Ivan Kovmir / unInstance

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I am a computer science student, electronics novice, and a software minimalism advocate. I enjoy reading old books, watching old films, and playing musical instruments. I am also passionate about learning new languages.

I firmly believe self-education is the true way to learn things, magic happens if you read a book or manual yourself. Unfortunately, today people become illiterate and can only watch videos.

I despise social media because it makes people think alike. I mostly use IRC and XMPP networks to chat.

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

A member of DarknSpace.

My contacts:

Email: ikovmir at uninstance dot cc
- My GPG public key can be located here.
XMPP: uninstance at darkn dot space

Some of my projects are available on GitHub.

Featured software:

untldr - Minimalist tldr.sh client written in pure C99
passprompt - pass dmenu selector with OTP support.
swissknife-perl - A collection of useful Perl scripts of mine.

Notes, articles, and such:

2021-04-01 Why Android and Modern Smartphones Suck
2022-07-19 FreeBSD 13.1 on Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+
2022-08-31 A Collection of My Dotfiles

Wallets

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