Robert [KJ5ELX] 

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I'm a cybersecurity professional, licensed amateur radio operator, and tech enthusiast. I also make music and burn my fingers with soldering irons.

Sigint and technical rabbit holes turn me on.

I usually follow back if I see proof of life. :)

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A 75-cent mistake put him on the trail of a German hacker

Though his vocation was astronomy, Clifford Stollโ€™s knowledge of computer systems was what paid the bills when he took a job as a system administrator at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. It was a $0.75 discrepancy in one of the accounting logs at the lab, though, that set

When The Going Gets Weird

Today's co-working status.

#CatsOfMastodon #FediCats #Cats

So I just purchsed some new LED bulbs for the house and I gotta say, I'm impressed. I purchased a set of off-brand Chinese G25 LED bulbs for the bathroom back in 2017. Out of the 12 I installed, only one has gone bad. The other 11 are still chugging along after 9 years of daily usage.

Contrast that to name brand bulbs from Phillips, GE, etc, and their horrible lifespans.

China makes quality stuff, don't let past experience stand in the way of discovering this.

#china #manufacturing #quality

Good morning. As we head into this weekend where the Strait of Hormuz is being re-opened and it looks like Emperor Micropenis is going to take a victory lap, remember the following:

NEVER STOP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES!!!

#epstein #trump #fucktrump #oligarchy

Attention-seeking 'manosphere' influencer Sneako thrown to ground by stranger during livestream in NYC

Moments before the unidentified man slugged the contested influencer, Nicolas Kenn De Balinthazy was ranting about male masturbation โ€” which he asserted warrants public execution.

New York Post

Do not underestimate our ability and willingness to go back to text terminals and kit computers. Keep fucking with us, forcing shit on us we don't want, and find out.

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Iโ€™m flirting with veganism again. I forgot how great these vegan breakfast loaded toasts that I made taste.

#vegan

Hey boys/men! Wear more pink!!

Have you seen this news?

#Mastodon just got funding to add end to end encryption into their software.

So, some time next year, youโ€™ll be able to send truly private messages to the vast majority of the #Fediverse

Im so excited about this.

Because itโ€™s an open spec, this opens the doors for every Fediverse app to join the party.

Yesterday, this project was a proof of concept. Today, Mastodon has turned it into a stampede.

#E2EE

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/sovereign-tech-agency-funding/

Sovereign Tech Agency funding

Announcing a service agreement for new work to improve Mastodon and the broader ecosystem.

Mastodon Blog
I gotta admit, the idea of cybersecurity practice as mutual aid is a very tantalizing idea of how to spend my free time.