oatmeal

oatmeal, 8 months ago to random

The irony of #eugenics and #antisemitism...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas: #Ashkenazi Jews 'are NOT Semites'

Zionist leader Arthur Ruppin: German #Jews are NOT Semites but Aryan.

Yet Abbas in an antisemite, even though this idea is not really new (research: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms3543), while Israel is naming buildings after the #Zionist leader Ruppin, who personally met with Himmler's mentor, Hans F. K. Günther.

Arthur Ruppin's Concept of Race
In: Amos Morris-Reich, Israel Studies , Fall, 2006, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Fall, 2006), pp. 1-3.

oatmeal, 11 months ago to RedditMigration

#redditmigration Never liked #reddit and don't have an account I can close or subreddit to make private, but I don't mind using a free (as in freedom) platform to publish extended notes related to #emacs and usage in academia ... will see how it goes I guess ... using ommnia as my handler since oatmeal is taken 🙄​

What I don't get is how to follow and mention from mastodon to kbin... doesn't look like I can follow @ommnia from here, for example.

https://kbin.social/m/emacstory/t/14261/Boum-Aomar-and-Sarah-Abrevaya-Stein-eds-2019-The-Holocaust

oatmeal, 10 months ago to random

Wondering if others are facing issue tooting from #mastodonel to this instance. Seeing this error when trying to post a mastodonel buffer with a couple of attachments.

Something is wrong with your uploads. Wait for them to complete or try again.  

oatmeal, 11 months ago to linux

#linux first time I’ve come across #pantherx, which sounds like a good compromise between wanting to install and maintain a #guix system while also having a life not dedicated to maintain guix 🤪 https://www.pantherx.org

oatmeal, 10 months ago to emacs

#emacs #help is anyone able to sync O365 mail using #mbsync? I don't have a choice (for school) and need to get this working.

So far the only platform I'm able to login and sync is iOS (added an account as Microsoft Exchange). evolution-ews, mbsync, geary etc. all fail authentication.

Trying to get mu4e like I did for iCloud
Followed the linked guide. So I know it's possible. Could it be that today I need to set up OAUTH to get this working. The guide is from 2019.

https://www.chrislockard.net/posts/o365-mail-emacs-mbsync-mu4e/

oatmeal, 10 months ago to bookstodon

@bookstodon /science/religion: Am I a Monkey?

Loved how Nidhal Guessoum quickly shuts down a lame attempt by a religious scholar to appropriate Bjorn Kurtén's #creationist friendly title "Not from the Apes", of which he might have only read the title.

... also interesting was that surveys show that Americans and Saudis without college degrees are equally skeptical of the theory, while more educated Saudis than Americans reject it.

Thought it'd be a nice anecdote to start off a discussion about Islam's view of #evolution through the perspective of a couple of medieval scholars for a paper I need to write....

Nidhal Guessoum. 2010. “Islam and Evolution (Human and Biological).” In Islam’s Quantum Question: Reconciling Muslim Tradition and Modern Science, 275-276. Bloomsbury Publishing.

https://archive.org/details/notfromapes00kurt/page/n5/mode/2up

oatmeal, 11 months ago to random

:orgmode:​ #orgmode #emacs I've just realized that attaching short notes to sections of an org file is actually a very useful feature, I never really paid attention too 🤨​...

The command is bound by default to C-x C-z ... I have this (org-log-into-drawer . t) in .dir-locals and this in the org file #+startup: logdrawer.

The timestamp is inserted automatically, though it's not necessary for my workflow.

oatmeal, 8 months ago to random

… 🫢
#CorinneBaileyRae
#BlackRainbows

oatmeal, 1 year ago to random

Giving pano (clipboard manager for #gnome) a 2nd chance. It might be an over-kill, but I like it for now. On Gnome 33 it "reliably" blocked the desktop on copy... but hopefully problems have been sorted out.

oatmeal, 1 year ago to random

#israel #palestine spot the difference in reporting in USA and British media … The real story is not what Israel said it was doing when bombing #Gaza, again, but what had actually happened. Even if you condone extrajudicial killings and believe Israel has the ability to target suspects precisely, killing nine civilians in the process shows it can’t. That’s sounds a lot like a #warcrime https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/02/02/israel-collective-punishment-against-palestinians

oatmeal, 1 year ago to random

Looks like #cnn, the network that bastardized news reporting, is aiming even lower and normalizing #hatespeech and #misogyny. "Collins held her own at some moments but was overwhelmed by the geyser of deceit and missed follow-ups at others... " ... How desperate can you be to have this idiot on, and for what purpose? We all know #Trump is a neo-Nazi, a liar, twice impeached looser and a convicted sexual predator... why give him a stage in a room stuffed with sycophants? I don't watch CNN, but I would #BoycottCNN if I did.

oatmeal, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to palestine

@histodons @israel @palestine #ArabJews For Israelis to learn Arabic is not a political statement, it's about reclaiming our identities. Half of us grew up in homes in which some dialect of Arabic or Farsi were spoken. So ignoring Haaretz's uncontrollable urge to orientalize everything not grounded in #Yiddish (how ironic), Maktoob (מַכְּתוּבּ, مكتوب), co-founded by prof. Yehuda Shaharabani-Shenhav, is one of the most inspiring projects in the #Israeli academia these days. It's always a pleasure to learn more about the system they've developed to translate from literary works from #Arabic to #Hebrew, in teams of two native speakers https://www.haaretz.com/life/books/2023-07-05/ty-article-magazine/.premium/the-most-political-act-for-jews-in-israel-is-to-learn-arabic/00000189-24e8-df82-a78f-65fa843b0000

oatmeal, 1 year ago to random

#copilot #ai #techfeudalism This is a call to open source developers to not upload the work of others on #GitHub due to the abuse of license terms and copyright https://nogithub.codeberg.page via @nixCraft

oatmeal, 9 months ago to emacs

#emacs Very rude awakening using #orgroam out of the blue, tones of "Invalid ref" errors and end of file error during parsing 🙄​ and the database won't finish synching anymore, causing Emacs (28.2 and 29.1) to choke.

