Hi ! Welcome to Vorian, my little paradise, your sanctuary. 🧭✨Vorian is my little paradise, a sanctuary for me and those who seek a similar refuge. The emojis above serve as navigational guides acting like little road signs, taking us back to the days of simple website navigation in the 90s, but you can explore the sitemap here. Some images may have protections in place to safeguard privacy, this includes measures against image recognition systems (like CNNs and Lens features). Vorian this website embraces a minimalist aesthetic with a focus on functionality and a serene user experience. And what about me!? well, My name is Adelino Saldanha, born and raised in Braga, Portugal. According to the National Institute of Statistics (INE), there are only two people with my name in the country but on the internet seems to be alote and I don't have a very common name. I've been known by various nicknames over the years: thE gUArDIaN angeL (an anagram of my first name), war10ck, unknown, gozil4, kernelx64, linux (inspired by the early days of Linux, before even the ./startx), and many others. I was born on May 4th, the only son of my parents. Some friends jokingly say the Force was born with me. My childhood hero is Silver Surfer, and Lego was my favorite toy. This website, represents a lifestyle. I live off-grid by choice, prioritizing autonomy and sustainability. This is not to be confused with rural tourism or simply living in a remote house. My passions include computer science, astronomy, outdoor activities (like paragliding (which now I only usually do like the Olympic Games) and hiking, music, Star Wars, fantasy literature, and ham radio. My journey with computers began at age eight with a Spectrum 48K. I vividly remember writing my first lines of code and I did explored BBSs (which I did the first time in the city at that time), phone booths, analog lines, and the iconic 90s callback boxes. My first real computer was an 8086, (because before I also had a schneider europc) introducing me to MS-DOS. I learned various programming languages and continue to code for personal projects. While I love computers, I find myself increasingly drawn to simpler experiences. I enjoy long walks and hikes, and I've reconnected with my interest in ham radio (now primarily listening to ham, satellites and space transmissions). I've achieved many things in my life, from participating in the Free Kevin movement back in the days to pursuing personal projects. This space is about self-discovery, not impressing others. I live by my own terms and value freedom above all else. I don't use social media and have no intention to. This is my entire online presence. I kindly request that you respect my decision and refrain from suggesting I'm "not normal". In my opinion, contemporary computing prioritizes user engagement and competition over genuine human connection offline. Having said all this, all I have left is that this text reflects my personal views and experiences considering i grew up watching flying cars, intergalactic travels and time travel, teleportation and aliens and nothing happens after five decades. It makes me wonder about the nature of progress and the gap between our dreams and reality. Guess I'll just have to invent it myself.
Text prepared and written in 2017 and revised in 2025
the age we living'it ?! Well...
The benefits of the Internet and social media are unquestionably fantastic. In many ways, this is the best time in history to be alive. But perhaps these technologies are having some unintended social side effects. Perhaps these same technologies that have liberated and educated so many are simultaneously enabling people’s sense of entitlement more than ever before. We’re all, for the most part, pretty average people. But it’s the extremes that get all of the publicity. We kind of know this already, but we rarely think and/or talk about it, and we certainly never discuss why this could be a problem. Having the Internet, Google, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and access to five hundred–plus channels of television is amazing. But our attention is limited. There’s no way we can process the tidal waves of information flowing past us constantly. Therefore, the only zeroes and ones that break through and catch our attention are the truly exceptional pieces of information—those in the 99.999th percentile. All day, every day, we are flooded with the truly extraordinary. The best of the best. The worst of the worst. The greatest physical feats. The funniest jokes. The most upsetting news. The scariest threats. Nonstop. Our lives today are filled with information from the extremes of the bell curve of human experience, because in the media business that’s what gets eyeballs, and eyeballs bring dollars. That’s the bottom line. Yet the vast majority of life resides in the humdrum middle. The vast majority of life is unextraordinary, indeed quite average.
This flood of extreme information has conditioned us to believe that exceptionalism is the new normal.
Text prepared and written in 2017 and revised in 2025
the climate change problem, the cost of abundance and the paradox of progress : ?! Well...
Is allways the same thing, scientist come up with numbers, they urge how important it is and then people move on with her days. This is diferente. Abundance or lack of does not have only a price in money, and these days there is a good bit of everything even too much. In fact in this modern times we have experienced so much economic growth that today more people die of eating to much than eating not enought. It turns out we have a litle too much stuff sometimes, and that too much stuff isn't produced out of nothing. Beyond the euro value euro we pay for things there's a far greater cost to abundance and ecoligical cost. People generaly don't get what i'm gonna say or they don't understand: soldiers die more from disease than from actual combate itself. It's just that modern advances while allowing us to cure far more diseases than before have also opened up a pandora's box of future threats. Civilization will colapse under her own weight. You see, one of the psycological side effects of prolonged social media is a broken concentration. You could argue that's less of a side effect and more of and objective.
Regardless people are constantly glancing at their phones no matter what they're doing and it's turning them into short sighted individuals who are preoccupied with the next burst of dopamine. That is exactly the problem we're facing with climate change and ecoligical colapse. 🦖#24439
Text prepared and written in 2024 and revised in 2025
Mars !?...
Mars serves the same purposes today as the Moon in 1968, being symbolic in a double sense. Whoever arrives first scores a point, demonstrates their technological advancement and, this trio, also makes it clear where the "taco" is on Earth. To prove that there is life or not on Mars is merely secondary, in view of the speeches and projects that are already being talked about for the colonization of the planet. It is part of the "magical realism" of all this It is necessary in my optics to "starwarize" and create a regulatory and protection entity for both, space and the Universe. Beside all am really disguted about the instalation of the nuclear reactor in the moon.
Text prepared and written in 2017 and revised in 2025
Mining the Moon !?..
In the few next coming years, nations and private companies will likely explore the Earth Moon's surface. This excites me, but as space becomes more accessible, we need to carefully consider what commercial activities we want to allow, including on the Moon. Now's the time to establish rules that safeguard humanity's shared future in space and ensure the Moon remains an inspiration. This has ignited a new lunar race, with private companies vying to extract resources, potentially supplying governments.
The 1967 Outer Space Treaty prohibits any nation from owning the Moon. However, it's unclear if companies extracting resources violate this. The 1979 Moon Treaty declares the Moon's resources "common heritage of mankind," often interpreted as a ban on commercial mining. The 2020 Artemis Accords permit mining while rejecting ownership claims. The treaty emphasizes space exploration should benefit all of humanity.
The Moon holds immense promise, but history shows the consequences of unchecked exploitation. Before we mine the Moon, we must establish robust regulations prioritizing fairness, safety, and human rights.
We must also carry out in-depth and extensive studies to explore all potential risks, including those to our planet, present, future and possible future. Otherwise, we risk creating another “climate change” problem, adding to all we already have. Human greed and power, if left unchecked, can suppress any ethical consideration and surpass any environmental limit, ultimately leading to the exploitation and degradation of even celestial bodies like the Moon.
Text prepared and written in 2025 and revised in 2025
