posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely?
Hereโs how Apple โPermanentlyโ locked my Apple ID. I am writing this as a desperate measure. After nearly 30 years as a loyal customer, authoring technical books on Appleโs own programming languages (Objective-C and Swift), and spending tens upon tenโฆDr Paris Buttfield-Addison (hey.paris)
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I've been playing around with keymaps. Apparently they can be used to create menus that give the user a visual list of options. The canonical way to make them is aparently with make-sparse-keymap to create the menu and define-key to add options to it, but this causes some confusing behaviour.
Take the following example:
(let ((menu (make-sparse-keymap "My menu")))
(define-key menu "a"
'(menu-item "Foo" foo))
(define-key menu "b"
'(menu-item "Bar" bar))
menu)(keymap (98 menu-item "Bar" bar) (97 menu-item "Foo" foo) "My menu")Now, I understand that the nature of lists in lisp make inserting an element at the top of the list less computationally expensive, but when you've already got to walk the whole list anyway to ensure the key binding isn't already present, this no longer feels like an adequate excuse.
Am I missing something?
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Define key is my least favorite way to make a keymap.
I like defvar-keymap, bind-keys, if you've got a map create already. Like a sparce map.
General is nice too. But then you have to have that installed.
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M-x function calls because I had such a hard time finding key sequences that weren't used by something else. Since learning that C-c /[A-Za-z]/ is reserved for user-defined keybindings, I've gone mad with power.reshared this
C-z suspends Emacs and drops me back to the terminal until I issue the fg command to bring it back. I use this for issuing git commands. I could probably do this from within Emacs, but I haven't bothered to figure it out.
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@Zenie That's an option, but my concern is that the reason they might be vague in the docs is because the specific error might change in future versions.
Perhaps I'm just being overly paranoid.
#PSA: Calling someone cringe is cringe.
Just let folx like stuff 
Don't try to blow out someone else's candle because yours is dim.
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I've long known that certain ASCII control sequences could be mimicked by holding control and pressing a key, e.g.: backspace is CTRL-H, newline is CTRL-J, but I was today years old when I learned that the ASCII control code is just the ASCII value of the key being pressed along with control bitwise and-ed with 0x1f.
It feels weird that I hadn't caught onto this sooner.
Welp, it looks like our Instacart account is probably cooked. We need to find a replacement for that income quickly.
Fortunately, we were already in the process of trying to do that because of the wear and tear it was putting on the car. I have a few irons in the fire, but nothing concrete yet. We need something we can do on an on-demand basis so that we can work when our mental health permits.
I'm notoriously bad at interviewing for jobs. It always involves some element of exaggerating the truth (a.k.a. lying) which I suck at. It turns out for instance that the honest answer to "why do you want to work here?" (so I don't starve and end up homeless) isn't a good answer. ๐
Looks like we've officially been fired from Instacart. It was the customer's word against ours. In the long run, this is probably a good thing as it was slowly killing our car with all the mileage it was putting on it. It was never meant to be a permanent solution anyway.
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My partner has been dealing with $condition for a very long time. In that time we have tried many therapies and medications without much success. We have found $medication_a which actually helps, but causes $side_effect which is not sustainable. Fortunately, we've found $medication_b which makes $side_effect tolerable.
She's been on a waiting list to see a specialist for a while and finally had her first appointment today. After a single 30 minute appointment, his solution was to increase $medication_a while completely stopping $medication_b. When she objected about $side_effect (which she'd already told him was the reason for $medication_b) he said to just do $obvious_thing as though we hadn't tried that already.
What's worse is that he faxed the order to our pharmacy canceling her previous prescriptions.
Of course, I am not a doctor but what the hell is this guy thinking??
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I think I've been able to pin down what it is that I like about #Emacs so much. When I first started using computers, I was using a TRS-80. If you didn't have a cartridge inserted, It'd boot directly into BASIC where you could program the machine directly. That wasn't a bug, it was a feature.
Modern computing seems to do its best to hide all that stuff away. Everything is treated more like a simple (albeit specialized) appliance, not a powerful machine that can be made to do literally anything you want. Instead, it's about what the various software vendors want it to do.
Emacs by contrast not only gives you all the tools you need to modify it in any way you want, but actively encourages you to do so. It feels a lot more like the computing systems of old. Perhaps that's not for everyone. There's a reason computers were so niche back in the early days. Most people just didn't care to learn what was going on under the hood, and that's valid. There's something to be said for a tool that just works effortlessly out of the box. Also, to be clear, you don't strictly speaking need to dig into the internals to use Emacs, but I prefer for my technology to serve me, and I'm willing to put the effort in to make that happen.
That's why it's a good fit for me.
