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#+title: About Niels
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#+summary: A short description of metanohi's creator
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#+license: bysa
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#&toc
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* About Niels
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Niels G. W. Serup is the creator of metanohi and [[/projects/mege/][mege]], metanohi's engine. He
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was born in 1992 and lives in Denmark.
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He studies datalogy (computer science) at [[http://diku.dk/][DIKU]].
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He goes by the nicknames "ngws" and "nqpz" (and a few others).
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** Contact
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Niels can be contacted at [[mailto:ngws@metanohi.name][ngws@metanohi.name]].
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** Software which Niels uses
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*** Emacs
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Emacs is a nice text editor. [[http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/][Get it]].
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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]].
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*** Conkeror
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Conkeror is a nice webbrowser, somewhat similar in design to
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Emacs. [[http://conkeror.org/][Get it]].
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Links: [[https://gitorious.org/nqpz-config/nqpz-config/trees/master/home/.conkerorrc][My .conkerorrc]].
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*** StumpWM
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StumpWM is a nice tiling, Emacs-like window mananger. It has much fewer
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features than e.g. XMonad (another tiling wm), but it's simple and
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efficient. [[http://stumpwm.antidesktop.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl][Get it]].
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Links: <@eval macros.titlelink('/writings/stumpwm')@>, [[https://gitorious.org/nqpz-config/nqpz-config/blobs/raw/master/home/.stumpwmrc][my .stumpwmrc]].
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*** Trisquel
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I run Trisquel, a fully free as in freedom operating system. [[http://trisquel.info][Get it]].
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*** Unison
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I use [[http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/index.html][Unison]] to synchronize files.
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More and more people are beginning to rely on fancy stuff such as the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)][internet]]
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to synchronize their [[http://nxg.me.uk/note/2005/singular-data/][data]]. I don't. I can not be sure there is always fast
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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 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 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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running Gitorious. I don't quite like the very popular GitHub service, because
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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 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: + [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:NqpZ][Wikipedia]]
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+ [[http://identi.ca/nqpz][StatusNet]] + [[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]] + [[https://launchpad.net/~ngws][Launchpad]]
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+ [[http://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:NqpZ][Libreplanet]] + [[http://en.literateprograms.org/User:NqpZ][LiteratePrograms]]
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+ [[http://nqpz.filmaster.com/][Filmaster]] + [[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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I might have forgot some.
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** Keys
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*** SSH
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#&pre
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ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEA0JbXv5uILGhIWrY9695Djfx9ooQ/vBlhUxMe2yCqI645sWim8QvYNllc94jkKkOkNUGCurHlselXI+wribIKbbv2ZHr7exioZrlxwjVw9V9XeL+Rvewrbb1kBQFsuzsJVZzjfx3mggn+DOW0PN+qFfrjlh0jXGC0sYYQmYSBMCjemDhWv4WkbuH7fpqjY+wpoJpmtj1Ch+5rbxoTDdhNfk+WOtLQ9mAYYrAdBvajSzDuveoTQtTeJ66alT6ii+yyODuzsm46mlbLSfNKxy7a+1Do3ZYePiB6bhLf7+huC7OGjRZ3i+1zMHP5y3ypzQGKzcCU+5f+TpMfA+8A3Ep2qw== niels@gustace
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ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAwEmn04iNjoD8wCFTQdadsAmlRRsQHJKgggPo9ZVKlCuZIkKiPuspkio2JUnAx4ppyOTS63MdbGF88V5cI+//vj983oHN29we8CHvhb31Y/LfMmjFtEdnv3q2lPu/102zbCr/fZ/Pz3nxEOMRZa46qWdut8Jvu48wJ4IBKPTMteDPblPl9m8WeN2ueUbxrcR3Pb/NBndTbGEBd+I4IezVwmWuDTsEWpgEw8p/A5wCw03yX6v9wiK2Zl1/LPLAJaJfLd2+9qDBOKnpu/pkYsCQUJdDqPcYB13ys3Fo4kS84MYZE2HMwpXCb0aC7ywUW3ktlb6jTXFCvh2dK8FggfQRiw== niels@westshiba
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#&
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*** PGP
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#&pre
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pub 2048R/B492E125 2012-08-29
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Key fingerprint = 805A F9F1 554E 06E6 B90C A211 33CF 9BCE B492 E125
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uid Niels Gustav Westphal Serup (ngws) <ngws@metanohi.name>
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sub 2048R/C9BB5929 2012-08-29
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#&
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#&
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** Photo
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#&img;url=img/niels-eyes.png, width=600, center, caption=Niels
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** Misc.
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#&img;url=img/fsfmember.png, medlink=http://www.fsf.org/associate/support_freedom/join_fsf?referrer=8085
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