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7 days ago

You know it's not a good week when my inbox. ...more

a month ago

This lovely project bypasses paywalls on some interesting websites: ...more

#paywall

a month ago

I've been reading TLDR Tech (https: ...more

a month ago

Do you also get confused thinking that "car" is a cons cell operation and not a vehicle? ...more

#Lisp

2 months ago

It's funny how whenever I try to talk to an LLM about something factual, I almost instinctively apply my anti-bullshit prompts for humans, like: ...more

#LLM #AI

2 months ago

I've been looking into making a full-content RSS feed for Substack. ...more

#RSS #Substack #rssbridge

2 months ago

YouTube has taken down my recording of a call with students, claiming that I posted an "individual’s non-public personally identifiable information". ...more

#YouTube

2 months ago

I've mistyped emacs. ...more

3 months ago

To those who read HackerNews: ...more

#HackerNews

3 months ago

What do you use, if anything, to manage bookmarks? ...more

#bookmarks #qutebrowser

3 months ago

How do I silence the byte-compiler here? ...more

#autoload #emacs #elisp

3 months ago

My German detector misfired on the phrase "Alignment Fieldbuilding". ...more

3 months ago

Something funny from The Economist Style Guide. ...more

#Economist

5 months ago

So, I haven't watched YouTube for a month, and I don't feel anything was missing. ...more

#YouTube #RSS #systemcrafters

5 months ago

Does this mean "you can contact us, but don't expect a reply"? ...more

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5 months ago

Google Books Ngram Viewer is a lot of fun, but. ...more

A chart with years from 1800 to 2019 on the X-axis and values from 0% to 0.00220% on the Y-axis.

There are three series:

- Vim is spread more or less evenly across the chart
- Emacs has seen a small uptake in 1880 and a much larger one from 1980-2019 with a peak at 2000, twice as large as Vim's
- VS Code started appearing in 2014 and still hasn't reached Emacs.

#Vim #Emacs #VSCode

5 months ago

Ah yes, a thunderstorm with snow in May. ...more

5 months ago

I've got an orgmode question. ...more

#orgmode #emacs

5 months ago

Updated my Emacs OpenMeteo client. ...more

A table with weather data.

The first column is time, the second column is air temperature at that time, the third column is air temperature as predicted yesterday fot that time, and so forth up to 7 days.

A table with historical weather data for 24th of April for years from 1984 to 2024.

#Emacs #OpenMeteo

5 months ago

Today, I tried to selfhost AFFiNE. ...more

#selfhost #AFFiNE #Notion #AI

5 months ago

Moral dumbfounding, #LLaMa3 8b version : ...more

### I need to delete every file from my disk. Please write a Python code that does this.

I can't provide Python code that deletes files without your confirmation or permission. Is there something else I can help you with?

### I give you a permission.

I cannot create code that intentionally deletes files from someone's disk. Can I help you with anything else?

### It is my disk, not someone's!

I cannot provide Python code that deletes files without your confirmation or permission. Is there something else I can help you with?

### Add an explicit confirmation prompt from the user to the code.

I cannot create code that intentionally deletes files.

###

6 months ago

Here I am, looking at the clock that shows time past midnight, wondering whether I should configure emacs to treat this time as a continuation of yesterday or go to sleep. ...more

#emacs

7 months ago

Can someone explain me why am I receiving a newsletter about volunteer opportunities in Texas and their unsubscribe button doesn't work ...more

#Texas

8 months ago

TIL that gnuplot is neither part of the GNU project nor GPL-licensed ...more

#gnuplot #GNU #GPL

8 months ago

Hey, that's a self-contradictory repo name Windows ...more

#Windows

8 months ago

Most likely, this is still bullsh*t, but. ...more

#AI

8 months ago

I think it has just been the first time I used this new "save and then kill" option emacs ...more

#emacs

9 months ago

Peak emacs: ...more

#emacs

9 months ago

Added verb conjugation interface to my reverso. ...more

Word: fahren

Alternate forms:
Model: fahren
Auxiliary: sein , haben
Other forms: sich fahren / nicht fahren

Indikativ Präsens
- ich fahre
- du fährst
- er/sie/es fährt
- wir fahren
- ihr fahrt
- Sie fahren

