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onpoli, healthcare, security breach

Just got a letter in the mail that our healthcare information may have been compromised in a potential data breach. The hospital was very adamant that it wasn't their system that was compromised, but the systems of a third-party contractor used by the province.

Dear government, I take great pains to secure our personal systems. Can you please stop authorizing deals to hand over our sensitive information to sketchy third-party contractors without our consent? It's your responsibility to vet them. You don't just get to wash your hands of it when they inevitably screw it up.

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@Krit To be honest, I've always been a little intimidated by Krita. Sooo many tools and buttons and widgets and options. I look at the work of @David Revoy, and think, "I could never do that!"

Then I finally just started playing with it, and it's actually not half bad.

Am I doing things the "right" way? Probably not. In fact I'm doing things I know my high school art teacher forbade back while I was in school. When he gets into my head though, I just tell him, "shut up! This is a digital medium and the rules are different."

@David Revoy @Krit
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here are my favorite chess strategies:

- eating the opponent's pieces while they aren't looking
- the "pawn on a string" trick
- putting the opponent's pieces upside down so they can't identify them as easily
- hiding monopoly money up my sleeve
- playing on a very slight incline so the pieces slowly slide off the board
- knight dupe glitch
- arbitrary code execution via pawn placement and null piece reference
- bribing the opponent with a $20 bill to throw the match
- putting worms on the board
- putting superglue on some spaces so the opponent's pieces get stuck
- cheating
- intentionally underdeveloping residential spaces to keep demand high, ensuring steady population growth over time
- bringing an atari 2600 and a copy of video chess so i can just copy its moves
- using nucelar pressure to secure a draw
- threatening the opponent's family

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I know it's a little late to cash in on the #caturday points, but here's another drawing I did of @Benny in #Krita. This time, in addition to cell shading, I also threw in some highlights. Also, this time his rear end isn't featured.
Drawing of a brown and white cat in a blue tunnel with a yellow spiral trim. He is laying comfortably, looking toward the viewer, with his two front paws outstretched in front of him.
#caturday #krita @Benny

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Aral Balkan

@bitcrush_io Alt text: r/vibecoding
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vibe coded for 6 months. my codebase is a disaster.
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the app works. users are happy. revenue is coming in. (that's actually the only good part)
but i just tried to onboard a dev to help me and he opened the repo and went quiet for like 2 minutes. then said "what is this."
6 months of cursor and lovable and bolt. every feature worked when i shipped it. but nobody was thinking about structure. the Al just kept adding. new file here, duplicate function there, 3 different ways to handle the same thing across the codebase.
tried to refactor it myself last week. gave up after 2 hours. the thing is so tangled that touching one part breaks something completely unrelated.
the generation was fast. the cleanup is a nightmare.
is there even a way out of this or do i just rewrite everything from scratch?
@bitcrush.io

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Decided to dust off my copy of #Krita and play around with #drawing again. This is my current work-in-progress. I'm pretty happy with how it's turning out considering I'm pretty much a novice.
Line drawing of my cat, Benny, laying on his cat climber by the window. The angle is from beneath, and only his rear end and one paw hanging down are visible.
#drawing #krita

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mutual aid

Sensitive content

#mutualaid
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Jonathan Lamothe

@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
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If you are thinking about running your blogpost through an AI editor, don't! It almost always makes it more boring.

Whatever you have to say is what you had to say anyway. Just say that, you don't need more. And the mistakes are perfectly fine.

I spell check once, proofread once, then publish. When people point out errors, it makes me feel good, because it means people are reading what I write, and I correct it then.

I'd rather have your charming acoustic-performance words, even if you make mistakes! I love mistakes in writing. Rustic and cozy.

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Szescstopni

Rustic approach is great. In our real rural life things are not always perfect. If a dining plate appears generally clean we put it in with other clean plates, we don't examine it with a microscope. Some sand and dog hair on the floor is OK unless it's really not. When there's some speck somewhere we just say 'rustic' and keep on going.
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"The Devil Went Down To Georgia" says that the Devil was "in a bind because he was way behind and he was willing to make a deal", suggesting that Satan Himself - note that the song specifies "the Devil", not "a devil" - has monthly quotas and faces consequences for not meeting those quotas. From this we can infer the existence of a greater and more sinister being capable of imposing KPIs on Satan Himself, suggesting in turn that KPIs themselves are the product of something more evil than Satan.
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There is a Fediverse alternative to Substack called Ghost. It allows you to host blogs and newsletters in a very similar way to Substack, but it has much less problematic management and you can host your own Ghost-powered site if you want to.

