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Luke Smith (https://lukesmith.xyz)

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I'm Luke Smith.

I'm probably most well-known on the internet
for putting up videos on YouTube which you
can see here.

I do many technology screencasts and talk

about the effects of technology on modern
"life," if you can call it that. Sometimes, I just
rant in the woods.

I do a lot of other notable things:

I manage a publicly available

Linux system: LARBS.
I run LARBS (https://larbs.xyz), which is an
auto-installable minimal Linux system
targeted to power users. Its goal is to make
learning about more hardcore aspects of Linux
easy and seamless and it also provides a "cool-
looking" and efficient, twm and keyboard-
based workflow right out of the box. It runs
my build of suckless's dwm and my dotfiles
repository here.

If you want to know more about how I use

Linux and what programs I use and recommend, I have a page on that here.

See my Github here, but I also have Gitlab and also a publicly visible Git server on this website.

I live here.
I left the city and moved into a more natural environment and community.

I publicly advocate a simple and traditional lifestyle and minimizing dependence on "the system" and high
technology as the best antidote for all of the ailments of modernity. This is the real-life analog to my commitment
to minimalist computing.
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I spend most of my free time gardening or

learning to make useful things: woodworking,
making food from scratch and doing some
antifragile tinkering.

By the way, check out my library catalog here

to see what books I keep in my personal
library.

I write tools to make you freer

of Google/Big Tech.

The internet has become centralized in several

large sites: Google/YouTube/Facebook etc.
And every day it's a more obvious threat to
normal people in terms of privacy, political
freedoms and even personal frustration!

I wrote mutt-wizard, which is a small tool that

allows you to get an offline store of all your
email and a terminal-based email client with
no complex startup configuration. It uses
neomutt and isync.

After the annoying process of setting up my

own email server, I made a simple email
server wizard to do it automatically. I'm glad
that many other people have used it to be totally independent of email hosted by questionable companies.

I plan on making more little tools like these, and I'd like to make the old internet, where people easily owned and
managed their own websites and platforms more possible.

I have a Podcast called Not

Related!
Get it at its website: https://notrelated.xyz.

This is arguably the most distinguished and

unique thing I put on the internet, and while I
haven't put out episodes in a bit, it has a kind
of a cult following.

It's not one of those inane, stupid talking

podcasts where some group of guys sit around
and chat: I cover different topics, usually ones
where the public or Wikipedian understanding
of an area differs greatly from how it actually is. Some of them have been "scholarly," while others are overviews
of "unique" books and viewpoints.

I also have degrees and such... but that was a waste!

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If I had nothing else to put on my résumé, I

suppose I could say that I have degrees in
economics and linguistics and am a Ph.D.
candidate. I have an very low opinion of
formal education and especially the solvency
of academia now, and I recommend you to
avoid it at all costs.

I know some people run across me because

they see some wild papers or squibs or hear
rumors or just learn about me and want to
know about what I think about some in
Generative Grammar. I don't talk about or do
videos on this stuff because I think we all
know that it is useless and theory-internal, but
I have recorded some talks on this stuff before:

On language as "synesthesia"—on the state of "the field" of linguistics and the Chomskyan program—random talk
on the ancient Sanskrit approach to grammar—an explanation of one of my qualifying papers.

Get updates about me, my YouTube channel

and my podcast.
Rolling Blog Page – Full browsable blog index

2020 May 03 – New website setup, also a statusbar module for

network traffic
2020 Apr 23 – Check out my dwm and dwmblocks builds (and say
goodbye to i3)!
2020 Apr 02 – Lincucks Fest has been canceled!
2020 Mar 22 – Font gone crazy in LARBS?
2020 Mar 16 – What should be the default browser for LARBS?

Copy and paste these urls into your RSS reader (e.g. newsboat) for all
my RSS feeds. The first is my main feed/weblog, second is my YouTube videos, the third is my podcast:

https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
https://lukesmith.xyz/youtube.xml
https://notrelated.xyz/rss

Note that Brave users can also donate BAT to me on any of my websites or my YouTube channel.

Email me at luke@lukesmith.xyz!

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