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# Seirdy (Rohan Kumar)
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Rohan Kumar : He/Him
Online Handle: Seirdy
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I'm known as Rohan and as Seirdy. There are some differences between these personas, but the line between the two is blurry. It's fine to mix them up.
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This page lists my most relevant accounts. A more comprehensive list of my online accounts is available via WebFinger:
=> https://seirdy.one/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct%3Aseirdy%40seirdy.one WebFinger for acct:seirdy@seirdy.one
Any currently-active public account not listed via WebFinger isn't actually me; please let me know if you find one.
I've published a version of my OpenPGP key via Web Key Directory; this version has notations containing Ariadne identity proofs for a few more accounts of mine. You can verify those accounts on any Keyoxide instance using Web Key Directory. I hope to migrate identity proofs to something besides OpenPGP in the future.
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## About this capsule
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This page's canonical location is on seirdy.one:
=> gemini://seirdy.one/ Seirdy's Gemini Capsule
This page also exists on the tildeverse, a bunch of *nix computers that let people sign up for shell accounts. A typical shell account features clients for IRC and email, common terminal/commandline utilities, and (most importantly) web hosting. My Tildeverse pages will serve as a "rough draft".
More info about the Tildeverse:
=> https://tildeverse.org/ The tildeverse
=> https://web.archive.org/web/20180917091804/https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf Origins of the tildeverse
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=> https://tilde.club/wiki/faq.html Tildeverse FAQ
=> https://tilde.club/%7Epfhawkins/othertildes.html Pick a tilde
=> https://tilde.club/%7Eanthonydpaul/primer.html Get started
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My Web and Gemini content may be slightly different: I often phrase things differently to accommodate the strengths and weaknesses of each medium.
I have a Tor hidden Web service which mirrors this site's contents, except for the fact that it replaces some SVGs with PNGs.
=> http://wgq3bd2kqoybhstp77i3wrzbfnsyd27wt34psaja4grqiezqircorkyd.onion/
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Featured in:
=> gemini://nightfall.city/writers-lane/ Writer's Lane, Nightfall City
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## Location (Rohan, He/Him, meatspace)
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Currently living at home in California, USA
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=> https://sr.ht/%7Eseirdy Sourcehut forge
=> https://github.com/Seirdy GitHub forge
=> https://gitlab.com/Seirdy GitLab forge
=> https://codeberg.org/Seirdy Codeberg forge
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More info:
* Time zone: Pacific (UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00 during DST)
* Age: 23
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## Location (Seirdy, They/Them, online)
My handle is "Seirdy" on all the platforms I use:
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=> https://a.gh0.pw/user/Seirdy apioforum
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=> https://envs.net/%7Eseirdy/ my tildeverse Web page
=> gemini://envs.net/%7Eseirdy/ my tildeverse Gemini page
=> https://pleroma.envs.net/seirdy Fediverse (Pleroma)
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=> https://matrix.to/#/@seirdy:seirdy.one Matrix: @seirdy:seirdy.one
=> mailto:seirdy@seirdy.one email
=> ../publickey.asc PGP: 1E892DB2A5F84479
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If you send me marketing emails or solicit guest posts, I will block you and submit you to third-party blocklists without warning.
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My username is Seirdy on Reddit, Hacker News, Lobsters, Tildes.net, Linux Weekly News, Codeberg, and a few other places. For IRC, my nick is Seirdy on Libera.chat, Snoonet, OFTC, Tilde.Chat, apionet, and a few smaller networks.
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My secondary Matrix account for Synapse-only rooms is @seirdy:fairydust.space. My Matrix account used to be @seirdy:envs.net but I've since migrated to my own Conduit server.
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If you want to follow me on Fedi, read this first:
=> ./fediverse-greeting/ Fediverse greeting
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If you find a "Seirdy" somewhere else and don't know whether or not it's me, please contact me and ask instead of assuming that it must be me.
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My preferred forge for personal projects is Sourcehut, but my repositories have remotes for GitHub, GitLab, and Codeberg too.
