Who/what I am
My name (at least online) is deneb. My pronouns are they/them, and I am
somewhere on the aromantic and asexual spectrum.
I live in Austria — Innsbruck to be precise — I'm 23 years old, and
currently in my 7th and hopefully final semester studying computer science
(as of 2024-10). I am just working on my bachelor's thesis at this point, and
looking to become a
floof
In case you're unaware, I'm a furry. This means, tl;dr, that I have a deep appreciation for visual art depicting animals (anthropomorphic or otherwise) and the community of artists and like-minded people that has developed around it. deneb is my fursona, and on occasion I throw some money the way of artists to get them drawn in their style. Have a look at the Art gallery, because displaying the commissions I get is honestly my website's primary purpose at this point :3
What I do
My interests centre around PCs and digital technology (unsurprisingly).
I've been daily-driving Linux since 2019, having played around with Debian,
Fedora, OpenSUSE, before settling on Arch.
I particularly enjoy computers talking to each other, aka. networking. I started off on Windows and so have some experience with Microsoft Active Directory (which I had running in the background until 2023!) and associated services, though most of my knowledge does centre around modern Linux and Docker. Besides this website with its handful of odd files available for your perusal, I self-host most of my stuff, including:
- cloud.netdeneb.com — my own Nextcloud instance, since Google killed off unlimited Photos storage in 2020
- screee.ee — fencs :>
also, a Matrix homeserver! conduwuit to be specific, but will probably migrate to Grapevine soon - leggi.es — nothing yet, but quite possibly where this website will be moving :3
- mail.screee.ee — an email server powered by Mailcow
- vault.screee.ee — a Vaultwarden instance, aka. Bitwarden but entirely free
Other things I find fascinating include, but are not limited to:
- digital electronics — because software is a pain
- retrocomputing — limitations are fun
- trains — being on them, talking about them
- languages — mostly the germanic ones
TODO #1: One of these days I'll get around to
creating a projects page. For now, look at my Github!TODO #2: Document my network setup somewhereTODO #3: Expand on the retrocomputing stuffThis website
This website was built by myself with SvelteKit. BoxIcons is used for all non-unicode icons, e.g. on buttons. Caddy handles the Files page, and another instance of it acts as an HTTP2/3 + SSL reverse proxy for this website as well as my other ones.
The full source code is publicly available on Github, here!