About

I’m a sometime experimental physicist — still one at heart — recycled into research computing support of all sorts over the years.When I were a lad we had ‘physicist programmers’.

 Perhaps I should put my old publication list online.

I advocate and work on free software. (I started in research before Stallman needed to coin the term, when it was basically what you assumed, and it’s vital for research computing.)

I hope you’ll realize the spelling and grammar is coloured dark blue“… the universities … both of them” — Sir Humphrey Appleby
DOMINUS ILLUMINATIO MEA

 and isn’t USAglish. (Things like ‘program’ and ‘disk’ are taken as technical terms.) Mediaeval craftsman-inspired Latin in the HTML <title> might reflect my tutor saying a rare Physics essay read like a Greats man’s. Good, or bad? I was never sure.

Elsewhere

Email: dave.love@manchester.ac.uk (work, currently); fx@gnu.orgMy preferred id is fx for historical reasons (exhausted Liverpool LUx ids on the Daresbury IBM 370, nothing to do with ‘sound FX’, but I wouldn’t like to be unsound). When the two letters are too short, or already taken, I’m usually loveshack (geddit?, and the B52s).

 (perhaps for other free software stuff)

Gitlab: loveshack;

Github: loveshack

darcs hub:I like commuting patch-based revision control.

 fx

Sourcehut:I like mail-based maintenance, which served me well as a maintainer on three large projects on a 32MB Pentium 1.

 fx

Fedora: loveshack

OpenStreetMap: loveshack

Public Keys

Here’s a PGP key, with an alternative location if I forget to update, or you can fetch SSH keys, which can be used for signing, and encryption.

Anti-social Networks

While I’ve been using the network for social purposes for decades, the surveillance capitalismNo political connotation other than civil liberties.

 ’social network’s du jour are pretty problematic, with one worse than othersExcept Linkedin?

 so, along Twitter and similar sites, Not f'd — you won't find me on Facebook.

Good Causes

I have some recommendations of worthy organizations you might like to support, some of which are antidotes to the above.