Brandon@be_far@social.treehouse.systems
Okay I’ll bite. What’s tiktok
Brandon@be_far@social.treehouse.systems
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It’s me, the fragile white tech bro they warned you about. Baby associate at $law_firm and hobby developer (web, PL, systems/rtos) with a CS degree. I have a little too much fun writing RSS integration.
My posts aren’t a substitute for legal advice. (In fact, they’re probably better classified as illegal advice.) I am a lawyer; I’m not YOUR lawyer and I don’t presently take clients from the internet. Everything I say is my own opinion and does not reflect the opinions of my employer or anyone else. Boosts aren’t endorsement.
Strictly anti-LLM and privacy-conscious. Queer-friendly and always will be.
Linux user; team neovim.
Unattended children will be taught what a monad is, and will be unable to explain it to anyone
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Brandon@be_far@social.treehouse.systems
Brandon@be_far@social.treehouse.systems
I’ve been on Fedi for a year now and have fallen in love with the platform, so here’s my introduction! I studied computer science with a focus on RTOS and FP/PL, but I’m about to start my final semester of law school. I’ll be practicing at a boutique firm that primarily handles IP cases once I’m barred. I foilboard and I play way too many rhythm games in and out of the arcade.
I contribute to open source projects where I can, and I write up my experience in my digital garden which I’ve been maintaining for over a year now. It’s also a good place to find usage tips for projects/tools that you might want to use.
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My passion for tech also includes privacy, and I’m an advocate for minimizing your digital footprint. GenAI is a scam and its purveyors are causing real harm while they sell it as hard as they can.
Follow me for: #selfhosting #digitalgardening #privacy #lawfedi #section230 #copyright #patents #rustlang #gleam #haskell #RSS #neovim #NixOS #zotero #tmux #alacritty #linux #egpu #qemu #arch #archlinux #GNOME #watches #watchmaking #obsidian #obsidianmd #thunderbird #fpv #mechkeys #mechkeeb #mechanicalkeyboard #matrix #signal #fido2 #passkeys #dancerushstardom
Milly@aanee@mastodon.online
@be_far@social.treehouse.systems Where does a second generation linux user with a bachelor in paranoia fit in? Privacy enthusiast?
Brandon@be_far@social.treehouse.systems
@aanee@mastodon.online will now and forever refer to my computer science degree as my “bachelor in paranoia”
Brandon@be_far@social.treehouse.systems
Okay I’ll bite. What’s tiktok
Brandon@be_far@social.treehouse.systems
I’ve been on Fedi for a year now and have fallen in love with the platform, so here’s my introduction! I studied computer science with a focus on RTOS and FP/PL, but I’m about to start my final semester of law school. I’ll be practicing at a boutique firm that primarily handles IP cases once I’m barred. I foilboard and I play way too many rhythm games in and out of the arcade.
I contribute to open source projects where I can, and I write up my experience in my digital garden which I’ve been maintaining for over a year now. It’s also a good place to find usage tips for projects/tools that you might want to use.
RSS feed
My passion for tech also includes privacy, and I’m an advocate for minimizing your digital footprint. GenAI is a scam and its purveyors are causing real harm while they sell it as hard as they can.
Follow me for: #selfhosting #digitalgardening #privacy #lawfedi #section230 #copyright #patents #rustlang #gleam #haskell #RSS #neovim #NixOS #zotero #tmux #alacritty #linux #egpu #qemu #arch #archlinux #GNOME #watches #watchmaking #obsidian #obsidianmd #thunderbird #fpv #mechkeys #mechkeeb #mechanicalkeyboard #matrix #signal #fido2 #passkeys #dancerushstardom
Brandon@be_far@social.treehouse.systems
I love fedi because there are so many of a very specific few types of guy and I enjoy interacting with all of them
In particular, you’ve got:
software engineer in their fifties or sixties who spearheaded development on a crucial open source project that can be found credited in the notices on nearly every modern device, and is still maintaining it, xkcd [REDACTED]
developer whose last seven toots read to the effect of “mrrp mew meow ow.” They are the world’s leading expert on parser combinators.
that one person who is all in on their passion project and is more productive on it in their spare time than you are at your job
privacy enthusiast that takes other people’s viewing preferences on this site (CWs, filtering) just as seriously as their ability to keep self custody of their data online
seasoned nonprofit advocate who hates the state of the tech industry and is not afraid to be snarky about it
writer that makes explaining tech look easy (jealous, but I’m here for it)