diff --git a/site/about/img/niels-hipster.jpg b/site/about/img/niels-hipster.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e87b71c Binary files /dev/null and b/site/about/img/niels-hipster.jpg differ diff --git a/site/about/index.org b/site/about/index.org index 213750a..d08b42c 100644 --- a/site/about/index.org +++ b/site/about/index.org @@ -11,22 +11,22 @@ This is metanohi, the personal website of [[./niels][Niels G. W. Serup]]. ** Copying -In general, text, images, code and any other type of work on metanohi are -available under the [[http://www.wtfpl.net/][Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License (WTFPL)]]; read -about this choice [[/writings/licensing][here]] There may be cases with other licenses. The status of -a page can be seen in the bottom in a metadata box. If no license is specified -in the box, it's either because I forgot to apply one to the page, or it's -because the page has almost no content (like the "Page not found" page) and does -not really require a license, or it's because I don't care. +Essentially, if you use something from metanohi, please attribute Niels +G. W. Serup and metanohi (unless it's not by Niels, which is rare). -If you use something from metanohi, please attribute Niels G. W. Serup and -metanohi (unless it's not by Niels, which is rare). +In general, text, images, code and any other type of work on metanohi are +available under the [[http://www.wtfpl.net/][Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License (WTFPL)]] for the +fun of it; read more about this [[/writings/licensing][here]] if you so care. There may be other cases. +The status of a page can be seen in the bottom in a metadata box. If no license +is specified in the box, it's either because it's unnecessary to have a license +for that page (for example if it just an index page), or it's because I forgot +to apply one to the page, or it's because I don't care. ** Source code -metanohi is run by [[/projects/mege/][mege]]. If you want to use it for a new website (I REALLY -REALLY wouldn't), you may wish to use metanohi as a template. +metanohi is run by the [[/projects/mege/][mege]] HTML generator. If you want to use it for a new +website (I REALLY REALLY wouldn't), you may wish to use metanohi as a template. Get the main site: : $ git clone git://metanohi.name/metanohi-metanohi @@ -37,16 +37,14 @@ Get the subsites (messy): ** SSL/TLS -You can access metanohi from HTTPS. metanohi uses a [[http://cacert.org][CAcert]] (or is it a -self-signed certificate now? I forget). To make your browser automatically +You can access metanohi from HTTPS. metanohi uses a [[http://cacert.org][CAcert]] (or is it a +self-signed certificate now? I forget). To make your browser automatically accept CAcerts, follow the instructions on [[https://wiki.cacert.org/FAQ/BrowserClients][CAcerts wiki]]; it doesn't take long. +At some point it might get a LetsEncrypt certificate. ** History -#+caption: This alien wonders why 'metanohi' was picked. -#&img;url=/img/aliens/makrh.png, float=right,noclear, width=100 - metanohi was created in 2009 as a spinoff of earlier projects with equally undefined purposes. Back then the website was at metanohi./org/ instead of metanohi./name/. diff --git a/site/about/links.org b/site/about/links.org index 0babf56..e211328 100644 --- a/site/about/links.org +++ b/site/about/links.org @@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ My first web pages from ca. 2004 contained pages whose only purpose was to show links to other sites, because that's what you use websites for. With this page I intend to carry on with this tradition. +Note: I have not updated this rather silly page since about 2012. + ** Passive activism[fn:oxymoron] Beware, for the following Hyperlinks contain Knowledge! diff --git a/site/about/niels.org b/site/about/niels.org index 11b4622..17cb8cd 100644 --- a/site/about/niels.org +++ b/site/about/niels.org @@ -6,51 +6,42 @@ * About Niels -Niels G. W. Serup is the creator of metanohi. He was born in 1992 and lives in -Denmark. +I, Niels G. W. Serup, is the creator of metanohi. I was born in 1992 and live +in Copenhagen, Denmark. -He studies computer science at [[http://diku.dk/][DIKU]] where he is also part of the yearly student +I study computer science at [[http://diku.dk/][DIKU]] where I am also part of the yearly student 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). +While online, I go by the nickname "ngws" (and a few others). ** Contact -Niels can be contacted at [[mailto:ngws@metanohi.name][ngws@metanohi.name]]. You can also find him as ngws -in #hongabar and #diku on irc.freenode.net. +I can be contacted at [[mailto:ngws@metanohi.name][ngws@metanohi.name]]. I also hang out as ngws in #diku on +irc.freenode.net. -** Things used by Niels +** Things I use *** 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]]. +*** Firefox -*** 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]]. +Firefox is okay. I use it with the Pentadactyl extension to make it more like +Emacs. *** 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]]. +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]]. *** Debian 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. +Debian]]. *** Dvorak @@ -103,6 +94,7 @@ keysym j = j J Insert My keyboard layout can be achieved by running #+BEGIN_SRC setxkbmap dk dvorak +setxkbmap -option ctrl:swapcaps xmodmap $HOME/.Xmodmap #+END_SRC This works quite well. In patterns such as @@ -116,19 +108,19 @@ is entered if one presses -AltGr+x-, and ~d~ is entered if one presses ** Virtual existences -Most of these I don't use. Some might be dead. +Most of these I don't use actively. + + [[https://github.com/nqpz][GitHub]] + [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:NqpZ][Wikipedia]] - + [[http://identi.ca/nqpz][StatusNet]] - + [[https://gitorious.org/~nqpz][Gitorious]] + + [[https://twitter.com/ngwwws][Twitter]] + + [[https://gitlab.com/u/ngws][GitLab]] + [[https://launchpad.net/~ngws][Launchpad]] - + [[http://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:NqpZ][Libreplanet]] - + [[http://en.literateprograms.org/User:NqpZ][LiteratePrograms]] + [[http://openlibrary.org/people/nqpz][Open Library]] + + [[http://en.literateprograms.org/User:NqpZ][LiteratePrograms]] + + [[http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/User:Schabeindividuum][Uncyclopedia]] + [[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) - + [[https://twitter.com/ngwwws][Twitter]] (not really using it) + + [[http://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:NqpZ][Libreplanet]] + + [[http://identi.ca/nqpz][StatusNet]] ** Keys @@ -142,50 +134,15 @@ ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAwEmn04iNjoD8wCFTQdadsAmlRRsQHJKgggPo9ZVKlCuZ *** PGP #&pre -pub 2048R/B492E125 2012-08-29 - Key fingerprint = 805A F9F1 554E 06E6 B90C A211 33CF 9BCE B492 E125 -uid Niels Gustav Westphal Serup (ngws) -sub 2048R/C9BB5929 2012-08-29 -#& - -#&pre ------BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- -Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) - -mQENBFA+nqoBCADRpK8R83iTCEu7ceP0u0AKl67yQDtjJDC+/3sPod1VvzAccJA3 -psOGz755/crN5vk/Z4I/L3dXd/bDU+UZo2wAlmcKTciZ0dxtWx/vj8sW2EzSTtJT -tNGKzIAYFo3wt55f9KznGqGxKw5LgkURPCyvWMwi4FewrczpAUtVY57Zum+k2fph -h3D9Pzi8eTKNrbW3dmkR7JINpZt9d7YiySYE6O+4brjJZ6rUIEFnSS92oVQc4c8d -7HN64ZrS7HKkmxGYzvdHgZVunsBS4e8DorWi4ETHNiMOaI9H4f5sIztNiOB8AfvM -f/eauXWW2NwmnB/LJOPj0gC1XVs+0DREHSfzABEBAAG0N05pZWxzIEd1c3RhdiBX -ZXN0cGhhbCBTZXJ1cCAobmd3cykgPG5nd3NAbWV0YW5vaGkubmFtZT6JATgEEwEC -ACIFAlA+nqoCGwMGCwkIBwMCBhUIAgkKCwQWAgMBAh4BAheAAAoJEDPPm860kuEl -yVgIAI5/lLEPLeOHuXQuDhNGGXBneml3zB+GvTeuPjd6SRz/DeddW6BQ4aX9M+Oh -QbfsU8k37vmJISyf1jM/n7MrLZAvPH+gbyD5FD4+pzGv7kItJv/gdlVcZ+Ycop5+ -laa9s9kMB1LuDrKx+fgfDehl0eTW4AYH88ncQ9+Bgef4GsvBlbZAhuPjU39EN4vE -7oXY0NV2h06ZktJ4m598AxDU0Lj5PoZzAIXi2072BTQzEeo7lw+yvTigMql5KqIf -IoewZ0eJh3+dNyGff2XkOuzyjDs8uAXpWZ1lcsvrl8mWHyZi3zxs16Gyjh8sCLdS -EYdd8duzy1kYfsBuvvO3iQ8pY4O5AQ0EUD6eqgEIAN8Ov94RwF1Mw/NaQUQItgO2 -4c9k07COxqjGaX+HtmgAOhO6ndlGp8NgGTb6bhTYEXqgAE73hoExcIddBJ0kkxNt -SNKH8x+neXmN4NzTYijrprL8e01H8toFt1Kwcyc/MiGhd/5bEqoWqYCOHncQqP0h -8AnJJ4tNpiPKNvPwA7gkgfI5iEB7CoYiOYb4dmWefNEDZbjdmPqV6hxW+CEXuafG -FIZq4gzT8KKgrvjvhvY+OCBN08UKFgTg3Z6sCSz1E6QqOvk80FOHrHd6oED83iec -Drtfsm6qCAtqV+zHjAX5dGL7P5s/4Os9Zs5o3CojkaKpRgVktqBL0xYZoDPCsPsA -EQEAAYkBHwQYAQIACQUCUD6eqgIbDAAKCRAzz5vOtJLhJV32B/9jnsRQJG5U0+B4 -Nifr4TM0K6Xmla5+zhU/Gbmcr5wSSwVbqyyqnxtc/sbTUX87heNhP4ufpMFt47yJ -QK0mf0rYFIw+W9vmb/ISLMyKad5Og0C7Jg2/JJ4xNiCfTr2D99DzhNklYK/zYV81 -VgEbOYPuk9v+vSCGVNOTiBkijZpGXBo2gDmt9Aay+hBQP59sc96YTEjMnLGyZiGE -ugmrJNM4ejYVoDnUh8eaPFNvQjEUtwtzqY0iwbQvtWzBRlMTPRLOy/iuIzGitqMI -EOTFhRXYSWReVaHWxduolu5YplmQHYj1LtGm4p6659ymKr80tzWAg3LK7AzDXRQ+ -235mE/xO -=uaPn ------END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- +pub 2048R/85445363 2014-06-11 +uid Niels G. W. Serup +sub 2048R/7CFE0D20 2014-06-11 #& ** Photo -#&img;url=img/niels-eyes.png, width=600, center, caption=Niels (kind of) +#&img;url=img/niels-hipster.png, width=600, center, caption=Niels (kind of) ** Hongabar diff --git a/site/index.org b/site/index.org index fa99359..5f58a2d 100644 --- a/site/index.org +++ b/site/index.org @@ -1,40 +1,10 @@ #+title: Initialization +#+startup: showall #+summary: This is the start page. -#+license: wtfpl -* Meta-meta-meta-meta-meta-metanohi! +* Hello -*metanohi* is a website created in 2009. It is the personal website of [[/about/niels][Niels -G. W. Serup]], a [[/writings/hacking][hacker]] in a world of non-hackers. +This is the personal website of [[/about/niels][Niels G. W. Serup]]. -Historically, this start page has featured text which tried to be funny. It -never really worked right, so now there's just a lot of footnotes.[fn:evenmore]. - - -* Quick links - -If you're not the type who crawls through the entirety of a website when you -visit it (why not?), here's the author's pick of metanohi pages you should read: - -+ <@eval macros.titlelink('/writings/atem')@> -+ [[http://suum.metanohi.name/][SUUM]] -+ [[http://git.metanohi.name/][git projects]] - - -* Important note - -This website is very broken (though its structural design is pretty ok). -However, you probably won't notice it. Just keep in mind that the code running -this site is unmaintained and poor; see for yourself at <@eval -macros.titlelink('/projects/mege')@>. - -[fn:evenmore] Not just a lot, but A LOT[fn:alot] - -[fn:alot] Like, 3[fn:alot2] - -[fn:alot2] No, more like 4[fn:notfunny] - -[fn:notfunny] This footnote is *not* funny.[fn:notsuperfluous] - -[fn:notsuperfluous] This footnote is not superfluous.[fn:notfunny] +Visit the subpages. diff --git a/site/projects/index.org b/site/projects/index.org index 4381693..c319f42 100644 --- a/site/projects/index.org +++ b/site/projects/index.org @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ #&summary Where all my projects are listed. #& -#+license: wtfpl #+startup: showall #&fullpage #&toc @@ -14,7 +13,7 @@ Where all my projects are listed. * Webcomic -My (not very active) webcomic is at [[http://suum.metanohi.name/]]. +My inactive webcomic is at [[http://suum.metanohi.name/]]. * Media diff --git a/site/writings/bash-prompt-extras.tar.gz b/site/writings/bash-prompt-extras.tar.gz deleted file mode 100644 index 751d519..0000000 Binary files a/site/writings/bash-prompt-extras.tar.gz and /dev/null differ diff --git a/site/writings/bash-prompt.org b/site/writings/bash-prompt.org deleted file mode 100644 index 979a1c5..0000000 --- a/site/writings/bash-prompt.org +++ /dev/null @@ -1,43 +0,0 @@ -#+title: My BASH prompt (outdated) -#&summary -What my prompt used to do and what it looked like. -#& -#+license: wtfpl - -* My old BASH prompt - -I had a strange bash prompt. To use it, first, copy this into your ~.bashrc~: - -#+BEGIN_SRC sh -function ps1lr { - if [ $1 == 0 ]; then - echo -ne "\033[42m\033[01;30m" - else - echo -ne "\033[41m\033[01;34m" - fi - length-extra-prepend $1 3 -} - -function ps1sp { - pwdw=$(($COLUMNS-20)) - if (( $pwdw < 40 )); then - pwdw=40 - fi - length-too-much-shorten "$(pwd | sed s%$HOME%~%)" $pwdw -} - -#PROMPT_COMMAND="" -PS1='\[\033[00m\]$(ps1lr $?)