Machines Will Rise

Here are some other things about me:

My username comes from the song Shelter by Icon of Coil. You should check him out!
I use almost exclusively free software (besides GitHub), and I don't have any proprietary apps on my phone.
I tried SourceHut and... an interesting... Forgejo instance but they don't have all the features I want.
I have 7 laptops, 8 if you count the broken IdeaPad from my grandpa. I currently use a Latitude 5420 and a Pixel 4a with LineageOS.
My favorite GNU/Linux distribution right now is Debian (XFCE + XLibre) but I've been playing with Artix with i3 on the side, and it's prety good!
I don't care about editors. I can use anything from Mousepad to Nano to Vim to Emacs to Zed to VSCodium. But Emacs is usually my favorite unless I'm working on a huge project.
I don't read the news. I'm subscribed to the Phoronix, Techrights, and OSNews RSS feeds though, as well as a few others.

Stack Overflow
Hacker News (banned) - criticized Claude Fable and my username sounded "violent" or something? (it's from the same song)

If you want to work on a project with me, I'll accept PRs for any of them! <3

My favorite language is Java. Some other languages I like are:

C (Due to it's simplicity and low-level control)
C++ (Generics and some of the built-in data structures can really shorten my code sometimes, but I usually avoid the obscure features.) This is probably my least favorite one in the list but there are good uses for it sometimes.
Python (Due to it's thriving ecosystem, low boilerplate, and clean syntax)
Raku (Sometimes the syntax can be of ugly because it derives from Perl, but I think that you can write more elegant code when your hands aren't tied up by the language and can choose the paradigm most suitable for your use-case. Unlike Java, it has first-class support for all of Unicode and not only has operator overloading, but also lets you make your own operators. Grammars and smartmatching are also great.)

Animal: Cat (I have an orange Devon Rex cat named Firefox and he's the best! He's about 6 years old.
Season: Fall (I wear hoodies all the time so it's natural)
Artists: Hard to decide. I like Icon of Coil (obviously), but I also like Assemblage 23, VNV Nation (mostly), and And One. I also listen to Russian music like Molchat Doma sometimes, and it helps me keep the Russian alphabet memorized.
Color: As a Catppuccin user, obviously purple. But I like some of the orange-ish themes like Gruvbox as well so maybe orange too?
Search engine: Usually Mojeek because other search engines have a lot of political biases. But unforunately I have to use DuckDuckGo sometimes when it doesn't give good results.
License: Unlicense or MIT. Unlicense has the benefit that Goolag won't contribute to your codebase.
Indentation: Obviously tabs, but the Neocities editor doesn't provide an easy way to insert them so I don't use them here.
Brace style: Allman for new projects if the language allows it, but I use K&R when maintaining my older ones.

AI agents help users fight back against enshittification by browsing on their behalf, aligning with their interests and avoiding SEO spam.
Mechanical keyboards and curved monitors are a scam to appeal to the productivity cult.
Advertising is like malware for the brain.
When watching YouTube, you should skip at least the first 1/3 of the video because it won't be relevant. Make sure to use 1.5x speed because they'll also talk like a snail.
DEI is discriminatory, real projects like Devuan know including everyone is different than including specific chosen people.
Buy as much as possible with Monero or cash and delete your Amazon account. (Read about Amazon's environmental impact, treatment of workers, etc. from Richard Stallman)
There's nothing wrong with cheating in a game, despite what companies that make multiplayer games say.

"The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want." - Bram Cohen
"Just because the standard provides a cliff in front of you, you are not necessarily required to jump off it." - Norman Diamond
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson
"The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it" - Dennis Ritchie
"Premature optimization, that’s like a fart. Premature abstraction is like taking a dump on another developer’s desk" - Chris Eric
"How do you know a program is truly copyleft? Its license is longer than its source code." - Drummyfish

You can find some other good quotes at CAT-V (RIP Uriel)

Email: machineswillrise ampersat protonmail period com
Stoat: machineswillrise#9162
Fluxer: machineswillrise#6549
Matrix: @machineswillrise:matrix.org
TOX: 5D748A0D88287F684347EF8BDDB4389CB6F68477B2DA5DF883767DDC07278F0D35691190E607

If you have some Monero to throw away, you can give it to me :3

Address: 89VWUhX3pj12LQnsZRUiE9Gy9uzy8RAPwGvEJWaCaLoSc9F8YAFTyE6ScdzJdgPaaEDwMXafEPmFuB9HjJT3K1apLqFHLLq

Drummyfish for inspiring the page structure and making the Less Retarded Wiki
Imlauer for encouraging me to move my website off of a bloated Apache Freemarker setup

Thanks for visiting my website!