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title: Welcome!
layout: home
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## Welcome!

My online pseudonym is Amolith. However, if we end up meeting in person,
I would be happy to introduce myself as myself. I am a dedicated Linux
user, musician, sysadmin, and founder of
[NixNet.](https://nixnet.services) At the moment, I’m a university
student studying to obtain my Masters degree in Computer Science with a
concentration in Systems. I don’t have much time to play music so it’s
(mostly) an “in my room when I have a few minutes” thing. I also host a
(work-in-progress) netcast called [Redacted
Life;](https://redacted.life) the subject is Linux and libre software
with a hard spin on personal privacy and security. Nothing has been
recorded yet but it's in progress.

``` text
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
GCS/TW/PA d(+) s+:++ a-- C++(+++) UL+++>$ P
L+++>++++ E+ W++ N++ o? K- w--- O? M-- V? PS+
PE Y++ PGP+++ t 5? X R+ tv+ b++ DI++ D+ G
e+>++++ h r% y+
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
```
[Decode mine above](http://www.joereiss.net/geek/ungeek.html) or [create your own.](https://geekcode.xyz/geek.html)

## Blog

I will occasionally blog here and that content can be found on the
[Posts page.](/posts) Below are a specific few posts that give a good
overview of what I typically write about.

* [Replacing YouTube & Invidious](/replacing-youtube-invidious)
* [Typing International Characters](/typing-international-characters)
* [Consuming News](/consuming-news)
* [On smoking a pipe](/on-smoking-a-pipe)
* [Part of my cellar](/part-of-my-cellar)

## About the site

Secluded.Site was hand-written entirely by me and is generated with
[Hugo.](https://gohugo.io/) [The
theme](https://git.nixnet.services/Amolith/secluded/src/branch/master/themes/secluded)
is public and available for anyone to use. I'll eventually get it added
to [the themes directory](https://themes.gohugo.io/) once I clean it up
a little (patches welcome!), but until then, you can simply clone the
repo and copy the theme to your site.

All of the code is released under the [MIT
license](https://tldrlegal.com/license/mit-license) and the content here
is [CC-BY 4.0.](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source for
everything is available on my [Gitea
instance.](https://git.nixnet.services/Amolith/secluded)

## Contact

I can be contacted through many methods but the most reliable and my
most preferred will *always* be email. In order of preference…

1. **Email:** `amolith [email symbol] [this domain]`
2. **XMPP:** `amolith [email symbol] [this domain]`
3. **Fediverse:** `@amolith@nixnet.social`
5. **IRC:** `amolith` on [Libera](https://libera.chat/) and [NixNet](https://docs.nixnet.services/IRC)

If you choose to contact me over XMPP, please use OMEMO encryption and
manually verify the following fingerprints. Any other keys should be
marked as *untrusted*.

``` text
Desktop: F4132E9D C198F277 0CC3B7C6 1920D091 F9433CF2 A54DE113 C53B45AA 33F7FE23
Laptop:  3A5CFD35 A3F04287 34C46505 831E76E7 796FC1D8 658E644B 06912378 EE19B331
Mobile:  4D7885E7 A4790433 10C550A3 A65ED962 3A3F8118 D856C606 1E962ACA C8ABB349
```