Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one
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Technical author, FOSS advocate, public speaker, Linux security & infrastructure geek, author of The Best of Hack and /: Linux Admin Crash Course, Linux Hardening in Hostile Networks and many other books, ex-Linux Journal columnist.
Joined Apr 2019
@fssofdeath @purism @todd Thank you!
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Hope this ends up being like infosec Twitter used to be a few years ago. Thanks to Elon Musk for giving me the push to give it a try.
@matthew_d_green While there have certainly been other periods in the past where people have made the exodus to Mastodon, this time feels different.
@Wildbill @katherined @hehemrin IIRC we just did it over IRC (ironic considering the subject of the article) so I probably have logs.
Also don't forget my follow-up article the next month (also 13 years old!) where I start using Twitter once I found an IRC gateway:
https://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine/hack-and-what-really-ircs-me-twitter
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Tune in to our new Episode 109: From Twitter to the Fediverse with Mastodon! @katherined talks to Shawn Powers and @kyle about moving from #Twitter to the #Fediverse using #Mastodon, including how to choose a server and find your niche.
Visit the following link for full episode - https://www.reality2cast.com/109
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Okay, it's time to tell new users a secret about Mastodon.
Mastodon is (whispers) part of a much bigger network 😮
Mastodon servers use an open standard called ActivityPub to talk to each other. That's how you interact with people on other Mastodon servers.
But, dozens of other federated networks also use ActivityPub, so (this is the good bit!) you can follow people on these other networks from your Mastodon account!
For example:
PixelFed (https://pixelfed.org) is a photo sharing network, here's a random example account @Iancylkowski
PeerTube (https://joinpeertube.org) is a video sharing network, with a p2p system that allows videos to go viral even on small servers, here's a random account @craftykat
BookWyrm (https://joinbookwyrm.com) is a social reading site, an open alternative to Amazon's Goodreads, here's a random account @mouse
Together, Mastodon and these other services form... The Fediverse 
(whispers) Click on the link...
https://framatube.org/w/4294a720-f263-4ea4-9392-cf9cea4d5277
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@zwarf In general it's good practice to backup your GPG keys in offline storage so you can restore them, but even in the case you didn't, after 90 seconds this falls back to your regular disk unlock passphrase. That way you can select a much stronger passphrase that would otherwise be inconvenient to type each time you boot.
@Wildbill @katherined @hehemrin It's a classic.
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@kyle using the #Librem5 internal smartcard reader to unlock LUKS with #osk-sdl to type the #smartcard pin
In the pics you can see the in the output the public key used to encrypt the storage unit.
A Wilcox & Gibbs chainstitch machine in particular if you were wondering...
@Gargron Congratulations Eugen. I know you have put so much time and effort into this and I'm so happy to see this current wave.
@Wildbill @katherined @hehemrin I agree, network effect is the only thing holding it back and while I could be wrong, this time feels different from past exoduses. It could get past the tipping point.
@hehemrin Interesting! I will need to look into doing that too.
@Konqi Yes the very same! A number of Japanese companies that are now household names (like Sharp) seem to have been early in the electronic calculator market.
@hehemrin I saw a few comments in my timeline from folks advising new Mastodon users about features, and one included setting up a column that served as a custom timeline search for sets of hashtags reflecting your interests and realized more people likely use hashtags to find posts than I thought, simply because I didn't personal use hashtags this way.
@Wildbill Welcome back!
- Personal Site
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- https://kylerank.in/writing.html
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Technical author, FOSS advocate, public speaker, Linux security & infrastructure geek, author of The Best of Hack and /: Linux Admin Crash Course, Linux Hardening in Hostile Networks and many other books, ex-Linux Journal columnist.
Joined Apr 2019
