FOSS geek, privacy advocate, digital archivist, gamer
About
- Based in the Chicago area.
- Born on March 15th, 1988.
- I'm shy and might come across as reserved and standoffish at first, but I open up when I get more comfortable with people.
- I have a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University of Illinois-Springfield.
- I'm an advocate for mental health and people living with mental illness.
- Some of my favorite things include: free and open source software, free culture, open access, diversity, automation, programming, logic, video games, role-playing games, language, and coffee.
- I dislike monocultures, non-consensual power structures, and closed-mindedness.
- My pronouns are he or they.
- I'm autistic.
- I'm genderfluid. More specifically, I'm a demi-gendered man, which means I identify as mostly masculine and have some feminine markers. For all intents and purposes, though, I'm a cis-hetero man.
- I have schizo-affective disorder and OCD. I was diagnosed in September of 2007 and have been taking medication since 2006. Secondary symptoms that stem from these, and which overlap with my neurodivergence, include: agoraphobia, social phobia, selective mutism, and alogia / speech articulation issues.
- I'm an atheist, naturalist, and secular humanist.
- Politically, I'm a socialist and anarchist.
Interests
Below is an outline of things I'm interested in and would like to learn more about.- programming / scripting: Python, Go, Bash, Zsh, Nushell
- Unix and Linux system administration
- computer networks
- ActivityPub
- infosec / cyber-security
- self-hosting
- small web / indieweb / Gemini (protocol)
- JavaScript-free web design and development
- defenestrating Big Tech
- digital homemaking
- digital archiving and preservation
- retro-computing
- decentralized internet
- privacy and digital rights
- free and open source software / culture / content / access
- Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects
- mental illness and mental health awareness
- neurodivergence
- history
- psychology
- anthropology
- philosophy
- language and linguistics
- mythology and folklore
- hacker culture and hacker ethic
- high fantasy and science fiction
- video games