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Hit negative spoon territory. Didn't know that was possible. Calling it a night. Hopefully I don't start tomorrow at a defecit.




Just ordered an "inkvent" calendar because apparently they sell out fast. Now I just have to restrain myself from opening it until December. Fortunately I ordered a random sample pack as well, so we have something to keep us occupied in the meantime.
#FountainPens

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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Hope you enjoy it! We've been enjoying them for a few years now. Lovely inks every year, and we always pick our favorites and hope Diamine releases full bottles. It's really fun!
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Cynthia loves masks
thank you, I look forward to what you share.



I think, for the sake of my mental health, I'm going to take a step away from the news and social media for a bit.

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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Use that time instead to connect w/ your affinity group(s). You will need them.






Every time papa cleans and re-inks his pens I must supervise. I don't know why he keeps trying to stop me.

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Broke my #LambdaMOO sushi bar by accidentally going over quota trying to add a requested item to the menu.

Don't have time to fix it at the moment, but I'll take care of it in the next couple days.

Sorry @screwlisp et. al.

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Typesetting question:

I've noticed that in many novels there will be a scene change within a chapter that is marked by a larger than normal gap between two paragraphs. Is there a way to represent this in a #LaTeX document?

in reply to Matthew Skala

@mattskala not internal,, as they are user level commands. But yes, it's part of #TeLaTeX without any package

NewDocumentCommand is the modern replacement of newcommand. (see `texdoc usrguide`)

The hook with OmitIndent allows to set the \noindent for the following paragraph, while \noindent has to be called at the beginning of that paragraph.(`texdoc ltpara-doc¸`)

Online links of the documentation:
texdoc.org/serve/usrguide/0
texdoc.org/serve/ltpara-doc/0

in reply to Marei

@mattskala Oh and I of course I agree there are document class which support that by default. Just sometimes one may not use those or can't or whatever. So I wanted to provide a general option. Of course you should check the documentation of the document class first.

memoir's plainbreak is defined similar. But what I don't like about it, that it does not have a default value for the size. So I'd still define my own \chapterSep to be like \plainbreak{1} to be able to adjust that globally.



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Of course, just as I'm starting to get this cough back under control I had to go and choke on my water again...




Cable Replaced


The failing ethernet cable that's been plaguing the server has finally been replaced. Things should be a lot more stable around here. Sorry for all the issues lately.
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In other news, the Nextcloud server has gone from unusably laggy to just the usual amount of slow.


Just got a notification from F-Droid that my browser ( #Fennec ) has known #security issues. Looks like I'm in the market for a new browser on my mobile devices.

I know I'm gonna hate asking this, but what browser sucks the least on #Android these days?

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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

I saw over on Mastodon that an update is coming soon, so I don't think you need to be in a rush to switch.
in reply to Russ O ❤ 🇺🇦

@Russ O ❤ 🇺🇦 Yeah, I mostly only use the browser on my phone with trustworthy-ish sites, so I'm not in a huge rush. If they fix it before I find an alternative, so much the better.


Does anyone know if #org-mode has a way to specify a repeating scheduled item in UTC time? I have a few of these, and don't want to have to adjust them all when the clock changes. #emacs

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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Maybe a answer : org-mode utc
in reply to lann

@lann This is close to what I'm looking for. Ideally, I'd like to be able to do something like set a property on a headline that says "treat everything in this subtree as UTC".
@lann




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Oh neat, I'm doing the cough-so-hard-I-almost-pass-out thing again. 🙃
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So, for the last few days, #Emacs has been glitching out on me. When I'd try to do certain things, it'd complain about an undefined variable and then just refuse to do the thing I asked it to do. Today, it started doing this when I tried to list the manuals.

I deleted the cache files and restarted it. Everything's fine now. I'm glad it's fixed, but... really?

in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Do you use emacs.desktop files, eg with desktop-save? I've also had strange goings-ons where starting emacs gives errors and even C-x C-c doesn't work. Removing the .emacs.desktop file in use resolves it.
in reply to mocom

@mocom I think this is what broke it.


I think the problem started when I installed the org-mode package from M-x list-packages even though it was already installed via apt. I removed it again, but I think it broke things.

in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

org is a built in package :
  org                            9.5.5          built-in              Outline-based notes management and organizer

So no reason to install it


Our garbage can broke. It's one of those ones with a foot pedal and a soft-close lid. They're normally over $100, so obviously I'd rather fix it than replace it, but the damn thing is deliberately designed not to be repairable.

I've identified the issue though. I'm going to try to design and 3D print a brace to reinforce the broken part. It won't be a pretty fix, but I think it'll work, and it'll be on the underside so nobody will ever see it.

