Activism and Freedom

I have a partiular interest in tools that empower activists. As of 2013, I am active in the Hart voor internet vrijheid foundation dedicated to fight censorship on the internet. If you know of any interesting problems or projects, please do let me know. Recently I have also gained interest in the Tor project and hope to contribute in the near future.

Aside from Computer science activism, I also consider myself a Militant Atheist.

Computer Science

I like messing around with Linux. In particular I've had a lot of fun with my sheevaplug(s) running Gentoo Linux. These days I use a Samsung Chromebook running Gentoo Linux as my main machine.

The wiki dedicated to mainlining and supporting Exynos hardware is also hosted by me on this server. We're still looking for many developers and volunteers:

http://linux-exynos.org/wiki/Main_Page

Music and Sports

As for sports; I've been practicing Aikido since I was a child, with a few pauses.

I also like reading and music: Ambient, Classical, New Wave, Black/Viking Metal.

The following bands occupy a special place somewhere inside my head:

• Coil (and The Threshold Houseboys Choir)
• Nine Inch Nails
• Kraftwerk
• Rome (not the french rap band)
• The Cure

Tracy

Tracy is a cross architecture System call tracing and injection framework for Linux (*BSD support will hopefully follow).

Neversearch

neversearch is a simple but powerful program that allows you to assign tags to files or directories, if your file system supports xattr (eXtended ATTRibutes). This can make your life a lot easier when managing photos or other files.

There are many possible uses cases, see the neversearch page for more info.

uinput-mapper

uinput-mapper is a simplistic but powerful project to create (virtual) input devices that can be fed (and change) events from other input devices. Possible use cases:

• Creating virtual joysticks from a keyboard device. (For example: a device with physical joysticks that exposes keyboard device)
• Creating a mouse from joystick input.
• Networked input (it works fine over ssh, etc)
• Combining or splitting input devices.

Immature project, but works for my use cases. I mostly created this for an arcade machine that exposed two joysticks as a single keyboard device.

map program running

/dev/input before the map program is running and while the map program is running.

Rubbernose

Rubberfuse is a continuation of the work done on Rubberhose-FS by Julian Assange et al. We're still in the planning phase.

SRL

SRL is the first project I ever participated in and it has mainly been the base of my current programming knowledge. SRL was initially a library created to macroing a game called Runescape, but has since turned into a community full of interesting people, talented programmers and generally cool fruitcakes. The library still works, by the way. SRL has lots of Scripts that each perform their own task on Runescape.

Simba

SRL is interpreted by a program called Simba, created by members of the SRL community. Simba. Simba can perform many kind of tasks, including faking mouse movements and key presses, finding bitmaps and colours and reading text from the screen.

Simba is GPL-3 licensed and Open Source and Free Software.

Simba running on my old Linux distribution, Ubuntu Linux.

SRL-Stats

SRL-Stats was created to keep track of the progress and use of SRL. SRL Scripts can gather statistics from their actions and submit them to SRL stats.

Currently the most popular script has ran for 954 days, 8:49:00 with 154756 individual commits., which is pretty impressive.

The SRL Stats website as on http://stats.villavu.com. The design was taken from some free templates site, as I stink at web design - at least for now.

An example of a graph generated by SRL stats, this is of the fifth month of 2011.

πϱTorrent

πϱTorrent is a web interface to rTorrent. It was written in Python because I got so fed up with all the crappy PHP interfaces and generally just PHP being crappy.

It is still work in progress, but it can do some basic stuff like list and add torrents, connect to multiple rtorrents at once, manage users, basic login authentication.

pyroTorrent showing my sheevaplug seedbox(e). (Note that none of these downloads are illegal, so bite me)

Login screen.

Oh, and πϱTorrent is really fast compared to any of the PHP web interfaces.

Least

The not so minimalisitic PDF viewer.

Least is a very simple OpenGL based PDF viewer. We have some great features we wish to implement, but so far I have not found the time.

SNARP

Simple Noise Activated Recording in Python.

SNARP is a noise activated audio recording program. I initially wrote this for the Nokia N900, but it should work on most Linux desktops.

SNARP configuration

Running SNARP

Distributed Chat System

DCS was an assignment for the University of Amsterdam, we had to form groups and implement a chat protocol similar to IRC. Our implementation ended up being quite cool, with only one known bug. One that we've never bothered to fix, though.

The DCS ncurses client running on my Nokia N900.