About

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Hi, my name is Mars Uribe. Sometimes, I go by the online handle of mxu (and on occasion mxuribe). I'm a technology professional, digital philosopher, enthusiast of silliness... I design, build, and manage digital products and platforms, and help people and organizations tap into emerging technologies. MarsUribe.net is my place on the web.

Elsewhere

This is where else I spend my time while online:

Now*

This is what else I'm doing nowadays:

  • Helping my offspring prepare for get through university
  • Working at my dayjob, which is at a maker of nutritional (as well as health and hygiene) products
  • Listening to numerous podcasts, mostly related to Linux and free/libre/open source software
  • Writing a bit more than in the past...but, wanting to increase my output; both quality and quantity

Ideas†

Some thoughts swirling around in my brain:

  • The World has been shifting in many directions - and drastically - over the last handful of years. But, I think we will prevail.
  • There should be more promotion of spark files - which are simple (text) files that store a person's wishes, dreams, and especially half-baked ideas
  • Why aren't residential ISPs offering services that cater to self-hosters? Maybe not (yet) a big market, but if ISPs catered to this market, we'd have many more decentralized services running on the internet from homelabbers' computers. (Ok, email won't work so great due to pre-banned residential IP addresses, but still other stuff could work.)

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