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Stormgren

@Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com
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Works in the THz, plays in the MHz.

Hacker. Network and Optical Transport engineer. Ham radio operator. Owner of cats.

I am speaking only for myself, not any group, client, or employer unless specifically stated.

Feel free to send me follow requests. Requests are only on due to sometimes waves of trolls and spammers. If you're asking if you're either of those, you're probably not.

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Joined November 18, 2022
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Stormgren @Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com · Jul 26, 2026
Stormgren
@Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com

Works in the THz, plays in the MHz. Hacker. Network and Optical Transport engineer. Ham radio operator. Owner of cats. I am speaking only for myself, not any group, client, or employer unless specifically stated. Feel free to send me follow requests. Requests are only on due to sometimes waves of trolls and spammers. If you're asking if you're either of those, you're probably not.

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Replying to @xssfox@cloudisland.nz
@xssfox@cloudisland.nz Does it really need to be a lot of infill for the application, though?
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Stormgren @Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com · Jul 23, 2026
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@Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com

Works in the THz, plays in the MHz. Hacker. Network and Optical Transport engineer. Ham radio operator. Owner of cats. I am speaking only for myself, not any group, client, or employer unless specifically stated. Feel free to send me follow requests. Requests are only on due to sometimes waves of trolls and spammers. If you're asking if you're either of those, you're probably not.

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Replying to @julie@merida.hair
@julie@merida.hair SO MUCH THIS. I've been saying for years that if you can't relate, empathize or make life easier for your users, the best security plans will completely fall apart because those plans will be resoundingly ignored or worked around.
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Stormgren @Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com · Jul 15, 2026
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@Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com

Works in the THz, plays in the MHz. Hacker. Network and Optical Transport engineer. Ham radio operator. Owner of cats. I am speaking only for myself, not any group, client, or employer unless specifically stated. Feel free to send me follow requests. Requests are only on due to sometimes waves of trolls and spammers. If you're asking if you're either of those, you're probably not.

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Replying to @mcc@mastodon.social
@mcc@mastodon.social @scruss@xoxo.zone It largely ended up on some commercials, but didn't fit into any of the on-air formats in the US so got ignored. IMHO, Spybreak, OHMSS, and History Repeating hold up the album, with Take California coming up from behind. The rest of it, I don't give much of a listen. I should go look at Disc 2, I don't think I've ever heard that.
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Stormgren @Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com · Jul 09, 2026
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@Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com

Works in the THz, plays in the MHz. Hacker. Network and Optical Transport engineer. Ham radio operator. Owner of cats. I am speaking only for myself, not any group, client, or employer unless specifically stated. Feel free to send me follow requests. Requests are only on due to sometimes waves of trolls and spammers. If you're asking if you're either of those, you're probably not.

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Replying to @linuxandyarn@hachyderm.io
@linuxandyarn@hachyderm.io @catsalad@infosec.exchange Our Maine Coon is about 2/3 the size of that big orange marshmallow. She's a big girl, we joke that we have 4.5 cats because of her.
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Stormgren @Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com · May 27, 2026
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@Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com

Works in the THz, plays in the MHz. Hacker. Network and Optical Transport engineer. Ham radio operator. Owner of cats. I am speaking only for myself, not any group, client, or employer unless specifically stated. Feel free to send me follow requests. Requests are only on due to sometimes waves of trolls and spammers. If you're asking if you're either of those, you're probably not.

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Sadness. CHU going QRT forever.

https://nrc.canada.ca/en/certifications-evaluations-standards/canadas-official-time/nrc-shortwave-station-broadcasts-chu

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Stormgren @Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com · May 27, 2026
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@Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com

Works in the THz, plays in the MHz. Hacker. Network and Optical Transport engineer. Ham radio operator. Owner of cats. I am speaking only for myself, not any group, client, or employer unless specifically stated. Feel free to send me follow requests. Requests are only on due to sometimes waves of trolls and spammers. If you're asking if you're either of those, you're probably not.

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Searching through this drawer set I rescued out of a building getting cleaned out, in search of some 7805s, and now I'm remembering that the reason I grabbed it is that it has so many oddball and rare motorola transistors and oddball JFETs from the 80s/90s. I think I have more TO-3 LM317s than I know what to do with!

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Stormgren @Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com · May 23, 2026
Stormgren
@Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com

Works in the THz, plays in the MHz. Hacker. Network and Optical Transport engineer. Ham radio operator. Owner of cats. I am speaking only for myself, not any group, client, or employer unless specifically stated. Feel free to send me follow requests. Requests are only on due to sometimes waves of trolls and spammers. If you're asking if you're either of those, you're probably not.

