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So... twice this week now the alarm that reminds me to take one of my meds has gone off, but when I've gone to take the pill, it's already missing from the organizer. No record in my medication log of my having taken it either.
That's... odd.
@Jonathan Lamothe that's incredibly concerning. Both because the lack of log event means you're either sleepwalking, or in a state to not perform a log. And the alarm is likely the trigger. Uh - can you account for theft? Are they worth stealing?
Sorry - that's "my brain goes paranoid" level of fear
@silverwizard No, they're antacids. If someone were going to steal a pill, the ADHD meds were in the same organizer.
There are many benign possibilities. It's possible that when I loaded the organizer, I accidentally put only one of those pills in it (I take two a day). It's possible that since I was late with meds today, I got the schedule wrong, and accidentally took one at the wrong time. These are much more likely.
Still, I'll keep an eye on the situation.
@silverwizard My medication schedule is... complicated. Med X needs to be taken with food. Meds Y and Z can't be taken within two hours of each other. It's like the damn wolf, goat, cabbage problem.
Getting old sucks (though it's preferable to the alternative, I suppose).
So I've solved the mystery.
It's the result of my half-asleep brain taking the wrong pill in the morning—by feel, in the dark, of course—and then failing to log that anything even happened. Problematic, but not so much as the potential reasons that had been proposed.
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Anyone looking for a good deal on a used jet?
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In the year of our Lord, two thousand twenty-six, why are people still getting text encodings wrong?
I love #usenet.
Martino said there is "insufficient evidence" to conclude the five shots the officer fired were unjustified.
I'm sorry, what? Shouldn't the onus be on him to demonstrate that the shots were justified?
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@Jonathan Lamothe I once made a complaint against an office for pulling up to a bus stop at the mall and immediately drawing a taser and attacking a dude.
i got told drawing a weapon in a crowd was SOP and the standard plan for officers.
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😱 mail.gnu.org/archive/html/emac… … but I can't find the source code anymore. big problem. good news: if you update emacs, nnatom should be included.
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@superketchup Right, I started using nnatom in the past few weeks and noticed its part of Gnus now. I've also running Gnus v5.13. Maybe there was no version bump when they brought nnatom in?
I had problems getting nnatom to work. IIRC it does not want http:// or https:// when specifying the server, unlike nnrss.
Just spent almost an hour on the phone with #Primus (my ISP) trying to get them to honour the original deal I had with them.
Long story short: my bill's still going up, but now it's only $2.
Not a deal I would consider fair, but the extra $2 isn't worth my sanity.
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I'm not sure exactly where, but lightning just struck really close by. I didn't even realise it was raining.
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@juliadream Yeah, I looked outside immediately afterward, looking for any obvious signs of a nearby lightning strike, to see that the ground was wet. I couldn't immediately tell if it was actively raining or if it had just done so recently.
Trying to catch my first #Monsterdon, but there seems to be a whole different movie playing first. Is this normal?
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One thing I love about #emacs is that even though the documentation is generally pretty good, in the cases where it's inadequate, it's still really easy to find and step through the relevant source for a feature to find the answer I need.
Over the weekend I was messing around with ibuffer, integrating my custom ibuffer groups with @sanityinc's ibuffer-vc (recommended).
I was surprised to discover that documentation for ibuffer (in since 22.1?) is ... sparsely documented. But it was fun to get it working because the code (and Steve's add-on) is
PERFECTLY LIMPID
(the real story here is that I have been waiting a lifetime to drop the phrase "perfectly limpid" for internet points and here is my opportunity)
GitHub - purcell/ibuffer-vc: Let Emacs' ibuffer-mode group files by git project etc., and show file state
Let Emacs' ibuffer-mode group files by git project etc., and show file state - purcell/ibuffer-vcGitHub
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@jameshowell @sanityinc I also use Ibuffer but I am slightly annoyed that point changes on auto update (in contrast to Buffer-menu-mode). I would like to fix this sometimes.
