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
Kyle Rankin
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Alright, I should do an #introduction, since it appears that's the hip thing to do.
I'm Accidental CISO. My friends call me AC.
I started a Twitter account with this handle in January 2019 in a fit of panic after finding myself named as the CISO in a quite unceremonious fashion. At first it was simply an outlet for my anxiety and impostor syndrome. Then, I found my people and my purpose. Alt became main. Now, as the future of Twitter looks uncertain, I am here.
Although it may seem like it on the surface, I never joke. I also don't take myself too seriously, either. I'm here to build people up and help in any way I can.
I usually talk about #security, #tech, #leadership, #business, #mentalhealth, #adhd, and #burnout.
I recently launched a call-in radio style podcast called The Mindful Business Security Show to answer business leaders' questions about #cybersecurity
https://www.mindfulsmbshow.com
I also recently started a YouTube channel and a video series called Throttle Therapy, where I talk about burnout and mental health in the #infosec field.
https://www.youtube.com/@accidentalciso
@waldoj I had the same experience today! While I have been on here for years, now I find myself checking here before Twitter.
Kyle Rankin
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I keep seeing people saying that they can't figure out Mastodon, and I kinda wonder if some of that is that it *feels* weird that you don't already know who to follow. Starting from scratch is tough.
I had a bit of that myself, but once I had found a small "starter" group of people to follow who were using it, the joy of this kind of thing came back quickly.
Kyle Rankin
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I'm really good at making typos so I revisited the text-completion support in #phosh's osk-stub and added a completer based on the #presage library and trained it with a German text from @gutenberg_org and was surprised how well that works. 1/2
Twitter Layoffs
Kyle Rankin
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After another long #debugging session with the #librem5 , I decided to publish a comprehensive tutorial for remote graphical debugging with #QtCreator.
May you suffer less, compared to plain #GDB.
Kyle Rankin
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*New live hack demo video*
CNN’s Donie O'Sullivan asked me to hack him again at DEF CON
— hacked him last time through service provider call center attacks, but this time I intruded using the easiest method: reused passwords found in data breaches.
@racheltobac Welcome!
@jhamner There is a great technology museum in Paris that has a whole room devoted to the technology of weaving. It also has an original silk portrait of Jacquard he made on his invention and used for demos.
@jhamner Easiest way is to perform a search for a hashtag and then "Pin" it so it shows up as a column.
@jhamner Thank you! I haven't yet had the pleasure of working with any sort of Dobby or Jacquard loom yet, just my standard 4-harness Jack floor loom and my rigid heddle. One day when I have more space I'd love to have either a full-featured Glimakra draw loom or a Dobby so I can do more complex patterns.
Time for an #introduction. I've been involved in #FOSS and #Linux since the late `90s. My career started as a sysadmin, pivoting to security. I'm the President of @purism and work on hardware and software to protect #privacy, #security and freedom.
I've written a number of books (https://kylerank.in/writing.html) and was a long-time columnist for Linux Journal magazine.
I have many hobbies including #weaving, refurbishing mechanical #calculators, #3dprinting, #brewing, and many other things.
Is it weird that I don't know how to knit, but I want a #knitting machine (like a Brother KX-350, but a KH-930e would be cool too)?
Kyle Rankin
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@shawnp0wers And in the case of librem.one we even take it a step further and disable timelines so you only see content you explicitly opt into, and DMs because they aren't private. It's a pretty controversial stance in this community and you definitely trade off some positive benefits to avoid the negative. I guess in our case folks who don't care for our approach have plenty of alternative instances they can join.
@shawnp0wers There are certainly a number of features that are intentionally missing because even though they can have a legitimate positive use, the feeling is that the risk and likelihood of negative use is higher. Same goes for instantly viewing # of likes/boosts on a post in the timeline. It is considered to encourage negative social behavior.
Kyle Rankin
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Hi and welcome! 👋
I'm Gina aka foosel. I'm a nerd, full-time open source maintainer and creator of OctoPrint ("the snappy web interface for your 3d printer"), and in my free time I also happen to game (video games and boardgames), bake bread (since before the pandemic even!) or go bouldering.
@crashbox @shawnp0wers I like them quite a bit. The charging speeds are particularly nice on both the ones I have--the Delta can pull a kW to charge at times which was handy when I had to recharge it at a campground bathroom! I don't know what that does to longevity though.
- Personal Site
- https://kylerank.in
- Personal Bibliography
- https://kylerank.in/writing.html
Admin
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