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Joy of the day: Seeing a local hummingbird cleaning the windows of cobwebs for nest building purposes.

Also, never really got to hear one flying before, and just happened to have the windows open. They sound like little lightsabers waving around!

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Stormgren @Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com · May 23, 2026
Stormgren
@Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com

Works in the THz, plays in the MHz. Hacker. Network and Optical Transport engineer. Ham radio operator. Owner of cats. I am speaking only for myself, not any group, client, or employer unless specifically stated. Feel free to send me follow requests. Requests are only on due to sometimes waves of trolls and spammers. If you're asking if you're either of those, you're probably not.

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Now...if I could only remember what the heck it is I did to make apt-cacher-ng actually cache Alpine packages last time, I'd be a lot happier.

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Stormgren @Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com · May 23, 2026
Stormgren
@Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com

Works in the THz, plays in the MHz. Hacker. Network and Optical Transport engineer. Ham radio operator. Owner of cats. I am speaking only for myself, not any group, client, or employer unless specifically stated. Feel free to send me follow requests. Requests are only on due to sometimes waves of trolls and spammers. If you're asking if you're either of those, you're probably not.

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Been mucking about with getting a Forgejo VM set up this morning so I am managing my little snippets of software a bit better than the git repo zfs volume thing I've been doing for years, and I have to say I'm impressed with how easy it was to setup.

Spent the afternoon moving furniture around so I haven't done much with it yet, but I suspect that's coming.

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Stormgren @Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com · May 23, 2026
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@Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com

Works in the THz, plays in the MHz. Hacker. Network and Optical Transport engineer. Ham radio operator. Owner of cats. I am speaking only for myself, not any group, client, or employer unless specifically stated. Feel free to send me follow requests. Requests are only on due to sometimes waves of trolls and spammers. If you're asking if you're either of those, you're probably not.

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Going through LEDs for this little tinkering effort of mine, and there's something perfect about going through my boxes of various colors, looking for what feels right for what basically is a one off homebrew creation. I'm in my happy place.

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Stormgren @Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com · May 22, 2026
Stormgren
@Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com

Works in the THz, plays in the MHz. Hacker. Network and Optical Transport engineer. Ham radio operator. Owner of cats. I am speaking only for myself, not any group, client, or employer unless specifically stated. Feel free to send me follow requests. Requests are only on due to sometimes waves of trolls and spammers. If you're asking if you're either of those, you're probably not.

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Over 25 years of dealing with bitwise operators and if I don't deal with them regularly (which is pretty much usually the case these days), I have to look up how that shit works and re-learn it every single time.

It's a small thing, but you'd think it'd stick eventually...

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Stormgren @Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com · May 09, 2026
Stormgren
@Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com

Works in the THz, plays in the MHz. Hacker. Network and Optical Transport engineer. Ham radio operator. Owner of cats. I am speaking only for myself, not any group, client, or employer unless specifically stated. Feel free to send me follow requests. Requests are only on due to sometimes waves of trolls and spammers. If you're asking if you're either of those, you're probably not.

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House network reconfiguration day for me today due to equipment failures and some changing office/lab equipment needs.

Turns out to work around this failed multigig SFP+, it was cheaper to get a 5-port 2.5gbit / 10g uplink managed switch than it was to replace it. 2.5/5/10 gbase-whatever SFP are abominations anyway, so it seemed like a good move, so that's what I did.

And, I'm unsurprisingly having fewer problems with the 2.5g NIC plugged into it than I did before, even with the extra step of uplinking to the 10gbit core in the basement. This will at least free up the other switch in the office to be moved elsewhere in the house to do things it would be a better fit for, and going back to the EX2200C for the radio/lab bench in the office with a separate uplink to the core.

Not generally a fan of extra network stuff just to have it around, but this is making sense to do.

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Stormgren @Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com · May 08, 2026
Stormgren
@Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com

Works in the THz, plays in the MHz. Hacker. Network and Optical Transport engineer. Ham radio operator. Owner of cats. I am speaking only for myself, not any group, client, or employer unless specifically stated. Feel free to send me follow requests. Requests are only on due to sometimes waves of trolls and spammers. If you're asking if you're either of those, you're probably not.

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Me: I just gotta get the rest of these SyncE/PTP timing proposals written up.

The rest of my brain, making up stuff to fit the TMNT song/logo: Heh, "funky chicken dating service" fits.

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Stormgren @Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com · May 07, 2026
Stormgren
@Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com

Works in the THz, plays in the MHz. Hacker. Network and Optical Transport engineer. Ham radio operator. Owner of cats. I am speaking only for myself, not any group, client, or employer unless specifically stated. Feel free to send me follow requests. Requests are only on due to sometimes waves of trolls and spammers. If you're asking if you're either of those, you're probably not.

