This is Mur @mur2501@qoto.org

I wanted to take a few moments and apologize to many of my former students.

In the past I said the industry needs people who look at security as a vocation and an avocation.

I was wrong.

Have a life outside of this industry.

Have hobbies that have nothing to do with your computer.

Get outside.

The problems of the industry are not problems of people not working hard enough.

They are not problems of people not being "hard core" enough.

They are problems of education and resource prioritization.

I was wrong.

I am sorry.

Stop breaking yourself on rocks for people who don't really care if you break yourself on rocks.

🌱 My Neighbor Mastodon 2

Thank you, thank you, *thank you* for being more than 20K to follow my art here. It's fantastic.

#Mastoart #ArtWithOpensource #krita #HumanArt

#introductions

Hi, I'm Brian. I hack on software and hardware.

I've been writing operating systems for a living for 20-odd years now: BeOS at Be, HiptopOS at Danger, Android at Android and then at Google, Fuchsia/Zircon at Google, LK here and there, various toy and experimental systems from time to time.

I grew up with the C64 in the early 80s and worry a lot about modern platforms being too closed and restrictive.

I am a fan of sci-fi and fantasy written, televised, animated, and gamed.

Hi! Since my #introductions post got buried somewhere, here is another one. I'm a dragon, hear me roar. I'm Bulgarian, speak fluently both Bulgarian and English. Linguistics and IT student. I love singing, appreciate good music and conversations. I like reading and writing in my spare time too. I also game, though terrible it might be. I absolutely love #DoctorWho and #HomeAlone as well as #scifi and #LitRPG I used to draw and still love anything crafty. I am #Blind #OSDD #ChronicallyDepressed and #Misophonic I'm also #plural although this is not expressed much. I wish to keep things private, as much as I can, and all agree on it. I have a #dragon spirit and I am often confused about the meanings of some human things. My brain literally interprets almost everything, so I am going to be asking questions. A lot of them sometimes. I also study #Spanish and #German whenever time allows and my preferred music genre is #hardstyle I also enjoy #coffee and #tea I love British English and accents, although I can both write and speak either standards - American and British. I currently work in HR and I used to work as an event coordinator. That's all! Few! It was a long intro! Follow me, I do not bite.

Hi I’m new to and I see #introduction is a fun thing to do.

I enjoy #modernart, #abstractart, #paintings, #photographs. I love listening to #music including #drumandbass, #dance, #classical, #pop, #punk, #ska, and #alternative. I am learning #crochet and #piano and into sports like #skateboarding, #rollerderby, #squash, and #hockey. I love #learning and #science.

Have a #MSc in #compsci. I make internet #software have better #security. I enjoy #rust but do research with #cpp too.

❤️

I wonder which one I am

OK, language weirdness question.

Someone recently said:

"I just about caught the train."

Did they catch it or not? Perhaps it depends whether you think of English as (one of) your first language(s).

As always, if you're happy to do so I'd be grateful if you'd boost for reach, and to get beyond my circle of followers.

Thank you!

" But once you experience #Mastodon, you suddenly realize just how much advertising, spam, and phishing you are being force-fed. I find Mastodon restful. Like the first time you realized that TV is possible without commercials. Also, because journalists and scientists are leading the charge to Mastodon, my feed seems to reflect a culture of knowledge, even leaning on peer-reviewed citations."

#TwitterMigration

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-tao-of-innovation/202212/the-psychology-of-mastodon-the-great-migration-from-twitter

I’m a frickin genius.

Context: my kid is mildly allergic to citric acid and citric fruit. Brings out eczema. And citric acid is in SO many things. And it’s painful checking ingredients lists for it.

This morning I wondered: can my phone OCR the ingredients list and check it?

My first thought was to make a little web app. But there doesn’t seem to be a OCR in web browsers yet.

But I KNOW my phone can get text from images.

Then…

Apple Shortcuts!!!

CHECK THIS OUT!!!

"A New Programming Metric": my attempt to come up with a better way of handling the "how good are you at a programming language" question.

https://www.narwhalbear.com/en/articles/programming-metric

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.narwhalbear.com/en/articles/programming-metric

#programming