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Author: Eamon Caddigan <eamon.caddigan@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2025 15:21:49 -0800
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+title: "Weeknote for 2025-W02"
+description: "Things I learned or read in the last week"
+date: 2025-01-06T07:59:00-08:00
+draft: false
+categories:
+- Weeknotes
+---
+
+[Happy Public Domain Day!](https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2025/)
+
+January 1 marked the introduction of many significant works into the Public
+Domain. This is only the fifth year to see meaningful copyright expirations
+following the 20-year freeze legislated by Congress, so I still get excited
+about these. PDD pairs well with the resource [Standard
+Ebooks](https://standardebooks.org/), which is driven by a group of
+volunteers who clean up, beautify, and republish public domain works that
+have been digitized by other volunteers at organizations such as [Project
+Gutenberg](https://gutenberg.org/).
+
+[Twelve Days of
+Deletey](https://stevesberg.com/2023/12/the_annual_tradition_of_deletey/)
+
+The first day of the year also coincides with the first day of “Deletey”, an
+informal effort to tidy one’s digital life, first proposed by Steven Hoefer.
+I’ve deleted a couple unused online accounts this week, but I’m primarily
+focusing on cleaning up the files in my `Downloads` and `Documents`
+directories (which have become catch-all dumping grounds with little
+distinction between them). My goal is to keep the former empty[^tmp] and
+have some rational organizational scheme for the latter[^adhd].
+
+[YunoHost: Garden your own piece of the Internet!](https://yunohost.org/)
+
+Deletey’s commencement reminded me that a number of my accounts with online
+services should probably be replaced by “self-hosted” services. I had an old
+RaspberryPi sitting around to press into service[^rpi], and I was up and
+running with YunoHost in less than an hour. I appreciate how the project’s
+developers are trying to make this stuff accessible to people who _aren’t_
+Unix geeks---if they make headway into getting less-technically inclined
+people hosting their own services, this becomes the kind of project that
+[can make the Internet weird
+again](https://www.anildash.com/2024/10/15/its-2004-again/).
+
+[^tmp]: One idea (which I’ll credit to [Amin
+ Hollon](https://benjaminhollon.com/)) is to mount a `tmpfs` at
+ `~/Downloads`, which would result in the directory be automatically
+ cleared on each reboot. I’m more likely to set up a job that will clear
+ files over a certain age.
+
+[^adhd]: Readers with ADHD will recognize the impulse to replace an untended
+ mess with a carefully thought-out scheme, but I promised myself
+ I wouldn’t lose too much time to _how_ I organize things; I just want to
+ put the few things worth keeping somewhere I’ll have a chance of finding
+ them again.
+
+[^rpi]: I originally bought it to run [RetroPie](https://retropie.org.uk/),
+ but quickly learned that I like the _idea_ of playing emulated games
+ from my childhood more than I actually like doing it. Those games were
+ **hard**! I figured the Pi would see its second act in a robotics
+ project or 3D printer, but those particular nerd hobbies haven’t come
+ for me yet.
