About

My name is Julian Yon. I'm a neuro-atypical computer scientist and musician born in the 1970s. I am an anarchist of no specific school of thought. I'm disabled (chronically ill) with two children. My religious views are non-mainstream, but I label myself as a Christian Skeptic. If you are nosey enough to want to know about my day-to-day life, you should read my personal blog. Occasionally I get annoyed enough at nonsense on Wikipedia that I actually bother to do something about it.

Contact

I am most obviously reachable by email; as this is inherently insecure I advise encryption for anything of a sensitive nature. Please use my annual key for this purpose. You can find more information about my public keys below.

If you prefer less formal contact, I often hang out on Twitter. I have accounts on Google+ and identi.ca, but I rarely use them.

If you are looking for a way to support me and my family, you can do so via Flattr. Look for the “Flattr this” link on content pages, or you can make a donation. If you are feeling particularly generous and would like to give a larger amount than Flattr will allow, or if you'd prefer not to use Flattr at all, please get in touch.

House Rules

Due to disability, my primary contact with the outside happens online. This makes the virtual world, and a safe place within that world, especially important. It has sadly become necessary to make clear certain social boundaries.

• I am a human being. Treat me like one. I'm not your plaything.
• I live in constant, severe pain. If your online behaviour has a negative impact on me, I will block/blacklist/report you.
• If I've been offensive towards you, preferably talk to me about it calmly, otherwise block me and walk away. I don't necessarily know what I've done and I don't have the emotional capacity to deal with your anger.
• Neither unprovoked verbal abuse, nor ad hominem attacks, will be well received. By all means call me a dick if I act like a dick. But tell me why I'm a dick.
• I am as fallible as you are. Bringing my fallibility into an argument is just another form of ad hominem; just as fallacious, and just as hurtful.
• Questioning my spelling or grammar is perfectly acceptable as it affects the meaning of a sentence. Abusing me for asking you for clarification is not. I am not good at resolving ambiguities. Please write correctly if you don't want to be asked.
• I reserve the right to react to any snide remark that hasn't been deleted, even if you made it some time before it was brought to my attention.
• If you are determined to pick a fight, you don't have the right to decide when it's over, unless it's accompanied by a sincere apology.
• If you push me to the point of tears, I will name and shame you.
• I believe in freedom of speech. If I ask you to stop being offensive, it's because you're being really offensive, or triggering, to the point of causing me (or another) distress. Please don't argue about it.

I am sorry to have to be explicit about all this, but people who should know better continue to take liberties and I must protect my mental health.

OpenPGP Info

Please contact me if you need to verify my keys. My key signing policy is “convince me”. If I've known you for 20 years, you turn up in person with ID, and I'm able to verify your email address then you should have no trouble with this. If I've never met you and you just send me a random DM then you're not going to get very far.

I have three signing keys: “high assurance” means I am convinced beyond reasonable doubt of the owner's identity; “low assurance” means I believe on the balance of probability they are who they claim to be; “medium assurance” lies somewhere inbetween. This allows me to be flexible in my approach to verification, while not requiring everyone to agree with me. As always, you should apply your own judgment in assigning trust levels to these keys.

This is my identity. All my other keys are signed by this one. If you believe who I am, then this is the key to certify:

fingerprint = DF82 0B67 70AC A747 53E6  2629 F8AA 4574 3C01 1D85

This key will be used for signing/encrypting mail during 2013:

fingerprint = 6008 B638 F2E6 771F 98A6  444A 8DAD 2D17 AE7B 6D1B

These keys were previously used for signing/encrypting mail:

fingerprint = 0067 E8DE 2D3D 0425 767C  C907 7761 2854 F3A6 6B3A  //  2012
fingerprint = 7E0F 3207 4000 280F FF9C  03F8 52A6 6390 D2DE 707D  //  2011

These keys are used only for signing other keys:

fingerprint = E2BC 26B5 CAD0 2BAA 9E52  607A 3ADE C2F1 67E6 4ECA  //  high
fingerprint = E6CC 0538 C006 3E3E B382  29AA ACB9 CBC2 C342 27F0  //  medium
fingerprint = CC9B 4FED BC34 C317 2316  3857 CBB2 D728 77E2 250A  //  low

Accessibility

Accessibility is an issue of great importance to me. As a matter of course I test all websites on the latest versions of Mozilla Firefox, Chromium (aka Google Chrome), and Lynx (for compatibility with very basic browsers). If you encounter problems using any of my sites with a free, standards compliant browser, or with a particular access technology, I encourage you to contact me. If you encounter problems using Internet Explorer or another non-free browser, I recommend you explore the alternatives.

License

Copyright (c) 2011..2013 Julian R Yon <julian@yon.org.uk>

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 444 Castro Street, Suite 900, Mountain View, California, 94041, USA.