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by xte 8y ago
Since I plan to re-write it in org and cleanup I do not publish it however here http://ix.io/1vf0 there is a quick redacted NixOS config of my desktop :-) When I have time I will port both NixOS, homeManager and Emacs confi
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by xte 8y ago
With req-package and org-mode init you do not need any specific hack and anything that does not work remain "isolated". Many try el-get, borg, ... but personally I found simple setup effective enough and in years my config is now
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by xte 8y ago
Well, in the past I have used Eclipse, Netbeans, SunStudio (essentially netbeans), IntelliJIdea, Oracle JDeveloper and others: all of them are enormously bugged, perhaps Netbans/Sunstudio was the least bugged. All of them suffer from a
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by xte 8y ago
In term of "spending" my answer is ZERO, simply because I do not spent time, I discover things casually or when I feel the need of something and it's nearly always there, ready to go in my config (org-mode based) with a quick
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by xte 8y ago
That commercial software is build normally to lock you in and lock out any possible evolution path, the learning curve is fixed: when you learnt a certain number of things "you are productive" and there is no more, no future. On F
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by xte 8y ago
EXWM/Fulltime Emacs user here... Well... No, ansi-term, sane-term etc are not like regular terminals, they can work for simple things but they are limited, limiting and buggy... When I start living in Emacs I reduce significantly the d
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by xte 8y ago
Emacs can do far more nice things, for instance meaningful text navigation so you can move not only between lines and columns but also between functions/method/class definitions, scope/context/namespaces, paragraphs, ...
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by xte 8y ago
Well... For me it also have a decent text editor... The bad point is that it lack a bootloader+kernel+userland that let me ditch basic Linux kernel... GuixSD is nicely integrated but Emacs Guile port is not "official" and "ma
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by xte 8y ago
I second to have choose Emacs as a main computing environment and since I often here the question "how much time ..." well... I'd like to add a note: time can't be only measured in hours, days, etc. To learn Emacs enough
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by xte 8y ago
Firejail on GNU/Linux, Capsicum on FreeBSD etc do something for that, and IMO any tech-savvy users should use them. Basically they restrict browser capabilities to see entire filesystem to the minimum extent possible so an webappp can&
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by xte 8y ago
Actually homeManager can manage Firefox, installing extensions etc... Only it's a hack-ish and not much reliable way. So no, actual Mozilla strategy does NOT work to stop malware's on Windows nor commercial OEMs customization, as
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by xte 8y ago
Having a simple text-based config with a repo, like [AddOns] ensure-ffpkg AddonName [Themes] set-default ThemeName install ThemeA, ThemeB [Settings] key:val ... and have the AddonName downloaded with GNUPG signature check from an official M
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by xte 8y ago
Hum, I do something like that with my personal mail services: an alias (created by hand or random depending on where I use it) that I can keep as long as I want, dispose when I want, I can easy discover spam sources and easily filter messag
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by xte 8y ago
Well... Drone delivery may work in countryside, where people live in personal homes not apartments, perhaps with a bit of green flat area suitable for landing and leave a small package. It's essentially unfeasible in cities where nea
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by xte 8y ago
A small example: take a young CAD/CAE/CAM engineer, ask he/she to design something for doing a certain job. Ask the same to an ancient engineer. Compare results. The young will give you a well simulated part/assembly rea
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by xte 8y ago
I think that any tech business or any business in general should AVOID completely put their "nervous system" (IT) on someone else computer, especially someone else that have deep automated analysis capabilities and big financial p
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by xte 8y ago
Well it's natural in the sense that "mother or idiots is always pregnant" (ancient Italian proverb), but that's also not a thing we should prize. I mean, in my poor English, that it's normal we have a bigger audienc
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by xte 8y ago
I think not. I think I have a clear understating on how we trade Science for neoaristotelism because someone want brainless, managerial-driven, commercial-servant research instead of Science and culture.
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by xte 8y ago
The same for me until few time ago when Chrome weight and features start to be more nice for Alphabet then me. I ditch all Alphabet services, I do not like to waste my system and network resources for it's sake.
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by xte 8y ago
I came back to Firefox after years on Chrom{e,ium} because of their bad evolution. FF is far for being good IMO but far less obscene than actual Chrome. Anyway, brace yourself: an era of "proprietary web" is coming, with a worst l
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by xte 8y ago
Perhaps my poor English make hard for me to clearly express concepts, sorry. How to do your nails it's simply far less valuable than how a banks or a car work in knowledge terms, however on YT&c it get far more financial reward tha
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by xte 8y ago
The modern "need" (mania) of defining metrics have a deep root not in knowledge but in ignorance. Smart people can reason autonomously like Galilean scientific models, ignorant can only follow Aristotelian model. That's also
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by xte 8y ago
You, me, any other. We all like to laugh but we know that life is beyond that. That's why we have schools that teach history, physics, chemistry, math, geography, ... instead of teaching nail arts, hair styling, parkour etc. Also, if y
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by xte 8y ago
It's not a matter of "computers" but a matter of education: if kids discover something like Smalltalk/Cobol scripting in a friendly environment like ancient Alto&c workstations or actual unix shells and Emacs they ma
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by xte 8y ago
A small point: did anybody notice how this reward mechanism prize the "idiocy" far more than the "knowledge"? I mean most followed YT channels, most upvotes on FB etc are about "brainless things", "brainle
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by xte 8y ago
No software trick can fix OS unsafe design. Also "protecting users" limiting their power means jails them, not really protecting. End users are adult, not child, and developers are others adults with ZERO right on their software&#
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by xte 8y ago
Yep, since most people forget nntp... But I'm here not elsewhere and I'm receive HN updates via mail (RSS2Email) and planning to try my first Emacs serious work with a modification of HN plugin to allow posts not only view...
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by xte 8y ago
True but certainly not friendly to edit with a big // DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE. and an optional user.js separate preference I do not know how reliable...
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by xte 8y ago
Well... My workflow is desktop-centric, I do not use social networks, WhatsApp etc. So... One reason to "hide" my phone is to avoid/reduce data collection via speaker mic (cameras are already covered with a sandwich of insula
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by xte 8y ago
IMO, without sarcasm, people, not browsers makers, should ditch modern "web" to came back to local application with networking enabled. We need to regain control of our systems and data before being all slave (without even the nee

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