\[\033[45m\] \[\033[44m\]\[\033[01;37m\]\ -$(date +%H:%M)\[\033[45m\] \[\033[46m\]\[\033[01;33m\]\ -$(ps1sp)\[\033[00m\]\n\[\033[45m\]\[\033[01;33m\]\u\[\033[01;32m\]@\ -\[\033[01;36m\]\h\[\033[43m\]\[\033[01;30m\]:\[\033[40m\]\ -\[\033[01;33m\]\$\[\033[00m\] ' -#+END_SRC - -Second, download [[bash-prompt-extras.tar.gz]] and put the included programs -somewhere in =$PATH=&sh. - - -* Not anymore - -I didn't actually need all the features. diff --git a/site/writings/digital-sikring.org b/site/writings/digital-sikring.org index dd74bf3..d0ec20f 100644 --- a/site/writings/digital-sikring.org +++ b/site/writings/digital-sikring.org @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Danish. Jeg sendte denne besked til Undervisningsministeriet som så fortalte mig at de skam nok var i gang med at gøre det nemmere for "Linus".. -Sendt 8. marts. Se også <@eval macros.titlelink('stadig-digital-sikring')@>. +Sendt 8. marts 2011. Se også <@eval macros.titlelink('stadig-digital-sikring')@>. * Digital sikring mod gennemførsel af eksamen en realitet diff --git a/site/writings/freeculture.org b/site/writings/freeculture.org deleted file mode 100644 index a5604ec..0000000 --- a/site/writings/freeculture.org +++ /dev/null @@ -1,18 +0,0 @@ -#+title: Free culture -#+summary: A short summary of free culture with good external links -#+license: wtfpl - -* Free culture - -Free culture is about sharing and mixing creative works, often under -[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft][copyleft]]. It encompasses pictures, video, audio, text and similar types of -works. - -It is good, although not necessarily easy to produce. - - -** External links - -+ [[http://freedomdefined.org/Definition][Definition of Free Cultural Works]] -+ [[http://freeculture.org/][freeculture.org]] -+ [[http://creativecommons.org/][Creative Commons]] diff --git a/site/writings/freesoftware.org b/site/writings/freesoftware.org deleted file mode 100644 index af3c998..0000000 --- a/site/writings/freesoftware.org +++ /dev/null @@ -1,135 +0,0 @@ -#+title: Free software -#+summary: An explanation of the necessity of free software -#+startup: showall -#+license: wtfpl - -* Free software - -This is a [[http://python.org/][Python 3]] computer program --- a piece of software: -#+BEGIN_SRC python -inp = input() -print(inp.lower()) -#+END_SRC -Or at least it's a very small part of one. It reads text input from a user, -transforms the text to lowercase, and prints the transformed text. It is very -simple. Larger programs are often far less simple, as they may contain -implementations of complex algorithms or involve human interaction. - -[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA][RSA]] and [[http://www.openssl.org/][OpenSSL]] are examples of this, RSA being an algorithm which requires -several subalgorithms to work, and OpenSSL being the large implementation of -RSA (among other things, but let's keep it simple) which contains way over -100,000 lines of code. For such a computer program to be run, it will most -often have to be compiled. - -/Compilation/ is a process which translates human-readable source code --- like -the two Python lines earlier --- into a computer-readable format. When a -program has been compiled, computers can understand it, and it can be run and -used by users. The reason why programmers do not program in the -computer-readable format from the beginning is that it is almost impossible and -very impractical; humans need one or more