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2020-05-22T14:36:05+08:00
Hey! My name is Blair Vidakovich. Online, I call myself 'vidak'
people also used to call me 'bootlicker' because my big blog, which i am
rehosting soon, was called https://bootlicker.party
I live in Perth, Australia. I lived in Sydney for about half a decade,
and did a lot of stuff there, too.
I am an active libertarian communist. I have been a radical communist
activist since age 16. When I was 16, I hung a red and yellow hammer and
sickle flag from my English Literature school block, the B block, at
Hale School here in Perth.
My family roots are from the Swan Valley. I am a slav, and my family
comes from Yugoslavia :-) Discovering anarchism / libertarian Marxism
really set me free from the rigid Catholicism of my slavic family, but I
still share an amazing joy for life like they do :-)
In Sydney, I helped organise big protests, ran unsuccessfully for local
council in Leichhardt, occupied the Villawood detention centre, gave
seminars on Marx and Marxist philosophy---and, for some weeks, I was the
sole person organising a state upper house election campaign in Victoria
for Socialist Alliance.
Actually I did even more than that, but, I suppose, by now, you're
thinking, "I get it. You're a communist. You can stop now" XD.
I love computers and philosophy. I am still yet to submit by thesis for
my PhD in philosophy, on Hegel's Philosophy of Nature.
I am proficient in Common LISP, 6502 Assembly, and Smalltalk. I am now
trying to get into Ada, so I need to find some sort of project to start
creating in it :-)
I have been a Linux user since age 14. These are the distributions I
used, in the order in which I used them: Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, Gentoo. I
am still using Gentoo, and I am going to be migrating from Gentoo to GNU
GUIX in the very near future---to which I will port the Hurd kernel,
following some instructions and some previous attempts logged online.
I absolutely love electricity. I taught myself university level
electronic engineering when I was recuperating from being diagnosed with
schizophrenia. I have schizophrenia, but it does not really affect my
life too badly. I take 20mg Abilify and 30mg of Lexapro every day.
Anyway---I absolutely love all sorts of transistorised circuits, be they
amplifiers, oscillators, synthesisers---anything analogue. Actually that
is the primary lens through which I see computers. The digital world is
indeed piggybacking on the analogue electronic world, for me.
I have built many radios and incredible other analogue projects. My next
project in the electronic visual field is going to be one I have been
planning since 2013. It is a fully hand-soldered discrete transistor
computer. When my blog gets back up, i'll link you all :-)
I dream of a worldwide communist revolution. Only then will we be able
to rid ourselves of the muck of ages, and leave the pre-history of human
kind :-)
Our real history is going to be the one we make after capitalism :-)