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hi, i’m skovati

i’m an engineer and hacker from the great lakes region

a few things i’m passionate about:

• digital minimalism
• simple, ethical, and sustainable technology
• free, libre, and open source software
• self-hosted and decentralized systems
• privacy and anonymity
• electronics and circuits
• amateur radio
• motorcycles
• film photography
• mathematics and philosophy
• astronomy and space science

professionally, i make robots and servers go beep boop at a space science laboratory

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