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Profile for Sam Lade. Username @sentynel, sentynel.com. Role: admin

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Twitter @sentyneli

Escaped physicist, now programmer. Sysadmin and occasional writer for AngryMetalGuy.com. Mostly here for SFF books and science, occasionally infosec.

Joined on Nov, 2022. 49 posts. Followed by 10. Following 72.

Recent posts

Sam Lade . @sentynel,

Twitter have finally killed off my custom app's API tokens, so I guess that's the end of my Twitter lurking habit. Probably for the best.

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Sam Lade . @sentynel,

Added Mastodon support to my Twitter client, so now I get one combined timeline. Less need for it on Mastodon - I wrote it in the first place to dodge doomscrolling, the algorithmic timeline and ads - but having everything in one place is nice.

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Sam Lade . @sentynel,

Welp, as was probably inevitable, here is my hedge against the implosion of Twitter.

This is a @gotosocial instance because I like their privacy/safety focus; my biggest concern with the rise of Mastodon etc is how on earth we figure out how to moderate it all at scale.

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