Mike Macgirvin

Australian transplant. "Machine wizard". Reverse-lefty guitarist (plays a right handed guitar upside-down and backwards).  Retired decentralised communications professional that participated in early Internet/web/email/fediverse protocol standardisation and related technologies -- with stints at Stanford University, Netscape, America Online, Sun Microsystems, Symantec, University of Wollongong, and others. Music store owner, luthier, and band-instrument repair. Semiconductor and thin-film process engineer and ultra high vacuum systems specialist.

Has strong and often unpopular opinions based on real-world experience achieving communications between systems with completely different protocols and policies, as well as their underlying definitions of what "communication" actually means.