⦺ irick 🐁🐈⚩ / is on Nostr

I am a marginally fluffy queer anarchist ComSci nerd. Software is inherently political and I see the fediverse as a practical application of technology for bottom up organization. I use it for the hallowed aims of posting about cats. I am not safe for work, or for followers under the age of 18.

I do a lot of tech stuff, I help develop VR applications, I am a relationship anarchist and I like to think deeply about play.

Started my fedi journey on Vulpine.club

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2025-03-26 18:31:53

Get armed.
Get organized.
Insure that your neighbors are safe and accounted for.
Do not accept disappearances.
Do not accept warentless raids.
Do not accept ununiformed officers.
Unfortunately, even community power ultimately flows from the barrel of a gun.

2025-03-26 17:02:22

I'm here to wiggle.

2024-09-20 13:49:20

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@npub1acn…h229
Solarpunk huh?
Okay, so, this is probably right up your asthetic alley:
https://www.clockworkpi.com/product-page/uconsole-kit-r-01
:3

2024-09-20 13:34:23

Living in the future like it is the 90s, Haiku on RISC-V.

2024-09-11 16:00:16

@nprofile…m9jt @nprofile…cu9x
What if I'm not at RustConf and I really want to learn more about RedoxOS? Congratulations on your 0.9 release, the amount of progress you have all made in these short years has been amazing!

2023-12-08 20:32:54

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@npub15th…6nvx
The depiction of Baphomet they are drawing from is the creation of Éliphas Lévi (Alphonse Louis Constant). It is believed that his specific occult philosophy was heavily influenced by his education as a Socialist. While the hermetic current tends to be a bit heavy on hierarchy it is interesting to note the through line of socialist and anarchic thought within the western occult. Alan Moore tends to swim in that current and I always found his medications on anarchism interesting.

2023-11-01 22:55:26

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@npub1tx3…kxnn @npub1t9n…k9e7
Yeah, unfortunately. I look to make sure my linux laptops have open firmware these days. System76 has been my go-to for a while for that. But I really like framework's concept, so I've been considering going the FW chromebook path
Unfortunately the one really nice thing about Chromebooks is they all support coreboot and if they are on https://wiki.mrchromebox.tech/Supported_Devices it's the easiest way to get a relatively nice modern laptop that will properly support suspend states in Linux.

2023-11-01 22:36:44

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@npub1tx3…kxnn @npub1t9n…k9e7
If it is within the return period, I'd suggest returning the main module for the Chromebook module. You can flash a Coreboot UEFI payload and that will work wonderfully with Linux.
Unfortunately the mainline framework stuff is still using the same old proprietary UEFI providers and their Linux compatibility is atrocious :<

2023-08-15 02:05:28

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@npub1evl…yenf
i've been using tilvids.com personally, though makertube.net might be a better fit depending on your focus.

2023-07-16 07:04:15

Invest in yourself: Learn free software.
Any time you invest time and effort into proprietary tools, you are just improving rented land.

2023-07-01 20:20:24

I'm genderqueer.
Pronouns are funny to me. I accept any of the uaual trifecta, because I see them as feedback on my performance of gender.
However, I also accept lambdaMoo's Spivak pronoun variant and Keri Hulme's gender neutral pronouns. Those are because the historical and social context of the pronouns themselves are aspirational to me.
Words are powerful for their associations. I encourage those around me to be mindful of their position in the semiotic web.

2023-07-01 19:57:14

Hello new people :D
Welcome to the fediverse. The connections you make here are meaningful. Your instance admin is an actual person who you can talk to. The networks we build, both social and support, are ours to maintain.
More than any platform before it, this is ours. I highly encourage you to embrace it with a spirit of participation. It is small and fragile, We break things sometimes for no good reason.
But every time we do, we are allowed to fix it.
We're so glad you're here :)

2023-06-05 17:21:14

So this hit my feed: https://lowendbox.com/blog/the-deprecated-bloodstained-code-in-the-linux-kernel/
And it got me thinking about the dynamics around accountability in the Foss world. Is this really 'bloodstained code'? ReiserFS was never hugely popular or anything, but it was an interesting file system largely maintained by a single contributor. That contributor went to prison for a crime of violence.
I don't really know if that matters morally. If we can accept corporate contributions to the codebase (cont.)

2023-05-29 19:18:48

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@npub1uqp…c9d4
I initially thought this was an ICQ joke.