Hi fellas'! I've heard about your little nerdherd over on Reddit, and I thought
all that pornographic window managers looked fuckin' awesome, so I had to take
a look at this community. I only recently (Like .. six months ago man.)
converted to Linux and I have to say, it's fuckin' awesome. I exclusively use
the Ultimate Edition of Ubuntu (check it out
here, they just released a BD-version of their operating system, I mean .. how
fuckin' awesome is that?), I even replaced my Windows Home Server with it, and
the VNC-server runs .. I guess you know what's about to come .. fuckin'
awesome, haha! Anyway, would love to take about some tech stuff with you folks, I posted some cool screenshots on my Facebook profile, check them out and leave some comments. ;)



For those of you who made it through the first paragraph - which was as painful
to write as it probably is to read - congratulations, you are now getting some
real bits about me. I usually go by the nickname dot|not, but special characters are not exactly welcome
by most forums. So dtnt it is.

I am your average, boring nerd. During the day I work with
computers, trying to make the Internet a not-so-malware-infested place. During
the night .. I tend to sleep. But the few hours each day that are not occupied
with work, exercise, sleeping, food and personaly hygiene are mostly spent in
front of a computer, playing videogames, monkey-patching stuff to avoid people
noticing my failure, idling in IRC channels and watching people chat away,
or trying out obscure software for no practical gain, all
while listening to music. (I'm an avid CD / Vinyl collector. Ironically I don't
know anything about the technology behind it, so if my vinyl player dies I'm
[x] rekt. Because there is no way in hell I could replicate the settings
properly.)

My ricing days are long gone, I'm mostly using stock (in the sense of visuals)
configurations of MATE and / or Xfce with the occasional booting of a virtual
machine running Arch and i3 (just to realize that I've forgotten everything I
have ever known about ricing and that I should potentially do something more
productive), but since ..

.. I'm into OpenBSD (or the BSDs in general), including exposing one of my boxes to the wrath of the Internet
.. I'm certain that one day I'll dive into $scripting_language deeper than picking out a few nibblets I need to make this #()#%!@! legacy code work again
.. I'm enjoying wasting hours on practically useless ideas involving computers

.. I figured that I still might fit in here. And since talking about some of your projects is apparently very popular, this' what I am 'working' (read: pushing away from me) on right now:

* Migrating my jumphost from an old, outdated OpenVZ-container to a new, shiny, OpenBSD-VM
* Switching my machine-to-machine VPN from a static secret to a sane PKI (How high was I when I thought static secrets might be a remtely good idea?)
* Utilize a configuration management (in my case, Ansible) for more than regularly updating machines
* Build a backup for my media that's working more reliable than 'carpe diem' (aka 'yolo')
* tons of other things I should probably do

Sorry for the formatting, (g)vim did horrible things to it. \o