Howdy folks. My name is Preston Maness. I’m a socialist --a card-carrying member of DSA, member of my local Austin DSA chapter, card-carrying SRA member, Bernie Victory Captain back in 2020-- and a software engineer in Austin Texas, mostly writing back-end C# code. I graduated from Texas State University with a BSEE (computer engineering emphasis) back in 2014. Though if I could go back in time, I’d probably change that emphasis to power engineering; computer engineering is very difficult to break into, and ultimately, I think Texas in particular will need more power engineers, given its flakey electrical grid, than computer or electronics engineers.

I have a number of identities across the fediverse:

And my Keyoxide (decentralized alternative to keybase.io, which is rapidly atrophying in the wake of its acquisition by Zoom) can give you an idea of where I can be found elsewhere:

https://keyoxide.org/hkp/79895B2E0F87503F1DDE80B649765D7F0DDD9BD5

My interests are varied, and can be sampled from this list of tags:

Locality:

#atx #tx #austin #texas #austintx

Software:

#grapheneos #firefox #debian #sysadmin #rockylinux #almalinux

Hardware:

#riscv #openpower #powerpc #ppc

Politics:

#socialism #communism #cyberpunk

Gaming:

#haloinfinite #celeste #stardewvalley #nintendo64 #n64 #deusex #zelda #ocarinaoftime #botw

If you consider yourself a socialist of any flavour, I recommend checking out https://lemmygrad.ml or https://lemmy.ml. Both are Lemmy instances with left-wing flavours. Lemmygrad in particular has seen quite a bit of growth in the wake of reddit quarantining /r/GenZedong.