About me

My name is Matija Šuklje but other geeks often call me Hook. I am a lawyer by profession and hacker by heart.

With two decades of experience in the FOSS world – ever at the nexus between the engineers, lawyers, businessmen, and policy makers – I truly enjoy making complex legal, technical, and similar thoughts easier for others to understand. Hopefully this humble blog helps a bit towards that goal.

I also have a soft spot for the good things in life, such as tea and sailing, which sometimes reflects in my posts.

Boring disclaimer: As the title and domain name clearly imply, Hook’s Humble Homepage is my personal website and blog and should be taken as such. If you are interested in any official statements and positions of groups and projects I am, or was, affiliated with (e.g. FSFE, ELSA, KDE, Gentoo, LUGOS, Cyberpipe/Kiberpipa), companies I work (Liferay) or have worked for, my (former) clients or just people I know, turn to their (official) websites and the means of communication they use.

My Projects

Fiduciary License Agreement 2.0 The FLA is a well-balanced CLA aimed at making sure FOSS stays FOSS. I build on top of the analysis in my masters thesis to update the text and integrate it into a chooser.

DE razor blades test List of my favourite DE razor blades, tested with a (quasi-)scientific method.

Shaving oil test List of my favourite shaving oils.

Activity-aware Firefox Integration of Firefox into KDE Plasma in a way that it plays nice with its Activities.

Hook’s Highscores Sometimes I play videogames, here are some of my highscores.

Recent Posts all posts

Backups and Btrfs RAID1 Self-inflicted face-palms and fixes

posted in Tehne 28 Sep. 2023

Installed the second SSD, set up backups with Borgmatic and set up the Btrfs RAID1. Challenges were met.

Games, consoles and the Meta mystery It’s pwetty now 😻

posted in Tehne 13 Sep. 2023

A short vacation causes all sorts of small tweaks, mostly of cosmetic nature.

System snapshots, Wayland & Vulkan Habemus reverti!

posted in Tehne 05 Sep. 2023

I am now able to roll back the system a working snapshot. Why I need to (temporarily) disable Baloo, and some other small things.

First steps of the installation Leza is born!

posted in Tehne 03 Sep. 2023

Basic EndeavourOS install, including some BIOS hardening, LUKS + Btrfs, KDE Plasma, and early preparations for more.

Slimbook Pro X 14 first impressions Did it live up to expectations?

posted in Tehne 01 Sep. 2023

Apart a few small things, Slimbook so far exceeded my expectations. I also try GNOME on Wayland and a few games to test the graphics card.

Installation plans for my new laptop CAN HAS LUKS BTRFS RAID!?

posted in Tehne 30 Aug. 2023

Which Linux distro, file system(s), disk set-up and some other software I intend to install on my new Slimbook Pro X 14.