I'll have to get some epoxy to fasten it, though. I hope it works and I don't make it worse.




@buoou Is your Gemini capsule down? I'm getting an error 53.

Maybe it suddenly doesn't like my VPN?

@uoou
in reply to uoou

@buoou There it is.

...wait, you've been awake since Thu 31 Aug 2023 23:45 BST? 🙃

@uoou
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Yup, it's been a long day 😢

Honestly, I have a script that tells me when I should be tired. And it was pulling from that online data. And I was without internet for a while so I made it all offline and forgot to get back to uploading.

Was only really useful for people who can just ask me anyway 😁



TIL that #Emacs' built-in web browser is named eww.

That seems an appropriate name for a web browser, tbh.



One of my favourite marketing weasel words (weasel phrases?) is "clinically studied".

It really means nothing.

"This product has been clinically studied."

"Neat, what results did those studies yield?"

*crickets*

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You know, it says something about the complexity of a program when its help system has a help system.

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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

TBH, most of the moo programming I do is directly through tintin++. I'm considering switching to using emacs as a moo client, but I'd have to find a way to port over the rather heavy customizations I've made to tintin++. Things like managing the sushi bar are done via local scripts.

The org-mode stuff I'm doing right now is kind of separate from moo.

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Why does #Debian's #Emacs package not include the documentation?

Turns out that's in the emacs-common-non-dsfg package... obviously.

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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

because emacs' manual is licensed under dsfg (EDIT: i meant gfdl, lol) which is not free in debian's perspective
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Links to a lot of the background on the many, many discussions that happened around the GFDL and its compatibility with the DFSG:

wiki.debian.org/GFDLHistory



Is there a way to tell org-mode's agenda view not to show completed to-dos and schedule entries that are more than say a week past completion?
#emacs

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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

```
;; to the first question: not to show completed to-dos in agenda view
(setq org-agenda-skip-scheduled-if-done t)
```

#orgmode





I've been an #Emacs user for a long time because it's just what I got used to. I had no particular loyalty to it.

The more I dig into org-mode though, the more I see it as its killer feature though. This alone is enough to keep me from ever switching to another editor.

Please note: if you like another editor better, that's perfectly fine. Use what works for you. For the love of God, I'm not trying to spark an Emacs vs. vim flame war.

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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

org-mode is too slow for me. I load it up like "I have to wait 20 seconds for a file to load? For this?" It's 2024 ffs
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

I keep not-quite fully embracing org-mode because I spend too much time outside of Emacs (e.g. on mobile devices). I probably just need to work out some scripting to dump into an inbox queue.

Plus work being absolutely inflexible about not letting work sync to anything else, though it helps enforce life boundaries. 😀





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It's interesting how often the people who encourage you to "question everything" get upset when you question them.


Since we broke the pens out of storage, Katy's been taking up calligraphy. She's rather good at it too.

Anyhow, I cautioned her against using cheap paper with a #FountainPen because I've found it to be an unpleasant experience. Despite this, she's using a notepad from the dollar store. As it turns out, the paper is surprisingly good quality. No feathering or bleed through whatsoever.

Colour me impressed.

in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

I've used fountain pens on a variety of papers. Cheap American notebooks are usually not bad -- in fact my gripe with them is usually that the ruling is always too dark, the paper itself is okay.
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

generally, Vietnamese paper is pretty good for FPs. Vietnamese paper often shows up in cheap binder notebook paper or composition books, so I’m not surprised that it could show up in a dollar store notepad


So, while there is a #FountainPen community here in the fedi, is there a #teeline community?

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Goodness, this has made me feel a tad nostalgic. I used pitman in my work, but a music journalist flatmate was taught teeline. I wonder if there’s much need for either these days…
in reply to Seven ✨🍂✨

@Seven ✨🍂✨ For me, it's part practical, part just because it's cool. I have ADHD and sometimes my brain runs faster than my hand can write. I tend to type notes, but I don't always have a keyboard handy.

I also like being able to write notes without having someone read over my shoulder... unless of course they happen to be a British journalist, which is unlikely in Canada.



I wonder how much hair pulling would be involved in switching to (and learning) Xmonad...


Is there a #YouTube frontend like #NewPipe that can be run on a #Debian system?

Both Piped and Invidious are pretty much dead now.

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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Well, it looks like FreeTube (as mentioned by a few people) seems to be doing the trick. Thanks for the input, everyone!


Despite having been an #Emacs user for years, I know I've only scratched its surface. I finally decided to start looking into org-mode (I blame @screwlisp for this) and, it's actually pretty damn cool.

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