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brian wisti @randomgeek@mastodon.social

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yeah the federated timeline is not real useful on .social.

Thinking about moving my site from AWS to Netlify but then it's just sitting on top of AWS anyways.

Then again isn't everything these days?

Reminding myself to put Mastodon shortcuts on my current phone.

Looks like this is my main again for the moment, as other instances twinkle in and out of sight.

Today's motto: don't try this at home.

Checking in once again, as seems to be my seasonal habit.

*peeks in on .social*

The instance is busy, the folks I follow are pretty quiet. Obviously I need to follow more.

Been long enough since I checked in here that I don't have a home feed. Interesting.

Federated timeline here is slow enough to read again. Mostly.

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Who's hiring Elm developers? I would like to make a switch to Elm work. Someone introduce me?

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still recovering so it's off to bed…stay spooky my friends. May the great old ones bless and protect this instance while I rest.

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I think this might be worth some sort of mini-celebration. I never thought I'd live to see the day.

"the MP3 technology became patent-free in the United States on 16 April 2017 when U.S. Patent 6,009,399, ...administered by Technicolor, expired"

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I just went around and did some basic nmap-ing on the most popular Mastodon instances, and there's some seriously sketchy stuff in there. Publicly reachable Postgres servers, tons of open internal HTTP ports, SSH with password login, multiple Mastodon instances that seem to be running on mail server VMs, …

I guess if you're just running a single-user instance for yourself, sure, but those are all 2000+ user instances.

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Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again!
Coffee?

I need to check my .social account more often.