Peter Mount peter@area51.social

This is my GoToSocial alt account where I will likely be posting more ad-hoc posts that would otherwise pollute my main instances local feed. :sootsprite:

Steven Rosenberg is experimenting with a self-hosted GoToSocial instance. This ActivityPub-compatible server software runs on computers as small as a Raspberry Pi Zero W, two of which I'm using on this system. Find out more at https://GoToSocial.org.

I am a journalist for the Southern California News Group (LA Daily News, OC Register, Torrance Daily Breeze, Long Beach Press-Telegram and more), but this account has nothing to do with that.

My interests include #programming (#ruby #C++ #database), #music (#jazz #guitar), #gardening #homerepair, large-appliance tinkering and #reading.

I am a husband, father and cat-herder.

My other two #Fediverse #ActivityPub accounts:

Mastodon: @passthejoe

Akkoma: @passthejoe

Software engineer, electronics hobbyist.
#programming #java #electronics #arduino #fedi22 #nobot #noindex
Other accounts: @jo, @jo, and @jo

My instance runs experimental software (GotoSocial).

Languages: de-DE-1901, en-DE, some la, and I might understand some nl, es or similar.

Mostly interested in cats. Also, good coffee☕, garlic, cats, nature, European paganism, IT (but not those new-fangled hypes; I like my Korn Shell, Assembly, used to like C; I run VMs, not (never!) containers; I hate the way people try to force systemd upon other people and avoid it and other plagues), cats, music (baroque was the peak of all music, it went downhill from there: Beethoven and Mozart were the beginning of that; love John Rutter’s though, and Nightwish/Tarja…), garlic, cats, good coffee, books, good fanfiction… oh, and, did I mention? Cats! I also dare to sing and dabble a bit in #TeamRecorder, and I go geocaching, opencaching, terracaching, … and occasionally play Munzee.
Dogs and SJWs are not welcome. I don’t come here for deep social discussions or something, so don’t bother me with these. Nor with shudder… politics. And I’ll refuse follows from people who endorse ML/LLM (so-called “AI”) and/or content output by them, since the latter is almost always illegal.

My feed will include RSS posts from other activity feeds of mine (posted via daily cronjob, not in real time, so their post timestamp is irrelevant) as well as RTs and no CWs. RTs are not my own content and belong to the original poster. I often RT or boost posts I do not understand, e.g. in foreign languages, just because the picture is nice or something.

I run my own single-user plus bots (so far, but I might admit personal acquaintances if they really want) instance of GtS so some tech trouble may be expected. No custom “emoji” (really, colon-magic-strings, which I loathed on other platforms already), but longer posts and Markdown formatting. (I hate Markdown, but it’s better than no formatting, I suppose?)

I’m personnel to Čara🐈‍⬛ (a rescue cat, FIP carrier and FIV+ but so lovely). Black cats are the best! (Though she’s got white nose, socks and bikini.)