Louis

Software developer #Go #CommonLisp #JS #SQL. #LispWorks user. Soft spots for #Emacs #SmallWeb. Recently becoming #OpenBSD enthusiast.

Author of the Tuner app for Linux.

Other hobbies: #Running #FireFighter #StarTrek

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2024-09-02 16:51:46

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@npub1rqw…r3ud I really love so see these kind of Fedi applications. Good work! 🥳

2024-08-26 20:46:46

35 years ago, I got my first external HDD for the Atari ST, it was 40 MB in size and at the time cost $1,500. Adjusted for inflation: $3,800.
Today I purchased a 2 TB USB drive as a backup device for the Time Machine. Cost: $150.
I find that still #awesome.
https://media.emacs.ch/media_attachments/files/113/030/232/075/579/553/original/593c9e48a54455f0.jpeg

2024-08-18 17:32:12

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@npub1rqw…r3ud Congrats for setting up your blog with Mastodon comments! Seems to work just fine. 🚀

2024-07-23 09:56:42

Manning, my dear publisher, what have you become ...
https://media.emacs.ch/media_attachments/files/112/835/186/954/654/151/original/1df54829d1a9773a.png

2024-07-19 14:31:51

What it looks like in the air when a closed-source security company breaks a software update.
This is a 12 hour timelapse of Delta, American Airlines, and United flights.
#crowdstrike
https://media.emacs.ch/media_attachments/files/112/813/633/112/103/505/original/2578dedc971137fb.mp4

2024-07-06 18:42:23

Uff…. 🇨🇭

2024-07-04 20:04:06

Just built Ladybird browser on Linux and Mac/arm a few hours ago. It‘s already at awesome-level. Still rough edges and crashes here and there, but still immensely useful. A bright beacon in the darkness of a world running essentially on a single browser engine. Give it a try, if you can.
#ladybird

2024-05-28 17:43:09

The #Apple trap: "You have used 2048GB in your 2TB iCloud Family plan. Please upgrade to the 6TB plan for only $35/month so your wife and kids can store even more useless selfie-videos." 🍎 😠

2024-05-24 13:18:50

Who runs "Open-source" Chromium? And guess who funds Igalia, which takes 2nd place?
https://media.emacs.ch/media_attachments/files/112/496/234/666/038/349/original/5df409faf66dd86a.png

2024-05-24 12:57:45

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@npub1tx6…rtam This one on a server, which is also doing media delivery for our Mastodon instance via `varnishd` and serving a few websites via `relayd`/`httpd`.

2024-05-24 12:53:44

OMG, I love #OpenBSD. Never seen a major update on a [Li|U]n[u|i]x OS going through so smooth. And the `sysmerge` command that walks you through every config file change and let's you diff/merge/install them, is the perfect icing on the cake. 🍰

2024-05-24 12:49:01

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@npub13n4…3h2h Enjoy this X-less success made possible by the great people on the Fediverse! :openbsd: We love you.

2024-05-24 09:52:20

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@npub1pue…dpuv Congratulations! You put a great deal of time into your BSD-related posts and deserve the fame. Enjoy it! 🎈

2024-05-06 14:53:27

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@npub1cst…f2v0 Rust =
Reimagining
Universally
Solved
Technologies
😀

2024-05-01 22:02:15

Just came back from our 10 day trip from UAE. It was a great experience, learned a ton. I really enjoyed the hospitality of the Arabic / Muslim culture. For now I need to recover from the 12 hour journey home, I hope to share some thoughts in the next few days before heading to Vienna for ELS 2024.