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@jameshowell @sanityinc Even for few buffers you will see the effect with ibuffer-auto-mode, since point always jumps back to the beginning. Extremely annoying or I am doing something wrong...
@minad My annoyance with ibuffer:
The filter groups are defined as a list (of lists), which (per the definition of list) has an order.
That order determines the logic of which buffers get assigned to which groups. That order also determines the order in which those groups get displayed.
Sometimes I want those orderings to be different. Which would require two lists.
Each element already has a name string, so a display-order list could reference elements in the filter-order list. But that gets complicated when some of the elements are generated dynamically, like from ibuffer-vc.
This annoyance is probably not worthy of the effort to rewrite the package with a different abstraction. Especially not the effort to do so without introducing breaking changes.
@jameshowell @minad @sanityinc I’ve found buffler (github.com/alphapapa/bufler.el) fits my needs well.
GitHub - alphapapa/bufler.el: A butler for your buffers. Group buffers into workspaces with programmable rules, and easily switch to and manipulate them.
A butler for your buffers. Group buffers into workspaces with programmable rules, and easily switch to and manipulate them. - alphapapa/bufler.elGitHub
@bmp @jameshowell @sanityinc Yes, bufler looks nice! Alphapapa has many great packages. But I have slightly different preferences regarding dependencies and library usage. In addition to bufler I would have to install these libraries: burly, dash, f, hydra, lv, pretty-hydra and s. This is pretty large footprint. I care about this for multiple reasons - supply chain issues and consistency on the Elisp level. To be clear, this should not matter much for most users.
@bmp @jameshowell @sanityinc @pkal I am by no means a package minimalist - I have many packages installed and I suggest that people take advantage of our large ecosystem. However I differentiate between packages on the user level and the library level. On the library level my preference is to rely on Emacs builtins for basic functionality (instead of dash, f or s). If crucial library functionality is missing it can be added to subr.el and then ported back via Compat.
@bmp @jameshowell @sanityinc @pkal Unfortunately it turns out that adding new functionality to subr.el sometimes leads to long emacs-devel discussions with little progress. Not all additions are not welcome, like the recently discussed file-to-string function. These are the gaps which are then filled by libraries like dash, f or s.
Agreed. I think the point to stress here is that users can decide. Hydra, for example, always struck me as relatively bloated, buggy, and a little too idiosyncratic with respect to (at least my mental models of) Emacs internal and UI conventions. But obviously it was very popular! Let a thousand flowers bloom. Cherish the Four Freedoms 😀
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@jameshowell Actually I found Hydra pretty good and simple. It is a smaller variant of Transient. But given that Transient is now the standard why not rely on it? I agree with you that users should decide and I want to emphasize that on the user level the underlying libraries do not matter.
@bmp @me @sanityinc @pkal
@bmp @me @sanityinc @pkal
@James Endres Howell @Steve Purcell @Bharath M. Palavalli @Philip @Daniel Mendler That's the beauty of Emacs: if you don't like it, it's infinitely customizable, and you can massage it into something you do like (assuming you're willing to do some digging).
There's also something to be said for an out-of-the-box solution that's close enough. I just prefer the former.
@minad @jameshowell @sanityinc @pkal I haven’t gotten to the point of discerning between packages based on such criteria:-), I’ve been relying on packages that help provide the functionality I need. Maybe, sometime in the future I’ll start a screening process before I use them!
Okay, I need to do a hacky #elisp thing. Yes, I know it's terrible.
Basically, I have an existing defun. Let's call it foo. I need to replace it with a new function that calls the old one and transforms its output before returning it.
I naïvely assumed I could do it like this:
(let ((oldfunc (function foo)))
(defun foo ()
(my-transform (funcall oldfunc))))...but this doesn't actually copy the old function, just a reference to the symbol, so it ends up locking itself in a recursive loop.
I'm sure there's a way to do this.
