My personal website and Gemini capsule
hyperreal.bsky.moonshadow.dev
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9## About me
10
11- Based in the Chicago area.
12- Born on March 15th, 1988.
13- I'm shy and might come across as reserved and standoffish at first, but I open up when I get more comfortable with people.
14- I have a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University of Illinois-Springfield.
15- I'm a mental illness and mental health advocate.
16- Some of my favorite things include: free and open source software/culture/content/access, diversity, automation, programming, logic, video games, role-playing games, language, and coffee.
17- I dislike monocultures, non-consensual power structures, and closed-mindedness.
18- My pronouns are he/him/his or they/them/their.
19- I'm autistic.
20- I'm genderfluid. More specifically, I'm a demi-gendered man, which means I identify as mostly masculine and have some feminine markers.
21- I have schizoaffective disorder and OCD. I was diagnosed in September of 2007 and have been taking medication since 2006. Secondary symptoms that stem from these, and which overlap with my neurodivergence, include agoraphobia, social phobia, selective mutism, and alogia/speech articulation issues.
22- I'm an atheist, naturalist, and secular humanist.
23- Politically, I'm a libertarian socialist.
24
25### Links
26
27[Autism](https://autisticadvocacy.org/about-asan/about-autism/)
28[Schizoaffective disorder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizoaffective_disorder)
29[OCD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive%E2%80%93compulsive_disorder)
30[Agoraphobia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agoraphobia)
31[Social phobia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_anxiety_disorder)
32[Selective mutism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_mutism)
33[Alogia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alogia)
34[Atheism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism)
35[Naturalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalism_%5C%28philosophy%5C%29)
36[Secular humanism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_humanism)
37[Libertarian socialism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism)
38[Resume](https://files.hyperreal.coffee/Jeffrey_Serio_-_System_Administrator__DevOps.pdf)
39[More info about me](https://hyperreal.coffee/about/facts/)
40
41## Interests
42
43Below is an outline of things I'm interested in and would like to learn more about.
44
45- Python and Go
46- Unix/Linux system administration
47- computer networks
48- infosec / cybersecurity
49- shell scripting with bash, zsh, and Nushell
50- self-hosting
51- digital homemaking
52- digital archiving and preservation
53- retro-computing
54- decentralized internet
55- privacy and digital rights
56- free and open source software / culture/ content / access
57- Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects
58- mental illness and mental health awareness
59- neurodivergence
60- minimalism
61- history
62- psychology
63- anthropology
64- philosophy
65- language and linguistics
66- mythology and folklore
67- Hacker culture and Hacker ethic
68- high fantasy and science fiction
69- role-playing games. Only video games for now, but One Of These Days™ I will get into table-top gaming.
70
71### Links
72
73[Free and open-source software](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software)
74[Free-culture movement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-culture_movement)
75[Free content](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_content)
76[Open access](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access)
77[Neurodiversity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurodiversity)
78[Hacker culture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture)
79[Hacker ethic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic)