Mattias Ahnberg

CIO and Head of Security @ Netnod (ex-Spotify)

[Mattias Ahnberg @ahnberg]

Don't underestimate the power of your mind!

[Mattias Ahnberg @ahnberg]

Listen like you might be wrong.

[Mattias Ahnberg @ahnberg]

@paulg I didn’t know you were coming so I signed up way way way too late. :( Glad you enjoy Stockholm. She is pleasant today with weather and all! Welcome!!

[Luxthos @luxthos]

Cannot recommend enough the AddOn "Keystone Loot" if you're trying to farm gear in Mythic Keystones. It allows you to mark gear for every slot as "favorite" and then gives you an overview of what dungeons you should farm for better loot chances!

https://t.co/oM0UqHcwhS

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Most people will read this and think optimists live longer because they eat better and exercise more. The study says something wilder.

Lee et al. controlled for smoking, diet, exercise, alcohol, depression, BMI, and socioeconomic status. The longevity effect still held. The most optimistic quartile lived 11 to 15% longer and had 1.5 to 1.7x odds of reaching 85 even after removing every behavioral difference.

Which means something is happening at the level of biology, not just habits.

Rozanski’s meta-analysis across 229,391 participants found optimists carry 35% lower cardiovascular event risk. Blackburn’s Nobel Prize-winning lab at UCSF found pessimistic attitudes are associated with accelerated telomere shortening. Cortisol suppresses telomerase, the enzyme that rebuilds the protective caps on your chromosomes. So chronic negative expectation literally erodes the structures that keep your cells from aging.

The loop runs: pessimistic cognitive style → sustained HPA axis activation → elevated cortisol → telomere degradation → accelerated cellular senescence. Optimists interrupt that loop at the top. They show less emotional reactivity to stressors, faster recovery from acute stress, and they default to reframing threats as challenges rather than catastrophizing.

The part nobody talks about from this paper: the authors explicitly state optimism is modifiable. This isn’t a personality trait you’re born with. Cognitive reappraisal training, morning sunlight for cortisol rhythm regulation, deliberate breathing protocols for vagal tone, structured gratitude practices. All of these shift the prefrontal cortex patterns that determine where you sit on the optimism spectrum.

A 35% reduction in cardiac events from a trainable psychological variable is a bigger effect size than most supplements on the market. That’s the real story buried in this abstract.

[Mattias Ahnberg @ahnberg]

@williamready hey sir, please check out https://t.co/sEOLuoal8o and help us figure out how to reactivate our accounts. We just tagged along on the promotion of integration and got punished. What do we do?

[Delba @delba_oliveira]

10x productivity tip: use Claude hooks with sounds so Claude alerts you when it finishes a task or needs permission.

But that's not the tip, the tip is to add your favourite childhood game sounds like the Starcraft, Warcraft, or even Mario.

[Mattias Ahnberg @ahnberg]

“Hate has never changed or defeated hate”

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@Bhavani_00007 Security

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@iyoushetwt Oh more than I remember. Bash, Python, Perl, C, Golang, Lua to name a few.

[Mattias Ahnberg @ahnberg]

@VadimStrizheus The one that fulfills your requirements and need!

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@manojdotdev Sinclair Basic on ZX Spectrum!

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@Cipher_twt Visual Basic

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@iyoushetwt Securityreview

[Mattias Ahnberg @ahnberg]

@rywalker I am not against AI coding at all, but I’m concerned with just madly vibe coding random stuff and when it looks good it’s released. There is such a huge risk, possible security holes and tech debt involved to consider. And yeah this is surely a risk with rushed juniors too.

[Mattias Ahnberg @ahnberg]

Merry Christmas!

[Mikael Pawlo @mpawlo]

(Sw) Några tankar om miljardärsskatt, kultur och innovation, Sylvia Schwaag Sergers idé om en teknikminister, Sven Hagströmer och Nooshi Dagostar, Douglas McWilliams och Joel Mokyr, Daniel Ek och Dr Johan Wennström, men kanske framför allt: vad den sistnämnde lärt oss om den utpräglade adelsmannen Alvar Lindencrona,
med vapenring, vita damasker och en chaufförstyrd Mercedes och vad Lindencrona i sin tur kan lära oss om kapitalismen:
https://t.co/2ibAMO2uYk

[Mattias Ahnberg @ahnberg]

@BlizzardCSEU_EN I'm checking your status page and everything seems to be online, but me and lots of other people seem unable to connect with some/all of our characters. And the web-based unstuck service isn't working. What's up?

[Mattias Ahnberg @ahnberg]

@mistressdivy Mud!

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@oelma__ Sounds like a geek gamer. :P

[Mattias Ahnberg @ahnberg]

@_devJNS The one(s) you know!