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Replying to @foone@digipres.club
@foone@digipres.club Press ESC twice to continue... Also, if your're old enough for the BBS thing, you probably also need to schedule a colonoscopy.
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Stormgren @Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com · May 07, 2026
Stormgren
@Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com

Works in the THz, plays in the MHz. Hacker. Network and Optical Transport engineer. Ham radio operator. Owner of cats. I am speaking only for myself, not any group, client, or employer unless specifically stated. Feel free to send me follow requests. Requests are only on due to sometimes waves of trolls and spammers. If you're asking if you're either of those, you're probably not.

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Replying to @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Yeah, DTE and their contractors are fucking garbage, and always will be. The worst part is, the MPSC lets them get away with whatever they want, more or less.
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Stormgren @Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com · Apr 28, 2026
Stormgren
@Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com

Works in the THz, plays in the MHz. Hacker. Network and Optical Transport engineer. Ham radio operator. Owner of cats. I am speaking only for myself, not any group, client, or employer unless specifically stated. Feel free to send me follow requests. Requests are only on due to sometimes waves of trolls and spammers. If you're asking if you're either of those, you're probably not.

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Replying to @MLE_online@social.afront.org
@MLE_online This may be the most fediverse oriented dream I think I've read about. I love it. (Also, I 100% know people who would have descriptions like that in the bio, so this completely makes sense to me.)
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Stormgren @Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com · Apr 26, 2026
Stormgren
@Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com

Works in the THz, plays in the MHz. Hacker. Network and Optical Transport engineer. Ham radio operator. Owner of cats. I am speaking only for myself, not any group, client, or employer unless specifically stated. Feel free to send me follow requests. Requests are only on due to sometimes waves of trolls and spammers. If you're asking if you're either of those, you're probably not.

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Replying to @xssfox@cloudisland.nz
@xssfox@cloudisland.nz I am assuming here that the indicated frequency has no bearing in reality and that you're actually transmitting on something in the 70cm band?
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Stormgren @Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com · Apr 24, 2026
Stormgren
@Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com

Works in the THz, plays in the MHz. Hacker. Network and Optical Transport engineer. Ham radio operator. Owner of cats. I am speaking only for myself, not any group, client, or employer unless specifically stated. Feel free to send me follow requests. Requests are only on due to sometimes waves of trolls and spammers. If you're asking if you're either of those, you're probably not.

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Replying to @julie@merida.hair
@julie 😱
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Stormgren @Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com · Apr 24, 2026
Stormgren
@Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com

Works in the THz, plays in the MHz. Hacker. Network and Optical Transport engineer. Ham radio operator. Owner of cats. I am speaking only for myself, not any group, client, or employer unless specifically stated. Feel free to send me follow requests. Requests are only on due to sometimes waves of trolls and spammers. If you're asking if you're either of those, you're probably not.

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Replying to @julie@merida.hair
@julie I keep meaning to integrate my printer into my home automation stack, but the Prusa phone app has been covering most of my use cases.
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Stormgren @Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com · Apr 23, 2026
Stormgren
@Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com

Works in the THz, plays in the MHz. Hacker. Network and Optical Transport engineer. Ham radio operator. Owner of cats. I am speaking only for myself, not any group, client, or employer unless specifically stated. Feel free to send me follow requests. Requests are only on due to sometimes waves of trolls and spammers. If you're asking if you're either of those, you're probably not.

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Replying to @Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com
This is what I get for not printing anything since mid-February. Also, apparently I need to plug all the holes in the enclosure and get on the printer GPIO triggered end-of-job cooling fan setup.
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Stormgren @Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com · Apr 23, 2026
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@Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com

Works in the THz, plays in the MHz. Hacker. Network and Optical Transport engineer. Ham radio operator. Owner of cats. I am speaking only for myself, not any group, client, or employer unless specifically stated. Feel free to send me follow requests. Requests are only on due to sometimes waves of trolls and spammers. If you're asking if you're either of those, you're probably not.

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Of all the "this is why your print failed to start" reasons, finding a dead stinkbug blocking the filament guide in the MMU was not one I was expecting.

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Stormgren @Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com · Apr 18, 2026
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@Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com

Works in the THz, plays in the MHz. Hacker. Network and Optical Transport engineer. Ham radio operator. Owner of cats. I am speaking only for myself, not any group, client, or employer unless specifically stated. Feel free to send me follow requests. Requests are only on due to sometimes waves of trolls and spammers. If you're asking if you're either of those, you're probably not.

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RE: @Kristian_Kiehling@mastodon.social

Hunter S. Thompson's Shotgun Golf got nothin' on these guys.

Yak-52 backseater shotgun drone hunting. Amazing.