#AskFedi
Edit: Got it. It's:
(let ((oldfunc (symbol-function 'foo)))
(defun foo ()
(my-transform (funcall oldfunc))))Edit 2: It turns out there's a cleaner way still.
See: aus.social/@carlozancanaro/116…
Also, there's still something Gmail isn't liking. Looking at the differences in the headers between emacs and my other clients (whose mail does get through), the next most obvious difference is that the Content-Type header doesn't specify an encoding. Whether this is the actual problem or not, I should probably fix that. I'm just working on how.
The usual way to do this would be to "advise" the function with an "around" advice. gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/…
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Of course there's a question about your underlying logic lurking here: Why don't you just define a new function that calls the old function and transforms its output and then just call the new function.
Transforming the output of an existing function risks breaking all other callers of that function.
@Greg A. Woods Because it's not a function I ever actually call directly, and it's buried pretty deep in the internals.
I have the same issue with @Tutanota : my emails never make it to some recipients. I’ve never sent a single spam on my life. The only factor I was able to isolate is that anything going to Gmail or a Google-managed address doesn’t make it, which I assume means it was caught in some spam filters. But it’s not the only factor. I just haven’t figured out what makes it so I can’t write to some other addresses.
It’s really a PITA, forcing me to keep another email.
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@Celeste Ryder 🐾 🐀🏳️🌈 @Tuta The weird thing is that it works if I use any other client. I'm still trying to figure out what the problem is. When I find it in my spam box and I click "why is this marked as spam" it says that it's there because it resembles other messages that have been marked as spam.
In other words: we put it in spam because we thought it looked like spam, which is... unhelpful.
I'm 90% certain I know what's going on. What I don't know is if it's something malicious on Google's part, or of it's some machine learning algorithm that's not liking something in the headers.
I'm now one of those weirdos who reads his mail with #emacs.
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You might want to try Wanderlust -- I find it very useful for email handling.
On the other hand I must admit I never really liked GNUS, even for Usenet.
Finally got aroind to signing up for an eternal-september account.
God, I'd forgotten how toxic the #StarTrek fan base can be.
That said, #usenet as a whole seems to be a magnet for toxicity in general.
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Eating kimbap for the first time since the '90s. It tastes just like I remember. 😀
This is what I like to tell people when they tell me they learned something from an LLM:
Pick an obscure subject about which you know a great deal. Now ask an LLM a bunch of questions on that subject and see how long it takes it to give you a wrong answer. Now ask yourself if someone who didn't know the subject as well as you do would have caught that mistake.
Finally, ask yourself: do you still trust the LLM?
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I fear this approach will eventually prove less and less effective with younger generations if LLMs become the de-facto means of learning things in the first place.
One of these days, I'll figure this whole #Monsterdon thing out. I mean, I get the general concept, but I never know what movie everyone is watching and when.
I'm always reminded as it seems to be in progress.
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I always have a moment if hesitation pressing the "share" button when I use an em dash in a post, lest soneone think I'm using so-called AI to compose my posts.
I guess the typo that escaped my proofreading will probably help to dispel that myth.
Edit: I just noticed the typo in this post. Screw it. I'm keeping it in.
You know, it's not 'till you start doing closed captioning or transcription that you start to realise how prone people are to using bizarre, clumsy sentence structure in their everyday speech.
Working on a transcript of a deposition for work and thought I'd make myself a nice healthy snack for while I work: some apple slices.
This turned out to be a bad idea. I'm sitting with my headset on, trying to make out what's being said in the recording, and all I can hear is: crunch, crunch, crunch!
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You know, I don't understand this "homelab" concept. To me, it's just the way I've been doing computing since I had access to a DSL connection in the early '00s.
Why would I want to make myself dependent on someone else's infrastructure?
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...and once again, the water's been shut off without warning. I wonder for how long this time.
Is there a way in #emacs #org-mode to next quote blocks? The following doesn't seem to work.
