Just an old geek. Learned about computers on a CARDIAC (CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation). Then the math teacher at HS got an old Navy surplus computer with drum memory. It had a high speed optical paper tape reader. From there it was BASIC, Cobol, FORTRAN, CMS-2Y, Jovial, Ada. Did some Java and C but never got that good. In retirement learning Rust.
Note: the main picture is from the B-24 my father was co-pilot on in the South Pacific
"There is no sanctum or honor among technophiles."
Creator of the Wyng backup system. Lifelong student of the personal computing condition (and human one as well).
#wyng #infosec #pcs #containers #vm #hypervisor #microkernel #backups #storage #linux #qubes #python #foss #oshw
Old Geek. Hacking for a Half Century. My Header is an image of a Black Hole without an accretion disk. May be cryptic. May wax philosophical. Big Bang is illusion.
If you are wondering if I might want to argue with you, odds are I do not. “[Gave] in to the easy path of sin and accessibility.” Blake (me) is a disabled manager of site reliability and application operations, and is trying to figure out his (my) new life. Ventura County, California
Middle aged (hopefully) tinkerer./ Focusing on infrastructure, software, and infosec automation and efficiencies. Constantly on the look out for the next thing that captures my attention.
Can sometimes be found in a van roaming National Parks.
All opinions and views expressed are my own.
Proud trans girl 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | girl's girl | Polyglot coder | Anime & manga | Into infosec, privacy, trans rights & cryptography | Neurodivergent | Electronic, metal, K/J-pop | Follow reqs welcome with real profiles & thoughtful posts. No bots/automation.
Avatar: Smiling anime-style blonde girl winking, with a bright blue eye, wearing a blue hooded cap and jacket over a white top and black skirt, on a plain light background.
Sporadic poster of funny things, bastion of obscure knowledge. Day job in #antispam & #cybersecurity. "AI" destroys education, trashes the environment, and depends on slavery. My posts are a blur of humor, nerdy tech news, and politics (which use #uspol so you can filter them out).
Support freedom for 🎙️✊🏿🇺🇦🇵🇸🍉🇬🇱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️♀️
he/they
Currently living in NYC 🇺🇸
I work at @TalosSecurity but my posts only represent myself (and occasionally your mom).
#fedi22 searchable
(Note: I have since moved to @adambyte.)
Canadian | he/him
Went to college for software development.
Fan of: science, music, video games, libre software, urban planning.
I picked this instance because A) it runs the Glitch fork of Mastodon, B) its main discussion topic is a big interest of mine, and C) its transport security gets a double A+ on https://instances.social/list/advanced.
Avatar description: in a minimalist cartoony style, a young White man faces directly into the camera. He has orange/light-brown hair, and his eyes are obscured by glasses with round lenses and blue frames. His mouth is hidden behind the blue laptop that he is using, on whose back is a large decal reading, "</>". This image was designed by Freepik on flaticon.com (this attribution is required by the image's license).
Linux Open Source News & Know-How, for Office & Privacy.
🐧🏴☠️ #PenguinRebellion | 🧠🫸✨ | 🌻🍉🟣
Profile picture: Chest and head part of a cartoon penguin, drawn in a very minimalistic fashion. The penguin is wearing glasses. It is shown from a frontal perspective, keeping direct eye contact.
Header picture: Close-up photo of the soft plumage of an emperor penguin. Dominant colors are shades of gray, black, and bright orange.
Posts licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)
#NoBot #NoBots #NoBridge #NoAI
Ceterum censeo machinas vaniloquas esse delendas.
Teaching was my first love. Packets were my second.
I make classes to teach people how to defend themselves against hackers. In my spare time, I teach college students to compete in cybersecurity competitions, or try to take back my home automation from the cloud.
he/him 🏳️🌈 ❤️💜💙
(Profile banner is a sunset sky from underneath a bridge with kayakers and the edge of the Austin city skyline)
Providing random thoughts on the current scene.
