Well… I think I'm hours away from an #anniversary.
12 months ago I observed a lot of #InfoSec people seemingly jumping ship from the social network formerly known as #Twitter, to the Fediverse.
I never joined commercial platforms like Facebook or Twitter. I never "got" Twitter… just seemed to be lots of out-of-context quotes with no apparent "flow". #Facebook seemed like a duplication of what my blog does.
I briefly considered joining an existing instance… maybe mastodon.radio (since I have an #AmateurRadio license)… infosec.exchange (since I have an interest in #InfoSec), theblower.au (since I'm Australian)… then thought… f-it, I'll just start my own like I did for everything else.
Today marks a year since I followed the Join Mastodon guide installing Mastodon in a blank VM and getting myself federated.
I've slowly gotten used to the quirks of this system, and the customs of the people that use it. (Customs which are wide and varied… a good thing!)
As an #introduction (long overdue)… I work in IT doing software engineering, mostly writing device drivers for energy meters to use in a fork of #NodeRED… also do some embedded #OpenThread work (mostly TI CC2538). Outside of work, I have an interest in programming and networks.
I got my radio license in early 2008, initially as VK4FSJL, then upgraded to the standard license I have now 8 months later.
I am on the #ASD spectrum, being diagnosed as "high-functioning Autistic" back in 1987.
I've got three big passions in my life, #OpenSource, #Radio (both commercial and amateur) and #Music. I consider myself a music luddite, listening mostly to popular music: my collection presently spans 1935 ~ 2023 with the vast majority of it falling between 1960 and 1990.
Started with #Linux back in 1996, now almost exclusively a Linux user on the desktop, with a couple of servers running #OpenBSD, and some dabbling in other OSes like #NetBSD. I consider Microsoft Windows a legacy operating system unsuited to production use.
Staunch #RightToRepair advocate. I support #Transgender and #Disabled peoples' right to fair and just treatment. #AntiFacist. #NonDriver #Pedestrian and #Cyclist.