Luca Saiu

I am a computer scientist, free software hacker and GNU maintainer.

Among other things I am a scientific rationalist and an Atheist.

About me [still incomplete]

More information about who I am and what I do.

Contact

This page explains how you can write me or meet me.

Projects and minor hacks [still incomplete]

All of my recent published software is free software. Here you can find information about my ambitious projects such as GNU Jitter, GNU epsilon and Marionnet, plus a few other minor things.

Public keys

You can verify that my GPG-signed messages actually come from me, and get my SSH public keys in case you want to let me access your machines.

An ag(e)ing hacker — my personal blog

My occasional musings on technical and non-technical issues, including politics and culture.

Publications

You can find my PhD thesis and my academic papers here.

Talks

I often give talks, on technical and political matters. You can find most of my presentation slides here.

Teaching

I have taught in France at the university level for a total of around a decade, between 2007 and 2021. Most of my experience centered around Université Paris 13, since renamed Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, particularly at the Villetaneuse IUT (University Technological Institute) and at LIPN (Paris Nord Informatics Laboratory), Insitut Galilée; I taught briefly at EPITA in 2014.

Meeting organisation

I organised the 2013 edition of the GNU Hackers Meeting in Paris. Now I am co-organising, with E., the 2022 edition in İzmir.

Music

This page contains some recordings of my instrumental performances.

Translations

I translated a few non-peer-reviewed articles about security and espionage written by others into the language of the country where I was born.

About this server

Other than some private services not intended for public use my server handles this web site and my mail infrastructure. The server also hosts a Gemini capsule at gemini://ageinghacker.net and a Gopher hole at gopher://ageinghacker.net.

I plan to set up a GNUnet node. The machine hosts a small Tor exit node, for the benefit of the global community. Tor and GNUnet relay services connect to the outside world from their own IP address, 82.221.139.190.

News

2022-05-28: I let some log file fill the entire server filesystem by mistake and some services, notably email, have not been working between around 2022-05-18 and 2022-05-28. Every service is now back up.
2022-03-28: I have given up on self-signing X.509 certificates, and just switched to one of the dumb “popular” CAs in order not to be too penalised by search engines. The web server for ageinghacker.net, aginghacker.net and saiu.ch now serves the same content over HTTP and HTTPS.
Again, I emphasise how I did this so as not to get ageinghacker.net penalised by search engines. I remain adamant that Certificate Authorities are a terrible idea.
2022-05-14: E. and I got married: see the blog post Hackers getting married;
2022-03-10: Blog post GNU Jitter and GCC: the fun of playing with fire;
2022-02-19: Blog post Opernhaus Zürich does not deserve you;
2022-02-17: Blog post There is no freedom day if freedom is conceded from above;
2022-01-16: ageinghacker.net now hosts a Gemini capsule at gemini://ageinghacker.net and a Gopher hole at gopher://ageinghacker.net;

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