Steve Zissou @SteveZissou@qoto.org

"No Mr. Die, I expect you to Bond"

I love all of you and I want nothing but the best for each of you, particularly those on infosec.exchange. I understand that Mastodon isn't Twitter, that DMs are end-to-end encrypted, that we are spread across different instances and it can be hard to find your friends, and that an instance can go away at any time, and that translating posts doesn't work correctly, and there is no native giphy support, and that some instances are overwhelmed and super slow, and that you don't think the federated model can scale to a billion users, or that it doesn't support full text search of every post and account, or that we can't comply with the GDPR, or that we don't support quote tweet style functionality, or that we shouldn't collect IP addresses, and many other things.

The fediverse is a work in progress. I've been here for going on 6 years. In that time, it's come a long, long way. That said, Mastodon is not going to appeal to everyone. The decisions I make are not going to appeal to everyone. No one is forcing you to be here. No one is forcing you to disclose your personal secrets into a network of federated servers running by volunteers and hobbyists. NB: this is not Twitter. It has some similar functionality, but it is not Twitter. Parts of it are better, IMO, and parts are not. The security community is generally among the most skilled and competent IT people the world has to offer. Mastodon is open source. Do you see where I'm going?

I set this instance up a long time ago for reasons I don't even remember. I have poured my soul into this thing because I believe in the importance of this community. I have effectively peaked in my career as a CISO and I and my family live well. I am not running this instance for fame, money, a better job, or anything other than wanting to foster a community of people that can learn from each other and make the world a better place. That's it.

As I've said in several recent interviews, I felt particularly obligated to ensure the security community had a good handing spot in the fediverse as everyone was running for the doors in Twitter. We've grown from 180 active users to about 30000 in the span of 3 weeks. I do not expect everyone to stay. Some will set up their own instances. Some will move to one of the other excellent security focused instances. Some will give up and move to on to some other social media. And that is OK. While I am super excited to see the buzz here, I don't have subscriber targets, engagement targets, retention targets, or anything else. The only metric I hold myself to is whether I think this is serving a useful purpose to the community.

I appreciate all of you, regardless of where you land. Infosec.exchange has been here for a long time and will continue to be here for you.

I love the fog. Turns any city into something far more mystical. Or something resembling the Silent Hill video game, depending on your point of view.

#Bristol #photography #fog

Countdown to the Mastodon Instance Wars.

A small selection of early carboniferous marine invertebrate fossils from Fife, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🖤 #ScottishGeology #ScottishFossils #AllMyPalsAreRocks

Rivers meander over their course as they continuously erode and deposit sediment. Harold Fisk, a geologist and cartographer working for the US Army Corps of Engineers, mapped the meanders of the mighty Mississippi in 1944 and the results are mesmerizing. They also beautifully illustrate geology’s Law of Superposition: newer and younger sediments are deposited on top of older sediments. We see thousand of years of course changes. You can unravel the layers by eye by noting which layer cuts others

Hello people on Mastodon! ❤️

I'm Luisa and I illustrate fantasy book covers for various publishers and self-publishers as well as card art for MTG. Above all, I love to portray strong women in dramatic lighting.

#introduction #MastoArt #BookCoverArt #Fantasy #Digitalart #art #illustration

Prayer for the Tide
#digital #illustration

So this is happening

Here's my #introduction to all you ... Tooters. I'm a refugee from the Tech world, who took early retirement, which enabled me to return to my first love: #archaeology. Specifically, Roman history and archaeology (love the Greeks, Egyptians and Assyrians, too!).

I started getting tired of asking why there weren't any good #reconstructions of ancient polychrome sculpture, so I decided to create them myself. A continuing process, always learning. #polychromy

Dear Space Karen,
No thanks.

Why did the astronauts who landed on the moon, not do more acrobatics?

Young engineers tend to crunch and binge like crazy (I've done it, pretty much everyone around me has done it, I see junior folks continue doing it). They feel like they have to, because of stupid cultural tropes, because they think they have to match seasoned professionals' performance right away, because they want the result of decades of experience within months. But most of all they can afford the mental and physical price of it.

During my decade in tech I've quit twice. Both times due to incompatibility with new leadership ideas of how to "steer the ship". Both times over things dramatically more subtle than what's happening over at hellsite. Both times I ended up at better paying jobs where I felt happier and more fulfilled with what I do.
Tech is (still, even now, with all "the economy" stuff going on) a massively privileged sector where people, have pretty good options all the time.

#riptwitter

#30DayMapChallenge 19:Globe

This is what Topi meant by Globe, right? 😉

Helsinki, Finland. Data from https://kartta.hel.fi/, overlays © OpenStreetMap contributors, rendered in #rayshader #rstats

YOU CANNOT STOP ME

#30DayMapChallenge — A map without a computer

Middl Earthcadia

Hit up the @observablehq notebook for details.

https://observablehq.com/@hrbrmstr/2022-30-day-map-challenge-day-17-a-map-without-a-computer-midd

when you boost your own post, it's a "boast"