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
@NebbyBeulah At the moment I'm relying on patterns I find online, and I've had mixed results so far. I did find some knitting machine pattern books for sale online (most are from the 1980s and 1990s) and am hoping someone gets me one for Christmas.
When I become more experienced, there are explanations for how to adapt traditional knitting patterns to machine knitting that I hope to be able to use.
@NebbyBeulah Yes although I haven't set it up yet. I just got this machine a couple months ago (free from Craigslist) and I'm still learning how to use it.
Now that I set up my knitting machine semi-permanently in my office, the room has become a nice shapshot of my interests, from computers to 3D printing to antique calculators. #knitting #machineknitting #3Dprinting #antiques #calculators #vintagecomputing
@wendynather There are plenty high follower accounts I don't follow because they post and boost so frequently that it would fill up my timeline, so having someone else I do follow boost important posts those accounts make *would* help in my use case.
I just wish Mastodon only showed boosted posts once instead of each time someone new you follow boosts the same post.
Kyle Rankin
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It's time to formally introduce myself here! Hi, I'm Rachel Tobac 🤖🤟 I'm a hacker and the CEO of SocialProof Security. We help orgs mitigate human-based cybersecurity threats with training, talks, videos, demos, workshops & pentests.
You'll see me talk about human-based hacking, up to date social engineering tactics in the news, the latest human factor security tips, tricks to catch cyber criminals, and more.
Fun facts:
- Used to perform improv (and before that, musical theater) before I got into hacking. Improv is super helpful in my human-based hacks and musical theater is helpful for my shanties.
- I got 2nd place in the social engineering contest at DEF CON three years in a row. Consistency is key lmao
- My degree is in Neuroscience. I focused on Behavioral Neuroscience and worked on rats in college -- yes, I successfully kept every rat subject alive during brain surgery!
- I have the cutest rescue dog named Snugs, I'm sure you'll see me post pictures of him here.
- My career path was super non linear: Neuroscience and Behavioral Psychology degree > Teaching > Community Management > UX Research Lead > Hacker > CEO. I love to hear about other non linear career paths.
I put the knitting machine away when tidying up the other day, and I now have the supplies to either start work on the fourth (and final?) knitted hat, OR I could weave myself a scarf based on my last black scarf pattern. Since everything is put away it is equally convenient to start either project.
Now I have to decide, knitting or weaving? #knitting #machineknitting #weaving
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Just before the invasion, #Ukraine made a deal with #Amazon #AWS to create a data warehouse for its government information and infrastructure: tax and property records, bank statements, and the like. Things that an invaded and occupied Ukraine might lose if Russia got their hands on the only copies.
They literally snuck Pelican crates full of SSDs into the country and spirited them back offshore after backing up 10 petabytes of important historic and legal records.
This paragraph, second from the end, really put a fine point on why Amazon did this: They were not beholden to, nor being held hostage by, any Russian operations...because they never had any:
Amazon didn’t have to worry about its relationship with Russia on the Snowball project. It doesn’t have one. “We didn’t have anything to turn off there,” Maxwell said. “We had never invested there. It’s a point of principle.”
Truly an amazing story from the #LATimes.
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-12-15/amazon-ukraine-war-cloud-data
@AnneTM I don't see how she couldn't love it, unless she doesn't like purple :)
@AnneTM Very nice!
@vancha Thank you!
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I often use the same key combos in the terminal so I added a (configurable) shortcut bar on top of #phosh osk-stub's (pretty basic) terminal layout. Let' see how this works out.
#librem5 #linuxmobile #mobilelinux #gtk
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Third hat is (almost) the charm! The fit around my head is just about perfect this time. The hat is slightly too long but other than that and a little sloppiness in parts of the seam I am pretty happy with it.
I am still going to make a fourth hat that is closer to perfect though. #knitting #machineknitting
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@shawnp0wers I thought you just copy and paste the joke from the docs, hit Enter, and wait...
@kristinHenry The book Jacquard's Web does a great job of talking about some of that history, and how the Jacquard loom ultimately inspired Babbage and Lovelace. Babbage apparently owned one of Jacquard's silk self-portraits.
@kop316 This looks pretty complete to me, and I think "Other Information" handles everything else someone might want.
Yesterday I learned that there is apparently a motorized attachment (knitking kg-93) for my knitting machine that automates most of the process. You set it up, tell it the number of rows, and it knits back and forth (slowly) leaving you with your knitted fabric. https://youtube.com/watch?v=0ejrLRcvYkE #knitting #machineknitting
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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
