Yay! My #talos #libvirt #terraform module is working! Now to add cilium support.

New server, new #introduction Now with a luxurious amount of characters available to me I believe #privacy is a human right & I focus on helping people & SMBs who have elevated risk of #surveillance harassment & violence because of who they are or what they do. I help & teach--never shame--people for not knowing something or not having had the time or bandwidth to implement things on their own. I do #InfoSec #OSINT #PurpleTeam #ThreatAwareness #virtualization My work means I spend a lot of time thinking about far right extremism, ethical AI, data science, security, journalism, & politics. I find myself fighting with #libvirt a lot If that means anything to you, please feel free to tell me where to find helpful and up to date references for it and/or #KVM aside from their man pages

I'm still recovering from my years as the head of #photography for an academic museum. I took took down my portfolio site a few years ago. But I like talking about photography and I really am happy to help with photo related questons when I can! Mentoring is one of the only things I miss about that job. I might start rebuilding my site & I may post some of my photos here. Cat photos, however, will definitely be posted ​

My current side/hobby projects are: an energy efficient network & #homelab upgrade, then designing PCBs for a split ortho #keyboard that will perfectly fit my hands bc I have RSI and switching to one made a world of difference. After which I'm going to try to restore/replace the bellows of a vintage accordion. I do #lockpicking for relaxation. #Music is life for me and I'm always making or tweaking a playlist. Like Erick Sermon said, "I wish music could adopt me."

I give random compliments because kindness. I like to be helpful and connecting good people with other good people is one of my favorite things to do. My values: antiracism, disability justice, intersectionality, actively fighting against: bigotry, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, fatphobia, colonialism, classism, elitism. Billionaires shouldn't exist and antifascism should be the default. These values guide my work & personal life.

#introduction post:

This is hard. I talk a lot, but not about myself...

I'm originally from Central Illinois, but for ages now I've lived in the #StLouis area with @kpritch, our kid, and various #cats.

I started out as a #sysadmin, but I've done everything from #hardware to #devops.

Interests include (in no particular order) #linux, #fedora, #puppet, #gitlab, #vim, #opensource in general, #homelab (currently using #libvirt + #zfs, hopefully soon using #harvester), #comics, #beer, and #bbq.

Considering i may have forgotten to click submit on that last #introduction, here are a bunch of random tags to complement my bio: #c, #erlang, #ada, #cobol, #portability, #FOSS, #esperanto, #lojban, #linux, #slackware, #gentoo, #BSD, #android, #aosp, #virtualization, #libvirt, #kvm, #lxc, #qemu, #zfs, #lvm, #raspberrypi, #mainframe, #XMPP, #IRC, #daemon, #P2P, #tor, #i2p, #freenet, #cli, #tui, #vim, #mutt, #monero, #70s, #80s, #90s, #communism, #socialism, #space, #scienceFiction, #nsfw EOL.