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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 datalogi (computer science) at the University of Copenhagen, DIKU.

Contact

Niels can be contacted at ns@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 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 often have poor or even none connection when working on my laptop).

Things which Niels uses but doesn't like

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. 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".

Virtual existences

In order of randomness:

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'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 friendica on Hongabar.

Keys

SSH

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PGP

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