From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free 🇵🇸

Admin of orcas.enjoying.yachts and web dev of nearly 2 decades.

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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • My brother is from that era. I used to hangout with him and his friends when I was a kid and they were easily some of the nicest, smartest, most accepting people I knew. They’re a big reason for my radicalization into adulthood.

    That whole friend circle has been decimated by AIDS. It’s really sad. He has a couple friends that made it through, but things will never be the same for him or the remaining friends.

    Edit: thinking about this more, it makes me thankful to still have my brother around. On the non-selfish side, I’m sad he has to endure such loss and grief.








  • Dating back to the first Android phone, the G1. I was installing custom ROMs on that first, and then when I eventually got a Nexus 5, I started to de-Google.

    I’m on an iPhone now because I had a string of bad luck with how shit most Android phones are, but I’m still privacy and security-minded:

    • I have no social media accounts - no one can actually find me except through my personal website or LinkedIn (but they obviously have to know my name first for either). If/when people complain about it, I shrug at them. I’m not signing up for TikTok so you can send me some vapid video
    • I use a VPN 24/7
    • Proton as my mail provider
    • My wife and I don’t use any streaming services - Stremio for everything (through Real Debrid so no torrents can be tracked)
    • I use a virtual card service so that absolutely nothing has our actual credit and debit card numbers (some with limits set so a service can’t arbitrarily raise rates on us, or go rogue and accidentally charge too much)
    • Windows is not allowed to touch a single computer I own. It’s either macOS for work stuff, or Linux for everything else