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About Niels
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About Niels
Niels G. W. Serup is the creator of metanohi and mege, metanohi's engine. He was born in 1992 and lives in Denmark.
He studies datalogy (computer science) at DIKU.
He goes by the nicknames "ngws" and "nqpz" (and a few others).
Contact
Niels can be contacted at ngws@metanohi.name.
Software which Niels uses
Emacs
Emacs is a nice text editor. Get it.
Links: my .emacs and my .emacs.d.
Conkeror
Conkeror is a nice webbrowser, somewhat similar in design to Emacs. Get it.
Links: My .conkerorrc.
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. Get it.
Links: <@eval macros.titlelink('writings/stumpwm')@>, [[https://gitorious.org/nqpz-config/nqpz-config/blobs/raw/master/home.stumpwmrc][my .stumpwmrc]].
Trisquel
I run Trisquel, a fully free as in freedom operating system. Get it.
Unison
I use Unison to synchronize files.
More and more people are beginning to rely on fancy stuff such as the internet to synchronize their data. I don't. I can not be sure there is always fast 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 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 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
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 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.
Virtual existences
In order of randomness:
- Wikipedia
- StatusNet
- My public friendica profile (currently down, didn't use it much anyway)
- Gitorious
- Launchpad
- Libreplanet
- LiteratePrograms
- Filmaster
- Open Library
- GNU Savannah
- Uncyclopedia (don't take this one seriously)
I might have forgot some.
Keys
SSH
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PGP
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