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1 --- 2 title: "Weeknote for 2025-W02" 3 description: "Things I learned or read in the last week" 4 date: 2025-01-06T07:59:00-08:00 5 draft: false 6 categories: 7 - Weeknotes 8 --- 9 10 [Happy Public Domain Day!](https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2025/) 11 12 January 1 marked the introduction of many significant works into the Public 13 Domain. This is only the fifth year to see meaningful copyright expirations 14 following the 20-year freeze legislated by Congress, so I still get excited 15 about these. PDD pairs well with the resource [Standard 16 Ebooks](https://standardebooks.org/), which is driven by a group of 17 volunteers who clean up, beautify, and republish public domain works that 18 have been digitized by other volunteers at organizations such as [Project 19 Gutenberg](https://gutenberg.org/). 20 21 [Twelve Days of 22 Deletey](https://stevesberg.com/2023/12/the_annual_tradition_of_deletey/) 23 24 The first day of the year also coincides with the first day of “Deletey”, an 25 informal effort to tidy one’s digital life, first proposed by Steven Hoefer. 26 I’ve deleted a couple unused online accounts this week, but I’m primarily 27 focusing on cleaning up the files in my `Downloads` and `Documents` 28 directories (which have become catch-all dumping grounds with little 29 distinction between them). My goal is to keep the former empty[^tmp] and 30 have some rational organizational scheme for the latter[^adhd]. 31 32 [YunoHost: Garden your own piece of the Internet!](https://yunohost.org/) 33 34 Deletey’s commencement reminded me that a number of my accounts with online 35 services should probably be replaced by “self-hosted” services. I had an old 36 RaspberryPi sitting around to press into service[^rpi], and I was up and 37 running with YunoHost in less than an hour. I appreciate how the project’s 38 developers are trying to make this stuff accessible to people who _aren’t_ 39 Unix geeks---if they make headway into getting less-technically inclined 40 people hosting their own services, this becomes the kind of project that 41 [can make the Internet weird 42 again](https://www.anildash.com/2024/10/15/its-2004-again/). 43 44 [^tmp]: One idea (which I’ll credit to [Amin 45 Hollon](https://benjaminhollon.com/)) is to mount a `tmpfs` at 46 `~/Downloads`, which would result in the directory be automatically 47 cleared on each reboot. I’m more likely to set up a job that will clear 48 files over a certain age. 49 50 [^adhd]: Readers with ADHD will recognize the impulse to replace an untended 51 mess with a carefully thought-out scheme, but I promised myself 52 I wouldn’t lose too much time to _how_ I organize things; I just want to 53 put the few things worth keeping somewhere I’ll have a chance of finding 54 them again. 55 56 [^rpi]: I originally bought it to run [RetroPie](https://retropie.org.uk/), 57 but quickly learned that I like the _idea_ of playing emulated games 58 from my childhood more than I actually like doing it. Those games were 59 **hard**! I figured the Pi would see its second act in a robotics 60 project or 3D printer, but those particular nerd hobbies haven’t come 61 for me yet.