2024-04-19 14:13:19

Micro$oft's Cosmos DB, they call it the "Unified AI database" is so cool, that it takes 10 minutes to fetch ~5000 records at the size of less than 1 KB each and I can only guess how much it will cost.
In any FOSS SQL database, make that < 100 milliseconds and zero pennies.
But yes, there is a generation of developers that doesn't even know about SQL anymore or finds it "arcane". They gladly pay for this error with their pocket.
#CosmosDB

2024-04-13 21:54:20

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@npub1cst…f2v0 it already exists.
https://media.emacs.ch/media_attachments/files/112/266/132/296/968/508/original/90f4b67920409ad9.png

2024-04-07 20:22:39

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@npub1cst…f2v0 Gosh, I just read the comments. Doesn't shed a very bright light on KDE. When I was giving KDE a test drive earlier this week, I hit the same issue.

2024-04-05 09:44:22

TGIF to all you fine folks in the Fediverse and our community. Enjoy the weekend! 💮

2024-04-02 10:45:07

A piece of history just arrived 😀 #CommonLisp
https://media.emacs.ch/media_attachments/files/112/201/217/222/008/552/original/553deee9ab36dfc7.jpeg

2024-03-31 21:17:08

While most programming languages pride themselves in how they limit the programmer, there is one that does quite the opposite. One, that rewards you with every day you spend, every struggle you overcome with a new box of undiscovered tools. And when there are no more, you have all the tools you need to build your own.
You all know which one I'm talking about.

2024-03-30 21:34:10

While #GNV is continuing indexing the Small Web, I noticed that there are some servers that mirror Usenet newsgroups decades back. Leading to hundreds of tousands of links.
I wonder if they are worth indexing or better just excluding those? What is your opinion?
#GNV #SmallWeb

2024-03-21 10:39:13

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@npub10mr…r0qj I know, but it never worked. Do you use flymake with eglot with Go in production?

2024-03-21 10:33:02

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@npub10mr…r0qj Flycheck show a list of project-wide error messages which seems to be impossible with Flymake.

2024-03-20 21:41:26

Just checkin in. After a multiday outdoor training last week and a 8-hour long night #firefighter op (5 houses burned down) Saturday night, I was kind of tired and had to catch up with work. I promise hacking on #GNV will commence very soon @npub19y8…wxgj.
On the bright side, I finally moved all my Go dev work to #Emacs, but replaced Eglot with lsp-mode. It seems to be more stable and has better integrations with flycheck and other packages.
Btw. I found a great video by Marie-Hélène Burle summarizing all the good stuff that came with Emacs in recent releases: https://iv.melmac.space/watch?v=SOxlQ7ogplA
On another bright side, I do now have the possibility to `deliver` #CommonLisp binaries on Linux x64 with #Lispworks, so if anyone needs a tester due to lack of a DV license, don't hesitate to ping me.
Btw. @npub1pue…dpuv, I'm currently at S7E6, and you?
And thanks to @npub1chp…l3fs and @npub1k3e…zllw for the lightspeed testing session of the Snac2 server last night :-)
Happy hacking!

2024-03-13 19:36:19

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@npub1u2r…4urs Very good idea! I'll try to work on it on the coming weekend 🙂

2024-03-13 19:23:35

Most of the today regulated traffic at major junctions - further training for the fire department. It was good to get away from the screen for a while.
#firefighter
https://media.emacs.ch/media_attachments/files/112/090/003/814/373/123/original/f2447aa04c63ba65.mp4

2024-03-12 12:40:08

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@npub16a3…hqv6 I had an eye on SQLite for quite a while. As someone who runs PG databases with half a TB on a production API with hundreds of requests per minute, I'd love to use SQLite more for production purposes.
So, this project is a playground for me to see how SQLite performs and where it sucks. So far the only issue I have is with occasional "database locks" when using SQLite from multiple processes, but I guess I still have to figure out how to properly use WAL mode :)

2024-03-12 12:03:13

For those of you into cooking and recipe sharing, I just found the Gopherspace Cookbook with 695 recipes!
https://gopher.emacs.ch/search?q=cookbook&source=all
(see 1st result)
Incredible source of inspiration 🧑‍🍳
#cooking #gopher

2024-03-09 16:43:44

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@npub1t36…zm47 Yes, if you don't care for support of older browsers. Glitch introduced modern ES syntax two weeks ago and many niche browsers don't work anymore.

