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@infosec Oh someone beat me to it! Snap! 😜​

@infosec Oh someone beat me to it! Snap! 😜​

Well here goes: @infosec should spin one up

Well here goes: @infosec should spin one up

Maybe it's too late. Status: requesting archive...1 hour later: requesting archive...

Maybe it's too late.
Status: requesting archive...
1 hour later: requesting archive...

Saw someone post that #Mastodon was not a replacement for the #birdsite. Complaints followed in the replies. e.g. "it's not easy...

Saw someone post that #Mastodon was not a replacement for the #birdsite. Complaints followed in the replies. e.g. "it's not easy enough for me" "I don't know which one to pick?" "I can't just sign up and hear from everyone everywhere at once??" #twittermigration Somehow this felt like a fairly decent analogy. Perhaps a better analogy would have been rescue ships offering refuge. Content warning? Sinking ship? *dunno*

@timhutton thank you! https://github.com/timhutton/twitter-archive-parser

@timhutton thank you! https://github.com/timhutton/twitter-archive-parser

#infosec #Android #root Preference?rootno root

#infosec #Android #root
Preference?

root
no root

Do animated #GIFs as profile images cause any extra load on Mastodon?

Do animated #GIFs as profile images cause any extra load on Mastodon?

never mind. *tumbleweeds roll past...*

never mind. *tumbleweeds roll past...*

Yes, the misinformation on the birdsite regarding Mastodon, it's irritating, but I think it's becoming more evident because of the...

Yes, the misinformation on the birdsite regarding Mastodon, it's irritating, but I think it's becoming more evident because of the increased attention, that the sense made by statement "Mastodon people are (insert complaint here)" === sense of saying "Internet users are (same complaint)". I know enough about Mastodon to feel I can safely say that with little fear of contradiction.

At the same time realizing 25 years ago, saying "internet users are (insert oddity here)" might have held some water, but we didn't care, we knew it was the future 😂

That was fun 😂 https://redactle-unlimited.com/en#Q5322

That was fun 😂 https://redactle-unlimited.com/en#Q5322

Well, here goes: #introduction It started with Apple IIs and Oregon Trail in the late 80s, and in middle school they had a lab full of them...

Well, here goes: #introduction

It started with Apple IIs and Oregon Trail in the late 80s, and in middle school they had a lab full of them and we drew stuff with LOGO and saved our work on the old 5 inch floppies. Was addicted to Hover when it came out. Finally we had a family computer and got dialup, and I was home alone when I experienced my first malware infection, and not wanting to get in trouble, I learned really fast what the command line and the registry were, and I had it all cleaned up with no trace by the time anyone else got home. I'd spend hours tinkering with this or that, or fixing things that went wrong.

Discovered AI/chatbots and built a couple using the Personality Forge, and for a while they were the most advanced chatbots on the site. I'd work on their programming with a Palm IIIe and a folding keyboard, while away from my desk, and then I'd 'hotsync' my notes and upload changes via dialup, those were the days! "Get off the computer I need to make a phone call" lol

My interests were anything tech. It went from being an interest to being a professional endeavor when I started doing flash dev and website work for a travel directory site in PV, Mexico, while I was living there, and when I returned to the states I worked for a small ISP doing #WIMAX installs using Motorola Canopy gear, along with whatever malware removal, hardware fixes, repairs, reinstalls, whatever, all manner of PC stuff.

Moved to TX, worked for another ISP down there doing the same thing, involved using slightly older tech gear, and this was around the time malware infections were starting to really plague even smaller businesses, and I started to focus on #infosec and #security, and then they bought a webhosting company and I switched back to website work, updating sites that had been built using... html tables and sketchy code that was often missing tags. Wrote repair articles for #Technibble for a while, then started out on my own, specializing in anything tech, from #networking #troubleshooting #ComputerRepair #programming small stuff using batch scripts, #AutoIT, (am I supposed to tag this stuff? I'm new to this here) and started up my own #webhosting company where I could pick and choose what platforms to use, free reign to give customers the best bang for their buck, and #WordPress was simple enough to get them into, make something that fit the need, and then hand the reins over to them for most of the content changes in the future unless something went terribly wrong.

Worked in retail electronics and got some experience with mobile tech, helped customers with analog phones transfer their stuff to new phones, activation, etc, meanwhile discovering Android, which led to #root discovery and fascination with #CustomRom stuff, which led to #AppDev for a customer using Android and iOS, but I only dabble in that sector.

Returned to WA and helped with a non-tech family business, but the lack of a #CRM that did what I wanted led me to build custom functionality onto an existing CRM using the ol' #php, and then built a custom #IoT system using #micropython for a customer, #ESP32 (love these things) etc, and then the pandemic happened and I went straight into #python and wanted to use #django but the workflow wasn't to my liking, so I took a step back and followed a friend's advice to get more into #javascript which I'm absolutely loving, with a focus on #NodeJS.

My main line of work at the moment is something I'd probably have to add a disclaimer for, so instead I'll just say that it's really fun and keeps me active, and involves tech to a degree, possibly primarily because I prefer to leverage tech solutions wherever possible to save time, money, and 'decision fatigue' to spend that instead on refreshing old skills and learning new ones.

I type really fast, which unfortunately leads to me writing entire novels inside emails (heh) and I also forget a lot of the stuff I've done because I switch focus depending on what solutions are needed, so for a TL;DR:

I'm a nerd who loves anything even lightly tech or security related, sort of a jack of all trades #technologist: If someone has a problem or a tech need, I either find an affordable/free solution or build it. If I need to learn it to build it, no worries, just adds a little time to the project.

I love this #Mastodon thing and look forward to all the awesome stuff I've been seeing here, wishing I had more to share in return. Thank you @jerry!

I'm sorry I haven't worked up to tooting a little intro. I have difficulty condensing topics down to a size that doesn't require a TL;DR...

I'm sorry I haven't worked up to tooting a little intro. I have difficulty condensing topics down to a size that doesn't require a TL;DR summary. Maybe I can try this week.

I this, this is what the birdapp should have aspired to be.

I this, this is what the birdapp should have aspired to be.