Show more

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
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.
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 's osk-stub and added a completer based on the library and trained it with a German text from @gutenberg_org and was surprised how well that works. 1/2

Twitter Layoffs 

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.

dcz_self.gitlab.io/posts/remot

*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.

We added a new option in called Restricted Boot that only boots self-signed kernels and distro-signed ISOs. I talk about how we approached this feature at length in this blog post: puri.sm/posts/introducing-pure

Time for an . I've been involved in and 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 , and freedom.

I've written a number of books (kylerank.in/writing.html) and was a long-time columnist for Linux Journal magazine.

I have many hobbies including , refurbishing mechanical , , , and many other things.

Is it weird that I don't know how to knit, but I want a machine (like a Brother KX-350, but a KH-930e would be cool too)?

How to do threads... 

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.

Tomorrow 11/2 at 11:30AM EDT: I'm joining a panel of experts in DPI (Digital Public Infrastructure) for some lively discussion around and frontiersdigitaldevforum.com/a

I have been using the curaslicer plugin in for years, making small tweaks when I moved to new printers. I just tried and saw a significant improvement in print quality just with the default Ender 5 profile.

A tip for those who haven't seen this yet. has its own "" system. Adding a link to your Mastodon profile from your website using the rel="me" attribute will that the owner of both the site and profile are the same, and you get this nifty green highlight to show it.

I saw this graph on HN and people are arguing about how they’ll need to get more familiar with low-level asm again. That’s not really the lesson I take. Seems like the real lesson is: get better at writing multi-threaded tasks and outsourcing work to other machines.

Btw. on #Mastodon you can edit your posts and as it is #FreeSoftware everyone can do that, no matter from which country.

I've noticed that the past few days I have been checking Mastodon first. The new influx of people and the increase in boosting from people I follow has made this timeline much more interesting!

Not a "social on phone" guy but making an exception as I warm up on Mastodon. The web app on Android with an installed bookmarklet / app works just fine, no need to find a dedicated app if you don't care to. Pro tip: the search bar is hiding under the Explore (#) menu.

The one tool that I missed the most when moving to a ⁨⁩ ⁨⁩ 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! ⁨

Show more
Librem Social

Librem Social is an opt-in public network. Messages are shared under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license terms. Policy.

Stay safe. Please abide by our code of conduct.

(Source code)

image/svg+xml Librem Chat image/svg+xml