Rait Nigol

“Control can sometimes be an illusion, but sometimes you need illusion to gain control. Fantasy is an easy way to give meaning to the world, to cloak our harsh reality in escapist comfort. After all, isn’t that why we surround ourselves with so many screens? So we can avoid seeing? So we can avoid each other? So we can avoid truth.”

— Elliot Alderson

guest@nigol.ee — ssh

whoami

Hello! I am Rait Nigol, Chief Information Security Officer & System Administrator at Estonian Internet Foundation. I helped the organization achieve ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification and currently maintain its standard-compliant Information Security Management System (ISMS).

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  • VOCO Aasta Tegija 2020 — 1st place in the IT Systems Specialist category.
  • VOCO Aasta Tegija 2021 — 2nd place in the IT Systems Specialist category.

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Co-founder, shareholder, and management board member of Tasub Jantida OÜ.

Gaming community middleman since 2016 — 1000+ successful transactions, 50k €+ in volume.

Founder of $.pohhu¥, a creative collective from Tartu.

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spotifyctl status

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cowsay < copypasta.txt

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

Tell your mother you love her
while her voice is still close enough to answer.

She gave you more than she had,
carried you through days you were too young to understand,
and looked at you
with the quiet grace of someone
who had already suffered,
yet still chose love.

Because one day, without warning,
you may search for those eyes
and find only the memory of them looking back.

And when she is no longer here to hold you,
may you feel her still —
somewhere beyond the clouds,
watching over the life
she gave everything to protect.