It’s mostly to combat spam. I created a lemmy account with an obviously bogus e-mail account, hopped on matrix and reached out to the instance admins and they activated my account manually after I asked nicely.

I prefer the left road. The right one leads to a perception of being awkward AND stupid.

…for SuperAmerica!

Apart from the jetlag it’s not too bad, actually. I’ve had worse jobs that didn’t take me to the far corners of the world.

“IT Support”.
Shore support specialist for this production system (server cluster) used offshore. I spend most of my time “available, on standby”.

They see me postin’
They hatin’
Patrolling and trying to catch me postin dirty

Dream Theater - Meteopolis pt 2: Scenes from a Memory