Forest @forestjohnson@pixie.town
- member of
- https://cyberia.club
- webmaster @
- https://capsul.org/
I am a web technologist who is interested in supporting and building enjoyable ways for individuals, organizations, and communities to set up and maintain their own server infrastructure, including the hardware part.
I am currently working full time as an SRE 😫, but I am also heavily involved with Cyberia Computer Club and Layer Zero
Joined Feb 2021
@researchfairy thanks for the vote ofconfidence cuz every time I talk about making something that fits this description, all of the hardcore tech people make fun of me for building an "offline first" website
@karlexceed I think NLNet has a good model.
Also, UBI / social safety net helps a lot, i.e, if you don't want to work for a wage you are still allowed to exist.
Unity game engine was started by a bunch of broke college kids in a bed room doing OpenAL fixes on a grant from the danish government.
nazi techbro avoidance
@mos_8502 @Unlikelylass I think it's more realistic to go bigger than that, like community size
We're already doing this @ cyberia, at least to some extent.
Also, I think it's important to kind of contextualize what this really means in the greater economic environment and society that we're in. Basically, it means that you're taking the technology that's thrown out in the dumpster from behind the large for-profit enterprises and trying to make use of it and make your own community out of it or something.
So naturally, you know, it's not going to be the best. It might not smell great, for example. But is anyone who's ever dumpster dived before knows... There's some great stuff in there.
Great tech experiences that are...
fun and not stressful, or work on the first try, or meet everyone's needs... They're not easy to create. It's easy to say, We should just be able to solve all these problems, like email for example. But the reality is that email on its own is more than one human being's lifetime worth of work to try to create a solution for.
In the club straint munchin em right now. And by em I mean peanuts
Forest
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Oh, the model is abyssus v2. They are like 40$ used on ebay, similar to the Microsoft one.
Why do I have a razer mouse? I had to buy it at a big box store in a pinch and this was the only wired one they had.
To my surprise, this thing appears to actually have no planned obsolescence and it's still working after years and years of abuse.
So I think this model can join the old Microsoft Intelimouse on the list of mice that last forever.
I did have some issues with the scroll wheel and the middle mouse button, but they were fixed by just blowing air into the mouse and turning it upside down and slapping it to get some crud out.
My mouse is worn down to the plastic from too many Right Click -> Inspect Element
Forest
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1. Cultural Relativism
Whats meaningful in human life and what's not is culturally defined. What motivates us, what allows us to keep going every day, is something that we must create ourselves, almost always with the help of others, fundamentally shaped by the communities we are a part of and the company we keep. This means that to some extent, you get to decide for yourself what's meaningful and what's not.
2. Critical Thinking
We don't have to accept whatever premise is given to us by our parents / by history / by "common sense".
It's clear that our world is rife with contradictions, charades, scams, and farces. I've been able to navigate them with my own judgement, and even though my perspective on things might be outside of most people's Overton Window, I've been right when everyone else is wrong enough times that it gives me hope for my ability to successfully employ bullet point number
3. Creativity
Alan Watts:
> .....it is consoling to be able to think that in this contradictory world we are but strangers and pilgrims. For if our desires are out of accord with anything the finite world can offer, it might seem that our nature is not of this world. That our hearts are made, not for the finite, but for infinity. The discontent of our souls would appear to be the sign and seal of their divinity.
....
History has been full of surprises, from the earth going around the sun instead of vice versa, to the printing press, to the double slit experiment. There's so much left to discover, even about humanity and ourselves. The internet never happened before, and it's still up to us how it turns out. There is every indication that it's still possible to create amazing things out of nothing, and truly make a difference. In fact, it's realistic that the "amazing" part of your work could even blossom after you die, like it's happened to so many others before.
4. Hard Work
I acknowledge that I'm unlikely to truly make a difference and make things better, just like everyone else. Some days I feel like I'm much more likely to drink myself to death.
But still, I feel compelled to fight, to strategize, to organize, and to maintain. I've seen results from doing this, and heard from other people that it matters and that it means something, which in turn, helps it mean something to me.
@j3s whats up with it this time ?
Forest
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Friday Night Vibes
Layer Zero, Friday, 14 February (19:00)
Forest
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there are 2 types of man page
No manual entry for skelington
or
NAME
skelington [havxhc]{%^%%%},dffqq0&&&@“&” -jcndnknn
haha, this is a cool program i came up with on an acid trip in zimbabwe in 2014. it all started when i was charged by a wild GNU, which gave me a distaste for the acronym. anyway, that’s how i met richard stallman! he was shortly trampled to death thereafter, and i saw his “skelington” haha. and wow, the tool has really grown over time. let me document every single itty bitty tiny flag that 1 person on the fringe has ever used and never talk about the 99% usecase.
FLAGS
-a Wow, this one does it all really. Well except when you use it with -c, then it functions kinda like -d. be sure to put this flag last! there’s a data integrity bug otherwise (you risk rm -rf) good luck!
-b boy is this flag handy dandy, it adds bytesize slice info to the output buffer!
-c cake - this outputs CAKE in allcaps (mixedCase if you use -m), but the ordering is not consistent unless used with -o
-d delete
-o order things, including flags! flags are ordered last.
-m (not implemented yet) munge data (inject random data) so that tou can fuzztest your output, very useful for developing. fuzztest reads from /proc/fuzzy/boi and injects 1 datum of horseshit per bitwise integer! that way you can quantize your garbage instead of just shoveling it down ur throat (put down the cheetos)
-M this is actually supposed to be -m but for historical reasons it’s -M. anyways, it stands for “murder” - you figure out the rest
AUTHOR
Written by me, jes ( @j3s) and nobody else, copyright 2025, i love god, juice, and jeans! sheesh
REPORTING BUGS
just don’t please, i barely have enough time to live as it is
EXAMPLES
fuck examples! this is a “man”page, not an “example”page. if you want examples, go ask reddit neckbeards, or catgirl hackers on discord. actually, nevermind reddit.
Forest
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my friends & i created a podcast called “torment nexus” where we talk shit on the tech world. enjoy, if you must. 
https://tormentnexus.gay/@tormentnexus/posts/22913a83-cebd-4b36-b465-56e4e6c1a9fd
@hylst mer vays ?
- member of
- https://cyberia.club
- webmaster @
- https://capsul.org/
I am a web technologist who is interested in supporting and building enjoyable ways for individuals, organizations, and communities to set up and maintain their own server infrastructure, including the hardware part.
I am currently working full time as an SRE 😫, but I am also heavily involved with Cyberia Computer Club and Layer Zero
Joined Feb 2021
