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I’m into Emacs, Org, Linux and Free Software, Photography and Jogging. For anything non tech I use @oatmeal

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oatmeal, to emacs
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/ 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 , 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, to emacs
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I find org-sliced-image hilarious... it works incredibly well, but its raison d'être is somewhat questionable, I guess.

Anyway, it improves the unpleasant experience of scrolling the content of a buffer which has visible images. No images are harmed in the making of the buffer more fluid...

https://github.com/jcfk/org-sliced-images

oatmeal, to emacs
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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, to internet
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How many more of these stories are needed to make people realize they need to leave X and make it irrelevant?

[…] While X does have a policy around sharing private information, the company’s terms of service on March 20 did not mention a policy related to outing the identity of an anonymous user, and Benarroch did not respond to a request for clarification. On March 21, after WIRED published this story, X updated its privacy policy to specifically prohibit posting the ”the identity of an anonymous user, such as their name or media depicting them.”

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-x-blocked-journalists-researchers-neo-nazi-cartoonist/

#X

oatmeal, to MLS
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I wish would have a clear and consistent direction, and commit to it. Discontinuing services like Mozilla Location Services () is disappointing, and very google-like. IMHO developing privacy-respecting alternatives to existing commercial APIs should be precisely where their focus lies considering how quickly they’re loosing market share with ... 🤷🏽‍♂️

[…] Developers and 3rd-party projects that use to detect a users’ location, such as the freedesktop.org location framework , which is used by apps like Maps and Weather, have only a few months left to continue using the service.

https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065 via @hyperreal

oatmeal, to emacs
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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.





oatmeal, to orgmode
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I think this might be useful when tracking tasks in files and not having to worry about how many there are, at least theoretically.

This package aims to dynamically update the =org-agenda-files= variable by appending/deleting a candidate org file when it is saved. This limits the number of files to visit when building the agenda. The agenda buffer thus builds faster.

https://git.sr.ht/~ngraves/org-agenda-files-track/tree/master/item/README.org

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

oatmeal, to climate
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“White men (as we’re called here) are often referred to as giaman [liars or fraudsters in Tok pidgin, the local language], I don’t want to giaman.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/04/climate-scientist-faces-sack-for-refusing-to-fly-to-germany-from-solomon-islands-archipelago



oatmeal, to Bangladesh
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“By that point in 2018, ’s military had murdered thousands of people, including babies and children, and beaten, raped, tortured, starved, and imprisoned thousands more. About three-quarters of a million Rohingya had fled Myanmar to live in huge, disease-infested refugee camps in . And Meta? By that point, had been receiving detailed and increasingly desperate warnings about ’s role as an accelerant of genocidal propaganda in Myanmar for six years.”
https://mas.to/@kissane/111149747060275710

oatmeal, to uk
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“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


oatmeal, to random
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… 🫢

oatmeal, to GNOME
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truly exciting release … though I wish they’d move faster, and break things as they go :) at least one 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, to histodons
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@histodons @israel @palestine re-watching “The Oslo Diaries” (2018), there’s a feeling of missed opportunity shared by many liberals, both Israeli and : 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, to random
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The irony of and ...

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

Zionist leader Arthur Ruppin: German 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 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, to tv
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yes these spin-offs are getting ridiculous, but it’s too hot to worry about that 📺

oatmeal, to github
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Ghosting and improving usability while at it with
via @bins

https://codeberg.org/gothub/gothub

oatmeal, to emacs
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Very rude awakening using 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, to emacs
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In this video Prot show’s how to customise the Emacs mode line (the mode-line-format) to make it more useful and pretty.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Qf_DLPIA9Cs

oatmeal, to palestinian
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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, to emacs
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help needed testing org-remark’s new nov-mode () support https://github.com/nobiot/org-remark/issues/66

“The dev branch contains a lot of refactoring. I have been trying my best to make this change as smooth as possible for existing Org-remark users. I believe there is no break changes in the eye of users. My tests have been good so far. My old notes file work with no adjustments.”

oatmeal, to random
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Wondering if others are facing issue tooting from 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, to emacs
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Build your own with ... as a split frame, where every window has a buffer with one of 's timelines, tags etc. Leveraging Emacs' abilty to further split w a window hichever way one might prefer. I set this as a seperate tab, to which I can switch when I need to.

Drafting and researching in emacs, while tooting or searching from the same UI, is incredibly efficient. The second screenshot shows 's built-in lookup service used to search the thing-at-point/selection from within a mastodonel buffer, as I would from any buffer.

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oatmeal, to UX
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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 and GUI: https://andreyor.st/posts/2023-07-11-emacs-gui-library/

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

oatmeal, to mastodon
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