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## Selected projects
### Clogstats
=> https://sr.ht/~seirdy/clogstats/ Code forge
Analyze WeeChat logs to quantify, graph, forecast, and perform anomaly-detection on IRC channel activity. Written in Python; uses Pandas.
### MOAC
=> https://sr.ht/~seirdy/MOAC/ Code forge
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Generate passwords and analyze password strength given physical limits to computing. Based on a weblog/gemlog entry:
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=> ../posts/2021/01/12/password-strength/ Becoming physically immune to brute-force attacks
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Written in Go.
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## Interests, preferences, et cetera
I ought to come up with more interests than these, but that sounds hard.
### Inclusive design
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I care a lot about accessibility, resource usage, and compatibility. My Web site may seem simple, but I put almost 20 thousand words of thought into its design in an effort to maximize its inclusivity:
=> ../posts/2020/11/23/website-best-practices/ Best practices for inclusive textual websites
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This site should work well whether you're using Lynx, NetSurf, the Tor Browser with a screen reader, or a printout
Many people frame accessibility and compatibility in terms of "percentage of users impacted" to justify ignoring certain demographics. I find that this mindset somewhat discriminatory. I prefer framing concerns in terms of "populations excluded".
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I have some skin in the game: I rely on forced colors and use often use screen readers for web browsing. This is a really helpful measure to reduce overstimulation, given my anxiety and ADHD. I encourage others in similar situations to try these measures.
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### Software freedom
While I care very much about "free software" (the name is confusing, it refers to freedom rather than price), I don't share the same perspective as most "fossbros" and organizations like the FSF. Software freedom is important because it gives people agency instead of delegating control to an authority; it's not valuable in and of itself, and promoting a "FOSS" alternative that has vulnerabilities and accessibility issues is sometimes counterproductive.
I think that simply meeting GNU's definition of free software isn't enough: it's one of multiple requirements for software to avoid the possibility of user domestication:
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=> ../posts/2021/01/27/whatsapp-and-the-domestication-of-users/ Whatsapp and the domestication of users
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I lean towards simplicity; I usually prefer line-mode command-line interfaces that follow the UNIX philosophy. If a piece of software is complex enough to require a funding round, I would rather avoid it. My reasons for preferring simplicity also relate to user autonomy: extremely complex software can't be forked easily, creating dependence on the vendor. It's also because I'm a bit paranoid and want to know everything that happens on my system.
There are exceptions, of course: I use a Linux distro with Systemd (Fedora), after all. When I use a graphical program, it's typically for things for which graphics are an inherent requirement or for accessibility reasons (most TUIs don't play well with screen readers).
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Some software I use: Fedora, Alpine Linux, SwayWM, mpv, mpd, Minetest, Neovim, tmux, newsboat, WeeChat, Foot, and zsh.
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More information is available in my "uses" page.
=> ./uses/ Software I use
### Anime
I watch anime. Some of my favorites, in no particular order:
* Code Geass
* Mawaru Penguindrum
* No Game No Life: Zero
* Darling in the Franxx
* Black Lagoon
* Serial Experiments Lain
* Saga of Tanya the Evil
* Monogatari
* Attack on Titan
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I think that at least one entry in that list has some problematic messages, but my personal interpretation was a bit unorthodox.
### Music
I've put together a periodically-updated list of tracks that I've rated 8/10 or higher in my mpd stickers database:
=> ../music.txt music.txt
It's auto-generated by some of my mpd-scripts:
=> https://git.sr.ht/%7Eseirdy/mpd-scripts/tree/master/smart-playlists mpd-scripts
I'm a fan of glitch, trailer music, and symphonic and power metal; I've also recently been getting into Japanese rock thanks to a few anime openings. Some of my favorite artists are The Glitch Mob, Pretty Lights, Beats Antique, Hammerfall, Badflower, Celldweller/Scandroid, Helloween, Two Steps from Hell, Nightwish, Mili, and MYTH & ROID.