metanohi/site/about/niels.org

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

Niels G. W. Serup is the creator of metanohi.  He was born in 1992 and lives in
Denmark.

He studies computer science at [[http://diku.dk/][DIKU]] where he is also part of the yearly student
revue [[http://dikurevy.dk/][DIKUrevy]] and the local online news source (among other things) [[http://dikutal.dk][Dikutal]].
Some videos from the revue has been put up online at
[[http://youtube.com/DIKUrevy]].

Niels goes by the nicknames "ngws" and "nqpz" (and a few others).


** Contact

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


** Things used by Niels

*** 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]].

*** Debian

I run Debian with only a small amount of proprietary software.  [[http://debian.org/][Get Debian]].  I used to run
Trisquel, but I realized that I would rather use something with more support, so
I switched to using Debian after I bought a new computer.

*** Dvorak

I use the a modified variant of the Danish Dvorak keyboard layout.  This is my
"~/.Xmodmap":
#+BEGIN_SRC
keycode 108 = Mode_switch

keycode  34 = apostrophe acute quotedbl

keycode  21 = grave dead_caron dead_acute
keycode  35 = Tab equal backslash bar
keycode  36 = Return dead_diaeresis dead_grave
keycode  49 = section brokenbar paragraph dead_circumflex
keycode  10 = 1 exclam onesuperior exclamdown
keycode  11 = 2 EuroSign twosuperior ssharp
keycode  12 = 3 numbersign threesuperior sterling
keycode  13 = 4 dollar onequarter currency
keycode  14 = 5 percent onehalf U2030
keycode  15 = 6 ampersand threequarters idotless
keycode  16 = 7 slash division braceleft 
keycode  17 = 8 parenleft bracketleft eth
keycode  18 = 9 parenright bracketright ETH
keycode  19 = 0 equal braceright NoSymbol braceright

keysym a = a A at at at at
keysym o = o O exclam
keysym u = u U parenleft
keysym e = e E slash backslash slash backslash
keysym h = h H parenright
keysym t = t T asciitilde dead_tilde
keysym n = n N asterisk
keysym s = s S plus plusminus

keysym aring = aring Aring percent division
keysym comma = comma semicolon dollar
keysym period = period colon asciicircum dead_circumflex
keysym p = p P braceleft
keysym r = r R equal
keysym l = l L ampersand
keysym g = g G braceright
keysym c = c C numbersign

keysym q = q Q question
keysym k = k K bracketleft
keysym b = b B bracketright
keysym m = m M bar brokenbar
keysym j = j J Insert
#+END_SRC
My keyboard layout can be achieved by running
#+BEGIN_SRC
setxkbmap dk dvorak
xmodmap $HOME/.Xmodmap
#+END_SRC
This works quite well.  In patterns such as
#+BEGIN_SRC
key(code|sym) x = a b c d
#+END_SRC
~a~ is entered if one presses -x-, ~b~ is entered if one presses -Shift+x-, ~c~
is entered if one presses -AltGr+x-, and ~d~ is entered if one presses
-Shift+AltGr+x-. ~man xmodmap~ gives more information.

** Things which Niels uses but doesn't like

*** Facebook
I used to not be on Facebook, but now I am. It annoys me, but I felt I had to.
I still believe that the solution to Facebook and other centralized services is
to use decentralized services. So in the case of "social networking", it would
be nicer if I could use Diaspora, friendica, or something else instead of
Facebook. In any case, I don't seem to use social networking sites very much for
some reason.

*** 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 (and I don't think it's as hungry
for data in general compared to Facebook).

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". GitHub's focus on making branching, merging, etc. easy is probably the
right one, but I don't see why that can't be done in a decentralized way. After
all, git is decentralized.

*** Dropbox
I don't use it for my own files, but sometimes I use it for shared files because
others depend on my using it.  I like to run it chrooted when I have to run it.


** Virtual existences

Most of these I don't use.

  + [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:NqpZ][Wikipedia]]
  + [[http://identi.ca/nqpz][StatusNet]]
  + [[https://diaspora.hongabar.org/u/ngws][My public Diaspora profile]] (uses a CAcert certificate, might not work with
    other pods)
  + [[https://gitorious.org/~nqpz][Gitorious]]
  + [[https://launchpad.net/~ngws][Launchpad]]
  + [[http://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:NqpZ][Libreplanet]]
  + [[http://en.literateprograms.org/User:NqpZ][LiteratePrograms]]
  + [[http://nqpz.filmaster.com/][Filmaster]]
  + [[http://openlibrary.org/people/nqpz][Open Library]]
  + [[https://savannah.gnu.org/users/nqpz][GNU Savannah]]
  + [[http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/User:Schabeindividuum][Uncyclopedia]] (don't take this one seriously)


** Keys

*** SSH

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*** PGP

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** Photo

#&img;url=img/niels-eyes.png, width=600, center, caption=Niels (kind of)