Lots more info about Ghost in the guide at:

โžก๏ธ fedi.tips/ghost-blogs-and-newsโ€ฆ

Would also highly recommend the article by @molly0xfff which outlines the advantages of Ghost over Substack:

โžก๏ธ citationneeded.news/substack-tโ€ฆ

#FediTips #Ghost #Substack #Alternatives

Migrating from Substack to self-hosted Ghost: the details

I migrated Citation Needed from Substack to self-hosted Ghost. Here is exactly how I did that.
Molly White (Citation Needed)
#FediTips #Alternatives #substack #ghost @Molly White

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I've been using #Emacs's #Gnus for news/mail/RSS, but for whatever reason it's having trouble subscribing to ATOM feeds (RSS is fine). I seem to be missing the nnatom backend. Is there something special I need to do to add it?
#AskFedi
#askfedi #emacs #gnus
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James Endres Howell

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.com/purcell/ibuffer-vc

#emacs #ibuffer

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-vc
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#emacs #ibuffer @Steve Purcell
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Daniel Mendler

@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.

debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.โ€ฆ

#77210 - 30.1.50; ibuffer - preserve window position when updating - GNU bug report logs

debbugs.gnu.org
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James Endres Howell

@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.

@me @sanityinc

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Bharath M. Palavalli

@jameshowell @minad @sanityinc Iโ€™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.el
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Daniel Mendler

@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.
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Daniel Mendler

@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.
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Daniel Mendler

@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.
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James Endres Howell

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 ๐Ÿ˜€

@bmp @me @sanityinc @pkal

@Jonathan Lamothe @Steve Purcell @Bharath M. Palavalli @pkal
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Daniel Mendler

@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
@Jonathan Lamothe @Steve Purcell @Bharath M. Palavalli @James Endres Howell @pkal
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Jonathan Lamothe

@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.

@Steve Purcell @Bharath M. Palavalli @James Endres Howell @pkal @Daniel Mendler
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Bharath M. Palavalli

@minad @jameshowell @sanityinc @pkal I havenโ€™t gotten to the point of discerning between packages based on such criteria:-), Iโ€™ve been relying on packages that help provide the functionality I need. Maybe, sometime in the future Iโ€™ll start a screening process before I use them!
@Steve Purcell @James Endres Howell @pkal @Daniel Mendler

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elisp help

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 naรฏvely 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/116โ€ฆ

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.

Carlo Zancanaro

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The usual way to do this would be to "advise" the function with an "around" advice. gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/โ€ฆ

gnu.org

Advising Functions (GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual)
www.gnu.org
#askfedi #elisp

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Celeste Ryder ๐Ÿพ ๐Ÿ€๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ

I have the same issue with @Tutanota : my emails never make it to some recipients. Iโ€™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 doesnโ€™t make it, which I assume means it was caught in some spam filters. But itโ€™s not the only factor. I just havenโ€™t figured out what makes it so I canโ€™t write to some other addresses.

Itโ€™s really a PITA, forcing me to keep another email.

@Tuta
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Jonathan Lamothe

@Celeste Ryder ๐Ÿพ ๐Ÿ€๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ @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.

@Tuta @Celeste Ryder ๐Ÿพ ๐Ÿ€๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ
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@autistics

Dear non-autistic folk, AKA (also known as) allistic's. It's that time of the year again. Autism awareness month. That time when you can become aware of autistic's, raise some money and generally show your worth by acknowledging, if nothing else, our existence. Good on you. Although, I suppose it may come as a bit of a shock to know that we don't actually want awareness.

Awareness can and has been historically, "look at their difference," closely followed by "stone them, burn them, they're a witch". Or, being left to die alone in the woods, because they think that you are a changeling and have taken their beloved child. Or simply hearing someone telling a parent, or carer, "Oh, look at them, they are so special. That must be so hard for you, looking after them, I couldn't possibly do that". Or from someone, "but you don't look autistic, I know what autism looks like" and dying a little more inside. Not to mention, in this day and age especially, that we often have minds that see the patterns of the future writ large upon the wall in blood and knowing it will be our blood if the wrong people are only just aware of us and want to use that politically.

