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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@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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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)
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.
@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.
A butler for your buffers. Group buffers into workspaces with programmable rules, and easily switch to and manipulate them. - alphapapa/bufler.elGitHub
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 😀
@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.
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))))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))))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.
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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.
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.
@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.
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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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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.
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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. 🙂
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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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5 Steps to a great day:
1. Go camping
2. Avoid people
3. Take a nap
4. Poke a campfire with a stick
5. Keep avoiding people
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Rideau Acres: Family campground in Kingston on Rideau Canal with heated pool, boat rentals, beach, hiking trails, and banquet hall for weddings and activities.Rideau Acres Campground | Kingston Ontario
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Rideau Acres: Family campground in Kingston on Rideau Canal with heated pool, boat rentals, beach, hiking trails, and banquet hall for weddings and activities.Rideau Acres Campground | Kingston Ontario
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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Follow @miru for announcements.
Also @Taweret
Streams at miru.miyaku.media/
2am British time Monday mornings (so Sunday nights).
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One hour after this toot was posted:
social.jlamothe.net/@Taweret@t…
The timestamp should be right for your setup?
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.
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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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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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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-fa…
Gareth and Rocz join Gregk to account for the many crimes of modernity’s slow, silent killers – engineers, technicians, and urban planners.Podbean
The playbook's the same:
Industry harms people → regulators don't touch industry → 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
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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_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…
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
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.
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Can you please hold a few fingers in front of your face?
No?
Bye.
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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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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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Adds a new "bridge tool" that makes placing stone (or glass, earth, or any material) while building a bridge in no-fly mode easy.content.luanti.org
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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.
🌌 🎶 "Time And Space", the new album from LAD was released yesterday and I am chilling out to it now.
You can get your copy of this deep space ambient masterpiece here:
laddadoane.bandcamp.com/album/…
You'll be glad you did. And yeah, there's a lot more where that came from.
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I FREAKING PASSED MY EXAM!!!!!
BOO-YAH! 🥳🎉
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •@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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