Craig Brozefsky 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾

life long FOSS user and developer, clojurist and emacs resident

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2024-09-09 14:00:54

Just a reminder that complaints and claims you see on the internet, especially those that conform to your bias, are less trustworthy than stories you hear at the bar.

2024-09-01 23:06:24

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@npub1hhz…03sd i feel targeted by his hit piece on the only real claim to fame I have on the internet, my stoned usenet rant…
As others said, calling out a desktop environment is evidence of a disqualifying ignorance.

2024-09-01 14:28:13

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@npub15fe…x47v your preaching to a man who runs #exwm and builds most of his ui in emacs. This is more about working with primitive heathens without scaring them.

2024-09-01 13:59:27

#emacs shell scripting is not portable due to needing to pass args to emacs to not load init, and read rest of file as script. Works in some systems where env allows arguments, but that’s not standard behavior, won’t work on #obsd for example
Emacs could instead have look st the name it was invoked under, emacscript for example, and run in shell scripting mode. Then a symbolic link to emacs binary would support portable scripting.
Thoughts?

2024-08-16 00:08:22

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 Where do you see it's domain of use in relation to Golang? aka, when would you prefer it over go?

2024-08-16 00:06:18

Fired up EMMS, a media player interface for #emacs and pointed it at my ancient mpg/flac/ogg archive. I have been using Apple Music for the last decade, and as I migrate out of that ecosystem, it's nice to still have all that music I bought on CDs and ripped years ago. No monthly charge, musicians and stores got their cut, and now it's actually mine to listen to, and share, as I see fit.
Rediscovered https://www.discogs.com/release/72349-Various-Artcore-3-Expressions-In-Drum-Bass

2024-08-16 00:06:18

2024-08-15 22:58:11

Ok, I am some kind of system centrist liberal because I like #debian, #openbsd, #nix and #guix at the same time.
The OS is just a substrate for running #emacs and an inferior #lisp process anyways.

2024-07-22 12:38:32

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@npub1chp…l3fs beanshell is a repl you can use, and of course clojure, which has java interop that is very nice. The JVM has a surprising amount of reflective and interactive programming tooling.

2024-06-25 22:07:12

I love #scheme and #common_lisp both. Are their scheme implementation that handle reflection, restarts, and redefinition as well as CL does? Think image based development where you restart from scratch, loading all the source, rarely.

2024-04-28 13:51:56

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@npub16u7…uend are there specific modes, practices, gaps, whatever that boggle him? I’m curious.

2024-01-26 01:48:51

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 @npub1h5d…emws I have UTF8 chars displaying, at least when accessing my emacs on obsd from my mac running iterm2. I did have to tell emacs to use utf-8 as it's preferred coding.
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-default-coding-systems 'utf-8)
(set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
I also set the following envars
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL LANG

2024-01-24 23:08:51

Seems that the Cybergothic Dystopic Future is getting a little more evenly spread around.

2024-01-19 14:31:55

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 no battery here, tho we did the interface to our main panel such that we could go with grid connected battery.

2024-01-18 16:42:27

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 also,, get quotes and system buildouts from at least two solar installers. I’m really interested to hear how the details work out in Germany! Green Mountain Power here in Vermont is very pro solar and our state has fantastic tarriff structures. Prior to heat pumps, we basically laid nothing for electricity to the grid. After heat pumps, we’re paying some, but less than our oil costs. That’s with us running a 400 gallon hot tub and keeping thermostats at “in-law visit” levels 😅

2024-01-18 16:37:45

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 i would keep the two systems separate. You don’t want to have a limited range of roofers able to fix roof problems, nor tie the failure mode of one roof to failure mode of panels and inverters etc…
Doing the panel system after the roof is best, and having some solar installers provide feedback on roofing plan may help ensure any tricky spots or materials align between the two.
We redid our roof, conventional tar shingles prior to putting up our solar install. i preferred separate systems for the reasons i stated, also able to optimize solar components and use US made panels. Lastly, we had tree coverage that we expected to change, when it did three years later, we easily extended the separate solar system.

