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louis, 25 days ago to linuxmint

I jumped ship and hopped over to the Linux Mint crowd. I used Pop_OS for ~3 months and it was an overall good experience on my ThinkPad X1 Gen 8.

But I always liked the Cinnamon desktop as I have used Mint for over a year before. And I didn't want to be part of the Rust-based re-invented desktop experience (COSMIC) driven by a company. Ultimately I believe that Linux is and should continue to be a community effort. Also, there were some minor annoyances (like the Pop_OS store eating up 1.2 GB of RAM all the time even when it is not running, an issue System76 is aware of for quite a while). And also, Snap.

If feels good to be back to a trusted distro whose maintainers generally make the right decisions (i.e. removing Snap).

Let's see how long it will last ;-)

#linuxmint

SteveBellovin, 1 month ago to random

There's a preprint (https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/555), not yet peer-reviewed, for what claims to be a polynomial time algorithm for breaking lattice-based encryption algorithms. I'm by no means qualified to even understand it, but it's very important for post-quantum algorithms if it holds up.

hanspeter, 1 month ago to random

Hmm, how can one write intelligibly on the (web) walls for all to see AND at the same time prevent the 'datavores' (@thegibson) from devouring it and getting stronger by it???
(referring to chatGPT and all..)

louis, 1 month ago to emacs

Haven't used VS Code a single time for over two months now. All Emacs now. Since I switched to LSP mode, Makefiles and Dap.

I think it's time to press the delete button now with confidence.

Congratulations appreciated 🙂

#emacs #vscode

louis, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to emacs

Since there is no way to escape the passage of time, except when travelling at the speed of light, which AFAIK nobody has written an #Emacs package for, yet, there is an increasing urgency to express some thoughts before it is to late.

Big shoutout to the #Fediverse for letting me crash the party and play host at Emacs.ch, together with our team of moderators trying to keep it running smoother than a well-oiled joke machine for the last 12 months. Because, you know, if you can't laugh at your init.el file, who can?

The Fediverse isn't just a place to scroll mindlessly, but to interact and make friends (and foes of course). It smells incredible, once one can realise what Big Tech and Space Karen tried to take away from us (except for the foes, naturally, whose existence seems to be just another universal constant).

While I hope your 2023 was filled with more good vibes than gargron’s Meta™-aligned cat picture post marathon, undeniably, we had and still have to witness a lot more catastrophic events. I’m reading many angry posts lately with a tagline like „while the world is standing by ‚watching‘“ … For those I have good news, though: there are many more heroes out there fighting these crimes against humanity than @screwtape could mention my name in the Lispy Gopher Show!

Yes, that is what I choose to believe. Because Karma, not much time ago discovered by Newton as the law of cause and effect, will always work in favour of truth and good. And that's what got us here in the first place, right?

So, in the spirit of laughter, good vibes, and surviving the cosmic rollercoaster, I wholeheartedly thank you for all the likes, boosts, comments and blocks, and wish you a Happy New Year! May it be filled with more punchlines than bugs in your code! 🎉

robpike, 9 months ago to random

Help requested. For a repair job, I need a couple of cables with these connectors on the end, one cable straight-through and one cross-over. But I don't know the name of the connector and can't find them on line. Guidance welcome.

louis, 9 months ago to random

I ask you to post the first words and associations that come to mind with the following statement as a response:

A stateless, classless, moneyless society.

daviwil, 10 months ago to random

You insert this floppy into your computer and switch to A:\

What do you find?

louis, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

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daviwil, 10 months ago to random

I like to think of Lisps as human-scale development platforms.

Because of the amount of power one person can wield using the tools provided by the language, you often don't need multiple developers to build a project to meet a specific need.

Obviously there are much larger projects like GNU Guix which need many developers, but I'd argue that most things an individual needs could just be simple self-authored programs.

Lisps enable greater computing freedom by maximizing personal agency.

abcdw, 1 year ago to random

Watched a stream on modal editing options in #emacs by @daviwil and my thoughts are that meow is interesting HCI project and quite good in terms of UX: It visually shows the object you will operate on first and let you make some modification second.

I had around a decade of #vim experience, I could do some operations very efficiently, but it never tasted right. I think verb+object approach is just suboptimal, also it can't be accompanied by a nice UI feedback.

https://youtu.be/MPSkyfOp5H8?t=3727