levels of abstraction to be able to -transform ideas into runnable, useful software --- humans need programming -languages. - -There are two things that make a lot of sense when talking about computer -programs: 1) if a program is installed on your computer, you should be able to -run it (why else have it?), and 2) if a friend (or someone else) would like to -use a program that you have, you should be able to share it to your friend, -i.e. copy it and give the friend the copy. - -People who are unfamiliar with computers in general, and digital data in -particular, might have trouble understanding that any data you see on a -computer monitor or on an optical disc or on something else is nothing but -bytes, be it images, videos, websites, text, programs, e-mails, anything. A -byte x&var with a value n&var is no different than a byte y&var with the same -value n&var, even if it is stored in a different location. Any byte can be -cloned, copied, and only the amount of storage space available limits how many -times this copying can occur. - -One must also be able to study a program, modify it to fit one's needs, and -redistribute copies of one's changes. There are several reasons for this; first -of all, a program must not be able to hide from you how it works and what it -does. You --- or a hired programmer --- must be able to look through the source -code and learn from it, so that knowledge about implementations of algorithms -and structuring of code segments can be spread. Computers have become -incredibly important on Earth, and it's just not good enough if a computer user -who wishes to learn more about software and how it works cannot study -the programs on their computer and in that way improve their computer -literacy. - -Since machine code does not contain the original code and comments, source code -availability is a precondition for the studying and modification of a program. - -Second, if a program does not work properly, you can only fix it if you're -allowed to do so and have the source code. - -Third, it is impractical to constantly reinvent the wheel, which is what -programmers who do not use software that allows sharing and modification tend -to do. - -Fourth, if a program cannot be studied, and if that program contains code for -reading from and writing to files in special formats --- e.g. the Microsoft Word -format --- people are forced to use that program if they have a file in such a -format (yes, LibreOffice has good support for such non-free formats, but not -full support). - -Fifth, if a program cannot be studied, you cannot be certain of its -intentions. Since you do not know what the program does (in details), you do -not know if it does anything harmful --- if it tracks you, or if it reads your -documents without your permission. - -Sixth, if a non-free program is abandoned by its developers, it will never -become better, and users of it might not be able to keep running it, because no -one can fix or improve it. - -And so on. - -*Free software* is the type of software that encompasses these freedoms; it -allows you to be in control of your computing, instead of others taking control -of it. Proprietary software, or non-free software, is the opposite of free -software. Many programs and systems are proprietary, including (but not at all -limited to) Microsoft Windows, Apple iPhone, Amazon Kindle, etc. Well-known -/free/ software includes Firefox, Inkscape, GIMP, and many others. - -Today it often seems commonly accepted that software development and usage -follows a model like this: -#&block -Someone (a corporation, an individual, an organization, could be anyone) -develops a program --> the creator allows people to use the program ---> a user wants to share the program with a friend, but the user knows that it -is wrong, because that's what the creator said --> the user does nothing, and: - -The user needs a new feature