I'm a person, I just like to stay anynomous.
Weird to have to say that, but here we are.
If you think you have a reason to ask for my real-life identity, just ask me via email or any other form of communication attached to redjard.
What online accounts are me — PGP signing etc. (ikr, using an em-dash right after I claimed not to be ai
If you see someone online claiming to be "redjard", and think it is dubious or need to confirm, then besides asking me, you can check if there is some signature tracing it back to me (more on that further down).
Also, a simple sanity check is that if it is a service you think I would be likely to be signed up with, and an account named "redjard" exists, and I do not note that that is not me right below this line, then it is probably me.
Accounts that are called redjard but are not me that I am aware of are currently:
Wikipedia
Someone made an account "Redjard" on Russian and Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia in 2012, which has since sat seemingly inactive. Since Wikipedia accounts are linked accross all languages, I am called "Rediard" (i instead of j) on wikipedia.
Now, for the signatures: There is this ancient trend of having a PGP key you can use to sign messages, where such a signature proves it belongs to the key's owner.
There are ways to assemble such signatures for verifying online profiles into a "profile" of its own of sorts. A convenient analog of GPG here is aspe (Keyoxide):
aspe:keyoxide.org:KI5WYVI3WGWSIGMOKOOOGF4JAE
What this system does is first show I (the aspe profile) want to be linked with a different online profile (say this website). And then it will load the website and check for a counter-proof (a hidden message in the html), to show the website wants to be linked with the aspe profile. After that is successfull, the website will show a green checkmark on the claim in the aspe profile.
Should it be relevant, my PGP key is 245A35AD7E89172268F839BFC1D491B64AB75004, though I don't generally use it. It is also verified on the aspe profile.
AI policy
Given that we are here (and I had to write this page), I may aswell state, that while I am not an "AI vegan", I don't use AI much. Generally only on things I can (and will) easily verify myself, like the existence of some function in a library, or the solution of an integral.
I verify, reproduce, or externally source all information coming from AI and ensure (non-local) AI never receives any non-public information.
If AI spits out code, I will check the reference documentation of any functions it uses, and usually do a full character-by-character rewrite in the process.
With all that, I obviously take full responsibility for anything I do. You're not gonna hear an "ai did it" if e.g. my code was shit and caused issues.