2024-01-18 01:04:23

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 Heh, sounds like we are on a similiar trajectory. I am considering a X1, but first I'm going to take a crack at dual boot #OpenBSD on the M1 Air.
I'm already compiling a list of tasks for that, starting at gettting my #Rustlang pwget util able to handle write operations on ps2wafeV3 DBs, then figuring out why #tmux is munging wide utf-8 characters, and then on to whatever drivers I'll need to touch up to get the M1 usable as a daily driver (if any?).
Decided that I'll limit several sources of content, youtube, patreon, podcasts to my phone or AppleTV for now, makes it an easier leap. The M1 will always be dual boot.
To keep my setups in sync, I previously used #nix. I had a single flake that would produce nix-darwin or nixos systems and home-manager modules. That required gigs of disk space, and the declarative power came with several layers of abstraction to learn and debug.
All of this leads me to unwinding a decade of Apple patronage. My mind if just calmer, my soul happier, with text and a ps auxww where I know every process, and have read large parts of it's code and man pages in the last couple decades.
It all let's me focus on the "problem domain" that interests me most -- connecting with humans, collaborating, and mutating our brains together.
My parting shot, err, question. What is it holding you back? And what if you didn't have to make some clean break, or declare some purity, but just make it a game, an experiment, an art project?

2024-01-17 17:04:12

Over the last decade, I had to adopt several "modern" professional tools, pulling me out of the #Emacs bubble I had built up over the first 3/4 of my career. Graphical Email, modern browsers, video conferencing, Slack, Outlook, Calendaring and Jira. My return to #Emacs in #tmux on my #OpenBSD server, my happy place, has been eye-opening.
I still have a bailout for interacting with modern shit, and my work laptop is still MacOs. I am still cursed with Slack and Jira and Chrome for work. But now that I have my safe space back, I don't find myself as frustrated during the day when I have to use the modern sub-standard tools. It's saving me some stress budget for sure.

2024-01-14 22:44:26

As a birthday present to myself, I'm installing #OpenBSD on my m1 air and an intel nuc.
I enjoyed my #nix based environment that was portable across my #nixos server and my #MacOS laptops (work and personal). It works well, will keep using it for the work laptop. For my professional work, it's still the best solution I've found and brings amazing wins.
But it doesn't bring me happiness, or make me feel calm. I got that for years from my #OpenBSD workstations. All the code, all the manual, secure, conservative change, an rc init, and a handful of processes.

2023-12-30 06:14:44

A little more than a year ago, i joined emacs.ch along with others leaving Twitter. I had tried mastodon before, but bounced off it. I was intrigued by the protocol, but protocols and platforms are not the real draw. It’s the people, not by volume, but the sufficient intersection of interests and practiced art of sharing, commenting and discussion.
The choice of mastodon instance matters to me, because the #emacs community, and its size fit my needs and has a great overlap with the other topics i am interested in, #lisp, #nix and #clojure
Decades ago i got interested in computers because they let me talk to people from all over the place, getting diverse input.. Johnny 5 Alive!
As the AP network grows, we need to remember that its people that build it, run its nodes, interact with us, and share bits of their humanity to make this social network. They are not “users” to count, or to sell or to analyze. Our conversations are not “content” for monetizing, or decorating with ads, or manipulating to drive impressions and clicks. The people running it are not our servants, or our overlords to fight.
The AP network will grow, maybe beyond its own capabilities, and some set of people may be diverted into attention monetization machines, but the social ties can migrate, with help from the tools or simply thru memory and rediscover.
Remember the people, not the followers or likes or boosts, and help each other build, run and use the tools, free software, to control our experience and keep one another at the core of it.

2023-10-25 11:58:16

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@npub1zj4…fyjh dear company that leaks certs and writes the vulns, please take this money to defend our country from your stupidity…

2023-10-15 22:27:05

When you program professionally, it can be hard to approach it as a purely creative and playful activity. What started as a fun and rewarding project turns into a disenchanting slog once my brain starts telling me I have to "do it properly".

2023-08-14 13:01:01

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@npub1alq…mnj6 @npub1xrj…9q43 We're on the same page, heh, but why should individual authors have a legal right to have the library to remove their books? I'm assuming we are talking about a book the author published and sold and the library bought, and that you mean the request to have some legal power.