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๐ถ AMBIENT MUSIC EVENT ๐ถ
Second Unitarian Church of Omaha
3012 S.119th St.
Doors at 7, show starts at 8pm
FREE
#livemusic, #ambient, #music
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Welp, I guess it's finally time to retire my jacket. I keep fixing it and it keeps tearing in other places. I got four years out of it, which isn't terrible by modern standards, I suppose.
It turns out they still sell that exact same style of jacket, so maybe Santa will be nice to me this Christmas. In the meantime, I'll just have to fall back on my older coat and just layer sweaters and such underneath.
I use a giant #org-mode repisitory to keep myself organized. I synchronize this repisitory between multiple devices using #git because occasionally I'll find myself out without an internet connection and it's useful for merging when they fall out of sync.
To that end, I frequently find myself issuing the command git commit -am stuff, which makes me feel kind of dirty, but it's just the easiest thing to do.
Luckily no one but me will ever see this repisitory.
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I've now seen two separate YouTubers refer to obscure stories from their past as " the lore".
I mean, really??
So I cancelled my YouTube Music subscription a while back. Interestingly enough, it still works without a paid subscription; they just add anti-features (i.e.: a ton of ads and the inability to navigate away from the app without stopping the music).
As it turns out, all these anti-features go away if you use it through a browser with an ad-blocker. I wonder how long it'll take them to lock that down.
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You could try package-build-create-recipe
It will need to be filled in, but if your headers are correct, with author, packages-required, version, etc.
Edit the recipe for your git. You'll be in recipe mode.
Saving it puts it in .../elpa/recipes/
Building it with C-c C-c will make a package and install it in your elpa..
That might teach you what you need.
It will automatically pick up .el and .texi files.
Not eld, but if you have some odd file, you can add the pattern to the recipe. I have an eld which is not in the list of automatic files.
See the contributing doc at GitHub Melpa.
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You want something like this?
See the link to elpa-deploy halfway down.
We've all heard the tale of how to own a Nazi bar, i'm fairly sure.
I was drumming up interest in a local board game group i really enjoy, on my local queer Discord server. I got some interest.
Someone on the board games group's server asked "why did you make a point about us being queer friendly?" Not rudely, just curious.
"Because a lot of community groups are invisibly closed to us. We daren't reveal ourselves because of antipathy to queer folk. This place doesn't do that, at all. So i tell people it's safe, and they feel more comfy coming along."
Someone said, "Oh, so it's like the Nazi bar story, only good." I thought for a moment, and they're right. Sort of. Because unlike Nazis, queer folk aren't an invasive species. We don't push people out. Assholes just self-select choosing not to be associated with a bar that's queer-friendly.
Which is fine, system working as designed.
So...how do we tell the tale of the Queer-friendly bar, and the positive feedback loop that can occur when a business is explicitly friendly to queer folk?
Cause I think that could be a simple, true, and effective point about the great difference between choosing to be nice to Nazis instead of queer folk. Or vice versa, being nice to queers and bum-rushing the Nazis.
The Nazi Bar story is one we all know. Anyone got a proposal for how to do a good tale of how the bar got so lively? "Oh, I bought a drink for this gay fella once, and soon there were loads. But they're great guys, and if ya tell them no, they stop bugging ya, which is giving me weird feelings about how I treat women. And we get a lot fewer assholes, too."
Someone? Got a seed for the good story lurking here? I wanna make us some rippin' good properganda.
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When I lived in San Francisco, once I was wandering around the city and I was hungry so I went into the nearest place that was advertising lunch.
They had really good burgers.
*Years* later I looked the place up and found out it was the neighborhood's gay bar.
I just accidentally dropped my Jinhao 10 #FountainPen and bent the nib slightly (at least it wasn't an expensive pen, right?).
I did my best to bend it back into shape by hand and oddly enough, I kind of like the way it writes now better than before.
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It's been brought to my attention that while #BuyNothing groups are pretty useful, they tend to exist mainly on Facebook. It'd be nice to have such a group for #WaterlooRegion here on the fedi as well.
I'd be happy to set one up, but if there's one that already exists, I'd rather use that than start from scratch. Is anyone aware of such a group here?
#KWAwesome #WRAwesome #Kitchener #Waterloo #Cambridge #Guelph
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FWIW, while Iโm not what a # BuyNothing group talks about, the local KW Techs Slack team has a # buylocalandcanadian channel that has great recommendations for local and more-broadly Canadian products, and is focused mainly on independent businesses. It's a great resource, though obviously not fediverse.
Also FWIW, Iโd love to see something similar here.
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A comic that I will think about every day for the rest of my life, probably.
(Sauce: analognowhere.com/_/ogmxha/ )
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@Jeremy List I've had this before. It took years to get a conclusive diagnosis. Turns out of was reflux, and two antacids a day typically keeps it in check.
