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We’re DECSystem10, though sinza is a convenient singular entity that we tend to use I as. We are a plural collective!

I enjoy retrocomputing and find that NetBSD is awesome! In general I prefer BSD to Linux actually.

I enjoy getting old computers to talk to each other, as well as alternatives to the web where possible like Gopher, Gemini, and Spartan!

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Cake day: September 15th, 2026
  • sinza@piefed.socialtoAnti-social media@piefed.social•Meta Bans Ads That Promote FeminismEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Ah yeah, this person really isn’t impersonating me. They just kinda took over my account and happened to have the same legal name as me so yeah

    For context, my legal name (first and last!) is very rare (as in I might be the only one) in the US (where I live), but is very common in a specific country in Europe.

    I made my Facebook account when I first entered high school, and I was very security illiterate at the time. So I used the same password everywhere. In that mean time, a security thing happened and people’s Facebook passwords got leaked. A couple years later, I found that someone with my legal name in said European country took it over.

    Thankfully this person didn’t try to take over any of my other accounts, wasn’t pretending to be me and was just posting about their life on what was my account, and by the time I was making online purchases, I was fairly educated in password security as well as pretty anti-Facebook because of hearing about shady anti-privacy things they were doing.

    Can see how that’d be an absolute nightmare scenario for many others though!