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madargon

@madargon@is-a.cat

Chief Emoji Officer on is-a.cat instance

Too chaotic for a paladin

Amateur artist and junior IT administrator. Mostly self-trained in chaotic and often destructive ways. Opponent of mainstream social media and nasty digital surveillance, wanna-be cypherpunk. Linux user since 2013. Fully degoogled since December 2019. Fully BigTech-free since March 2024.
Synesthete. That weird freak who sometimes uses Daedric alphabet. Even weirder freak who use bare IP address instead of some server name.
Cryptography is my only religion - does Church of Wael look for new members?
In my free time I draw or write stories, first of all for my fun.

I publish my works under CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

Writing here in English/Polish.

Migrated from https://mastodon.online/@madargon
Indexed in tootfinder (https://www.tootfinder.ch).

#sysadmin #linux #degoogle #corpfree #privacy #cypherpunk #drawing #art #fedi22

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madargon, to internet
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Created this after reading conversation in comments below some tech article somewhere. Someone mentioned "surfing the sewer" and I really liked that phrase.

madargon,
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Some details here were suggested by @vifon

madargon,
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@james with avoiding hungry Chrome orbs and sneaking under surveillance cameras? :blobcatjoy:

aral, to ai
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Google: you should trust us because we’re the most intelligent people on earth.

Also Google: Eat rocks! Put glue on your pizza! Fight a snake for your PhD!

🤪

madargon,
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@f4grx @aral it was trained on altmed forums? :blobCat_disturbed:

smallcircles, to privacy
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ClosedSource OpenVibe

Complete with surveillance capitalist privacy policy granting you precisely the amount of your government has carved out for you.

Welcome to the Modern Fediverse™

madargon,
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@smallcircles What happened now?

madargon, to random
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madargon, to Cat
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detective in action :blobCat_sunglasses:

ilymyfi, to random Polish
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Macie jakieś swoje dziwactwa albo fobie, które są absurdalne... Ale to faktycznie absurdalne?

madargon,
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@ilymyfi nie wiem na ile to absurdalne, ale ogarnia mnie mieszanka wstrętu i paniki na widok zdeformowanych roślin. Takie na przykład mlecze z grubymi powykręcanymi łodygami jakie czasem się zdarzają. W czasach podstawówki uciekałam od nich z wrzaskiem, obecnie tylko się oddalam szybkim krokiem, starając się zbytnio nie przyglądać.

madargon, to fanfiction
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One day, when I was in "damn, let's destroy this damned reality" mood I did this small , of in "tattoo design" style. I am not even a fan of Marvel movies, rather fan of Thanos :blobcatjoy:

  • Quick, let's find that "Thanos was right" t-shirt which was lost somewhere in wardrobe! * :blobCat_happy:

madargon, to fanfiction
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Some time ago I did this small #fanart of Poogie, little #piglet in #MosterHunterWorld. Poogie has many outfits, changing with holidays and seasons and I thought Halloween version was the best I saw. Whole pig's body disappeared, only empty #ghost #costume floating in the air.

#drawing #art #MastoArt #CreativeToots #krita #ArtWithOpenSource #pig #MonsterHunter

shansterable, to technology
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Following a bunch of techies on Mastodon be like:

I am a run-of-the-mill Android-phone-Windows-desktop-Gmail-user but now I'm in the process of transitioning from Gmail and using Duck Duck Go to research how to set up a Linux desktop.

Oh, and also now Signal-curious.

What is this place? Some kind of privacy cult LOL?

madargon,
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@shansterable Or other way - privacy cult chose this place because there is no surveillance here. As a paranoid I use it as only social media service :blobfoxmlem:

jon, to microsoft
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Microsoft Recall:

"As you use your PC, Recall takes snapshots of your screen. Snapshots are taken every five seconds while content on the screen is different from the previous snapshot. "

Part of Copilot. Big brother is watching.

madargon,
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@jon me, in denial/shock stage: What?! It couldn't be true! It is too dystopian even for Microsoft... :/

ar, to random
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Get hydrated, cuties :blobcatkissheart:

madargon,
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@ar is it this strong hacker cola which gave me a need for caffeine detox? :ablobcatwink:

madargon, to random
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and me...
Name more iconic love-hate relationship :blobcat_uwucry:

MrLee, to Youtube
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This is fun!
Because I have my History turned off on the app they are refusing to show me an Algorithmically generated feed.
I'm not sure they understand how many people see this as an absolute win!!

madargon,
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@MrLee Have seen this in browser, coupled with "start to watch anything". And I use autodeleting Firefox history. Every time I see this big cookie banner with Reject All available button (thanks, GDPR) I feel so satisfied :blobcat_amused:

madargon, to drawing
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Another "tattoo design" . This time it's a portrait. It was fun creating this.

madargon, to Cat
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Touching the grass :blobcatgreen:

The same scene from different angle, with cat from front site, now turning head to watcher.

madargon, to drawing
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Created intentionally as "draw clearly separated shadows" training. I am not much happy with final result :/

#drawing #art #MastoArt #CreativeToots #krita #ArtWithOpenSource #squirrel #mailbox

madargon,
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@sapphire thank you :ablobcatheart: it encourages me to gry again in the future.

madargon, to drawing
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After I added some older works on DeviantArt, I mentioned one was based on my sister. So I had short conversation in comments and other user asked me, if I plan to draw myself or my sister as a mermaid. I thought it could be a good idea and started .

Initially I planned more stereotypical scene, treasures from a shipwreck etc. Later I thought ships nowadays would drop more modern artifacts, like electronics. So what about made this picture also a symbol of my current complicated relationship with modern tech, as an IT person with some knowledge but also kind of Luddite who actively avoid mainstream devices and services?

When I sometimes read or hear about newest drama in corporate software world, my most often first reaction is similar to this picture :blobcat_uwucry:
Mixture of surprise, shock and disgust...

madargon, to drawing
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- demonic edition.
Because if hell is underground, it should be under oceans. And its gates would be in deepest place, guarded by creatures like this :blobCat_devil:

madargon, to random
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madargon, to drawing
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Sitting - based on my mother's photos. I rather exactly "copied" its pose.
For some reason pattern on its head and wings looks like the sky for me. Not sure if it was so visible on original photos.

madargon,
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@sapphire thank you very much :blobCat_giggle:

nlpbot, to random
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Note this peculiarity. Cows.

The letter A is said to be a bull, upside down. Money was said to first have the head of a cow on it, meaning one coin was one head of cattle.

Do we worship the almighty dollar or a bovine god?

madargon,
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@nlpbot As a Slav I could confirm :D In our myths there was Weles, god of afterlife, magic and oaths who also was the god of wealth and prosperity. And in our agricultural Slavic culture symbol of prosperity was cows (the bigger the herd, the more lucky and wealthy farmer is), so cows were associated with this deity. Modern Slavic pagan groups use symbol similar to upside down letter A as symbol of Veles (I also have this symbol among my tattoos).
One time I drew Veles as a man with cow horns, sitting near lying brown bull :D

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