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Fiona

@airtower@woem.men

sharkey 2025.4.7

IT engineer and cat specializing in Linux & network security. I love good debugging stories, the weirder the better. Meow!

Increasingly posting kinky things (with CN). Do not sexualize my kink.
"amazing rope improvisation skills" – @lis@estrogen.network@woem.men (link)

I boost a lot of cat pictures, you've been warned.

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Pronouns:

she/her

Languages:

English, Deutsch, 日本語, suomi

Also at:

@airtower@fedi.sillykittens.net

Codeberg:

https://codeberg.org/airtower

Github:

https://github.com/airtower-luna

Blog:

https://airtower.wordpress.com/

Fiona @airtower@woem.men

· 2mo ago

Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social

A dear friend of mine is urgently looking for a job in Germany, so they (plus partner and two cats) don't have to go back to USA. They have a math degree, experience as software tester, and would love to work at a library or teach, but at this point anything that pays the bills is good. Fluent German & English. Currently in Frankfurt but willing to relocate. Please message me if you have/know anything that might help!

#getfedihired #jobsearch

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Fiona @airtower@woem.men

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange Looking at the first picture it's probably not just the tower, but the whole western part that ended up a lot smaller than intended!

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Fiona @airtower@woem.men

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@catrinity@literatur.social @glowl@chaos.social @jensscholz@mastodon.social Und am besten auch Beschwerde an den Softwarehersteller. Einfach zu sperren ist programmierte Diskriminierung, Warnung mit Hinweis auf die Kennziffer wäre okay (im Rahmen der Abrechnungsregeln, aber die wären ein Thema für sich).

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Fiona @airtower@woem.men

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@bkastl@mastodon.social "Fancy Security" sollte halt auch ohne fancy Hardware funktionieren. Und schon mal gar nicht an bestimmte Hersteller gebunden sein.

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Fiona @airtower@woem.men

· 5mo ago

What do I do if I notice a questionable-smelling pattern of open source contributions, but no clear proof of motivation or malice? A Github organization that looks like it's mostly commit farming and trying to collect un-/barely maintained projects, has a website that looks fishy (including mentioning having "supported" projects where someone got a trivial commit merged)… and then the only seemingly consistently active person in the group is trying to become a #Debian Maintainer based on that (and adopting orphaned packages).

Don't want to throw around names without being sure someone's malicious, but also don't want to keep quiet and later find my suspicion was justified. And of course picking up abandoned projects is generally desirable, but these look like barely used ones, too, which again… not bad as such, but smells. What to do? :neocat_floof__w_:

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Fiona @airtower@woem.men

· 5mo ago

Meow. :neocat_floof_mug:

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Fiona @airtower@woem.men

· 5mo ago

Replying to

genai, grumbling, radio news

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Fiona @airtower@woem.men

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@nedbat@hachyderm.io Another option that'd often (but maybe not always) be preferable: create the directory when it's needed, e.g. during build.

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Fiona @airtower@woem.men

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@phistorians@kolektiva.social The Etruscans not having read their "warfare 101" reminded me of @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange explaining the original target audience for "Art of War". :meowgiggle: https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/116228040873879983

infosec.exchange

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Fiona @airtower@woem.men

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@regehr@mastodon.social @Fiona@blahaj.zone It's sad how realizing the slop might not be production ready puts that person ahead of a lot of companies… :neocat_googly_shocked:

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Fiona @airtower@woem.men

· 26mo ago

Replying to

@zerforschung@chaos.social „Wir recherchieren für einen Artikel zu einer Sicherheitslücke in Ihrem […] der in Kürze erscheinen wird. Möchten Sie einen Kommentar dazu abgeben?" :neocat_think_owo:

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Fiona @airtower@woem.men

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@danirabbit@mastodon.online I dunno, when I was fresh out of university seeing "experienced industry professionals" struggle with basic PKI concepts helped, too.

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Fiona @airtower@woem.men

· 20mo ago

Replying to

@tea@chaos.social "We use this information to optimize your cuddling experience." :meowgiggle:

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Fiona @airtower@woem.men

· 8mo ago

Replying to

@ixtlidekami@mstdn.social @kagan@wandering.shop How do they do backups if they don't know where their files are? I'm kinda fearing the answer is either "not at all" or "put everything in 'the cloud' and hope for the best"…

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Fiona @airtower@woem.men

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Fiona@blahaj.zone That's exactly what I'm worried about. And if it is, the potential damage radius of a DM is a lot bigger…

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Fiona @airtower@woem.men

· 12mo ago

Replying to

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social Entry sign for a garden? :neocat_floof_cute:

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Fiona @airtower@woem.men

· 15mo ago

Replying to

@quillmatiq@mastodon.social In the end, it seems like many managers mostly want humans around so they can lord over them.

