Nerdy Echidna

Botanist with a hobby interest in infosec. I mostly use Mastodon to stay current and read content, because it's not owned by MrCreepy.

Into: Linux; self-hosting; plants; pictures of capybara; philosophical discussions.

Not into: religion; politics; PR-spin.

2026-01-23

@catsalad very small blisters

2026-01-23

@joeress PTSD coming on... :lolsob:

Nerdy Echidna boosted:
2026-01-20

#3196 - Aurora Coolness

A black-and-white line chart with the title at the top: “My experience seeing the northern lights:”

The horizontal axis at the bottom is labeled “Time”. The vertical axis on the left is labeled “Aurora coolness”. Along the left side, four labels are stacked. From bottom to top:
- “Visible glow on the horizon, color only visible in photos”
- “Sheets and pillars of light, colors faintly visible”
- “Oh wow, it’s getting really bright now.”
- “Spectacular ribbons of color spanning the sky and illuminating the landscape”

A wavy graph starts near the bottom left, rises and falls, then climbs to a very tall, narrow spike near the upper middle. That spike is annotated “5 or 10 minutes” with arrows pointing inward toward the spike’s width. The graph then drops, rises into another broad set of high peaks on the right, and gradually declines toward the lower right. Across the lower middle of the chart is a long horizontal arrow labeled “Many hours.”

Caption below the chart: “Aurora tip: If you get good views of the aurora, keep watching the sky; you might suddenly get great ones.”

Hidden text: "I've had countless nights where the line never left the bottom zone of the graph, but the few moments where it's climbed all the way to the top have made up for them all."
Nerdy Echidna boosted:
2026-01-17

mltshp.com/p/1RIE1 “Cathy Wilcox on Aussie racism”

May be an illustration of map and text that says 'Solid ground Australia- racist? AFRICAN Boooo!' ADVANTAGE UNFAIR GANGS CRONULLA STOLEN RIOTS GENERATION THEY COME HERE, THEY TAKE OUR JOBS' KIDS IN DETENTION NO IMMIGRATION SLASH SEMITISM, ISLAMOPHOBIA BLACK DEATHS 'TERRORISTS, KIDS IN CUSTODY INDEFINITE DETENTION GRAB SWAMPED BY ASIANS BLOODY REFFO BOAT PEOPLE WOG DAGO. TIKE CHINK. KRAUT. YARPIE FLORA & FAUNA WHITE AUSTRALIA POLICY. DICTATION TEST, BLACKBIRDING SEGREGATION ASSIMILATION. SLAVERY MASSACRES. POISONING. DISPOSSESSION TERRA NULLIUS'
2026-01-09

@JessTheUnstill yep. Blew my nose and got a hernia.

Nerdy Echidna boosted:
BeyondMachines :verified:beyondmachines1@infosec.exchange
2026-01-09
No, Yes lady meme:
First image (NO), caption: "Prompt Engineer"
Second image (Yes), caption: "Sloperator"
2026-01-08

@joeress Schitt's Creek?

2026-01-07

@gcluley what I don’t understand is how ANY advertisers are OK with the chance that their product is shown next to CSAM.

2026-01-07

What even is the point of being in a military alliance with the US in 2026? It's not like we can rely on them honouring the alliance and coming to an ally's help. Anyone that thinks that is probably deluding themselves.

2026-01-07

@ThisIsTrue oh, noes, someone spilled dihydrogen oxide on the carpet.

2026-01-06

@Ashedryden if you like 80s pop, Mecano was pretty good, if sometimes a bit syrupy.

youtu.be/OwGG5fX7bxY?si=x7-iJ3

2026-01-03

@cadey from someone who did this is 2016, when Windows 7 tried to force upgrade me to 10, I applaud you.

2025-12-19

@willhbr @jsnell it’s been a couple of weeks and I wasn’t paying that much attention, but I think I chose tonight and after that, maybe when it asked for a password, an option to decline appeared somewhere, and I was able to choose a link saying “see other options” or something worded similarly.

2025-12-19

@sundogplanets I have successfully enrolled a doughsitter in the past. I know it’s my mind playing tricks but that word looks hilarious in writing.

2025-12-19

@jsnell I was only offered 26.2 in iPhone 13, but I declined, and 18.7.3 was offered instead.

2025-12-18

@CppGuy @best_of_mltshp Same. I think you kinda had to be in the US to use AOL, didn't you?

2025-12-16

@BleepingComputer Typical Google, we're discontinuing this product to focus on more helpful tools that don't yet (and may never) exist.

Presumably the #1 requirement for said tools is that they turn a profit

2025-12-12

@dangillmor I remember joking about it some time ago, but it’s even more pertinent now: if you examine everything Trump does through the lens of him being a Russian asset, it makes perfect sense.

2025-12-10

@aaron I look forward to giving it a go. I’ve recently noticed an uptick in crawlers able to get through Anubis, I love watching them get caught up by Nepenthes afterwards.

2025-12-07

@NanoRaptor I feel like every control moved from a knob or lever, that one can build muscle memory for, that is moved to a touch screen, makes a car less safe to drive.

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