Welcome!

My name is Jake though I usually go by “jbauer” online. I am a hobbyist sysadmin, recreational programmer, and supporter of online freedom, privacy rights, and free and open access to information and knowledge. I love simple and sustainable technologies, tea, writing, and gardening. I’m also a big fan of the small internet and low-tech or analog solutions to everyday problems.

Blog

I blog mostly about technology and computing. I also took part in #100DaysToOffload in 2020. Here are a few of my favourites:

• Free Software is an Abject Failure
• Why IRC is Still Good in $CURRENT_YEAR
• Why Email is the Best Discussion Platform
• Choosing a Self-Hosted Git Service
• Paying for Software
• The Joys of Old Tech
• A Month-and-a-Half of Self-Hosted Email
• Are TODO Applications a Waste of Time?
• Why I Hate The Term “Modern”

About This Site

This is a static website generated from Markdown using lowdown with my POSIX shell-based static site generator sbs. It is designed to be lightweight, accessible, and privacy-respecting. The site lives in a git repository. This site is also featured on 10kbclub.com and it’s a part of the XXIIVV Webring and the Fediring webring.

Contact

Ordered from most to least preferred, I can be contacted using:

• Email: jbauer@paritybit.ca;
• XMPP: Not unless I know you;
• Fediverse: @jbauer@merveilles.town;
• IRC: jbauer on OFTC, Libera.chat, maybe other networks.

This information is also accessible using the Finger Protocol: finger://paritybit.ca/jbauer or finger jbauer@paritybit.ca on the command line.

If you’re contacting me using XMPP, please use OMEMO if you can. My device fingerprints (which can change) are currently:

PC:     42988003 bfdb1260 1bd43abe 598716ce d6d03e2c f680a395 a6b3c69a 7bf2cb2a
Laptop: 2bc93b63 42dad123 0d321ebf dd42925c efce4052 f5347295 956677d8 ccb4080f
Phone:  2b46e1a8 aaae9a82 48bbad53 d9922ca5 dcd160dc 02e25031 2ea0f6a1 e02ee31a