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The Internet Age of Days Long Passed

Yes, quite so, I miss the internet of the '90s. The original idealism which prioritized being kind, helpful, welcoming, and infinitely curious about all things technical and complex and challenging.. instead we have mostly an internet where the experience has become "garbage in - garbage out", and a wider array of assholerly than I expected to see three decade prior.

Nevertheless, we're no longer in that era, and so here are my modern life accounts from a variety of networks. Often one may find my username existing as "winterschon", though my active presence wavers and wanes - periodic silence, staccato quipped sarcasm and critique, and the inevitable return to torrential expressions. Can we have more Gopher, XMPP, USENET, and maybe even IRC + OTR over the ISDN.

Verification and Validity, Identity Defined

Generally speaking, if you don't see a profile listed here, then it's probably not a real account of my own. Do not engage and do not inquire to the unknown account - it only feeds the trolls and makes everything worse.

Ignore the Impersonators, Stalkers, Liars, and the Jรผdenhasser Pseudo-Activists

Specifically, Twitter/X have the most egregious examples (which I am not back-linking), and of course their support team refuses to take those shitheel accounts down). If in doubt, please contact me on one of the networks below.

Can I send you an encrypted email instead?

Yes, and here is my PGP / GPG key from the MIT Keyserver:

The Many Names of 'Who Are You'?

Some people know me by one or two or four different names. I didn't choose this life, so what else is there to say? People get married, divorced, stalked, adopted, disowned, disavowed, etc.. some people go into witness protection programs, some do not. Some get tired of doing so, and some must have online presence for their career - and for some there is simply no other choice.

Where is Madeline?

That's my middle name. If you know me, likely you already know this, and if you know me very well, then you know that you know that you know that I know that you know this already. So double check your double-8, five-by-five, it's too long passed and now's TTGTFG - the endless slog, the Long Slow Distance, bekons just one more belay from the great beyond.

Where is Annaliese?

If you know me extra-more, from the sandstone expanses of Monument Valley, the Canyonlands, all of those falls on El Cap, the backcountry avalances we unstuck-ourselves from, to the summits of Sierra 14'ers.. then you may know my "what's your wall name?", or perhaps from the portaledges and frozen bivys and smashed scorpions carried-off in your stupid empty tequilla bottle ("no glass on the wall, asssssshoooooleeeee!")... then Annaliese and Anja say hallo and hola and shalom from above and beyond the great so-long. ๐Ÿ‘‹๐ŸŒ„๐Ÿ’

Industry

Networks

Asynchronous Comms

Codes and Repos

Dots of (in)Consequence

Most engineers who come from a UNIX background, and maybe the newer generations who did not grow up using literal UNIXยฎ [2], tend to travel their years with at least one personal repo for their range of 'dot files' - configurations for text editors, terminals, terminal emulators, shell configs, and so forth. Maybe that repo started out using UNIX's SCCS, or the 90s winrar CVS, perhaps RCS, then SVN or Mercurial or Fossil, a big-check jaunt with Perforce, forced to use Git (it's not great! quick, back to Perforce P4)!

Well you get the point, there are many ways to deal with challenges wrought by engineering's evolving needs for multiple concurrent and distributed instances of source code control management. I've used all of the ones listed plus a handful of others, and while Git is less headache than CVS and SVN, it's from the mind of a self-proclaimed dictator for life, and I don't want to use it - but the industry demands ecosystem compatibility. So, the usual bitching aside, here's my current dot-files repo.

Technical Domains

Reference Points

  • [*] If so, please message me via a valid profile from this page and let me know - as there exist impostors who've stolen my personal photos, professional likeness, and should be dealt with accordingly.
  • [2] "The UNIXยฎ trademark is owned by The Open Group, an industry standards consortium, which acquired it from Novell in 1993. It is used to certify that operating systems comply with the Single UNIX Specification {"SUS, that is suss.."}. The brand separates the trademark from any single company's code, allowing multiple, independent implementations to be certified."
  • [3] Blumenkrieg translates to "Flower War", and is mostly an inside joke about the near-immediate capitulation of Austria during the inevitable rearmament of the Kaiser's German Empire as it evolved into the "Thousand Year Reich" which lasted about six. What kind of Jew isn't capable of laughing at the ease by which the world looked on as my lineage and so many others' were whole-sale slaughtered and exterminated at Mauthausen, condeming the part of my ancestral lineage to a brutal and inescapably horrific death - who had re-located at the time in Passau after escaping from Belarus pogroms.They all died, except for the very few who strived forward and managed to escape through the frosted-frozen Alps during storms of mourning and endless searching.