2024-03-01 13:17:45

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@npub1rs0…tqrn I put this into my Emacs init.el:
(defun sijo-test-package ()
(interactive)
(slime-eval-with-transcript `(sijo-doctest:test-package ,(read (slime-find-buffer-package)))))
(define-key slime-mode-map (kbd "C-c t")
'sijo-test-package)
Not sure if this is the best way to do it but it works pretty well 🙂

2024-02-24 22:00:25

This is getting out of hand. It started as a joke, and now we already have 11'000+ gopher selectors in the index.
Now with live stats.
https://x1.tailc044e.ts.net/
#gopher
https://media.emacs.ch/media_attachments/files/111/988/700/974/084/815/original/28b41d62579fe272.png

2024-02-18 16:40:36

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@npub1rqv…nkck Please report every post you get, this helps us to get this widespread spam attack under control.
Unfortunately it is facilitated in part by instances that have automatic approvals.

2024-02-16 10:37:14

Any tips for a *really good* open-source HTML>PDF converter (must support css, images, fonts)? I want to replace our current commercial externally hosted solution and have a budget for donating the project.

2024-02-11 18:25:46

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@npub1cst…f2v0 Too bad Esperanto, or Interlingua, didn't make it as a unifying world language.
Now, with the ubiquity of the Internet, driven essentially by 4 big companies all from that US, and an ever decreasing 2nd language education in most countries, we can calmly put a check behind that lost war.
Given that reality, when you write software and want it to be used in a culture that primarily speaks English, you wouldn't name it like "PIECE-OF-SHIT V1.0", would you?

2024-02-08 21:47:40

Ran Linux Mint for a week, which is always my choice no. 1. However, it was painfully slow, some apps took 20 seconds to start. Video streaming was lagging and I could literally see the cursor trying to catch up with my typing. Not sure what was wrong, couldn't continue. And that with a Thinkpad X1, 4 cores and 16 GB of RAM.
Now jumped to PopOS and boy, does it make a difference. Did anyone have a similar experience?
#linuxmint #PopOS

2024-01-27 11:21:17

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@npub1dtw…85ra Thanks for sharing, and having a very good README! 🚀

2024-01-26 00:45:53

First full evening using exclusively #OpenBSD installed on a ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen. 8.
Base install was ridiculously easy, installed XFCE4 for a little more comfort.
After replacing apmd with obsdfreqd from @npub1h5d…emws - power management is excellent, fans off most of the time and battery lasted all evening.
OpenBSD does not support Bluetooth at all, lucky I still have an old Logitech mouse with a USB dongle.
Firefox is usable but without DRM support and a bit sluggish. Ungoogled-chrome works well. SMP support can be turned on with a single config line.
Emacs, of course, works well with the exception that I couldn't get UTF8 characters to display, I need to spend more time on that.
If you need proprietary software or projects with such components, OpenBSD is not it. Which makes it so fun.

2024-01-18 16:29:55

#librewolf is so good, it's now my default browser. Good bye, #Firefox.
https://librewolf.net/

2024-01-03 13:09:14

My language of the year 2024. There’s a lot of work ahead.
#AdaLang #Ada
https://media.emacs.ch/media_attachments/files/111/692/175/984/203/950/original/207c29d4dd661cf5.jpeg

2023-12-22 19:17:35

After reading into the ISO:IEC 9899:2018 C Standard, I‘m hesitant to claim that C is a much simpler or smaller language than Common Lisp which is often ridiculed for its 1100+ Standard pages). Not mentioning the recently released C23 additions (which are actually good but will likely not be relevant before 2045).
What does the Fediverse say?
#C #CommonLisp

2023-12-15 10:10:48

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@npub1cst…f2v0 at least we'll be free when we starve to death 😜

