#Introduction time!
My name is dos; some call me Sebastian. I made dozens of small silly video #games and some slightly less small ones too. I'm one half of @holypangolin studio. Sometimes I pretend to be a musician, but don't get fooled. I'm also a living encyclopedia on a Polish rock band "Perfect". Trams are cooler than trains. The more caramel, the better. I've been using GNU/#Linux on #mobile phones for ages, which led me to work with @purism on the Librem 5. btw I use Arch, but I ❤️ Debian!
In the physical world I've seen a large influx of folks moving to my town over the past few years and it definitely has had a number of negative impacts (along with some positive) as town infrastructure tries to keep up with the growth and change in culture. Metering growth based on the speed you can manage it makes sense.
As more people join the #Fediverse, some instances will likely need to pause new registrations while they allow their existing community to absorb new members. This is a *good* thing and no different from towns limiting new housing developments based on what town infrastructure can handle. The town/city governance metaphor applies pretty well to the Fediverse in my opinion.
# Critiques on theories of cyber.
Any theory or framework of cyber conflict that is unable to incorporate the full range of offensive cyber actions is inherently flawed. Here are examples of cyber operations that meet any reasonable criteria for offensive cyber attacks.
- kpop vs ACAB
- Teens vs Trump (Tulsa, 2020)
- Lazarus vs Sony
- Belarusian cyber partisans vs. rail network
Many theories work poorly when forced to model these offensive cyber events. Like “cyber is an intelligence contest.” So explain the k-pop stans disabling police snitch apps for reporting BLM protestors by flooding them with loads of pictures of k-pop artists.
* a non state actor (just a community ot people)
* Attacking state security forces
* To support non state actors
* With the intent of causing political change
This breaks so many theories of cyber. They typically just ignore it instead, but you can’t. If for no other reason than this type of activity is will become more and more relevant as cyber infrastructure becomes increasingly embedded into society.
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
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.