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Followers
517
Account age
8 yrs

📊 Post engagement

4
Avg engagement / post
0.8%
Engagement vs followers
Oct 2017
On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: Masto feature request: When you subscribe to a hashtag, filter o · 10 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
1.5 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
2.5×
Follows 210 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post Masto feature request: When you subscribe to a hashtag, filter out any matching posts that have more than (say) 10 hashtags. Because those are probably junk. ★ 10
Someone put a broken Zen clock out on the curb, and I'm pretty sure I can fix it wit some glue. (The solenoid broke off, probably due to the clock falling off something.) But I don't love the idea of having to deal with batteries. It takes… For my dream renter-solar setup, what I'm picturing is one of those big Anker or Jackery power packs, an inverter, and a panel or two. Probably 1-2 portable panels I could hang outside in all weather (-20°C to 45°C). We have a south-facing… ★ 1 I'd love to get into home #solar and batteries, but I rent, so we can't modify the breaker box, roof, etc. Our heat is a gas furnace with hardwired power, which means when the power goes out we also lose heat. (It might even be against cod… ★ 2 Looks like Grid (https://mygrid.app/) is a pretty good candidate for a privacy-respecting location sharing app. Claims E2E-encryption, open source, minimal data collection (passkeys rather than email signin, own tileset rather than Google)… ★ 4 Any recommendations on an encrypted location-sharing app for smartphone? I'm looking for an app appropriate for someone to track the smartphone of a child or an adult in cognitive decline (with their consent!) but that doesn't leak geoloca… ★ 5 Other people: "Looks simple enough, let's play!" Me: [staring into space, trying to visualize a 29-dimensional hypercube] ★ 3 RE: https://infosec.exchange/@sophieschmieg/116770216628493703 Great piece on hybrid classical/quantum-safe *signatures*—why they're harder than you'd think to get right, and also less useful than you'd think. Not much cryptography backgro… ★ 3 Dammit, I just realized that this card game is based on a clever math or information theory observation, and now I need to reverse engineer it to figure out how it works. ("What if you just played the g--" NO. Gotta understand it.) ★ 3 I wonder if we'll see any lawsuits by investors regarding profligate waste of company resources on LLMs (reducing profitability and stock value). ★ 3 I just overheard a conversation among some devs at a company affected by GitHub's Copilot billing change. Paraphrased: "Hmm, maybe we shouldn't be trying to use AI for everything, and just for the things where it has a lot of benefit?" Inc… ★ 7 How are y'all handling coworkers who post slop? Several of our contractors have made rather voluminous wiki pages that are heavily redundant and over-explanatory. So far my approach has been to just... quietly not read them, and pretend th… ★ 1

🐘 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
Oct 2017
An OG fediverse account from Mastodon's early years — a long, established presence.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2017 — 8 years ago.
👁️Averages 4 views per post.
📤Posts about 1.5× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

66/100 Good
  • Est. 89% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Engagement (~0.8% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
  • Established account (8+ years old).
Est. authentic audience
89%
Fake-follower risk
Low
Data confidence
High

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

Boston-area meat construct ␥ I just do what the plants tell me ␥ I'd rather be undermining the client-server paradigm This is the more tech-y alt of https://cybersecurity.theater/@varx #nobot

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