shellsharks
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Infosec researcher | more about me @ https://shellsharks.com
@shellsharks@shellsharks.social on Mastodon
@shellsharks@shellsharks.social on Mastodon
What are you interested in doin'?
May 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM
What are you interested in doin'?
out across the Internet can help fix that. I'm happy to see this from you and hope more and more follow suit. Cheers from the IndieWeb!
March 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
out across the Internet can help fix that. I'm happy to see this from you and hope more and more follow suit. Cheers from the IndieWeb!
microblogging on your site. You, like many others in the larger "IndieWeb" movement have started a "link log", or "post roll" or in your terms, "Daily blog" too. The "web" is less "webby" these days thanks to the centralization and AI-ification of all things, but sites like yours linking...
March 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
microblogging on your site. You, like many others in the larger "IndieWeb" movement have started a "link log", or "post roll" or in your terms, "Daily blog" too. The "web" is less "webby" these days thanks to the centralization and AI-ification of all things, but sites like yours linking...
More and more folks seem to be re-discovering the power of their own websites at the same time they're realizing the limitations of (centralized) social media platforms. Obviously *you* appreciate blogging and the web and have the tenure to prove it, but what you've shared here is basically just...
March 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
More and more folks seem to be re-discovering the power of their own websites at the same time they're realizing the limitations of (centralized) social media platforms. Obviously *you* appreciate blogging and the web and have the tenure to prove it, but what you've shared here is basically just...
Umm, well they're just different color palettes and once I had them configured they are pretty much set and forget. Sometimes I go in and tweak them or add new CSS directives to the main CSS file but otherwise I've been pretty happy with them as-is.
March 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Umm, well they're just different color palettes and once I had them configured they are pretty much set and forget. Sometimes I go in and tweak them or add new CSS directives to the main CSS file but otherwise I've been pretty happy with them as-is.
Require? Nah. But I think it's a super nice QoL thing for your readers. As for default? Whatever the owner likes most. Especially if it's a truly 'personal' website. Do what *you* want!
My site has 3 theme-modes! 😄
My site has 3 theme-modes! 😄
March 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Require? Nah. But I think it's a super nice QoL thing for your readers. As for default? Whatever the owner likes most. Especially if it's a truly 'personal' website. Do what *you* want!
My site has 3 theme-modes! 😄
My site has 3 theme-modes! 😄
Mine are proudly neither of these 🤷♂️
March 11, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Mine are proudly neither of these 🤷♂️
This too... blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Bluesky will trap academics in the same way Twitter/X did
Commercial platforms and social media companies are designed to maximise switching costs in order to retain users. Reflecting on the rise of Bluesky, Mark Carrigan warns the same market dynamics co…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
March 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This too... blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
I think it's just a matter of when, not if. This said, I know you have an established presence on Mastodon (with a super healthy following) so you could easily flee there if this would come to pass... (even if you aren't *as* active there right now) 🤷♂️
Boggles my mind people still on twitter tho 🤦♂️
Boggles my mind people still on twitter tho 🤦♂️
March 5, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I think it's just a matter of when, not if. This said, I know you have an established presence on Mastodon (with a super healthy following) so you could easily flee there if this would come to pass... (even if you aren't *as* active there right now) 🤷♂️
Boggles my mind people still on twitter tho 🤦♂️
Boggles my mind people still on twitter tho 🤦♂️
The real question is whether you similarly see Bluesky's inevitable demise a mile off... no evil billionaire has "stepped up" yet, but bsky is super vulnerable to it. The paint has already started to crack. They're desperate for cash, making sketchy moderation decisions, and can't decentralize... 😬
March 5, 2025 at 4:54 AM
The real question is whether you similarly see Bluesky's inevitable demise a mile off... no evil billionaire has "stepped up" yet, but bsky is super vulnerable to it. The paint has already started to crack. They're desperate for cash, making sketchy moderation decisions, and can't decentralize... 😬
Have you checked out bridgy fed? fed.brid.gy - Would let you interact with folks on Mastodon from here. Me included! 🤗
Bridgy Fed
fed.brid.gy
March 3, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Have you checked out bridgy fed? fed.brid.gy - Would let you interact with folks on Mastodon from here. Me included! 🤗
Mostly I just think bsky will inevitably fall prey to a few things that will make the service unusable in the long run so I just don't feel like investing the time. Understanding of course that I miss out on all the cool conversations and accounts that have made their way here in the mid-term.
