🇨🇦 Left coast blue noser. IT nerd, retired NavComm and current #Infosec minion, dog dad, Freemason, unreliable narrator, Time Magazine Person of the Year 2006. I maintain massive filters because I don’t get my news from social media. #YCD #Linux #WSFFWS #DogsOfMastodon #NeverPoilievre

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I know. These ideas always sound perfectly reasonable.

2026-02-25 14:47:45 UTC

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This idea is feels like the beginnings of algorithmic social media utilizing the tyranny of the defaults as its deployment mechanism.

2026-02-22 22:21:58 UTC

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It’s not _that_ weird. Dumpy won the popular vote this time around so I feel it’s entirely expected to run across more supporters than not.
Also that’s one of the many reasons that I have extensive filters blocking political stuff. There’s zero good coming from political stuff on social media.

2025-12-27 06:50:38 UTC

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True but I’m incredibly and annoyingly pedantic.

2025-12-25 23:23:06 UTC

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Technically there’s four ghosts.

2025-12-11 01:25:08 UTC

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I came here to say something similar. I run GrapheneOS. I have been a Linux sys admin for decades. I've worked in infosec for close to 10 years now. And I only mention all that to give background when I say that this account is angry all the time. It has a bad vibe.
I second hiring a social media person.
/unsolicited opinion.

2025-12-09 00:22:10 UTC

I have been thinking about it for a while, and I finally did it. I added mastodon.social to my block list. There's another big instance that is headed that way, too.
Honestly, I cannot handle social media. This is the only social media I use and I am only able to do so because of Mastodon's incredibly extensive filter system. I really appreciate the work that goes into that.

2025-11-24 23:35:41 UTC

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sadly math actually has proofs where shell code is mostly developer preference 🥺

2025-10-29 18:22:25 UTC

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none of my options blamed the intern.

2025-10-29 18:00:03 UTC

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missing from the text is whether there's an approval pipeline or not. If not, then yes. If so, it doesn't seem like the intern's fault.

2025-10-29 17:55:24 UTC

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this implies that there was an intern allowed to push to prod. 🥺

2025-10-25 15:45:48 UTC

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I run honeypots that harvest credentials from bad guys and can confirm they have all the users/passes they need. But I'm not sure using stolen tokens instead meets the threshold for "terrifying"

2025-07-26 21:55:02 UTC

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I see now that they're just our of order. Notifications for 8 days ago are showing at the top and ones from today and yesterday are below them. Not sure why as they don't appear to be edits. Meh. 🤷‍♂️

2025-07-26 21:15:35 UTC

All my notifications from 7 days ago are gone. Anyone else?
#CoSocialCa