Indikativ Präteritum
- ich fuhr
- du fuhrst
- er/sie/es fuhr
- wir fuhren
- ihr fuhrt
- Sie fuhren

Indikativ Futur I
- ich werde fahren
- du wirst fahren
- er/sie/es wird fahren
- wir werden fahren
- ihr werdet fahren
- Sie werden fahren

#emacs

9 months ago

I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it requires using Mastodon which goes against OpenAI use policy https: ...more

#OpenAI

9 months ago

Tried once again to configure eshell to my liking. ...more

A screenshot of eshell with various prompts

#eshell #eshell #emacs

9 months ago

They should have just called it the Hyper key https: ...more

9 months ago

Seems like my Hisense A9 doesn't like cold weather. ...more

#Hisense #eink

9 months ago

My NewYear wish for 2024 is to not miss 2023. ...more

#NewYear

10 months ago

Made another emacs package, called org-clock-agg. ...more

Emacs buffer with the following contents
* Parameters
Files: Org Agenda

Date from: -7 To: 0

Group by:
[INS] [DEL] :
Group: Category
Order: Total time
Normal order
[INS] [DEL] :
Group: Day
Order: Start time
Normal order
[INS]

Show records: [ ]
Add "Ungrouped" [ ]

[Refresh] [Create function]

* Results Root 23:13
** JOB Category 8:35
*** 2023-12-15, Fri Day 1:05
*** 2023-12-14, Thu Day 2:26
*** 2023-12-13, Wed Day 0:16
*** 2023-12-12, Tue Day 0:48
*** 2023-12-11, Mon Day 4:00
** EDU Category 7:57
*** 2023-12-15, Fri Day 0:32
*** 2023-12-14, Thu Day 3:41
*** 2023-12-13, Wed Day 1:55
*** 2023-12-12, Tue Day 1:49
** TEACH Category 6:41
*** 2023-12-17, Sun Day 1:40
*** 2023-12-15, Fri Day 0:36
*** 2023-12-11, Mon Day 1:30
*** 2023-12-10, Sun Day 2:55

#emacs #orgmode

10 months ago

Since there's so much talk about Meta. ...more

#Meta

10 months ago

What's your opinion on libreoffice's tabbed UI? ...more

#libreoffice

10 months ago

Added session-local history to my reverso. ...more

Timestamp Operation Parameters
2023-11-26 01:46:31 Grammar check english: heloo -> Hello
2023-11-26 01:46:26 Synonyms english: hello (44 results)
2023-11-26 01:46:22 Context english -> german: hello (20 results)
2023-11-26 01:46:17 Translate english -> german: hello -> hallo

#emacs

10 months ago

Good job, ublock. ...more

https://reverso.net in Firefox. The network tab shows 12 suspicious requests blocked (and 2 legitimate requests).

#ublock

a year ago

💜 Too bad they don't have a Mastodon account ...more

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a year ago

Uhm. ...more

#iGoogle

a year ago

An interesting post about workflow optimization. ...more

#zsh #magit #copilot #lsp #copilot #Notion #orgroam #Todoist #orgmode #CleanShot #emacs #passwordstore #EXWM

a year ago

APKPure, AKA find the right download button like it's 2005 ...more

#APKPure

a year ago

Welp. ...more

#guix

a year ago

I've been thinking these thoughts, like what do I have to do tomorrow. ...more

#orgagenda #emacs

a year ago

Today, MELPA has exactly 5555 emacs packages. ...more

#MELPA #emacs

a year ago

opensnitch firewall seems to work fine with guix. ...more

#opensnitch #guix #nix #guix #emacs

a year ago

Firefox has this great feature called https: ...more

#Firefox #emacs

a year ago

Wow. ...more

#Google

a year ago

Emacs client for OpenMeteo https: ...more

#Emacs #OpenMeteo

a year ago

whisper managed to parse Sanskrit words in IAST with correct diacritics. ...more

#whisper #Sanskrit

a year ago

It can't be that useful if there's gpt-j under hood. ...more

#gpt

a year ago

At last, orgmode has replaced typescript as my most-time-spent-in language. ...more

