bandali

Hello, and welcome to my corner of the internet. I'm a computing scientist, archivist, and activist for user freedom.

I love getting mail. You can write to me at bandali@kelar.org, optionally encrypting your message with my GPG key.

My works are grouped into the following main categories:

• Essays: My takes on various topics, mainly related to computing.
• Technical articles: Notes and articles on specific technical subjects.
• Talks: My talks and presentations for various events and conferences.
• News: Announcements or updates about recent happenings.
• Life: Stories and anecdotes from my personal life.

Here are my most recent works:

• Free software activities in October 2025 (October 2025)
• FSF40 volunteer panel (October 2025)
• Free software activities in September 2025 (September 2025)
• Prot Asks me about EmacsConf, Debian, GNU, Internet Archive, and Canada (September 2025)
• Free software activities in August 2025 (August 2025)
• Lispy Gopher Climate with screwlisp (August 2025)
• Mirroring Protesilaos' videos to Internet Archive (July 2025)
• Don't "buy" e-books from Oxford University Press (May 2025)
• PulseAudio with changing machine-id (May 2024)
• tmdconv (March 2024)

An rss20.xml feed of my latest works is available.

You may also be interested in my فارسی pages if you can read Persian. :)