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
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.
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
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.
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)?
Tomorrow 11/2 at 11:30AM EDT: I'm joining a panel of experts in DPI (Digital Public Infrastructure) for some lively discussion around #DPI and #opensource https://www.frontiersdigitaldevforum.com/agenda/are-we-building-a-dpi-dystopia
I have been using the curaslicer plugin in #Octoprint for years, making small tweaks when I moved to new printers. I just tried #PrusaSlicer and saw a significant improvement in print quality just with the default Ender 5 profile. #3dprinting
A tip for those who haven't seen this yet. #Mastodon has its own "#verification" system. Adding a link to your Mastodon profile from your website using the rel="me" attribute will #verify that the owner of both the site and profile are the same, and you get this nifty green highlight to show it.
Ok, hosting my own now. I’m at @shawnp0wers@nerdlings.net
Btw. on #Mastodon you can edit your posts and as it is #FreeSoftware everyone can do that, no matter from which country.
The one tool that I missed the most when moving to a #leatherman #skeletool years ago were scissors. I was inspired by a mod that attached Wave scissors to the caribiner end, but I moved it to replace the pocket clip. Works well so far!
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.