2023-12-12 16:58:41

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@npub1s2k…8cla You fell into the popular Go trap, in that you essentially assign only the last of the newTask assignments into your map, so all tasks are effectively the same one task.
That issue is so popular that the Go designers are planning changes to the language:
https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/56010
Just do a nt := newTask() inside the loop and omit the declaration in line 83.
Does that solve your issue?
https://media.emacs.ch/media_attachments/files/111/568/497/237/294/732/original/c674768635434085.png

2023-12-12 14:11:55

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@npub1s2k…8cla Show your code 🙂

2023-12-07 17:05:39

More and more organisations turning away from Twitter/X and finally using the Fediverse as the only alternative, after Twitter's main sponsor showed his real face.
Better later than never, I would say. And also: F*** youself, Elon. F*** yourself.
#Twitter

2023-11-14 12:35:02

Emacs: print-buffer
VSCode: ... uhm, what is a printer?
#Emacs #vscode

2023-11-06 18:33:28

Our :emacs: Emacs.ch VM celebrates its first birthday in 5 days 🎂 Without a single reboot. Zero downtime. And, as is proper for a well-managed instance, blocked by mART.
How did Mastodon change your life? 🍻 It certainly had a great impact on mine.
https://liberapay.com/emacs-ch
#mastodon #fediverse #birthday
https://media.emacs.ch/media_attachments/files/111/364/996/840/558/913/original/5486bda1b0b0a1fe.png

2023-11-06 18:05:33

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@npub1l0f…acen Sadly true. People are so used/unaware of being digitally abused, that they literally pay to remove an aritifical 140 (sic!) character limit on X.
Or pay for Netflix - with ads.
Or soon pay for Facebook, the mother of all privacy violations.
Who is to blame? The educational system that is forcing Chromebooks, WhatsApp, Gmail and Office 365 onto their students.

2023-11-06 15:27:10

#Google, #Meta, #Apple, #Microsoft...
https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/track/2VCSO1mqWPALcPbEQwgSd3?si=0147f8e83e0c40f0

2023-11-06 11:39:01

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@npub1l0f…acen Too bad. No warranty? What brand? Perhaps drop them email and ask for goodwill?

2023-11-01 16:20:56

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@npub1cst…f2v0 SQLite never disappoints and it would be my first choice if I did not need remote access to the database from different clients.

2023-11-01 15:15:19

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@npub1cst…f2v0 The MariaDB Corp dug their own grave by investing all their money and resources for their cloud service "SkySQL", which they now abandoned due to cash shortage including the customers who use it. Not good.
For the last two years they basically ignored serious bug reports, chasing off users to MySQL and PostgresQL. I filed two bug reports about their JSON_TABLE function which were confirmed but never fixed, making it virtually unusable.
Big drama between MariaDB Corp and MariaDB Foundation. I can't take them serious anymore.

2023-11-01 15:02:38

Just gave SurrealDB 1.0.0, one of the new Rust kids on the block, a try. Goal: compare performance to PostgreSQL.
Both databases were setup on the same machine (x86_64, 8 cores).
Data: a table with 50.000 small rows (~60bytes). One column is a INT value between NULL and 250.
The raw file size on both databases was below 9 MBs.
Query in Postgres:
select count(*) from objects where score > 100;
Query in SurrealDB:
select count() from objects
where score > 100
group all
The count result will be 22.000.
Here are the results after a few repeated executions:
No index:
Postgres: 28ms
SurrealDB: 801ms
With index:
Postgres: 12ms
SurrealDB: 620ms
Time for creating the index:
Postgres: 50ms
SurrealDB: 8.140ms
I'm kind of disappointed about the result, given the small table size. I can't see how SurrealDB would scale with bigger setups and wonder about the hype around it.
#surrealdb #postgresql #benchmark

2023-10-27 19:54:34

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@npub1cst…f2v0 Or switch to something not called AWS/GCP/Azure? There are plenty of options with fair pricing.

