Growing up in the ’80s and ’90s, I have one leg in both worlds, the pure analog reality and the digital revolution. Interested in computers since I was 10, I shoulder-rode my father as he learned BASIC and Pascal. I was amazed at the prompt, and the phosphor green screen, making magical sounds as the floppy spun up loading whatever I could find. Doom, Castle Wolfenstein and Duke Nukem took me. Going online in the mid-’90s, a brave new world presented itself, and by 2001 I heard whispers about Linux. Already then, after two years saving the world from Y2K and billing problems for Tele2 customer service, I was tired of Windows. Thus began the Linux and Unix journey.
I wouldn’t call myself an expert, but I’ve lived with the CLI and the Linux tools for 25 years now, so I’m quite at ease with that part of the IT world. Needing help, as many others, I ended up on IRC channels, learning and growing while borking my system numerous times. When I knew better, I helped out in the open source support community and was a host for offtopic social channels surrounding Debian and Ubuntu. I watched tools such as inxi and smxi get developed, helped with testing and documentation in some cases, even Norwegian translations for certain software.
Hitting a wall of health issues, I went dark a few years, worked myself back, graduated with a higher vocational degree in Network and IT Security (NIS) at Noroff vocational school and am now pursuing my bachelor’s in DASM. Been through a fair bit of networking with CCNA and Noroff training, also programming, databases, ethical hacking, forensics. I’m building a broad toolset, and I want it even broader, as I seek to study moral philosophy, ethics and history, to put all this technical knowledge into a modern point of view on IT, AI, ethics and history.
This site is a moving target, but it reflects both my studies and my personal pursuit of knowledge. I work in tandem with AI, with focus on quality control and administration of agents. My site offers my point of view on tech, cyber and geopolitics, as these often intertwine.
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— mr0
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