Contact

To contact me, email me at:

Encryption

That is the fingerprint of my GPG key pair:

2E0F FB60 7FEF 11D0 FB45 4DDC E979 E52A 7036 7A88

To import my GPG key to your keyring run:

$ sudo apt-get install curl # install curl 
$ curl -sf https://yctct.com/_pubkey.txt | gpg --import # download and import key to your keyring

If you don’t have a GPG key, and want to get one, run:

$ sudo apt-get install gpg # download GnuPG
$ gpg --full-generate-key # start the dialogue interface to generate a key pair

Plain text

I prefer receiving emails in plain text (not HTML).

You can find instructions on how to choose to write plain text email with your email client there: https://useplaintext.email/#other-clients.

Posting style

I follow the bottom-posting convention, i.e. replies go below, at the bottom of the thread. Most email clients force users into following the top-posting convention.

What is top-posting?¹

A3: Please.
Q3: Should I avoid top posting [...]?

A2: Because, by reversing the order of a 
    conversation, it leaves the reader without 
    much context, and makes them read a message 
    in an unnatural order.
Q2: Why is top posting irritating?

A1: It is the practice of putting your reply to 
    a message before the quoted message, instead 
    of after the (trimmed) message.
Q1: What is top posting?

Choose an email client which support bottom-posting: https://useplaintext.email/#other-clients. By the way, Apple Mail, Gmail, Outlook, Protonmail do not support bottom-posting as of 2023.

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1. source: Werner Koch’s personal website↩︎

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I do self-funded research and I'm writing a book.

> What's the book about?

About technologies and agency.

Meaning, technologies can foster agency. No doubt. But I am also asking:

Can usage of technologies give us a sense of empowerment while in fact undermining our abilities?

I posted a summary of the prologue on the homepage: https://yctct.com/

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