he/him // early 20s // card-carrying Rustacean // audhd // combine every gay furry stereotype you can think of into a single person and you pretty much have me
i use NixOS btw. i am also NixOS's number 1 hater. ask me about why
i try not to bite without a good reason, but i sometimes bite for very bad ones. please call me on it. i'm trying to be better about that.
I'm a simple man, I see furry art, I smash the boost button. i do occasionally (rarely) boost nsfw furry art (always cw'd as such). don't wanna see that? follow someone else
DMs open if you wanna chat, or if you'd like to commission custom software like a Discord/Signal/Matrix/etc bot or a small desktop app
I don't have a pfp because I'm waiting to commission one of my sona and I can't do that until I have a ref sheet (speaking of which, if you know anyone who does commissions of those, please point me their way)
| pronouns | he/him |
| Matrix | @vincent:sfe.social |
| timezone | America/Los_Angeles |
| Signal | vincentsparks.29 |
(for those unaware, cytube is an open source watch party service, like syncplay but in the browser, and you can play your own media as long as you host it yourself. the router's copy of nginx wasn't hosting the media files, only terminating TLS for the machine that was)
also last night while streaming a different video file i had encountered numerous, spontaneous, connection drops and "connection refused"s that were not repeatable when the page was reloaded and thought "welp, that's something to figure out later"
i just decided to forward port 443 to a beefier machine instead of dealing with TLS termination at all and now it works fine
the CPU OpenWRT put in the OpenWRT One (dual core 1.3GHz A53) has to fight against a stiff breeze and i guess providing HTTPS encryption for two simultaneous video streams was simply too much excitement for it to handle.
so
i may or may not have spent a decent chunk of last weekend trying to get my #OpenWRT One to run #nginx as a TLS terminator and reverse proxy for my homelab
while setting this up i joked to a friend that "gosh, it's almost like this isn't a well-supported config because it's a bad idea! but i don't know why it's a bad idea yet so i'm gonna do it anyway"
three spontaneous router reboots during ten minutes of cytube streaming later i think i figured out the answer 
“But there’s indie LGBTQ media!” Well, yes and no. Indie LGBTQ media is essentially by us, for us. It’s our vital, appreciated lifesaver, but it doesn’t reach out, if you get what I mean.
While I’m reading an indie LGBTQ novel, several million of my compatriots are being taught by Men of the Church that LGBTQ people are an affront to God and a lethal threat to society. While *I* draw my own characters being unashamedly gay, the all-powerful churches are lobbying to convince my government to make us join the list of African countries that explicitly criminalize homosexuality.
Indie LGBTQ media keeps me and others like me alive. But it reaches us, and us only. Unlike mainstream media, we cannot use indie media as a safe way to find out whom around us is a potential ally. Indie media is not a safe conversation opener. Indie media does not get the public at large used to seeing LGBTQ subjects addressed outside of church.
Mainstream media does.
Anyway, the point of this disjointed train of thought is… as LGBTQ representation in media shrinks and disappears, so will the only voice that was loud enough to stand up to the relentless behemoth that is Conservative Christianity’s political and social power.
And I will read countless lectures about how I should have never liked it anyway. How I should go and stand up to the church, ALONE. Be a martyr for “our” cause.
And I’m not okay with foreign people more privileged than I am, being so generous with MY safety, MY well-being.
All right, so I wrote this on BlueSky back in January 2025 and subsequently posted it to Tumblr, but apparently neglected to post it here, so here we go.
Hot take, but living here, in a country where the churches are a massive cultural juggernaut that not even the state dares oppose, LGBTQ representation in corporate media actually did a lot more good than most people would expect, because corporate media (mostly American) was the only OTHER cultural juggernaut.
There is little to no LGBTQ activism here. Best case, most LGBTQ people I know either lie low, have a foot comfortably in a Western country, or both. A LGBTQ-friendly article may make its way to a major newspaper once a year, to barely balance out the fact that LITERALLY EVERY WEDDING includes an openly homophobic and transphobic sermon.
How homophobic are the local churches? Well, remember that time when Pope Francis asked Catholics to be less homophobic? Malagasy Catholics, INCLUDING THE CLERGY, joined their Protestant colleagues in publicly denouncing Francis’s stance as “damaging to our faith”.
Meanwhile? The ONE thing the churches do not control is the flood of US- and EU-made media we get subjected to. Every TV show, every movie that featured a LGBTQ character did more to counter Holy Homophobia and to normalize LGBTQ people here than anything else.
I’ve had many Americans lecture me recently about seeking and strengthening my local community, to which I reply: WHICH local community? Not everyone has one, and not all of us who live in hostile environments have the strength to be the Heroic Underground Resistance Leaders of our time.
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i wrote a rust microkernel with a federation userspace layer where clusters of trusted machines quietly lend each other idle resources inspired by gift economics.
lend your spare capacity, earn the right to borrow. machines find each other automatically on the same network, bond by consent and shared keys, stay fully independent.
a solar machine lends freely at noon and pulls back at dusk. computation drifts toward wherever the cleanest cheapest energy is.
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