New follower requests: I deny anybody who doesn't exert the minimum amount of effort in filling out their mastoton profile. I'll accept you if you try again later w/ a filled out profile!
previously twitter.com/xabean || Sourcefire VRT -> Cisco Talos || perl, music, linux, 3d printing, electronics, woodworking, security research, and single.
💡 If I follow you, I think you're smart and have things to say/share I want to think about.
If you have cryptocurrency/blockchain tendencies, I do not want to be part of your timeline, nor do I want you in mine. ✌️
I'm here to follow/be followed by people, not brands. This is a personal interaction account, I get to be as selective as I like.
If we've never interacted, and I block you, changes are it's because you posted GenAI trash.
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Blech. $GREAT_GREAT_GRANDBOSS has announced that all development roles are going to become sloperator roles. I really like this job but unless this endeavour collapses (not unlikely), I'm going to need to start job hunting soon.
So, if you know anyone who’s looking for an expert in static analysis and compiling (preferably remote, Ottawa (Ontario, Canada) area), feel free to point them at me.
A lovely little Pine Beauty in the moth trap at WWT Castle Espie Wetland Centre yesterday 😎
#nature #wildlife #invertebrates #insects #lepidoptera #moths #mothsmatter #pinebeauty #NorthernIreland #wwt #WWTCastleEspie
@kaoudis are you a witness lol
RIP James “Mr. Strickland” Tolkan
In today's episode of "wrong email, dummy" someone tried to recruit me (well, another Richard Harman, but my Gmail address) for a dental hygienist position.
It did not go as expected. For them, or for me.
John Bradley, the author of XV died. Who ever had a computer in the 1990s used his picture viewer.
#rip #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing
Paul Iadonisi on Gab: 'Got some very sad news this week. For anyone who h…'
https://gab.com/markofafreeman/posts/116290669616400528
Paul Iadonisi on Gab: 'Got some very sad news this week. For anyone who has been in the Linux world as long as I have, it is impossible to not know about XV, an image viewer that is licensed as 'shareware', a type of license that took off in the 90s, primarily on Windows. It's basically a 'pay if you can' licenses, with some of them being nicknamed 'nagware' because they kept bugging you to pay. There were a few fits and starts in the Linux/Unix world, but shareware was mostly shunned in the Linux world in favor the GPL, BSD, and MIT licenses. But many of us, myself included, made an exception for XV. And with XV there was never any license 'key' of any kind that unlocked any features. It was just on your honor and if you look in the source code, you see one #.define in xv.h that you are 'allowed' to define with your email address saying it is registered if you paid. The fee was a mere $25 for a lifetime registration. Almost exactly 30 years ago, in a time when scanning software was nearly non-existent on Linux, I attended a Usenix/UseLinux conference and met a guy who ran a small company called http://tummy.com. He took the source of xv and patched it to provide scanning functionality. He charged $50 under the same terms as the original XV terms, and gave $25 of it to the XV author. So by way of http://tummy.com, my use of XV is 'registered', albeit under an old, defunct email address. The XV author gave up the development of XV quite some time ago, ending with the official version 3.10a. Several developers published patches to XV over the years, and he finally gave the approval in 2022 for a github repo to house XV and all the patches, lumped together into what has been termed the 'jumbo patch' for XV. (https://github.com/jasper-software/xv) Separately, I joined Vox Day's Social Galactic (SG) social media site as a side benefit of signing up at http://Unauthorized.TV where this guy named John Bradley was a member. He's a guitarist and occasional vocalist (sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNCir6HSJZo) who has been involved in some excellent meme warfare, largely in the form of music, against the boomer mentality and the retarded vaxx pushers. They used various band names such as Boomer Patrol, Booster Patrol, and Vaxx Traxx. For years I interacted with him on SG, but I never checked his profile. The sad news is that he died on March 20 at the age of 61 (https://voxday.net/2026/03/25/rip-john-bradley/). What makes it sadder for me is that I never made the connection. The John Bradley I knew and interacted with was someone I knew on SG who made funny parodies throughout the covidian insanity years. What I only found out after he passed is that he is the same John Bradley who is the author of XV, as well as few others in the early X Window system development world. This is his old XV website, where XVscan gets a mention (but following the links, unsurprisingly, eventually leads to an error): https://xv.trilon.com. Truly the end of an era. I think the last similar passing in the Linux world was Bram Moolenaar of 'vim' editor fame in August, 2023, which also had a unique license called 'Charityware' in support of 'poor children in Uganda'. RIP, John. You are already missed.'
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@jerry/116302286478135804
every day. sometimes twice a day. especially on mondays.
We are #Ikiya and we are finally on #Mastodon and the #Fediverse !
We are a small #Japanese shop located in Treviso, near Venice, and we focus on bringing to Italy a selection of Japanese teas (such as #matcha), ingredients for your recipes, kimono and haori, handmade pottery and much more.
We would like to start leaving mainstream social media for good to connect with our customers in a different way, and this is our first step towards a better communication.
Happy to be here!
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