This past week though Katy and I have been sick, and it's upset the balance.
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I keep flirting with the idea of learning the Deseret alphabet. I have absolutely no practical reason for wanting to do this, but I still want to. I guess the appeal is my obsession with weird corners of #Mormon history.
If I'm going to learn an obscure alphabet, the Shavian alphabet is probably more practical, but... I dunno maybe I'll learn that one too.
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Dumb internet article: Here's 5 reasons you should be helping your wife clean the house.
Me: If all 5 reasons aren't 'Because you FUCKING LIVE THERE' then it's bullshit misogynist clickbait
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Is this a generational thing like do younger people now not understand that piracy is illegal
Have we normalized talking about it being ethical to the point that the fact that it's still definitely not legal has been lost on people
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I'm pro-piracy for most media, like I'd rather you not download someone's $2 indie game but I certainly have no qualms with pirating $1500 of Sims DLC because nobody should be expected to spend $1500 to buy all the content in a game
But ethics and law are often not the same thing!
I just won my first game of Go.
I mean, my (online) opponent apparently just abandoned the game and ran the clock out, but I'll take what I can get.
Dr Paris (he/him)
in reply to Dr Paris (he/him) • • •it's on the orange site if you can spare an upvote too
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4โฆ
Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.comCharlie McHenry
in reply to Dr Paris (he/him) • • •Scott Williams ๐ง
in reply to Charlie McHenry • • •gentlegardener
in reply to Dr Paris (he/him) • • •WesDym
in reply to gentlegardener • • •Jonathan Lamothe doesn't like this.
Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to WesDym • •WesDym
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •@me OP had 20 years to set up local storage for up to 6TB. 8TB currently goes for under $300. They could have, but didn't, instead naรฏvely putting their trust in a giant faceless corporation who doesn't care about them or anyone. OP is an 'expert' who apparently didn't back up important and irreplaceable data in a form they controlled directly, even though they easily could have.
I read it. What point do you believe you're making?
Jonathan Lamothe
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •PerryM โ
in reply to WesDym • • •@wesdym @me Pardon me guys for butting in but I wondered 1) if the data was crucial why O did not back it up and 2) why did he so obviously, as a guest, take a dump on Apple's carpet! I mean, when you're a guest ...
WesDym
in reply to PerryM โ • • •@PerryM Apple wronged him, no doubt, but any other huge company would just as readily. It's not even relevant, in my mind, which company was involved.
OP could have easily avoided this whole drama if they'd backed up critical data locally, which they clearly know enough about, could almost certainly afford, and had 20 years to do it.
Sympathy only goes so far. At some point, it's fair to point out mistakes like this, if only so that others might learn from their errors and not repeat them.
PerryM โ
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in reply to PerryM โ • • •@PerryM I know you're not this stupid. If you read the piece, you definitely know better, and you should be embarrassed to offer this argument. You should also be grown up enough not to write this badly to anyone who's invited your commentary.
Take 30 days.
Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to WesDym • •@WesDym
*sigh*
From the article:
WesDym
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to WesDym • •@WesDym I'm not saying he shouldn't have backed up. I'm saying the self-righteous bullshit is exhausting.
I'm tapping out. Have a nice day.
WesDym
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to Negative12DollarBill • •@Negative12DollarBill @WesDym You can't make phone calls if you can't unlock your phone, can you? Again, I don't know how this actually works in practice. I'm just saying they absolutely could.
My partner had an iPad that had been locked to her ex's account. It was for all intents and purposes completely bricked to us.
WesDym
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •Yeah, but 'bricked' is an issue specific to local hardware, not external control systems such as the telco or mfr. It means it won't start up, for anyone.
Misusing this term this way would be like me saying that someone taking my car key from me is the same as the engine seizing up. In the latter case, NO ONE can start it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_(eโฆ
totally non-functional electronic device
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)WesDym
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •@me @wesdym yes I did. Loads of ways for less informed users to lose everything
And yes there s risk in everything and anything.
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There are already some well documented medical device incidents:
spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-oโฆ
Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported
Eliza Strickland (IEEE Spectrum)DG1JAN ๐ช๐บ
in reply to Dr Paris (he/him) • • •Jonathan Lamothe doesn't like this.
eli (หeฬหli), vampire kitsune
in reply to DG1JAN ๐ช๐บ • • •glad you have the luxury and privilege to spend exorbitant amounts of time fucking with linux servers but not all of us do.
btw i noticed you arent the admin of your instance. also your site and code is hosted on github (microsoft).
@parisba
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in reply to eli (หeฬหli), vampire kitsune • • •@rowan btw. If you have a second look, I also host my public project at #codeberg and I'm running a private Forgejo instance for my own stuff.
I don't consider mastodon as important, so no need for self hosting. Prefer to support the radiosocial admin directly.