March 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Mostly I just think bsky will inevitably fall prey to a few things that will make the service unusable in the long run so I just don't feel like investing the time. Understanding of course that I miss out on all the cool conversations and accounts that have made their way here in the mid-term.
I spend virtually no time here (on bsky) and really enjoy Mastodon. The infosec community there is pretty good, but admittedly fractured thanks to some folks still being on f.k.a. Twitter and many coming here. But I've built a community across a few different interests so really enjoy it there 🤷♂️
March 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I spend virtually no time here (on bsky) and really enjoy Mastodon. The infosec community there is pretty good, but admittedly fractured thanks to some folks still being on f.k.a. Twitter and many coming here. But I've built a community across a few different interests so really enjoy it there 🤷♂️
True. Managing two presences is already too many haha.
March 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
True. Managing two presences is already too many haha.
You might be interested in this wedistribute.org/2024/05/nost.... Maybe could set something up a li'l more permanent on Nostr if you wanted. Again, I don't use it like, at all...but I've got it around in case of w/e
How to Set Up a Verified Nostr Address - We Distribute
How do you get those nice, simple addresses on your Nostr profile, instead of the NPub Key? We're here to walk you through it with NIP-05.
wedistribute.org
March 3, 2025 at 2:32 AM
You might be interested in this wedistribute.org/2024/05/nost.... Maybe could set something up a li'l more permanent on Nostr if you wanted. Again, I don't use it like, at all...but I've got it around in case of w/e
What's your handle? I never use it either - but ya never know. Ill have it as a backup to my backup social network and have a few folks in there that don't just-talk-"crypto"
March 3, 2025 at 2:03 AM
What's your handle? I never use it either - but ya never know. Ill have it as a backup to my backup social network and have a few folks in there that don't just-talk-"crypto"
This is actually pretty wild to me. Obviously supporting Elon in any way is a recipe to get absolutely railed on Fedi, but to be banned on infosec.exchange? I wonder what else was said... But also why you host your own instance and not live on a big one 🤷♂️. But being on X these days IS cringe 😬
February 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This is actually pretty wild to me. Obviously supporting Elon in any way is a recipe to get absolutely railed on Fedi, but to be banned on infosec.exchange? I wonder what else was said... But also why you host your own instance and not live on a big one 🤷♂️. But being on X these days IS cringe 😬
I like Mike, and I like Bluesky well enough. But all of this seems to be just conjecture and foundless hope. For any of what Mike is saying to be "true", it relies (at minimum) on FoF having proven they can do what they want to do, and they just haven't.
shellsharks.com/notes/2025/0...
shellsharks.com/notes/2025/0...
Bluesky, ATProtocol, Free Our Feeds: Hope abounds, but very little is proven
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January 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I like Mike, and I like Bluesky well enough. But all of this seems to be just conjecture and foundless hope. For any of what Mike is saying to be "true", it relies (at minimum) on FoF having proven they can do what they want to do, and they just haven't.
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But what about the benefits you get with a Toaster+ subscription?
January 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
But what about the benefits you get with a Toaster+ subscription?
Oh cool! A Bluesky post about the Mastodon post about an X (Twitter) post.
2025 is confusing...
But also yes, a hilarious self-own.
2025 is confusing...
But also yes, a hilarious self-own.
January 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Oh cool! A Bluesky post about the Mastodon post about an X (Twitter) post.
2025 is confusing...
But also yes, a hilarious self-own.
2025 is confusing...
But also yes, a hilarious self-own.