I will move off org-roam eventually, I guess, but the timing of this mess is just very unfortunate.

oatmeal, 1 month ago to emacs

#Emacs As far as I'm concerned, the jury is still out on TopSpace, but the more I use it, the more I think it makes sense... esthetically though it looks better with line-numbers off.

"TopSpace is an Emacs minor mode that lets you display a buffer's first line in the center of a window instead of just at the top. This is done by automatically drawing an upper margin/padding above line 1 as you recenter and scroll it down."

https://github.com/trevorpogue/topspace

TopSpace Enabled

oatmeal, 10 months ago to UX

#ux I only tried once to have a look but couldn’t figure out how to stream line Nicolas-Rougier’s sexy Nano tweaks into something I’m comfortable with. It does look very impressive, but is it brittle or can you have a working configuration around it that doesn’t break?

Andrey Listopadov take on #Emacs and GUI: https://andreyor.st/posts/2023-07-11-emacs-gui-library/

https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/14eialt/nano_agenda_capture

oatmeal, 1 month ago to emacs

#emacs / Audio transcription with listen

I was trying to use alphapapa's 'Listen' package, which was already installed, for audio transcription, but I struggled to find an intuitive way to skip forward or backward w/o leaving the working buffer. Also challenging was the fact that my keyboard only has a play/pause key.

But since 'listen' seemed to default to #VLC, I decided to use playerctl to control it, regardless of how it was launched. It's a command-line tool that works with MEPRIS players, and I could bind custom shortcuts in GNOME Shell to the play/pause key + a modifier.

oatmeal, 9 months ago to palestinian

While researching Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim's activities, I came across this photo from his personal collection. The photo shows a gathering of the paramilitary scout movement al-Najjada (النجادة).

It is one of many thousands of photos and various Palestinian heritage artifacts Israeli forces looted during the 1948 war. Most of it is still buried in Israel's various military archives, under restricted access or straight out misleading labels, so to make it difficult for historian to find them and build a fuller and richer social and cultural history of Palestinian society before 1948.

@histodons @palestine @israel

oatmeal, 8 months ago to tv

#tv #starwars #ahsoka #RosarioDawson yes these #mandalorian spin-offs are getting ridiculous, but it’s too hot to worry about that 📺

oatmeal, 10 months ago to twitter

Meanwhile at the neonazis friendly social media site… “There has also been speculation that the company’s decision to limit users who weren’t paying for the service to seeing just 600 posts a day last week was a result of #Twitter failing to pay the bills for services to keep the site up and running smoothly. 💩 says the limit is to prevent data scraping.” https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/03/twitter-faces-lawsuit-over-alleged-non-payment-for-office-services-in-four-countries

oatmeal, 8 months ago to histodons

@histodons @israel @palestine re-watching “The Oslo Diaries” (2018), there’s a feeling of missed opportunity shared by many liberals, both Israeli and #Palestinians: If it wasn’t for the extremists, on both sides, peace was achievable. But was it really?

The idea that the Palestinians need to negotiate clawing back parts of their homeland (in whichever geopolitical circumstances led to them losing it), might be the explanation why such negotiations were doomed from the start. It was negotiated by Israeli and Palestinian liberal intellectuals, not particularly representing the tolerance for compromise in their respective communities, on the premise that an undeniable right of Jews to settle in Palestine.

Was wondering, what if next round should start with which parts of pre-1948 Ottoman Palestine should the Palestinians give to an Israeli state, if at all? Just saying 🙄

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/493110-the-oslo-diaries

oatmeal, 8 months ago to GNOME

#gnome #gnome45 truly exciting release … though I wish they’d move faster, and break things as they go :) at least one #Linux DE gets to do that as there are enough reactionary (as in conservative) forks, and Xfce… , to keep users who want things to never change happy.

https://release.gnome.org/45/

oatmeal, 7 months ago to uk

“It’s not just even that they invested in these companies and made dividends off of or got customs revenue, It’s that they were willing to have their brand literally branded into the flesh of people. This was because, at the time, the slave trade was seen as the way to build an empire and the way to make money to funnel money back into the royal pocketbook.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/28/slave-trade-monarchy-uk-archives/
@histodons
#uk #britishmonarchy
#slavery
#colonialism

oatmeal, 5 months ago to random

Did #mullvad remove its Israeli servers, or just for me 🙄​ many Israel sites are still blocking access from outside of Israel still these days.

oatmeal, 4 months ago to emacs

#emacs Trying to install rocm on Fedora 39 was really messy... containerized ollama with# rocm support was relatively easy to get running. Used this recipe from https://github.com/prawilny/ollama-rocm-docker/tree/master... only had to point at another repo for rocm itself, since the one used there does not exist anymore.

RUN git clone --recursive <https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama.git> ollama-rocm &amp;&amp; \  

Was able to pull models in, but it crashes on running any prompt.

#ellama
#amdgpu
#llm
#docker
#podman