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My name is Charles Magahern, and I am a technologist and futurist.

My current line of work is in autonomy. I work on systems that power real-world AI.

When I am not at my day job, I am working on my own software, reverse engineering someone else’s software, playing or hacking around with arcade and pinball machines, and creating digital art. I try to share all of my work for free online, so that other people can learn more about what I do or re-use my work in their own projects. I am a supporter of the Open-Source hardware and software philosophy.

I also enjoy reading science fiction and technological non-fiction, and I run a book club that is available for anyone to join in cyberspace.

I am passionate about computer security and digital privacy. I believe privacy online is a fundamental human right and that the organizations who are operating and collecting data on human lives have an obligation to do so responsibly.

My preferred means of contact is via email. You can email me at root@zanneth.com. If you want to send me an encrypted email message, you can find my PGP public key at the bottom of this page.

You can also find me on X under the handle @zanneth.

I publish a lot of my source code on sourcehut, which you can find here.

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