added to the program --> the user asks the creator -to add the feature, because the user knows that only the creator may modify the -program, even if it runs on the user's computer and not the creator's --> the -creator answers --> nothing happens -#& -It makes sense that you should be allowed to modify a program that runs on your -computer, or get someone to do it for you. It makes no sense that an entity -x&var should have the power to control a user just because that user runs a -program created by x&var. Programs should /not/ have owners, even if that's -what some have been mislead to believe. - - -All of this leaves us with these four condensed freedoms:[fn:freeswdef] - -#&block -/The freedom to/: -+ run the program -+ study and modify the program -+ share the program (redistribute copies) -+ share your modified program -#& - -** External links - -Continue your reading here: - -+ [[http://gnu.org/][GNU's Not Unix]] -+ The [[http://fsf.org/][Free Software Foundation]] -+ [[http://trisquel.info][Trisquel, a free operating system]] -+ [[http://debian.org/][Debian]] -+ [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft][Copyleft]] on Wikipedia - - -[fn:freeswdef] GNU.org. /The Free Software Definition/, -[[http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html]] diff --git a/site/writings/hacking.org b/site/writings/hacking.org index e65c619..f85cf1c 100644 --- a/site/writings/hacking.org +++ b/site/writings/hacking.org @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Hackety hack. #& #+startup: showall -#+license: wtfpl * Hacking diff --git a/site/writings/index.org b/site/writings/index.org index 7a7f5e5..e27d9e8 100644 --- a/site/writings/index.org +++ b/site/writings/index.org @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@ #+title: Writings #+summary: A list of my writings -#+license: wtfpl * Writings diff --git a/site/writings/licensing.org b/site/writings/licensing.org index f728bc0..e5f6d0b 100644 --- a/site/writings/licensing.org +++ b/site/writings/licensing.org @@ -26,8 +26,14 @@ from [[http://wtfpl.net/]]: 0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO. #+END_SRC +I think the license is fun, and there really is no good reason to use anything +else for most of my small, one-off projects. For larger projects, I use BSD2 or +BSD3 or whatever -- I accept all free software licenses and really do not wish +to discuss them that much (although I admit that I have previously been more +opionated). -* Reason + +* Some reasons I got tired of software and culture licenses. I don't mind them, and I don't have anything against copyleft -- it's a tool, and it can be effective in some @@ -43,8 +49,9 @@ I guess that some people consider e.g. CC BY-SA a recognizable symbol and that its law stuff is secondary. I can follow that thought, but I just got tired of it. -Some might not want to integrate WTFPL code into their project, but fuck them -(okay, in practice I'll probably just relicense to BSD2 or BSD3 if necessary). +Some people might not want to integrate WTFPL code into their project, but fuck +them (okay, in practice I'll probably just relicense to BSD2 or BSD3 if +necessary). All that being said, I will work in any free software and free culture project no matter what license they use. WTFPL is just for my own junk. @@ -60,4 +67,4 @@ copyright was only for commercial use. * Previously I used to have a lot of text about this, but I've come to just not care. It's -all on git if you want to read it. +all in the git history if you want to dig it up and read it. diff --git a/site/writings/na.org b/site/writings/na.org index 07f7403..ac63f08 100644 --- a/site/writings/na.org +++ b/site/writings/na.org @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ #+title: Na #&summary -A new spoken and written language in development. +A new spoken and written language not in development. #& #+license: wtfpl #&toc diff --git a/site/writings/software-licenses.org b/site/writings/software-licenses.org deleted file mode 100644 index 460d155..0000000 --- a/site/writings/software-licenses.org +++ /dev/null @@ -1,73 +0,0 @@ -#+title: My choices of software licenses (outdated) -#&summary -Which licenses did I use, and why? -#& -#+startup: showall -#+license: wtfpl - -#&+classes=warning -This is an old opinion of mine, but its arguments still hold if one assumes that -copyleft is very important. See <@eval -macros.titlelink('/writings/non-copylefted')@> for my updated opinion. -#& - -* My choices of software licenses - -I like strong copyleft, the stuff found in the GNU General Public License, the -Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike, and others. I like how people cannot -take the code or culture I contributed to the world and turn it into something -non-free. I have used those licenses a lot. - -For cultural works, it seems to me that the Creative Commons Attribution-Share -Alike has a strong following; of course some people dislike it for being a long, -legalese text, but my general impression is that people who want to create -sharable and modifiable cultural works like it just fine. If there was a large -resistance towards the BY-SA, making something available under that license -would mean excluding many people from remixing that something, just because of -their dislike of the license. Since that doesn't appear to be the case, I'll -happily continue to use the BY-SA license. - -For software, on the other hand, there are many loud voices against the -GPL. [[http://dustycloud.org/blog/field-guide-to-copyleft][This article]] explains the arguments well. As much as I like to copyleft my -code, I find it even more important that it's not lonely; and if so many are -against the strong copyleft in the GPL, I feel I must concede and release my -software under BSD3 or something on that level of lack of user freedom. - -I only see two reasons to not use strong copyleft with a program (and they -overlap): - -+ If the main objective of the software is to become widespread (like how the - Ogg Ogg/Vorbis codec uses a lax license --- which, by the way, [[https://lwn.net/2001/0301/a/rms-ov-license.php3][RMS agrees]] - with) -+ If so many people dislike strong copyleft that too few are willing to - contribute to a strong copyleft project (my reason) - -I'm not that interested in whether GPL usage is currently dropping or rising, or -that the GPL is still very widely used; what interests me is that a high number -of projects simply do not use the GPL. I found the [[https://archive.fosdem.org/2012/schedule/event/is_copyleft_being_framed.html][Is copyleft being framed?]] -talk interesting, but copyleft being framed doesn't change the data at -[[http://flossmole.org]]: [[http://flossmole.org/system/files/FreecodeLicenses2012.png][this]] and [[http://flossmole.org/system/files/FSFLicenseCounts2012_0.png][this]] show that while GPL usage is high, so is the -combined use of BSD3, Expat/MIT, Apache 2.0, and other lax licenses. - -A (for me) important example of where a lax license (in this case the BSD3) is -pretty much used everywhere is Haskell's package collection, [[http://hackage.haskell.org/][Hackage]]. If I came -along with a GPL-licensed program, it would be pretty lonely. - -I must remind myself that strong copyleft was never an end in itself, but merely -a help. From now on (Oct 10, 2012), I'll make new software written by myself -available under the BSD3 license. If at some point in the future, the usage of a -lax licenses drops a lot and the usage of strong copyleft licenses rises (I -don't think that'll happen), I might switch back to using a strong copyleft -license. Until then, let the BSD3 experiment begin! - -The main point of it all is to share code both ways, and if that flow works -better with a lax license, then I think I'm okay