aboutniels

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]].
+revue [[http://dikurevy.dk/][DIKUrevy]] and the [[http://kantinen.org][Canteen association]], among other things.  Some videos
-Some videos from the revue has been put up online at
+from the revue has been put up online at [[http://youtube.com/DIKUrevy]].
-[[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
+I run Debian testing with only a small amount of proprietary software.  [[http://debian.org/][Get
-Trisquel, but I realized that I would rather use something with more support, so
+Debian]].  I used to run Trisquel, but I realized that I would rather use
-I switched to using Debian after I bought a new computer.
+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
 #&
 
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 ** 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.