diff --git a/site/about/niels.org b/site/about/niels.org index 7758c27..72eed8a 100644 --- a/site/about/niels.org +++ b/site/about/niels.org @@ -54,18 +54,29 @@ 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. +from my desktop computer to an encrypted partition on 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 sometimes have poor or even none connection -when working on my laptop). +It's fairly fast, secure and durable (I sometimes have poor or even none +connection when working on my laptop). + +(Actually, my desktop computer died, so currently I use only my laptop.) ** 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", I ought to +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. Just look +at the number of posts I have on the StatusNet Identi.ca site. I try to use +Facebook as little as possible. + *** 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 @@ -73,42 +84,38 @@ 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". +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. ** 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]] + + [[http://identi.ca/nqpz][StatusNet]] + + [[http://hongabar.org/profile/nqpz][My public friendica profile]] (currently down, didn't use it much anyway) + [[https://gitorious.org/~nqpz][Gitorious]] - + [[http://openlibrary.org/people/nqpz][Open Library]] - + [[http://en.literateprograms.org/User:NqpZ][LiteratePrograms]] + [[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) -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 might have forgot some. -*** 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]] (currently down). ** Keys diff --git a/site/index.org b/site/index.org index 48afe87..f7b169d 100644 --- a/site/index.org +++ b/site/index.org @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ #+title: Home #+summary: This is the start page. -#+license: cc0, own text +#+license: cc0 * Meta-meta-meta-meta-meta-metanohi! @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ never really worked right, so now there's just a lot of footnotes.[fn:alot]. * Quick links If you're not the type who crawls through the entirety of a website when you -visit it, here are the author's pick of metanohi pages you should read: +visit it, here's the author's pick of metanohi pages you should read: + <@eval macros.titlelink('/writings/atem')@> + <@eval macros.titlelink('/writings/software-licenses')@>