Johannes Ernst
@j12t@j12t.social
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Engineer, founder, organizer.
Let's put people back in control of their technology. The Open Social Web is a good start. Also wondering aloud where we are taking this planet.
Check out my home page for more info and links.
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A ray tracer written in pure CMake (by perverting CMake to do fixed-point arithmetic). For non-programmers, this is a bit like building a wide-bodied airliner ENTIRELY OUT OF LIVE EARTHWORMS (nobody t
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Johannes Ernst
@j12t@j12t.social
Engineer, founder, organizer. Let's put people back in control of their technology. The Open Social Web is a good start. Also wondering aloud where we are taking this planet. Check out my home page for more info and links. tfr
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Johannes Ernst
@j12t@j12t.social
Engineer, founder, organizer. Let's put people back in control of their technology. The Open Social Web is a good start. Also wondering aloud where we are taking this planet. Check out my home page for more info and links. tfr
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Nov 29, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop im going to steal that metaphor, or something like it.
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Hey, @beyondmachines1@infosec.exchange why are you illustrating your article about a 7-zip vulnerability with a photo of a computer that was discontinued 12 years before 7-zip first shipped AND CAN'T
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Johannes Ernst
@j12t@j12t.social
Engineer, founder, organizer. Let's put people back in control of their technology. The Open Social Web is a good start. Also wondering aloud where we are taking this planet. Check out my home page for more info and links. tfr
j12t.social
Johannes Ernst
@j12t@j12t.social
Engineer, founder, organizer. Let's put people back in control of their technology. The Open Social Web is a good start. Also wondering aloud where we are taking this planet. Check out my home page for more info and links. tfr
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Nov 24, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop @beyondmachines1@infosec.exchange the intern hadn’t been born at the time in question?
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Johannes Ernst
@j12t@j12t.social
Engineer, founder, organizer. Let's put people back in control of their technology. The Open Social Web is a good start. Also wondering aloud where we are taking this planet. Check out my home page for more info and links. tfr
j12t.social
Johannes Ernst
@j12t@j12t.social
Engineer, founder, organizer. Let's put people back in control of their technology. The Open Social Web is a good start. Also wondering aloud where we are taking this planet. Check out my home page for more info and links. tfr
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Aug 22, 2025
The world we have -- in social media, and more broadly in tech -- vs the world we want.
Does this look about right?
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Johannes Ernst
@j12t@j12t.social
Engineer, founder, organizer. Let's put people back in control of their technology. The Open Social Web is a good start. Also wondering aloud where we are taking this planet. Check out my home page for more info and links. tfr
j12t.social
Johannes Ernst
@j12t@j12t.social
Engineer, founder, organizer. Let's put people back in control of their technology. The Open Social Web is a good start. Also wondering aloud where we are taking this planet. Check out my home page for more info and links. tfr
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Jul 22, 2025
I've been doing some thinking about what the right metrics are for organizations (e.g public service broadcasters, or universities) on social media. Usually they are looking at things like follower count, or number of engagements with posts.
But if you have a choice of attracting an extra 100 followers, all of whom are trolls, and they have left 100 non-constructive comments, are you now better off or worse?
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