dmortin

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by dmortin 6y ago
I meant the case when you have to use an other machine and naturally emacs users want to use emacs even there, so that's given. But on Windows, for example, python may not be installed, so that's an extra install, while if you hav
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by dmortin 6y ago
Emacs is not a text editor, it's a platform independent VM which can run your scripts with a text UI. E.g. do you want keep an eye on some information which can be fetched from the net? You just write a script which regularly fetches t
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by dmortin 6y ago
"I then set up a load of fake accounts, and I find random names and addresses either from publicly available information or from a leaked database that's doing the rounds from a previous data breach. I order Kleinman Candles from
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by dmortin 6y ago
I wonder why people are downvoting you for asking for a windows version. Is everyone a mac user here?
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by dmortin 6y ago
Why would it be useless for non-Emacs users? It's an integrated tool, just like any other tool which you learn to use. You can use it for this purpose while you use some other editor for other tasks. You don't have to use Emacs f
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by dmortin 6y ago
It's easy not to have email if you have a secretary who filters and prints out the incoming messages for you. I guess he never orders anything on the net, doesn't use any online services, because those usually require an email add
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by dmortin 6y ago
Hackers won't target Emacs, they aim for bigger targets, software used by many people. Emacs is so obscure that nobody bothers to work on emacs exploits, so your worry is not really justified.
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by dmortin 6y ago
It's suprising somebody gives 70k answers, but asks no questions. I wonder why that is. Does he know everything about his area and not interested in other areas?
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by dmortin 6y ago
Yes.
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by dmortin 6y ago
A knowledgebase is for storing thousands of notes and quickly retrieve them when needed. Searching dozens of notebooks for the relevant info is not scalable.
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by dmortin 6y ago
You should write some words about why your tool is better than org if you mention it here. Org gained new features too in the last ten years. E.g. for crosslinking there is org roam: https://github.com/org-roam/org-ro
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by dmortin 6y ago
Most developers don't care they just want to get to job done. Many of them use IntelliJ, etc. which is not free software either. Those who care about using fee software already know about these things, because they check before startin
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by dmortin 6y ago
Apparently, the Danish musicians don't realize this value, thinking the platform is free to maintain if they can host videos for free there.
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by dmortin 6y ago
If the reporter lives from ads on her blog then she needs traffic, because more traffic is more income. So bringig traffic to the blog is a big value, so she should pay for this service. But she doesn't, because search engines are free
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by dmortin 6y ago
Why not just wait for the release announcement? What is the point of this submission?
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They got support, but the editors didn't own the site, so the main editor could be dismissed by some representative of the owner. It's a different situation if the editors are owners of the site and the donations go directly to th
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by dmortin 6y ago
> Going forward, the largest, independent news outlet accessible to Hungarians will like be the Guardian and the New York Times. Not true, they will likely start an other site and ask for donations, so it's up to the people to suppo
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by dmortin 6y ago
And sometimes automatic updates break and then the site may be down until you find the problem which may require much reading and therefore a longer time if you don't deal with sysadmin stuff often. With PaaS it's someone else&#x2
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by dmortin 6y ago
The main advantage of the cloud for me that it provides PaaS services. You don't have to administer a VM, etc, you just use the services and it's someone else's job to install security updates and stuff.
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For me the most important part of note taking is quickly retrieving previous notes. Paper notes don't work for this if one has lots of notes, so digital it is.
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by dmortin 6y ago
Yeah, it's not really worth it. Your home directory should be indexed anyway (along with other interesting directories), so you should be able to simply quickly switch to any file in the index, regardless if it's open or not, usi
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by dmortin 6y ago
Try Finnish or Hungarian, for example.
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by dmortin 6y ago
> If I don’t agree with how a company does business, I don’t buy their products. I don’t go into their store and shoplift. Yeah, it's strange people think shoplifting is a moral way to protest. It's not. Boycotting is.
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by dmortin 6y ago
> just because I want to make sure that writers of my consumed media get paid doesn't mean I have to agree with how the publication model of monitization. You don't have to. Just don't visit these news sites, boycott them,
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by dmortin 6y ago
Or just forget them. Most users click on accept all anyway, because they want to get to the content, not dealing with cookies.
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by dmortin 6y ago
If solutions like this get traction then sites simply won't render anything client side before the paywall. Developing sophisticated blocking tools only makes this distopian future arriving sooner.
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by dmortin 6y ago
You can use a tracker blocklist, so you don't have to disable javascript: https://github.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists
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by dmortin 6y ago
But the sites need revenue too, so the way to make ads go away is coming up with a ubiquitous micropayment system which can compensate the site editors if no ad is shown.
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People like interactive sites which give immediate visual feedback for actions. Aside from the tracking stuff it's a better user experience, so it's unlikely to go away, especially if the demand for no-js is tiny.
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by dmortin 6y ago
Not AWS, but I use Cloud Functions in Firebase Hosting to redirect dynamic urls to static website paths. Of course, in this case I have to use it, because Firebase Hosting is static, so this is the only way to handle dynamic urls if the sim

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