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Software Enthusiast<br>
FOSS Advocate<br>
Linux User 🐧<br>
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I love programming, learning new things (about everything but especially about new technologies), open source methodology, reading science-fiction and biking.

I speak Turkish native and English as intermediate.

I am interested in network technologies, devops, system engineering, system administration, operating systems, artificial intelligence, algorithms, and back-end development

I also spend my spare time with cybersecurity, web development and playing drum/piano

Trying to use my own network services as alternative to services of big companies. I don't use any <abbr title="Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google">FAAMG</abbr> services directly. Instead of them, 
- I use my own services as self-hosting:
  - [Nextcloud](https://cloud.asandikci.com) - Cloud Service (alternative to Drive)
  - [Forgeje](https://git.asandikci.com) - Git Service (alternative to GitHub)
  - [FreshRSS](https://rss.asandikci.com) - News Service
  - ...
- I use other alternative privacy-friendly services:
  - [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org/) - Social Media (alternative to Twitter/Instagram etc.)
  - [PeerTube](https://joinpeertube.org/) - Video Sharing (alternative to YouTube/Twitch etc.)
  - ...
- I use alternative open-source clients for accessing <abbr title="Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google">FAAMG</abbr> content:
  - [Invidious](https://invidious.io/) - Alternative Frontend for ~~YouTube~~
  - [Libreddit](https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit) - Alternative Frontend for ~~Reddit~~
  - ...
- I also serve useful tools/services for public usage:
  - See the [Services](/services) tab!
  

I am Pardus and TEMA Volunteer.

I have also made internship in TÜBİTAK with Pardus & Liderahenk Team for 2 month, see project

Using NixOS (with KDE desktop environment and Wayland display server) in daily usage. Still trying random operating systems, GNU/Linux distributions in virtual machine