So no, we don't want awareness. Awareness is, at best, thinking that you know us, that you can see us. Awareness is feeling good about acknowledging our existence, not our lives. What we want and need is understanding. Understanding that we are different, not less than, or greater. That our minds and senses and bodies work differently to yours. That we have different needs and abilities and challenges. That the world you have made, is, in so many ways, difficult, if not impossible for us and that it is the reason why we so often struggle, or can't cope and not because we are deficient in some way. That we are not missing something (which is why most of us hate the puzzle symbol), or broken, or anything other than just different.

A difference that can't be seen from the outside looking in. By studying us from your point of view, or judging us by your standards. It has to be explained and understood by us telling and showing you. By us sharing our experiences, and knowledge and understanding. By working with us and not in spite of us. Because as minorities have called for throughout the ages, there should be nothing about us, without us, not if you want anything to be in any way meaningful, or true.

Only by truly understanding this. By learning to listen and value our opinions and stories, will you begin to understand and finally grow into where we really need you to be. Accepting us and not just aware of us. Accepting us truly as we are, in all our variety and complexity and not just thinking that you do. So enough of awareness month. Perhaps aim for something better.

#Autism
#ActuallyAutistic
#Audhd

#actuallyautistic #autism #AuDHD @Actually Autistics
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Alex Lloyd ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ

Hello Kevin. Persons who aren't autistic don't generally think about autistic persons.

I'm not a wheelchair user and I rarely consider if a building has appropriate access for persons who use wheelchairs. It took government legislation to force architects, businesses, etc., to become aware of the needs of persons who use wheelchairs. It took awareness, campaigning, political lobbying, to force through changes, and our society now perceives wheelchair users differently than they did in 1960s. Wheelchair users now occupy positions in society that they wouldn't if society hadn't started to make accommodations to meet their needs.

Surely the first step is to raise awareness of our existence. As we raise awareness, we educate, we inform, we increase understanding. We slowly and gradually take society on a journey to understand that autistic persons (persons with autism), we are there, around them, working alongside them, living alongside them, loving alongside them. But as with physically differently-abled persons with a need for things like accommodation for chairs, etc., we also need accommodations to allow us to live on equal terms with neurotypical persons who outnumber us.

Just my opinion, for what it's worth. Other opinions are available. Have a great evening. Take care. ๐Ÿ™‚

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LLM thoughts

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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20 minutes from home, Rideau Acres.rideauacres.com/

Rideau Acres Campground | Kingston Ontario

Rideau Acres: Family campground in Kingston on Rideau Canal with heated pool, boat rentals, beach, hiking trails, and banquet hall for weddings and activities.
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In conversation, someone mentioned not understanding AI because software engineers working on it were so bad at talking to lay folks about it.

I need to staple a transcript of that conversation to the door of everyone who does not yet understand that poorly communicating about science or engineering opens room for quacks to imitate jargon and co-opt credibility.

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Anarchist Trans Ace Pirate

I don't know if you're a podcast person but this episode is directly related to this thread. especially the last 5-10 minutes

bloodwork.podbean.com/e/the-faโ€ฆ

The Facilitators: On Engineers w/ Gareth Dennis & Justin Roczniak | Blood Work

Gareth and Rocz join Gregk to account for the many crimes of modernityโ€™s slow, silent killers โ€“ engineers, technicians, and urban planners.
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Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen

what does he actually DO? going by the tech headlines, Sam Altman's entire existence is devoted to making press appearances and speeches at trade shows and the like, presumably with a collection plate on hand, hoping to gather yet more investments to offset OpenAI's staggering losses. Does Sam Altman have a skill? He brags about dropping out of college to become a "founder" (i.e. someone who begs for investments.)
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The playbook's the same:

Industry harms people โ†’ regulators don't touch industry โ†’ individuals get surveilled instead

Kids exposed to addictive products? Scan everyone's face. Kids on social media? Scan everyone's face. Zero accountability for companies. Maximum surveillance for everyone else.

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Reminder for those who may not be aware that those "fancy/custom text" things using special unicode characters that bypass ASCII fonts to make your name look cool or fancy or whatever ruin accessibility, like hard.

They break screen readers hard, since most, if not all, don't know how to handle them properly and end up pronouncing something like "Special character S" or whatever. They're also significantly harder to read than a user's chosen font, or the default fonts on any reasonable operating system or website, especially for neurodivergent and in particular dyslexic people.

Please stop using them, and maybe nudge your friends to stop using them.

Boosts appreciated for awareness

#Accessibility #FancyFonts #Neurodivergent #Boostswelcome

#accessibility #neurodivergent #boostswelcome #fancyfonts
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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_quote

Emacs 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.

#emacs #org-mode

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