sharkey 2025.4.7SRE, ex-{sys,cis}admin
🏳️⚧️she/they. Death before detransition.
Transfeminine transhumanist, somewhere at the intersection of wolfgirl, doggirl, and robotgirl | torch/flashlight autist | datadoggirl | wolfgirl of WSB | switch | elder millennial | AuDHD, chronic pain, long COVID, CPTSD, abuse survivor. TERF Island escapee, now living in New England.
A plural system of canids both cyberpunk and celestial.
🐺 in a ΘΔ way, 🦾 In a 🌌 way, 🪽 In a [DATA EXPUNGED] way.
Building an opensource selfhostable privacy-first system tracker: https://sheaf.sh https://github.com/sheaf-project
Interests: Queer activism, tech, engineering, infosec, shitposting, vehicles, lights, lasers, motorsports/F1, finance (swing trading, long term investing, and outright gambling. Nothing I say constitutes financial advice, #include etc.)
Writes reviews @ https://wolfgirlreviews.com (Coming Soon: Actually Reviewing Stuff Again Now The Dumpster Fire Of My Life Is Less Intense)
Opinions my own. Follow requests subject to vibe check; at least two of pfp, bio, and some posts in either 🇬🇧 (preferred) and/or 🇩🇪 are required for this.
Posting varies with energy, ADHD spiciness, current focus, etc. Lewd on main with CW. Remind if I forget alt text or miss a CW you want.
Not a safe space for anti-car/anti-nuclear people. Transit and cars can coexist. Nuclear is essential for climate goals.
Still 😷 and you should be too. #CovidIsNotOver
Headpats/hugs always welcome.
We’re losing the adversarial capacity to hold platforms accountable. This is the one that matters most and gets talked about least. The open-source movement, the early security research community, the hacker culture in the original sense — these were not just about building things. They were a check on the power of institutions.https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
Some of the spiciest:
LinkedIn scanning for tools that scrape LinkedIn:
NOT in the list, if you were wondering:
For the latter category, the most interesting things there we found were searched-for are BuiltWith Technology Profiler, and some browser addons bundled from scanners (e.g. "Malwarebytes Browser Guard Beta").
Moving day(s) tomorrow! Goodbye forever, red state.
Then hopefully a return to normal shitposting once my life is unfucked a bit.
So, seriously, who do we talk to about commissioning neowolf emoji? Willing to pay money.