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Followers
835
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
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🧰 Free analysis for Thomas A. Fine :verified:
📊 Post engagement
1
Avg engagement / post
0.1%
Engagement vs followers
Oct 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Can someone tell me why the Linux community is so opposed to con · 2 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.61 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
12×
Follows 71 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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Can anyone explain why the security people have recommended such an extremely dangerous exploit script to test for the copyfail vulnerability? And why they haven't developed and promoted a much more benign exploit?
Seems like the height o…
How is browser-enforced and CA-enforced shortened certificate lifespans not anti-competitive corporate collusion?
(By which I mean, technical service problems like timeouts. Not philosophical problems.)
Anybody else having problems with BlueSky?
I have a theory that being a too-many-tabs person correlates strongly with how many captchas you see. So if you have 300 tabs open, and then you need to restart your browser and recover your tabs, your computer is hitting a whole bunch o…
If the first answer to any problem on a Linux system is "oh just update all the packages again" that is evidence of a broken and fragile package management system.
My experience (at home) with Manjaro so far has been absolutely terrible co…
What's your favorite FIrefox and Chrome extensions for putting back traditional Unix/X11 editing keys?
The specific behaviors I rely on are:
Ctrl-A: beginning of line [HAS CHANGED]
Ctrl-E: end of line
Ctrl-K: kill to end of line [HAS CHANG…
I mean on the plus side (for someone), this will turn into an outsourced subscription thing that will make some people a bunch more money than doing it the old way.
Can anyone explain to me like I'm 5 how shorter, automated certificates are an improvement in security, rather than an increased risk?
Seems as stupid as password aging, but worse, because encouraging automation is encouraging the creation…
It would be hilarious if somebody hacked the Kennedy Center website to rebrand it as the Trump/Epstein Center.
Firefox is jumping the shark with this AI thing. A web browser helps you browse the web. it doesn't steal and summarize web content in order to prevent you from visiting web sites.
I think it's barely less disgusting than the blockchain …
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
social.linux.pizza
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
✅ 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
Oct 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 0.6× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
52/100
Fair
Credibility score
76%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 76% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.1% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Twitter: @
Substack: https://thomasafine.substack.com
Job sysadmin, dev, security
Expertise graphics, protocols, UX
Hobbies bike, astro, history, tuba
Politics insurrections are bad
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