Me

• Based in the Chicago area.
• Born on March 15th, 1988.
• Sensitive, introverted, intuitive.
• I'm shy and might comes across as reserved and standoffish at first, but I open up when I get more comfortable with people.
• Aspiring system administrator and programmer.
• I have a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University of Illinois-Springfield.
• Mental illness and mental health advocate.
• Favorite things: free and open software/culture/content/access, diversity, automation, programming, logic, video games, role-playing games, language, and coffee.
• I dislike monocultures, non-consensual power structures, and closed-mindedness.
• He/him/his, they/them/their
• 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.
• I have schizoaffective 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 libertarian socialist.

Computing Repertoire

=> Fedora
=> Debian
=> GrapheneOS
=> Tailscale
=> Doom Emacs
=> Firefox
=> LibreWolf
=> Zsh
=> Zellij
=> Catppuccin
=> XFCE

I'm very interested in how other people do their computing. I enjoy seeing workstation setups, dotfiles, what software and tools others use as daily drivers, etc.

Interests

Below is an outline of things I'm interested in and would like to learn more about:

• Python and Golang
• Unix/Linux system administration
• computer networks
• infosec / cybersecurity
• shell scripting with bash, zsh, and Nushell
• self-hosting
• digital homemaking
• digital archiving and preservation
• Gemini protocol and the Smolnet
• 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
• minimalism / parsimony / Unix philosophy
• psychology
• anthropology
• philosophy
• language and linguistics
• mythology and folklore
• Hacker culture and Hacker ethic
• high fantasy and science fiction
• role-playing games: Only video games for now, but One Of These Days™ I will get into table-top gaming.

Contact

My stomping grounds around the Internet

=> Matrix | Fediverse | Bluesky | Email

You can also find me as hyperreal on the following IRC networks:

• irc.libera.chat

• irc.oftc.net

• irc.tilde.chat

• irc.anarchyplanet.org

Last updated: 2025-01-09

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