#+title: About Niels
#+summary: A short description of metanohi's creator
#+license: bysa
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* About Niels

Niels G. W. Serup is the creator of metanohi and [[/projects/mege/][mege]], metanohi's engine. He
was born in 1992 and lives in Denmark.

He studies datalogi (computer science) at the University of Copenhagen, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIKU][DIKU]].


** Contact

Niels can be contacted at [[mailto:ns@metanohi.name][ns@metanohi.name]].

** Software which Niels uses

*** Emacs

Emacs is a nice text editor. [[http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/][Get it]].

Links: [[https://gitorious.org/nqpz-config/nqpz-config/blobs/raw/master/home/.emacs][my .emacs]] and [[https://gitorious.org/nqpz-config/nqpz-config/trees/master/home/.emacs.d][my .emacs.d]].

*** Conkeror

Conkeror is a nice webbrowser, somewhat similar in design to
Emacs. [[http://conkeror.org/][Get it]].

Links: [[https://gitorious.org/nqpz-config/nqpz-config/trees/master/home/.conkerorrc][My .conkerorrc]].

*** StumpWM

StumpWM is a nice tiling, Emacs-like window mananger. It has much fewer
features than e.g. XMonad (another tiling wm), but it's simple and
efficient. [[http://stumpwm.antidesktop.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl][Get it]].

Links: <@eval macros.titlelink('/writings/stumpwm')@>, [[https://gitorious.org/nqpz-config/nqpz-config/blobs/raw/master/home/.stumpwmrc][my .stumpwmrc]].

*** Trisquel

I run Trisquel, a fully free as in freedom operating system. [[http://trisquel.info][Get it]].

*** Unison

I use [[http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/index.html][Unison]] to synchronize files.

More and more people are beginning to rely on fancy stuff such as the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)][internet]]
to synchronize their [[http://nxg.me.uk/note/2005/singular-data/][data]]. I don't. I can not be sure there is always fast
internet, and I cannot be sure that my data is secure, except if I spend time
encrypting it heavily.

When I am done using my desktop computer at the end of a day, I transfer files
from my desktop computer to my USB flash drive with Unison. Then I place my USB
flash drive in one of my left pockets and forget about it. The next day, when I
need to synchronize my files with my laptop, I remember putting my flash drive
in my lower left pocket. I pick it up and put it in my laptop, and then I run
Unison again.

It's fast, secure and durable (I often have poor or even none connection when
working on my laptop).


** Things which Niels uses but doesn't like

*** GitHub
When I want to make a git repository available online, I like to do it on the
server which also hosts metanohi, or a free software online host, such as one
running Gitorious. I don't quite like the very popular GitHub service, because
it is not free software. The negative effects of GitHub's proprietarity is that
its users cannot learn from studying GitHub's code, and that they cannot run
their own GitHubs. Users mostly use GitHub for public data, and since git
repositories are distributed, it is easy to move a git repository from GitHub
to another git repo hosting service --- just change the push address of your
local repository. All of this means that GitHub cannot cause serious problems
when it comes to control over the data you give to it. As such GitHub is far
from being as great a problem as e.g. Facebook. But I still don't like GitHub's
attitude. I use GitHub because someone created a repository to which I
contribute code on GitHub, not because of its "social coding".


** Virtual existences

In order of randomness:

  + [[http://hongabar.org/profile/nqpz][My public friendica profile]]
  + [[http://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:NqpZ][Libreplanet]]
  + [[http://identi.ca/nqpz][Identi.ca]]
  + [[http://nqpz.filmaster.com/][Filmaster]]
  + [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:NqpZ][Wikipedia]]
  + [[https://savannah.gnu.org/users/nqpz][GNU Savannah]]
  + [[https://gitorious.org/~nqpz][Gitorious]]
  + [[http://openlibrary.org/people/nqpz][Open Library]]
  + [[http://en.literateprograms.org/User:NqpZ][LiteratePrograms]]
  + [[https://launchpad.net/~nqpz][Launchpad]]
  + [[http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/User:Schabeindividuum][Uncyclopedia]] (don't take this one seriously)

Also, I don't use Facebook (or Facebook-/like/ social networks). If I did, my
data would be in Facebook's virtual hands. Users have way too little control
over Facebook. The solution to Facebook and other centralized services is to
use decentralized services. So in the case of social networking, use Diaspora,
friendica, or something else instead of Facebook.

*** I'm not on Facebook --- I'm on friendica!

Apparently someone else sharing my first name and my last name is on
Facebook. That's not me. I don't use PhageBook. I do, however, use [[http://friendica.com/][friendica]] on
[[http://hongabar.org/][Hongabar]].

** Keys

*** SSH

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** Misc.

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