About Moses Izumi

A man whose mind is a haze of swedish punk rock, fantasies about musclegirls, and strong opinions on portable electronics: and slightly less stubborn views on software.

Child of the Home Theater PC-era.
("every set-top box is just yet another computer")

My main barometer for Software Bloat is the presence of a splash screen to cover up loading times.

the decline of keyboard phones is arguably bigger blow to the concept of general-purpose computing than any DRM/vendor lock-in

As of 27 April 2026 I only repost/quote posts that I've replied to.
I don't wish to have a profile full of reruns, but I still see the value in signal-boosting the work of others.
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Picked my username because I believe that Noa Izumi from the Mobile Police Patlabor franchise is a pretty good "patron saint of technologists"-figure: give or take the cop thing.

She is very optimistic and strives to get the most out of her exoskeleton even though she hardly knows robotics.
She also dismantled a supply chain botnet: decades before NPM and Wordpress made those mainstream.
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== Interests ==
- Making simple gameplay mods for ZDoom
(weapons, player movement, jetpacks)

- Hacker conferences, i.e CCC
(never been to one, but the talks eviscerate 99% of tech Youtube)

- Reading: tech blogs, manga, religious works
(TechTipsy, @domi@donotsta.re 's blog, even Hackaday if I'm desperate)
(Patlabor, Rayearth, anything by Shirow Masamune)
(New Testament, The Religion of the Samurai)

- Videogames
(Jackal and Millipede are the best 2D shooters, because you don't need a speed powerup to have a fighting chance)
(Quake has worse guns than doom, but the verticality makes up for it)
(Doom is more interesting when you don't keep weapons between levels)
(got highly addicted to F-Zero for a while)
(Kung Fu for NES is the only beat-em up I really got into, it isn't a slugfest: also appreciate Mazinger Z for SNES because of the immense enemy variety)

- Permacomputing
(mainly interested in the "my laptop from 2003 works fine, now get off my lawn"-part of their philosophy)

- Birds
(kinda want to scratch a Golden Eagle under the chin, I find them oddly cute)
(don't get why Netscape's grandson is called Seamonkey instead of Albatross or something)

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