2023-10-27 19:48:33

Amazon AWS will charge ~$3.6 for every IPv4 address, attached or unattached, starting Feb 1st, 2024.
https://aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/aws/new-aws-public-ipv4-address-charge-public-ip-insights/
Many PaaS companies based on AWS will have to increase their prices big time.
I'm so glad I migrated all AWS projects to a sane IaaS years ago. Hopefully that will teach the industry a lesson or maybe just think the unthinkable: is there an Internet outside AWS?
#amazonaws #aws #hosting #selfhosted

2023-10-18 15:20:43

I now have 11 apps installed on my iPhone just for the purpose of authentication with ebanking systems, authorizing credit card and debit card transations and scanning payment slips, since every bank and credit card provider runs their own apps. Each has to be registered in their system and often includes the Hardware ID of the device.
Then there is Apple Pay. Having credit cards registered with Apple Pay means you have to run through some (provider-specific) process for every card + for every iDevice, sometimes with personal authentication on the phone, chat or text messages.
Replacing phones (which I did two weeks ago) becomes very difficult. It involves hours of work and phone calls with support call centers.
I think that is not how it was supposed to be. Technology should make life easier, not endlessly more complex.

2023-10-17 16:17:57

A lecturer at the University of Bern in Switzerland had glorified the Hamas attack on Israel in a tweet on X and commented on a video of the attack with "Shabbat Shalom".
He was fired. Delicate fact: he is married to the head of the university (!), so his wife was immediately released from her duties, too.
That was hell of an expensive X post.
Source: NZZ (German) [Paywall]
https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/universitaet-bern-entlaesst-dozent-nach-hamas-tweet-fristlos-ld.1761144
Obviously, even the best education does not help to not drop your pants in front of the world public at the wrong moment.

2023-10-13 18:34:32

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@npub1v5r…as27 I'm using Firefox, and for the most part running it for days without a restart, Emacs.ch always in an active tab.
Does your browser perhaps unload/deactivate the tab to save energy?

2023-10-13 12:43:58

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@npub1v5r…as27 I've not experienced any tiny random downtimes nor interruptions in notifications.

2023-10-09 20:39:26

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@npub18k5…029x I also switched to eglot and settled with flymake for the best experience. Flycheck didn't work for me at all.

2023-10-05 14:34:10

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@npub1s2k…8cla That would be one way, but there is also Tailscale Funnel:
https://tailscale.com/blog/introducing-tailscale-funnel/

2023-10-02 10:38:35

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@npub1k0h…cz0d @npub19y6…zc37 @npub1vu3…fyyf @npub1myf…r07t @npub1xwn…3hd7 @npub159e…6tdu @npub1l0k…pgzm @npub1dsy…dx5e Alter, alle Achtung! Gratuliere Dir zu deinem Marathon. 🚀

2023-09-29 14:49:14

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@npub1cst…f2v0 Very sad, I was surprised to hear about it this morning. Prognosis seems good though.

2023-09-26 21:49:44

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@npub1cst…f2v0 nice effort!

2023-09-26 11:49:58

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@npub1l0h…nt5q It seems to run Linux and one can even login via SSH to install additional software. However, that's just hearsay.

2023-09-26 11:38:31

Any remarks on #remarkable2 or alternatives? I still enjoy hand-writing notes a lot, but they get lost easily.
Remarkable has some history of removing features and replacing them with "subscriptions" after the buy. I'd love to hear from owners.
#remarkable

2023-09-23 20:09:49

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@npub19y8…wxgj My secret is: I use Org-mode only for
Denote (note taking)
Daily TODO management
Documents which I want to convert to PDF/HTML later
Meaning: only the bare minimum.
For other things like READMEs etc. I prefer Markdown mode, since it is the most widely supported format for non-Emacs users.