with the risk of someone -putting it into a proprietary program, even though I find that amoral. - -I'm not going to relicense past (A|L)?GPL'd programs I've written unless someone -asks me to or I have to update them anyway.. - -I'll still contribute to strong copyleft software, but I might mention this URL. - -If I were to place myself in a camp, it would be the -I-like-copyleft-sometimes-but-I-like-sharing-code-even-more camp. diff --git a/site/writings/stadig-digital-sikring.org b/site/writings/stadig-digital-sikring.org index 3a0baea..c2b8d99 100644 --- a/site/writings/stadig-digital-sikring.org +++ b/site/writings/stadig-digital-sikring.org @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ deres kraft af undervisningsministerium --- desuden er det ikke engang alle skoler der bruger de kopisikrede cd'er, så i flere tilfælde er kopisikring ligegyldig. Så fjern den dog! -Sendt 31. maj. Se også <@eval macros.titlelink('digital-sikring')@>. +Sendt 31. maj 2011. Se også <@eval macros.titlelink('digital-sikring')@>. * Stadig digital sikring mod gennemførsel af eksamen diff --git a/site/writings/stumpwm.org b/site/writings/stumpwm.org deleted file mode 100644 index d12efa3..0000000 --- a/site/writings/stumpwm.org +++ /dev/null @@ -1,82 +0,0 @@ -#+title: My StumpWM setup -#&summary -How I've set up StumpWM on Trisquel -#& -#+license: wtfpl -#+startup: showall - -* My StumpWM setup - -GNOME - -I use StumpWM instead of e.g. Gnome. StumpWM is a tiling window manager, which -means that it's a good window manager. - -** The setup - -I just added a file ~stumpwm.desktop~: -#+BEGIN_SRC -[Desktop Entry] -Encoding=UTF-8 -Type=XSession -Exec=stumpwm -TryExec=stumpwm -Name=StumpWM -Comment=Stump window manager -#+END_SRC -to ~/usr/share/xsessions/~, and then I could login to StumpWM via GDM. - -** Links - - + [[http://stumpwm.antidesktop.net/][StumpWM]] - + [[https://gitorious.org/nqpz-config/nqpz-config/blobs/raw/master/home/.stumpwmrc][My .stumpwmrc]] - - -** Old problems - -/I have fixed these problems. They remain here for historical reasons only./ - -I never had any problems with StumpWM until I upgraded to Trisquel 4.0 and -Trisquel 4.5, after which StumpWM irregularly threw errors such as: -#+BEGIN_SRC -g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying -GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting. -#+END_SRC -and also some fatal X errors which killed StumpWM and all its running -programs. This naturally annoyed me. I soon realized that it had nothing to do -with Trisquel, it was just that dependencies on things like D-Bus was getting -on StumpWM's nerves. I had always used an Xsession file to login to StumpWM, -but clearly, this wasn't good enough. Whenever I ran the default gnome-session -and whatever window manager was associated to that, there were no problems. And -while in gnome-session, I could always run: -: stumpwm --replace -to replace metacity or whatever with StumpWM. Except for an annoying -gnome-panel and Gnome taking over some of my keybindings, this worked -alright. The best thing was that when the fatal X error occured, only StumpWM -was killed --- all windows were maintained. This made me realize that one could -create a script which starts a new StumpWM instance whenever an old StumpWM -crashes, to create the illusion of a continually running StumpWM. - -*** Solution - -I compiled StumpWM from git with SBCL instead of CLISP. Now it doesn't crash. - -*** Original solution - -I added this to my ~.profile~: -#+BEGIN_SRC sh -if [ "$DISPLAY" ] ; then - pkill stumpwm - # Restart StumpWM when it crashes - while [ 1 ] ; do - stumpwm --replace - pkill stumpwm - done -fi - -# Since StumpWM will continue forever, this .profile file will block -# gnome-session from loading misc. crap. -#+END_SRC - -You may also have to edit ~gnome-panel~ out of -~/desktop/gnome/session/required_components~ in ~gconf-editor~.