91 lines
3.9 KiB
HTML
91 lines
3.9 KiB
HTML
|
<aside class="sm">
|
||
|
|
<img src="/images/me-libreplanet-2016.png"
|
||
|
|
alt="Photo of Mike Gerwitz holding a microphone in front of a blackboard"
|
||
|
|
title="Mike Gerwitz giving LibrePlanet 2016 Talk 'Restore Online Freedom!'"
|
||
|
|
class="inline-img avatar" />
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
GPG Fingerprint: <tt>D6E9 B930 028A 6C38 F43B 2388 FEF6 3574 5E6F 6D05</tt>
|
||
|
|
<a href="https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/">[?]</a>
|
||
|
|
</p>
|
||
|
|
<ul class="links">
|
||
|
|
<li><a href="about/resume">View my résumé/CV.</a></li>
|
||
|
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
</aside>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<article class="abstract">
|
||
|
|
<h1>About</h1>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
I am a <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/">free (as in
|
||
|
|
freedom) software</a> <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">hacker</a>
|
||
|
|
and user freedom activist with a focus on user privacy and security.
|
||
|
|
I am a professional software developer dealing primarily with web development;
|
||
|
|
compiler construction; and software architecture, and have been
|
||
|
|
programming for about twenty years.
|
||
|
|
My other personal interests include mathematics, cryptography,
|
||
|
|
philosophy and ethics, pedagogy, writing, law, and various other fields.
|
||
|
|
I also closely follow the work of
|
||
|
|
the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/">Free Software
|
||
|
|
Foundation</a>, <a href="http://eff.org/">Electronic Frontier
|
||
|
|
Foundation</a>, and other entities devoted to free information and free
|
||
|
|
society.
|
||
|
|
</p>
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
I am the author of <a href="https://gnu.org/software/easejs">GNU
|
||
|
|
ease.js</a>;
|
||
|
|
a member of the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html">GNU evaluation</a>
|
||
|
|
team;
|
||
|
|
hold an administrative role within GNU;
|
||
|
|
and volunteer for various other aspects of
|
||
|
|
the <a href="https://gnu.org/">GNU Project</a> and
|
||
|
|
the <a href="https://fsf.org/">Free Software Foundation</a>.
|
||
|
|
</p>
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
I am a <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">hacker</a>,
|
||
|
|
not a <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">cracker</a>—the
|
||
|
|
latter breaks the security of systems, while the former expresses playful
|
||
|
|
creativity in their work.
|
||
|
|
</p>
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
Outside of my field,
|
||
|
|
I enjoy time with my family—including my wife and two
|
||
|
|
sons—who
|
||
|
|
keep me very busy and help to keep me sane.
|
||
|
|
I also have a fascination with a wide range of sciences that I wish I had
|
||
|
|
the time to devote to researching.
|
||
|
|
</p>
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
Much of this site is devoted to my thoughts and ramblings on various
|
||
|
|
matters and so will contain material that is subject to strong bias;
|
||
|
|
you are encouraged to construct your own opinions.
|
||
|
|
Formal papers contain no such influence without rationale and references.
|
||
|
|
</p>
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
I may be contacted at mtg at gnu dot org.
|
||
|
|
I do not make use of “social media” websites,
|
||
|
|
though I may (or may not) respond to queries on websites that I am a
|
||
|
|
member of,
|
||
|
|
and I do host my <a href="https://social.mikegerwitz.com/">own GNU
|
||
|
|
Social instance</a>.
|
||
|
|
</p>
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
(Note: This website itself is free/libre—the source code is
|
||
|
|
available via the commit hash links in the footer of various pages and
|
||
|
|
the content is licensed for free distribution and, in most cases,
|
||
|
|
modification.)
|
||
|
|
</p>
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
I changed GPG keys in October 2016;
|
||
|
|
see my <a href="/about/key-transition.txt">key transition statement</a>,
|
||
|
|
signed with both my <a href="/about/key-transition.txt.new.asc">new</a>
|
||
|
|
and <a href="/about/key-transition.txt.old.asc">old</a> keys.
|
||
|
|
</p>
|
||
|
|
<p>
|
||
|
|
<span class="attribution"><a href="https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/session-03-c-ms-png-libreplanet-2016-sessions-ec00/">LibrePlanet
|
||
|
|
2016 Photo</a> Copyright © 2016 Kori Feener,
|
||
|
|
<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY 4.0</a>;
|
||
|
|
used with permission.</span>
|
||
|
|
</p>
|
||
|
|
</article>
|