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date: 2020-10-30
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title: About Seirdy (Rohan Kumar)
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description: "Get to know Rohan Kumar, also known as Seirdy. Contact info, my projects, interests, online accounts, etc."
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<div itemscope="" itemprop="about" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemid="https://seirdy.one/#seirdy" class="h-card vcard">
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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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Rohan: meat­space persona {#Rohan}
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I go by <span itemprop="name" class="p-name fn n"><span itemprop="givenName" class="p-given-name given-name">Rohan</span> <span itemprop="familyName" class="p-family-name family-name">Kumar</span></span> in "real life" (work, school, family, etc).
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Age
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: 21
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Location
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: <span class="p-region">California</span>, <abbr itemprop="nationality" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Country" class="p-country-name">USA</abbr>
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Gender
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: <span class="p-gender-identity" itemprop="gender">Male</span>
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Pronouns
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: He
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: Him
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Software forges
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: [Sourcehut](https://sr.ht/~seirdy "{rel='me'}") (preferred)
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: [GitHub](https://github.com/Seirdy "{rel='me'}")
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: [GitLab](https://gitlab.com/Seirdy "{rel='me'}")
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: [Codeberg](https://codeberg.org/Seirdy "{rel='me'}")
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My preferred forge for personal projects is Sourcehut, but my repositories have remotes for GitHub, GitLab, and Codeberg too. I accept contributions from any of these platforms; use whichever you prefer.
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Seirdy: online persona {#Seirdy}
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I go by <span class="p-nickname nickname" itemprop="alternateName">Seirdy</span> online. I have multiple online personas, but Seirdy is my main one and the only one I feel comfortable associating with my meatspace persona. Seirdy is a bit of an abstract character, a bit less "professional" than Rohan.
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Location
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: Cyberspace
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Gender
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: <span class="p-gender-identity" itemprop="gender">Agender</span>
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Pronouns
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: It
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: Its
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Social (Fediverse)
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: [@Seirdy<wbr />@pleroma<wbr />.envs.net](https://pleroma.envs.net/seirdy "{rel='me'}") (primary)
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: [@Seirdy<wbr />@lemmy<wbr />.ml](https://lemmy.ml/u/Seirdy "{rel='me'}") (Lemmy)
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Social (centralized)
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: [apioforum](https://a.gh0.pw/user/Seirdy "{rel='me'}")
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: [Tildes.net](https://tildes.net/user/Seirdy "{rel='me'}")
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: "Seirdy" on Linux Weekly News
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: [Lobsters](https://lobste.rs/u/Seirdy "{rel='me'}")
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: [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/user/Seirdy/ "{rel='me'}")
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: ["Hacker" News](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Seirdy "{rel='me'}")
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Email
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: [seirdy<wbr />@seirdy.one](mailto:seirdy@seirdy.one "{class='u-email' itemprop='email' rel='me'}")
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PGP public key
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: [`1E892DB2A5F84479`](../publickey.asc "{rel='pgpkey authn' type='application/pgp-keys' class='u-key'}") (also available via Web Key Directory)
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Chat
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: IRC: "Seirdy" on many networks (Liberachat, Snoonet, OFTC, Tilde.Chat, apionet, some others)
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: Matrix: [@seirdy<wbr />:seirdy.one](matrix:u/seirdy:seirdy.one "class='u-impp u-url' rel='me'")
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At least two platforms listed in the "Social (centralized)" category are not endorsed, and I'm trying to wind down my use of them. 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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I used to have the Matrix ID `@seirdy:envs.net`. I sometimes use `@seirdy:fairydust.space` for technical reasons (seirdy.one runs a Conduit server but certain features only work in Synapse rooms).
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<small>Poggies</small>
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Selected projects
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### [Clogstats](https://sr.ht/~seirdy/clogstats/)
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Analyze WeeChat logs to quantify, graph, forecast, and perform anomaly-detection on IRC channel activity. Written in Python; uses Pandas.
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### [MOAC](https://sr.ht/~seirdy/MOAC/)
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Generate passwords and analyze password strength given physical limits to computing. Based on a weblog/gemlog entry: [Becoming physically immune to brute-force attacks](../posts/2021/01/12/password-strength/). Written in Go.
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Interests, preferences, et cetera
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I ought to come up with more interests than these, but that sounds hard.
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### 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](../posts/2020/11/23/website-best-practices/) in an effort to maximize its inclusivity. This site should work well whether you're using Lynx, NetSurf, the Tor Browser with a screen reader, or a printout.
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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
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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.
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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](../posts/2021/01/27/whatsapp-and-the-domestication-of-users/).
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### Other tech stuff
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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.
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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 textual user interfaces don't play well with screen readers).
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Some other software I use: Sway, mpv, mpd, Minetest, Neovim, tmux, newsboat, WeeChat, Foot, and zsh.
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More information is available in my [dotfiles repo](https://sr.ht/~seirdy/dotfiles); check its README.
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### Anime
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I watch anime. Some of my favorites, in no particular order:
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- Code Geass
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- Mawaru Penguindrum
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- No Game No Life: Zero
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- Darling in the Franxx
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- Black Lagoon
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- Serial Experiments Lain
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- Saga of Tanya the Evil
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- Monogatari
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- 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 and it felt wrong to exclude it.
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### Music
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I've put together a periodically-updated [list of tracks](../music.txt) that I've rated 8/10 or higher in my mpd stickers database, auto-generated by some of my [mpd-scripts](https://git.sr.ht/~seirdy/mpd-scripts/tree/master/smart-playlists). 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 and Scandroid, Helloween, Two Steps from Hell, Nightwish, Mili, and MYTH & ROID.
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Meta: other versions of this website
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------------------------------------
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This website's canonical location is on seirdy.one.
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This page also exists on the [tildeverse](https://tildeverse.org/), 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. Read about the tildeverse's [origins](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), read [the FAQ](https://tilde.club/wiki/faq.html), pick [a tilde](https://tilde.club/%7Epfhawkins/othertildes.html) and [get started](https://tilde.club/~anthonydpaul/primer.html). My Tildeverse pages will serve as a "rough draft".
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Content on this site also appears on <a rel="alternate" href="gemini://seirdy.one/" class="u-syndication">my Gemini capsule</a>. My Web and Gemini content may be slightly different: I often phrase things differently to accommodate the strengths and weaknesses of each medium.
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I have a [Tor hidden Web service](http://wgq3bd2kqoybhstp77i3wrzbfnsyd27wt34psaja4grqiezqircorkyd.onion/ "{rel='alternate' class='u-syndication'}") which mirrors this site's contents, except for the fact that it replaces some SVGs with PNGs.
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