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Stormgren @Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com · Apr 08, 2026
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@Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com

Works in the THz, plays in the MHz. Hacker. Network and Optical Transport engineer. Ham radio operator. Owner of cats. I am speaking only for myself, not any group, client, or employer unless specifically stated. Feel free to send me follow requests. Requests are only on due to sometimes waves of trolls and spammers. If you're asking if you're either of those, you're probably not.

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Replying to @ethanschoonover@mastodon.social
@ethanschoonover Ah, the Cronenburg Question!
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Stormgren @Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com · Apr 04, 2026
Stormgren
@Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com

Works in the THz, plays in the MHz. Hacker. Network and Optical Transport engineer. Ham radio operator. Owner of cats. I am speaking only for myself, not any group, client, or employer unless specifically stated. Feel free to send me follow requests. Requests are only on due to sometimes waves of trolls and spammers. If you're asking if you're either of those, you're probably not.

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Replying to @sen@hachyderm.io
@sen@hachyderm.io TIL, thank you for posting it. And assuming we haven't knocked ourselves back to longbows and polearms by then, 500 years from now, starships to space station comms will have that as part of their communication system, and nobody's going to know why, but they know it has to be in there because that's the way it's always been.
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Stormgren @Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com · Mar 21, 2026
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@Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com

Works in the THz, plays in the MHz. Hacker. Network and Optical Transport engineer. Ham radio operator. Owner of cats. I am speaking only for myself, not any group, client, or employer unless specifically stated. Feel free to send me follow requests. Requests are only on due to sometimes waves of trolls and spammers. If you're asking if you're either of those, you're probably not.

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Replying to @jevidl@ono-sendai.jevidl.net
@jevidl@ono-sendai.jevidl.net Yes, because even though they're "attached" to the bridge, they're still interfaces in their own right, and can have packet processing rules applied to them, and IIRC can still have other things hang off them as well
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Stormgren @Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com · Mar 04, 2026
Stormgren
@Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com

Works in the THz, plays in the MHz. Hacker. Network and Optical Transport engineer. Ham radio operator. Owner of cats. I am speaking only for myself, not any group, client, or employer unless specifically stated. Feel free to send me follow requests. Requests are only on due to sometimes waves of trolls and spammers. If you're asking if you're either of those, you're probably not.

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Replying to @ctrlaltrees@oldbytes.space
@ctrlaltrees It'll certainly mean I won't have to keep this box of vintage IDE disks around as replacements! This is a welcome addition.
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Stormgren @Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com · Mar 04, 2026
Stormgren
@Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com

Works in the THz, plays in the MHz. Hacker. Network and Optical Transport engineer. Ham radio operator. Owner of cats. I am speaking only for myself, not any group, client, or employer unless specifically stated. Feel free to send me follow requests. Requests are only on due to sometimes waves of trolls and spammers. If you're asking if you're either of those, you're probably not.

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Replying to @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt
@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt Natasha, your jokes are always a welcome delight.
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Stormgren @Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com · Feb 07, 2026
Stormgren
@Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com

Works in the THz, plays in the MHz. Hacker. Network and Optical Transport engineer. Ham radio operator. Owner of cats. I am speaking only for myself, not any group, client, or employer unless specifically stated. Feel free to send me follow requests. Requests are only on due to sometimes waves of trolls and spammers. If you're asking if you're either of those, you're probably not.

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Replying to @Impossible_PhD@hachyderm.io
@Impossible_PhD@hachyderm.io They're really good words, so yeah, I'm keeping them close. :)
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Stormgren @Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com · Feb 07, 2026
Stormgren
@Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com

Works in the THz, plays in the MHz. Hacker. Network and Optical Transport engineer. Ham radio operator. Owner of cats. I am speaking only for myself, not any group, client, or employer unless specifically stated. Feel free to send me follow requests. Requests are only on due to sometimes waves of trolls and spammers. If you're asking if you're either of those, you're probably not.

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Replying to @Impossible_PhD@hachyderm.io
@Impossible_PhD@hachyderm.io Wow, this post goes super hard for a Saturday morning, and I'm so here for it it may end up getting hung on my office wall as a reminder.
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Stormgren @Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com · Oct 02, 2025
Stormgren
@Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com

Works in the THz, plays in the MHz. Hacker. Network and Optical Transport engineer. Ham radio operator. Owner of cats. I am speaking only for myself, not any group, client, or employer unless specifically stated. Feel free to send me follow requests. Requests are only on due to sometimes waves of trolls and spammers. If you're asking if you're either of those, you're probably not.

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Replying to @aprilkirby@chaosfem.tw
@aprilkirby@chaosfem.tw Good to see you here!
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