diff --git a/site/about/niels.org b/site/about/niels.org index ed59671..62956b2 100644 --- a/site/about/niels.org +++ b/site/about/niels.org @@ -10,16 +10,16 @@ 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]]. +revue [[http://dikurevy.dk/][DIKUrevy]] and the [[http://kantinen.org][Canteen association]], among other things. 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]]. +Niels can be contacted at [[mailto:ngws@metanohi.name][ngws@metanohi.name]]. You can also find him as ngws +in #hongabar on irc.freenode.net. ** Things used by Niels @@ -47,9 +47,10 @@ Links: <@eval macros.titlelink('/writings/stumpwm')@>, [[https://gitorious.org/n *** 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. +I run Debian testing 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 @@ -112,57 +113,21 @@ key(code|sym) x = a b c d 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. +Most of these I don't use. Some might be dead. + [[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) + + [[https://github.com/nqpz][GitHub]] (I don't like GitHub that much, but I use it sometimes) ** Keys @@ -170,7 +135,6 @@ Most of these I don't use. *** SSH #&pre -ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEA0JbXv5uILGhIWrY9695Djfx9ooQ/vBlhUxMe2yCqI645sWim8QvYNllc94jkKkOkNUGCurHlselXI+wribIKbbv2ZHr7exioZrlxwjVw9V9XeL+Rvewrbb1kBQFsuzsJVZzjfx3mggn+DOW0PN+qFfrjlh0jXGC0sYYQmYSBMCjemDhWv4WkbuH7fpqjY+wpoJpmtj1Ch+5rbxoTDdhNfk+WOtLQ9mAYYrAdBvajSzDuveoTQtTeJ66alT6ii+yyODuzsm46mlbLSfNKxy7a+1Do3ZYePiB6bhLf7+huC7OGjRZ3i+1zMHP5y3ypzQGKzcCU+5f+TpMfA+8A3Ep2qw== niels@gustace ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAwEmn04iNjoD8wCFTQdadsAmlRRsQHJKgggPo9ZVKlCuZIkKiPuspkio2JUnAx4ppyOTS63MdbGF88V5cI+//vj983oHN29we8CHvhb31Y/LfMmjFtEdnv3q2lPu/102zbCr/fZ/Pz3nxEOMRZa46qWdut8Jvu48wJ4IBKPTMteDPblPl9m8WeN2ueUbxrcR3Pb/NBndTbGEBd+I4IezVwmWuDTsEWpgEw8p/A5wCw03yX6v9wiK2Zl1/LPLAJaJfLd2+9qDBOKnpu/pkYsCQUJdDqPcYB13ys3Fo4kS84MYZE2HMwpXCb0aC7ywUW3ktlb6jTXFCvh2dK8FggfQRiw== niels@westshiba #& @@ -221,3 +185,8 @@ EOTFhRXYSWReVaHWxduolu5YplmQHYj1LtGm4p6659ymKr80tzWAg3LK7AzDXRQ+ ** Photo #&img;url=img/niels-eyes.png, width=600, center, caption=Niels (kind of) + + +** Hongabar + +[[hongabar.org]] is the main domain of the server that I share with a friend.