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Fiona @airtower@woem.men

· 9mo ago

Replying to

@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange I recently made a tool to gather sensor data from the Linux kernel industrial I/O (IIO) subsystem into an rrdtool database (RRD -> round robin database). https://codeberg.org/airtower/iio-rrd-bridge I use it to record and then plot data from a CO2, temperature and humidity sensor, but it could be used for other sensors, too. In the process I also made a fix for the kernel scd4x driver (to get correct data) and a small extension (to get timestamps). https://codeberg.org/airtower/scd41-graph

iio-rrd-bridge

Write IIO sensor data to an rrdtool database

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Fiona @airtower@woem.men

· 30mo ago

Replying to

@antonia@estrogen.network @djh@chaos.social @zerforschung@chaos.social @lagedernation@chaos.social Schon, aber im Gesetz steht daß die Cannabis Social Clubs diese Daten von ihren Mitgliedern speichern müssen (wird am Ende des Artikels auch kritisiert). Der Teil ist in zumindest primär kein technisches Problem.

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Fiona @airtower@woem.men

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@TransitBiker@urbanists.social @Strandjunker@mstdn.social @FishNamedDog@mastodon.social It's questionable if that exact thing actually happened, but it fits into how after the first two the emperors increasingly stopped pretending the republic was still intact and they were just the most influential senators (with a ridiculous amount of other offices/honors). The coup against the republic was long done by then (though there were many to become emperor instead of the emperor).

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Fiona @airtower@woem.men

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Fiona@blahaj.zone Not that I'm aware of, and a similar point came up in the DM process discussion.

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Fiona @airtower@woem.men

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Fiona@blahaj.zone I guess I can say that without making it obvious to anyone who isn't already guessing… Somewhere within Gulf countries or Pakistan. So yes, it's plausible they can't have much contact with people in Europe. But still, showing up out of nowhere, and that pattern… As I said, not proof, but it smells odd. Especially as most contribution farming I've seen looked like trying to build something that might impress a hiring manager. This doesn't, and the flakiness and "organization" branding don't really look like personal care either, so… why?

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Fiona @airtower@woem.men

· 2mo ago

Government services and other essential services requiring an "app" of any kind should be illegal. Strong authentication, sure (where appropriate), but an open protocol (using standards, as far as possible), not "this software". Just make the ID card a FIDO token or something.

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Fiona @airtower@woem.men

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@littlefox@gotosocial-dev.svc.0x0a.network @schrottkatze@social.treehouse.systems It is though…

(I hope the repetition help to get it through!)

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Fiona @airtower@woem.men

· 8mo ago

Replying to on hachyderm.io

@kevinbowen@hachyderm.io Sounds promising! I just hope the existing labwc/wayfire support will remain at least until xfwl4 is fully ready.

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Fiona @airtower@woem.men

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@nova@lunar.place Is it just me, or does she look like she really wants some of whatever you're eating but hesitates to ask?

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Fiona @airtower@woem.men

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@mcc@mastodon.social @mntmn@mastodon.social @cwebber@social.coop Yeah, and a good computer interface needs to be precise and unambiguous. Natural language is notoriously ambiguous, e.g. pilots and air traffic controllers have to train using precise terminology and phrasing, because a misunderstanding can have catastrophic consequences. I highly doubt people who don't feel like learning a programming language would want to learn a similarly (possibly more strictly) formalized variant of their natural language.

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Fiona @airtower@woem.men

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@xayomer@toot.kif.rocks @KopfKrieg@chaos.social „Ist da Metall dran?“ :meowgiggle: (Wäre neugierig was zuerst kaputt geht…)

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Fiona @airtower@woem.men

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@TransitBiker@urbanists.social @FishNamedDog@mastodon.social @Strandjunker@mstdn.social More a way for the emperor to insult the senators, kinda like "You think you're the top of Rome, but you can't tell me what to do any more than this horse can!"

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