Damus
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Writer (software and prose), epistemologist.
Fedi user since 2019 → fedi dev → quit fedi → [you are here].

I contribute (roughly at random, my brain is too ADHDified to stick with a software project for too long) to a lot of projects, and help upkeep some of the akkoma project's infrastructure (among others).
Besides that, I do some (interesting to me but probably not to you) CS research and make random things that I find useful/interesting.
I want software to be beautiful to read, and to spark joy at runtime, a bit like (some) writing (though my prose is not that).

Assigned "Tumblr Lesbian" by my gay wife, confirmed by fedi.

Sometimes my wife (Hélène) posts on my account.
If you want to know whose post a particular one is, you must pick up the honored internet tradition of identifying people by vernacular, punctuation, and way of thinking.

Relays (1)
  • wss://relay.ditto.pub – read & write

Recent Notes

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i feel like one of the very few weirdos that has used windows phone and very much can say it was quite good. nothing else with battery life as good for the time (3+ days battery life in 2014!) and nothing else that felt so fast and so responsive either
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new blog post! have you ever wondered how and why companies pick what they pick (like windows, and fortinet)? well, if you read this, you're gonna find out, whether you like it or not. (it's focused on larger companies, the smaller the company the less what I wrote applies, but it's still true to some degree in even tiny 3-people ones)
https://toast.prose.sh/procurement
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Wolf480pl · 1w
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actually how the fuck does cuba get internet access? who do they peer with? anyone they’d peer with would be ultra sanctioned so how do they do it

who gives them IP address ranges? who put up the cables to give them internet? was it a while ago?

i’m actually curious about all this, i can definitely look some of it up i’m sure but i’m wondering if anyone knows about it
Tlapka🐾 :neocat_phone: · 1w
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bartholin (what month is this arc) · 2w
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