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title: About Me
---

Freedom-focused hacker. I love everything about free software, and spend much
time contributing to it myself. I occasionally write articles to help other
people getting started with free software, and show the issues with proprietary
software. I'm active on a number of IRC channels, spread over multiple IRC
networks.

## Contact

### PGP

My public PGP key is available [from my own site][pubkey], or from a public key
server such as [pgp.mit.edu][pubkey-mit]. The fingerprint is:

    1660 F6A2 DFA7 5347 322A  4DC0 7A6A C285 E2D9 8827

You can also fetch my PGP key using the
[WebKey Protocol](/post/2020/05/30/setting-up-pgp-wkd/):

    gpg --locate-key p.spek@tyil.nl

[pubkey]: /pubkey.txt
[pubkey-mit]: http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x7A6AC285E2D98827

### Channels

####  Email

Email contact goes via [p.spek@tyil.work][mail]. Be sure to at least sign all
mail you send me. Even better would be encrypted mail using my [PGP
key][pubkey].

I do not read my mailboxes very often, so please do not expect a timely
response. If you require a response as soon as possible, please find me on IRC
instead.

#### IRC

I am mainly active as `tyil` on [Libera][libera]. Other networks I frequent
are [DareNET][darenet] and [Rizon][rizon], using the same nick, `tyil`. I
use OTR for private messages on IRC, so be sure you use this if you want to
discuss something in private.

## Other links

- [Sourcehut account][git-srht]
- [GitLab account][git-gl]
- [GitHub account][git-gh]
- [LinkedIn][linkedin]

## RSS

If you'd like to stay up-to-date with my posts, you can subscribe to the [RSS
feed](/posts/index.xml).

[darenet]: https://darenet.org
[git-gh]: https://github.com/tyil
[git-gl]: https://gitlab.com/tyil
[git-srht]: https://sr.ht/~tyil/
[linkedin]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickspek
[mail]: mailto:p.spek@tyil.work
[pubkey]: /pubkey.txt
[rizon]: https://rizon.net
[libera]: https://libera.chat