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@ -54,18 +54,29 @@ internet, and I cannot be sure that my data is secure, except if I spend time
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encrypting it heavily.
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When I am done using my desktop computer at the end of a day, I transfer files
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from my desktop computer to my USB flash drive with Unison. Then I place my USB
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flash drive in one of my left pockets and forget about it. The next day, when I
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need to synchronize my files with my laptop, I remember putting my flash drive
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in my lower left pocket. I pick it up and put it in my laptop, and then I run
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Unison again.
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from my desktop computer to an encrypted partition on my USB flash drive with
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Unison. Then I place my USB flash drive in one of my left pockets and forget
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about it. The next day, when I need to synchronize my files with my laptop, I
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remember putting my flash drive in my lower left pocket. I pick it up and put it
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in my laptop, and then I run Unison again.
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It's fast, secure and durable (I sometimes have poor or even none connection
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when working on my laptop).
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It's fairly fast, secure and durable (I sometimes have poor or even none
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connection when working on my laptop).
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(Actually, my desktop computer died, so currently I use only my laptop.)
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** Things which Niels uses but doesn't like
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*** Facebook
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I used to not be on Facebook, but now I am. It annoys me, but I felt I had to.
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I still believe that the solution to Facebook and other centralized services is
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to use decentralized services. So in the case of "social networking", I ought to
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use Diaspora, friendica, or something else instead of Facebook. In any case, I
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don't seem to use social networking sites very much for some reason. Just look
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at the number of posts I have on the StatusNet Identi.ca site. I try to use
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Facebook as little as possible.
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*** GitHub
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When I want to make a git repository available online, I like to do it on the
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server which also hosts metanohi, or a free software online host, such as one
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it is not free software. The negative effects of GitHub's proprietarity is that
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its users cannot learn from studying GitHub's code, and that they cannot run
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their own GitHubs. Users mostly use GitHub for public data, and since git
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repositories are distributed, it is easy to move a git repository from GitHub
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to another git repo hosting service --- just change the push address of your
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local repository. All of this means that GitHub cannot cause serious problems
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when it comes to control over the data you give to it. As such GitHub is far
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from being as great a problem as e.g. Facebook. But I still don't like GitHub's
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attitude. I use GitHub because someone created a repository to which I
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contribute code on GitHub, not because of its "social coding".
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repositories are distributed, it is easy to move a git repository from GitHub to
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another git repo hosting service --- just change the push address of your local
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repository. All of this means that GitHub cannot cause serious problems when it
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comes to control over the data you give to it (and I don't think it's as hungry
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for data in general compared to Facebook).
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As such, GitHub is far from being as great a problem as e.g. Facebook. But I
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still don't like GitHub's attitude. I use GitHub because someone created a
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repository to which I contribute code on GitHub, not because of its "social
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coding". GitHub's focus on making branching, merging, etc. easy is probably the
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right one, but I don't see why that can't be done in a decentralized way. After
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all, git is decentralized.
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** Virtual existences
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In order of randomness:
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+ [[http://hongabar.org/profile/nqpz][My public friendica profile]]
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+ [[http://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:NqpZ][Libreplanet]]
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+ [[http://identi.ca/nqpz][Identi.ca]]
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+ [[http://nqpz.filmaster.com/][Filmaster]]
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+ [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:NqpZ][Wikipedia]]
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+ [[https://savannah.gnu.org/users/nqpz][GNU Savannah]]
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+ [[http://identi.ca/nqpz][StatusNet]]
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+ [[http://hongabar.org/profile/nqpz][My public friendica profile]] (currently down, didn't use it much anyway)
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+ [[https://gitorious.org/~nqpz][Gitorious]]
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+ [[http://openlibrary.org/people/nqpz][Open Library]]
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+ [[http://en.literateprograms.org/User:NqpZ][LiteratePrograms]]
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+ [[https://launchpad.net/~ngws][Launchpad]]
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+ [[http://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:NqpZ][Libreplanet]]
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+ [[http://en.literateprograms.org/User:NqpZ][LiteratePrograms]]
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+ [[http://nqpz.filmaster.com/][Filmaster]]
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+ [[http://openlibrary.org/people/nqpz][Open Library]]
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+ [[https://savannah.gnu.org/users/nqpz][GNU Savannah]]
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+ [[http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/User:Schabeindividuum][Uncyclopedia]] (don't take this one seriously)
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Also, I don't use Facebook (or Facebook-/like/ social networks). If I did, my
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data would be in Facebook's virtual hands. Users have way too little control
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over Facebook. The solution to Facebook and other centralized services is to
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use decentralized services. So in the case of social networking, use Diaspora,
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friendica, or something else instead of Facebook.
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I might have forgot some.
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*** I'm not on Facebook --- I'm on friendica!
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Apparently someone else sharing my first name and my last name is on
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Facebook. That's not me. I don't use PhageBook. I do, however, use [[http://friendica.com/][friendica]] on
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[[http://hongabar.org/][Hongabar]] (currently down).
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** Keys
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#+title: Home
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#+summary: This is the start page.
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#+license: cc0, own text
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#+license: cc0
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* Meta-meta-meta-meta-meta-metanohi!
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* Quick links
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If you're not the type who crawls through the entirety of a website when you
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visit it, here are the author's pick of metanohi pages you should read:
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visit it, here's the author's pick of metanohi pages you should read:
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+ <@eval macros.titlelink('/writings/atem')@>
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+ <@eval macros.titlelink('/writings/software-licenses')@>
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