#+begin_quote
This is a quote.
#+begin_quote
This is a quote within the quote.
#+end_quote
#+end_quoteEmacs is ignoreing the second #+begin_quote and just closing the quote block at the first #+end_quote.
Edit: So the solution I settled on was putting the nested quote in a drawer named :quote:. it's not an ideal solution, but for my purposes in this case it's... fine, I guess.
God help me if I ever need three levels of nesting.
Maybe this:
emacs.stackexchange.com/a/1703…
exporting org-mode nested blocks to html
Is there a way to convince org-mode to export nested blocks as nested elements? This would be really cool to handle nested quotes in html emails with mu4e. #+BEGIN_QUOTE hey ho #+Emacs Stack Exchange
@Greg A. Woods It's an ugly hack, but comes closer than anything else I've seen so far, though I'd like to be able to export to more than just HTML. I like to pretend HTML doesn't exist where possible. 🙃
So, somebody has registered an #LLM bot as a player on #LambdaMOO. I've banned it from the areas that I control, but can't ban it from public spaces.
How might I best go about messing with it? So far, I've just been feeding it lies when it asks me questions.
I've also already slipped a sign in its inventory that identifies it as as an LLM to anyone who happens to look at it.
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If you read *chatter, I plan to put a note about this in the welcome page AFTER April 1 is over.
I'm also planning to write to the bot and tell it about that.
I have secret knowledge and so I found its email address noted in some blog posts as nosing about on other social media adjacent sites.
Why is it that the same people who complain about "cancel culture" so often also embrace the ideology of "go woke, go broke"?
Does anyone happen to know if there's an easy way to get #emacs's nov.el package to display text using the #OpenDyslexic font? I was hoping there was a customization variable, but it seems not.
Perhaps I could run it in a terminal editor and change the terminal's font, but then I'd lose things like images.
I can hack something together if I really need to, I'd just rather not if there's a simpler solution available.
Edit: I was able to do this through M-x customize-face
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As it happens, I was changing font on #Emacs just yesterday. M-x menu-set-font will open a font browser and let you choose, and it works. You can also select this from the 'Options' menu.
This however isn't 'sticky' -- next time you start emacs it will have reverted.
I found that
(set-frame-font "OpenDyslexic")
in my init.el works to change it persistently.
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@simon_brooke There's an entry in the Options menu somewhere to save your settings after you have done M-x menu-set-font
nov seems to use shr to render text, and that uses the variable-pitch face unless nov-variable-pitch is set to nil (in which case it just uses the default face.
So if you customize the variable-pitch face you should be in business!
Spent an embarrassing amount of time today looking for my glasses.
They were on my face.
You'd think that the fact that I could see would've tipped me off, but no.
the next level is looking for contacts you're wearing
Something I've never done I swear...
@Anna Liberty This is a thing I will never need to worry about. Contacts freak me the hell out.
You want me to put that in my eyeball!?
Hard pass.
So, I've started a new job. In said job, I'm editing a document which I've spent a couple hours working on. This is all being done in a browser.
I reach a point where I want to search backward through the text for a name, so my #emacs brain says, "Easy peasey, that's just C-r", which I press... reloading the page.
It's at this point I have a minor heart attack, and consider myself lucky that their web app frequently saves my work.
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It's a shame so much of the web relies on JavaScript these days. Otherwise, you could have used eww, and it would have done what you wanted!
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Started my new job today. 😎
Why is it that my sunglasses can be smudged and I really don't give a shit, but I get one tiny piece of dust on my regular glasses and it drives me bananas?
@RobJE Yeah, I've got some heavy customizations. I put off the upgrades as long as possible because they give me anxiety. 🫠
To satisfy my own curiosity, what kind of customizations?
Upgrades break in weird ways when combining out of repository packages (franken debian) and changes to files that are in packages and not flagged as configuration are overwritten. Changed configuration files will generate a what to do prompt. AFAIK all other files are untouched.
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