2023-09-22 12:05:36

Kagi.com, the premium, secure, ad-free and privacy-friendly search engine re-introduces unlimited searches in their Pro plan.
https://blog.kagi.com/unlimited-searches-for-10
Just one more reason to extend my yearly subscription to support the excellent devs of Kagi.com.
#Kagi #Kagisearch

2023-09-21 11:47:12

Finally it arrived! It took me almost a year to decide and hit the order button. It was built on order in Norway and shipped today.
It's made out of Ash wood and wool and feels very good.
Now let's see if it will change my bad sitting posture and how long it will last on my desk 🙂
#varier #ergonomics
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2023-09-20 08:53:56

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@npub1hrk…3nzn Not foreign, but that doesn't mean that I have to agree with how capitalism chose to handle this issue.

2023-09-20 08:45:43

Evil greed. If you are a family and are bound to school vacation dates, greedy landlords try to extract the hell out of your pocket.
You pay between 2.5-4 times the rent for the same apartment during holiday season.
This chart is now publicly visible for everyone on many tourism websites. I hope it will have an impact. For me it already does - I rather stay home than pump my money into some greedy mf’s ass.
What do you think how long it will take until I have to remove this chart out of protest by the landlords?
#capitalism #tourism
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2023-09-20 08:08:01

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@npub1pt4…8xng Can you move servers to a different locations or is the location if the owner relevant?

2023-09-18 12:19:56

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@npub1v5r…as27 A few years ago I was very active about a specific topic on Stackoverflow. It is hard to build your reputation and takes a lot of effort. And then some lunatic comes around the corners and votes down your answers because they have a different opinion and your karma is gone.
Ever since Stackoverflow answers now appear 1:1 in ChatGPT I think it is not worth the effort anymore to contribute to it.

2023-09-15 22:26:57

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@npub1fdc…82j5 Depends, do you have a good job offer where you can use it?

2023-09-14 15:00:41

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@npub1qxd…sqjl Do add a bit more to this interesting discussion, there is also another dimension, especially in bigger Free software projects (looking at you, #GNU) - and especially in the C world.
These projects are often made up of a community of self-proclaimed "elite hackers". They pretend to be open, but they don't want contributions. They make it so hard to contribute, that it is almost impossible to "get in". Look at the FSF/GNU, they really suffer from that.
And when you dare to propose an idea and send a patch, you risk of being publicily ridiculed at best, or at least ignored. Or someone is screaming at you: "shut up".
I gave up on trying to contribute to bigger projects very fast. I'm not an "elite hacker". Running this instance is my way of contributing in a way, no GNU hacker can tell me how inferior my contribution is.

2023-09-13 21:52:41

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@npub1fdc…82j5 you just hate brackets, aren't you?

2023-09-13 15:03:43

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@npub1hcf…zs4y Yes, because there is nothing to bash about Emacs 🙂

2023-09-13 12:35:32

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@npub1dtw…85ra If it's just about exiting early, this is how you can do it in Elisp:
(catch 'stop
(maphash
;; do you stuff here
;; exit when you want
(throw 'stop retval)
ht))

2023-09-13 12:26:56

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@npub1dtw…85ra You probably have to get all the keys first:
(defun hash-table-keys (hash-table)
(let ((keys ()))
(maphash (lambda (k v) (push k keys)) hash-table)
keys))
and then run your own iteration. You are right, hash tables are not a first class citizen in Elisp, unfortunately.

2023-09-02 18:32:37

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@npub1v5r…as27 Agreed. Applies to children and adult education equally.

2023-09-01 07:36:46

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@npub1j8u…7v0u Just discovered that #FerretDB now also has support for #SQLite as backend. That's a game-changer - since Postgres was the reason I would not have considered FerretDB.