SW craftsperson & technology enthusiast, emphasis on security #SpielerischeSicherheit.
Co-organiser of Open Security Conference @OSCo
Private here. Working in the intersection of #informationSecurity, #ITSecurity, #OTSecurity, #SecureDevelopment, #ProductSecurity with a dose of #CriticalInfrastructure mixed in.
also at https://bookwyrm.social/user/realn2s
(working for @SMAsolar)
Opinions are my own, not my employer’s
#BLM #nonazis #NoAfD #IamAntifa
#TranRightsAreHumanRights
No #AltText no boost
I am Director of System Architecture at SCI Semiconductor and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. I remain actively involved in the #CHERI project, where I led the early language / compiler strand of the research, and am the maintainer of the #CHERIoT Platform.
I was on the FreeBSD Core Team for two terms, have been an LLVM developer since 2008, am the author of the GNUstep Objective-C runtime (libobjc2 and associated clang support), and am responsible for libcxxrt and the BSD-licensed device tree compiler.
Opinions expressed by me are not necessarily opinions. In all probability they are random ramblings and should be ignored. Failure to ignore may result in severe boredom and / or confusion. Shake well before opening. Keep refrigerated.
Warning: May contain greater than the recommended daily allowance of sarcasm.
No license, implied or explicit, is granted to use any of my posts for training AI models.
cybersecurity researcher | independent #journalist | software developer | telephony engineer | #opensource contributor | #infosec researcher
Disclosures: https://govtech.cc
IDNs: Tester and collector of single-character domains. See: ꩰ.com, https://ဪ.com, https://የ.com, https://ㆲ.com, https://ㆴ.com
Verifibation™️: https://v.jeltz.org, free Mastodon verification system that allows any user to get a verified link in their profile - no setup/registration required.
Oink: https://oink.ing
Privacy advocate 〱 Malware analyst 〱 Cybersecurity
〰️ InfoSec 〰️ DFIR 〰️ CISSP 〰️ 黑客 〰️ Katzenmädchen
:ablobcatmaracasevil: ⁽ʰᵒᵖᵉ ʸᵒᵘ ˡⁱᵏᵉ ᶜᵒʳⁿʸ ʲᵒᵏᵉˢ ᵃⁿᵈ ᶜᵃᵗˢ⁾
【 Professional Computer Booper 】
Even my brain has certs (asd,adhd,...)
Gender: a threat model (they/them/idc)
🐆🐈🐯🐱😸😹😿😺😻😼😾🙀🦁🐈⬛🐾
#Android #AntiAI #BLM #CatSalad #CyberSecurity #Developer #DFIR #fedi22 #GAYINT #GenX #Hacker #InfoSec #Malware #NeverSlop #Privacy #Puns #Python #Security #tfr #Tor #TransRights #Unicode #Veilid #ಠ_ಠ #ʘ‿ʘ meow :3
❝The year 2022 never existed❞
https://justmytoots.com/@catsalad@infosec.exchange
🏅 2026 top menace of the Fediverse
Founder of Queercon, TeleChallenge, AwardCat
Writer at 2600, Tribe Of Hackers
Every day, my life continues to amaze me.
我是同性恋# 🏳️🌈
Opinions are my own.
Tinkerer | Solarpunk | Hacker ☸️ Buddhist ☸️ Profile Pic: @PixelOccult
I am eminently qualified to speak from experience about a variety of dumpster fires.
ICS cybersecurity person, @pancakescon organizer, martial artist, marksman, humanist, level 14 Neutral Good rogue, USAF retired. Speaker available for gigs.
Gin connoisseur. Rodent parent. Some dipshit from Chicago. Now an immigrant in Melbourne.
I post *very serious* things about infosec. Thoughts are entirely my own.
'they/them' 🏳️🌈 :nonbinary_flag: :asexual_flag:
Reporter covering security at Ars Technica. DM me on Signal: DanArs.82.
