Ben Virgilio

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I'm an Information Security Engineer in #nyc at a non-profit.

Always tinkering/learning/exploring.

Not keen on social media, but trying out this old elephant thing - so expect a lot of listening and lurking (and thanks for providing the content to do so)!

Hobbies include:
- pointless #python side projects
- #CTFs time permitting
- #space and #rockets
- #hiking, #outdoors, and #camping
- #travel and #aviation
- #cooking and #food

he/him

Websitehttps://nebriv.com
keyoxidehttps://keyoxide.org/hkp/contact%40nebriv.com

I am back to Mastodon!
After I ran my own instance for a while and then using threads for some bizarre reason, I am back to Nerdculture.de ♥️

But I lost all my old followers in the process (though I thought I did everything right). Well, this is a fresh start then!

I am Half Korean, Half German, based and born in Berlin, and I talk a lot about food. I work as a Technical Artist / 2D Animator.

You might see toots related to my array of hobbies like making music, crafting and painting miniatures, pen&paper and boardgames, video games...
And yes, also political posts.

Sometimes English, sometimes German and sometimes Korean.

Nice to meet you  

#intro #fediverse #welcome #introduction

Today's house is in Switzerland, and the surfaces would do a great job of hiding a mess.
(This was a follower submission but I forget who, so please let me know if it was you.)
https://www.propertyowner.ch/de/immobilien/25-20086/

As part of my MA I created a layered illustration which was placed into one of a series of a bird boxes that will be exhibited in libraries as part of Leeds Storytelling Festival!

Details of the exhibition and associated workshops here: https://leedsinspired.co.uk/events/little-birdy-told-me-look-out-stories-are-nesting

Libraries are great 🧡

#Leeds #Libraries #illustration #tunnelbook #paperengineering #3dart #redsquirrel #kidlitart #childrensillustration #storytelling

I've built a bunch of terminal tooling over the years but my most used by far is Dunk. It takes a diff from git and makes it pretty. I built it in a weekend years ago, and despite a bunch of minor issues, it does the job well.

I always felt like it could be more though. You can't wrap lines, need to pipe it into a pager, can't theme it, and can't easily jump between files.

I've finally got around to hacking on a successor. It's a snappy TUI that is going to replace Dunk in my daily toolkit ⚡

tl;dr: too long; didn't read

ai;dr: contains AI slop; didn't read

av;dr: requested age verification; didn't read

451;dr: content unavailable for legal reasons; didn't read

js;dr: page required JavaScript; didn't read

ps;dr: problematic site; didn't read

dr;dr: I feel like a pair of curtains. Pull yourself together.

If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how we're responding. #AI #Bots #Abuse
@algernon @JadedBlueEyes "Remove PII" is always a banger of a commit to have public. 👌 😂

End of my 3rd week on #Mastodon

I've not experienced social media like this before. People seeing my posts? And replying? Madness! And no robot deciding that my #cats won’t infuriate anyone and so hiding them?

The people here have been super nice too. Sharing their own cats, giving me helpful tips, and replying with positivity. You're a real likeable bunch of weirdos

So I'll probably stick around, if that's okay….?

Here's another picture of Max sleeping... OR IS HE?

#CatsOfMastodon #pets

Mr. Schneier has a salient reminder from the Hackers' Manifesto.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/1980s-hacker-manifesto.html

#hacking #philosophy

1980s Hacker Manifesto - Schneier on Security

Forty years ago, The Mentor—Loyd Blankenship—published “The Conscience of a Hacker” in Phrack. You bet your ass we’re all alike… we’ve been spoon-fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak… the bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We’ve been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us willing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert. This is our world now… the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn’t run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore… and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge… and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias… and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it’s for our own good, yet we’re the criminals...

Schneier on Security