2023-08-30 11:31:36

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@npub1js9…ks28 To correct my previous post, after some more study, it is actually possible to commit only part of the changes in a file, using:
fossil stash snapshot
Delete the unwanted changes
fossil commit
fossil stash pop
Also, Fossil obviously has a fossil git export command which even support automatic sync after new commits.
That could make Fossil a potential candidate. 🙂

2023-08-29 22:44:09

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@npub1cst…f2v0 Wait, what? Do you need a prescription for Melatonin in the UK?

2023-08-29 20:24:18

Anyone else have problems with Eglot and crashing Go LSP server since #Emacs 29.1?

2023-08-29 11:00:40

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@npub1v5r…as27 sdf.org is the one and only!

2023-08-29 08:47:38

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@npub1v5r…as27 Please stop talking about this or I might even start such a project. Will get me in big trouble. 😅

2023-08-29 08:37:50

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@npub1v5r…as27 A big part of the Fediverse users is strongly opposed to being indexed at all. Some instances even get in trouble because they run the Mastodon Elasticsearch option (like we do) to offer at least some reasonable search on their instance. I never understood why people have an issue with that, since their posts are public and why would you post publicliy when you don't want to be "found" in the Fediverse at all?
Sooner or later search engines will figure out how to properly index the Fediverse. What you propose is a public search engine that is focused on the Fediverse and controlled by the public? There is https://fedi-search.com/ but it doesn't work very well and still relies on Google etc.
I think such a project can be done properly, perhaps even easily. But who is paying for it?

2023-08-29 08:23:43

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@npub1v5r…as27 DuckDuckGo is not exactly "big tech free". They are essentially a white label version of Bing.

2023-08-28 21:09:35

@npub1dzt…4np8 I stumbled over your blog post about you learning Toki Pona:
https://bram85.emacs.ch/110963257742963713
As I'm also interested in languages in general, can you share a little bit about your learning experience and the resources you used? How does Toki Pona feel?

2023-08-28 09:45:07

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@npub1v5r…as27 @npub1pls…u0km You need to follow first. Then the posts from that moment on will be shown in your timeline.

2023-08-28 07:49:42

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@npub1dtw…85ra GCC 13 had some breaking changes and many projects have difficulties getting their stuff compiled on this version.
I don't know exactly why, but the recommendation is almost always to just use version <13. Is that an option for you?

2023-08-28 07:41:42

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@npub1dtw…85ra So you try to run something on ECL and have issues ? Slynk?

2023-08-28 07:35:02

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@npub1pls…u0km Did you follow @npub1l5y…82u4 ? That should work. But only new posts will be shown, no comments.

2023-08-28 07:32:55

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@npub1dtw…85ra Yes, that's the default. GCC can be installed (i.e. via Homebrew), and I have version 13.1.0 in my system, but rarely need to use it.

2023-08-26 20:41:54

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@npub14d0…c5xl I love LispWorks and CAPI! Always nice to hear from other LispWorks users. Are you running the Pro edition? Which OS platform are you working on?
Regarding libraries: I prefer dexador and com.inuoe.jzon at the moment.

2023-08-23 20:53:07

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@npub1cst…f2v0 Weirdly I have the same but with Go. Honestly, I can't stand Rust, but also I'm not a systems programmer so who am I to judge? Go is what I use to get shit done, Common Lisp is what I use to explore and grow.

2023-08-23 15:32:45

I don't know what this Fosstodon drama is all about, but Emacs.ch is a nice, quiet and tolerant place für FOSS people from all walks of life, incl. those who do not want to write in English.
#fosstodon

2023-08-22 16:39:11

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@npub1v5r…as27 Unfortunately my in-built parser could not translate your post to anything that makes sense to my brain. But that's ok. 🙂

2023-08-22 07:15:36

@npub1fdc…82j5 Btw. since you are runnnig the @npub10y9…4ja9 account now, too, can you recommend a good book for the latest version of #tcl ?

2023-08-21 12:10:20

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@brokenix You must use the HTML mode:
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