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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, a.k.a. Seirdy. Contact info, my projects, interests, etc."
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Rohan Kumar : He/Him : Age 21
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Online Handle: Seirdy
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Other versions of this website
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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 href="gemini://seirdy.one">my Gemini capsule</a>
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Location (Rohan, meat­space) {#location-rohan-meatspace}
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Currently living at home in Cupertino, CA
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Location (Seirdy, online)
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My handle is "Seirdy" on all the platforms I use.
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- My [tildeverse page](https://envs.net/~seirdy).
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- Software forges: [Sourcehut](https://sr.ht/~seirdy), [GitHub](https://github.com/Seirdy), [GitLab](https://gitlab.com/Seirdy), and [Codeberg](https://codeberg.org/Seirdy).
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- Social (federated): I'm [@Seirdy<wbr>@pleroma<wbr>.envs.net](https://pleroma.envs.net/seirdy) on the Fediverse.
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- Social (non-federated): I'm Seirdy on [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Seirdy), [Lobsters](https://lobste.rs/u/Seirdy), [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/user/Seirdy/), [Tildes.net](https://tildes.net/user/Seirdy), and Linux Weekly News.
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- Email: my address is [seirdy<wbr>@seirdy.one](mailto:seirdy@seirdy.one). I typically sign my emails with my public PGP key: [`1E892DB2A5F84479`](./publickey.asc). My key is also available via WKD.
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- Chat: for IRC, my nick is Seirdy on Libera.chat, Snoonet, OFTC, Tilde.Chat, and a few smaller networks. I'm also [@seirdy<wbr>:seirdy.one](https://matrix.to/#/@seirdy:seirdy.one) on Matrix.
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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 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
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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](https://seirdy.one/2021/01/12/password-strength.html). 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 [over 15 thousand words of thought into its design](https://seirdy.one/~seirdy/2020/11/23/website-best-practices.html).
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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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### Free software
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The word "free" in "free software" refers to freedom, not price. I recommend looking it up if you aren't familiar. That being said, I think that simply meeting the definition of free software isn't enough: it's one of multiple requirements for software to avoid the possibility of [user domestication](https://seirdy.one/2021/01/27/whatsapp-and-the-domestication-of-users.html).
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I lean towards simplicity; I usually prefer CLIs that follow the UNIX philosophy over TUIs, and TUIs over GUIs. If a piece of software is complex enough to require a funding round, I would rather avoid it. There are exceptions, of course: I use a Linux distro with Systemd (Fedora), after all.
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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 [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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### 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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