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Alan Coopersmith

@alanc@hachyderm.io

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Solaris Engineer at Sun^H^H^HOracle (Release management, Security, X11, GNOME); former board member of X.Org Foundation & OpenSolaris. http://pronoun.is/he

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Joined May 02, 2025

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https://www.x.org/wiki/AlanCoopersmith/

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https://github.com/alanc

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https://fosstodon.org/@alanc

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Alan Coopersmith @alanc@hachyderm.io

· 2w ago

We've released #OracleSolaris 11.4.95, our quarterly feature update. The announcement is posted to the blog at https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/announcing-oracle-solaris-11-4-sru95-sru and a more detailed What's New blog post is at https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/whats-new-in-oracle-solaris-11-4-sru-95

blogs.oracle.com

Alan Coopersmith @alanc@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

At #SunMicrosystems they used to give us years of service pins every 5 years to show how long we’d been around. That stopped after the acquisition so I found a different pin to show I’ve been around for a very long time.

hachyderm.io

Alan Coopersmith @alanc@hachyderm.io

· 4mo ago

Things I never expected at the start of my career: that one day my employers’ name would be included on a pair of race car shaped shoes available for purchase by the general public: https://www.crocs.com/OracleRedBullRacing.html

crocs.com

Oracle Red Bull Racing

Alan Coopersmith @alanc@hachyderm.io

· 2mo ago

El Reg will quote any old fool who posts to the right mailing list… https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/03/ai-slop-pollutes-the-cve-pipeline-with-fake-vulns/5282462

theregister

AI slop pollutes the CVE pipeline with fake vulns

With NIST still buried under its backlog, expect AI-generated bogus reports to continue

Alan Coopersmith @alanc@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@timfoster@mastodon.social @scottishwildcat@mastodon.ie my 15 year anniversary was also post acquisition but I got a 15 year pin from one of the admins cleaning out the supply closets when we moved out of the old buildings.

Alan Coopersmith @alanc@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@mmusante@mastodon.social yeah, Sun gave us a certificate, a pin, and a choice of a gift from their catalog. Oracle replaced the certificate & pin with a badge in the Aria employee directory and later a badge in Slack. They kept the gifts for a while - I’m still using the Apple Watch I got for 20 years - but for 25 it was just a cash bonus of $20 per year of service.