#unixsurrealism

Moses Izumi

@moses_izumi@fe.disroot.org

A man whose mind is a haze of swedish punk rock, fantasies about musclegirls, and strong opinions on portable electronics: and slightly less stubborn views on software. Child of the Home Theater PC-era. ("every set-top box is just yet another computer") My main barometer for Software Bloat is the presence of a splash screen to cover up loading times. the decline of keyboard phones is arguably bigger blow to the concept of general-purpose computing than any DRM/vendor lock-in As of 27 April 2026 I only repost/quote posts that I've replied to. I don't wish to have a profile full of reruns, but I still see the value in signal-boosting the work of others. _ _ _ _ Picked my username because I believe that Noa Izumi from the Mobile Police Patlabor franchise is a pretty good "patron saint of technologists"-figure: give or take the cop thing. She is very optimistic and strives to get the most out of her exoskeleton even though she hardly knows robotics. She also dismantled a supply chain botnet: decades before NPM and Wordpress made those mainstream. (see https://fe.disroot.org/notice/B3kS7d2BeERz3WC5Wi for more) _ _ _ _ == Interests == - Making simple gameplay mods for ZDoom (weapons, player movement, jetpacks) - Hacker conferences, i.e CCC (never been to one, but the talks eviscerate 99% of tech Youtube) - Reading: tech blogs, manga, religious works (TechTipsy, @domi@donotsta.re 's blog, even Hackaday if I'm desperate) (Patlabor, Rayearth, anything by Shirow Masamune) (New Testament, The Religion of the Samurai) - Videogames (Jackal and Millipede are the best 2D shooters, because you don't need a speed powerup to have a fighting chance) (Quake has worse guns than doom, but the verticality makes up for it) (Doom is more interesting when you don't keep weapons between levels) (got highly addicted to F-Zero for a while) (Kung Fu for NES is the only beat-em up I really got into, it isn't a slugfest: also appreciate Mazinger Z for SNES because of the immense enemy variety) - Permacomputing (mainly interested in the "my laptop from 2003 works fine, now get off my lawn"-part of their philosophy) - Birds (kinda want to scratch a Golden Eagle under the chin, I find them oddly cute) (don't get why Netscape's grandson is called Seamonkey instead of Albatross or something) Profile picture is Ishikawa from Ghost in the Shell (1995 movie)