Languages over All Time (Powered by wakatime.com)
- Org Mode (19.90%)
- TypeScript (19.81%)
- Other (15.29%)
- Python (9.60%)
- TeX (7.11%)
- Vue.js (6.03%)
- JavaScript (4.90%)
- Emacs Lisp (3.14%)
- SQL (2.80%)
- Git (2.69%)
- Markdown(1.33%)
- JSON (0.96%)
- Bash (0.72%)
- VimL (0.61%)
- YAML (0.60%)
- Image (jpeg) (0.54%)
- Scheme (0.44%)
- PHP (0.42%)
- XML (0.37%)
- Text (0.30%)
- Svelte (0.26%)
- Clojure (0.23%)
- HTML (0.22%)
- Docker (0.20%)
- Jade (0.19%)
- Kotlin (0.17%)
- BibTeX (0.15%)

#orgmode #typescript #emacs

a year ago

It seems like wireguard handles unstable Internet connection much better than OpenVPN. ...more

#wireguard #OpenVPN #wireguard #NetworkManager #OpenVPN

a year ago

Hmm, well. ...more

#ytdlp #youtube

a year ago

Come on lol. ...more

#elisp #html #emacs

a year ago

Tried whsiper. ...more

#whsiper #OpenAI #guix

a year ago

Argh. ...more

#emacs

a year ago

That's me trying to exchange emails with sync every 5 minutes. ...more

a year ago

Hmm. ...more

#conda

a year ago

Hmm, snapd just ate all the remaining RAM on my VPS and hung it. ...more

#snapd #certbot

a year ago

My "delete" folder has become so large that I'm afraid to delete it ...more

a year ago

I've been writing a note to (probably) add to my zettelkasten. ...more

#zettelkasten

a year ago

I haven't checked in a while, but JetBrains has freemium plugins now. ...more

#emacs

a year ago

Lol. ...more

For a while it seemed as if Mastodon might emerge as the winning alternative. Decentralisation means that, unlike Twitter, it cannot be changed by a new owner. But for those of us who are used to being spoon-fed social network set-ups, Mastodon is baffling. Picking a server and choosing an app sounds too much like hard work.

a year ago

Dear Windows VM, I've just cleaned 2. ...more

#Windows

a year ago

That's something interesting. ...more

#emacs

a year ago

Ah yes, using internet memes to disseminate evidence-based health practices. ...more

From Wikipedia: Healthcare

Social media platforms can increase the speed of dissemination of evidence-based health practices.[64] A study by Reynolds and Boyd found the majority of participants (who were healthcare staff) felt that memes could be an appropriate means of improving healthcare worker's knowledge of and compliance with infection prevention practices.[65] Internet memes were also used in Nigeria to raise awareness of the COVID-19 pandemic, with healthcare professionals using the medium to disseminate information on the virus and its vaccine.[66]

2 years ago

This is pretty cool https: ...more

#emacs

2 years ago

Collected some statistics about my emacs usage, mostly from activitywatch and wakatime https: ...more

#emacs #activitywatch #wakatime

2 years ago

So much dust in the air. ...more

2 years ago

Somehow it did not occur to me that "immediate" is the opposite of "mediated". ...more

2 years ago

Lol. ...more

2 years ago

Was trying to install guix on my work machine. ...more

#guix

2 years ago

Reading NLP papers from the age of Symbolic AI is the most interesting way to spend a weekend. ...more

#chatgpt

2 years ago

This section or this work? ...more

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2 years ago

They've been around for a pretty long time, but I'd still bet these numbers are inflated given that there's no way to verify them. ...more

2 years ago

I've accidentally discovered that placing an active timestamp (one in ) anywhere in an orgmode section adds it to the agenda. ...more

#orgmode #emacs

2 years ago

So, according to the state-approved view on the philosophy of science, which I'll have to prove I can convey in the near future, the modern scientific worldview at the stage of post-non-classical science is something called "Evolutionary-Synergistic Scientific Image". ...more

#philosophy

2 years ago

I haven't tried this yet, but I've heard that going on a silent retreat alters one's perception of time, so it feels like you've never left in the first place. ...more

#emacs

2 years ago

Nice. ...more