Post engagement
3
Avg engagement / post
0.8%
Engagement vs followers
Jul 2024
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: I'm happy to announce another RFC publication, but this time I d · 11 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
2.9 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1.5×
Follows 238 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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My middle-sized suitcase has a big blotch on it where I removed a sticker that was put there by a tour company. The only sticker of appropriate size that I have that would cover the blotch says "This machine kills fascists". I would be tem…
Saturday news from a friend (really: not me) that many of us nerds can relate to:
I'm that guy who thinks vacation time suggests tackling long overdue projects around the house and there's been a whole lot of that including dragging some n…
I am never sure how to feel about a major WordPress hoster who badly screws up the site I manage at least yearly, but their tech support is excellent and thoughtful and explains the problem they created.
https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/07/stop-previews-from-autoplaying-on-apple-tv/ deserved a Pulitzer Prize. The URL says it all.
A final follow-up based on what @kasperd pointed me to: I'm giving up on passwords for the novice user. I'll create a keypair for them, I'll wrap it in a password (the same one I was going to have them use to SSH in), and then I have to ex…
Here's a wonderful technical and financial analysis of SpaceX's valuation:
https://ispcol.potaroo.net/2026-06/spacex.html
"So how could a satellite-first radio-based service become the preferred access service in the densely populated loca…
Honest government ads and #palantir : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBW9QCVDSjY
This could turn into a trash fire, but I'll keep my fingers crossed.
I have a new VM that allows me to SSH to account "a" using a's public key just fine. I have created account "b" for someone who is unlikely to be able to use public keys …
I'm looking for a "bookmark review system". I am forced to live in Chrome for my work, and the bookmark manager in Chrome is bare-bones. A few times a year, I want to dump all the bookmarks (including the hierarchy I have created), scan th…
Ooooh, and further down my timeline, @sophieschmieg has her own take! https://keymaterial.net/2026/06/18/on-hybrid-signatures/
Thinking through hybrid signature schemes, and not shying away from dismissing some answers and not helpful: https://bas.westerbaan.name/notes/2026/06/17/hybrid.html
🐘 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.
On Mastodon since
Jul 2024
An established account with real history on the platform.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2024 — 2 years ago.
👁️Averages 3 views per post.
📤Posts about 2.9× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated61/100
Fair
Credibility score
84%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 84% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.8% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Old Skool Internet geek, particularly DNS. I have worked at ICANN since 2015. Pronouns: us/y’all.
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