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@jtr yeah. Old saying about Microsoft something like “things will get worse, but it will take time”.
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@todd we could set things up regionally. We could call one of them the North American Numbering Plan.
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@manton sent
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@manton I recently enabled reply box on posts. It seems to be showing up on some but not others (most). Am I missing something? Thanks.
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@jaek Yeah, the older you get the truer that seems.
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@publicvoit Yes, I know you’re right (and have studied it way more than I ever will).
Shiny marketing web sties (obsidian) activate my contrarian instincts and make me think “how can I solve this problem without funding your home on the golf course” ?
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@fedops or ftp.uu.net or ftp.cis.ohio-state.edu (where I was for a while), or ftp.wustl.edu, all popular back in the day. Assumes Internet, only true for some in 80s/early 90s.
I did show up at a MIT tape-in-hand once. Jeff Shiller cut me a copy of Athena/X.
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@publicvoit Im looking at the hype on the obsidian website thinking “how many of those benefits can I get using a single sheet of paper and a pencil.
I’m running an experiment. Paper vs denote.
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@jtr How are your posts/follows between here and fosstodon set up?
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@kickingvegas Thanks for creating the issue. Github is not letting me log in. Rainbow unicorn, no servers available?
A little more background on how Romans dealt with zero here.
I’d argue the right behavior for zero is to return “nihil”.
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@kev As someone who spent 25 year of my life before getting on the Internet (1985-ish) and who worked for a bit at “America Oniline”, I’m implementing “George Offline”. Paper journal/books in the morning, pushing all “interruptions” (to include phone use) to end of day. Scheduled.
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@kickingvegas As a dabbler in Latin I say “Gratias tibi ago”.
I feed it a trick question
(numeri-arabic-to-roman 0)
it returned zero. The Romans had no concept of zero as a number. I propose nil or “nulla” or “nihil”.
Are you accepting pull requests :-)
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@yeinerf Yep. Let me know how the RAG learning goes.
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@joshuapsteele For straight-up journaling I use
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@marmanold Wow. Was that targeted at anyone in particular? Dagny Tagert perhaps? :-)
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@jtr THe lack of integraton of private notes or the size?
I guess I’m treating everything in denote as private with an opt-in (_public tag) to share. Solves the problem? Aside form a little extra complexiy (copy, commit, push).
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@ridwan and you can draw lines, cross things out, doodle. The slow speed of writing, forming each letter, crossing out mistakes, erasing, etc. somehow gives you time to think.
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@jtr My current approach to public/private is to simply tag anything OK to share as _public. It get’s copied separate directoy/git repo and pushed to codeberg.org/eludom/ho… and under that /ai is a lot of share-the-learning-with-future-self-and-anyone-else-who0cares how-to stuff.
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@tychi Yeah, I had the xfinity app on my phone. It poped up an ad for the same movie. I uninstalled the app. Go. Away. All I want from you (xfinity) is Internet.
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@nobodyinperson OK. You convinced me. I’m going to try NixOS.
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@0x58 It’s the “no experience” part I can’t judge. I’ve been coding in one way or another since 1978 in more languages than I can count. Though I do have a long history with people who think difficult things are just a SMOP (“Small matter of programming”).
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@0x58 Yeah, but is that a bad thing? There was a day (80s for me) when I could have quoted chapter and verse from K&R (C), later the Camel book (Perl). The older I got, the less that was true.
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@marmanold watch out about that “so many books” thing. We used Sonlight curriculum that promised you’d have a library of good stuff when done. In a family of bibliophiles we are about out of space for bookshelves (and we have Kindles too).
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@marmanold My niece is in Goodlettsville. Been hearing the power outage stories.
The version of that storm that made it to DC/Virginia left the worst pile of ice I’ve seen in my life, including 40+ years in Ohio.
What do homeschools do on snow days? Get more done (in less time) !
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@marmanold Homeschool dad here (well, the “kids” are out both teaching in various capacacities)
“ For a long time we didn’t even plan to have children, and even then we always planned to teach them at home. We believed in homeschooling before we believed in having anyone to homeschool.” :-)
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@fedops How do you feel about script writers? Ever tried to analyize the techno-bable in Start Trek? It’s a human tendancy.
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@manton Yea, I recently switched my paid subscription from OpenAI to Anthropic. There was a vibe shift.
Claude seemed to be more useful.Four years ago i opined on “Tech Companies I Once Admired”. Bottom line seems to be you get what you (don’t) pay for, so pay for things like micro.blog :-)
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@jbaty I have a similar experience with Linux…and of course Emacs.
I fired up windows for the first time in a year (since I last used TurboTax). Boy. The popups. The AV software screaming “Pay me” (nice computer you got there kid, shame if something happened to it”)
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@joshspector something I’ve taken to doing lately is expanding on quick one off emails to friends as posts. I find I’m less inhibited when I’m sharing something I’m excited about with an audience of one that I know. Often those are also appropriate for a wider audience too.
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@ridwan same here (well, paper since 2020).
Some of my most impassioned writing tends to be raging at the stupidity of impersonal bureaucracies … writing it gets it out of my system, but is not all that edifying when shared.
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@manton I’d buy that :-)
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@bnmnetp From Jefferson ”“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty … If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects to what never was and never will be.”
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@kalikambo We need a lot more of this: “Gentleness is power that chooses to restrain itself. That is under control. Gentleness is someone strong who makes the choice to be careful with that strength.”
Thanks for sharing.
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@manton My grandmother was deeply into poetry. I have several memorized thanks to her including Longfellow’s “A Psalm of Life”. She also quoted this one, “The dash”, 100.best-poems.net/dash.html
The take home: do what you can now for the people around you.
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@manton My father worked at the Ohio Historical Society microfilming newspapers from the 19th and 20th centuries. The film is supposed to last 500 years. The last records of cousin Jane’s visit to Pataskola from Bucyrus on May 7, 1873 what what they had for lunch. We all strive for immortality ….
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@manton I think a lot about this as well. Part of the reason I write, online and paper, is the hope of leaving something behind. Maybe some openclaw will embody me? Archive.org helps. But entropy wins. Not trying to be a downer but time and the laws of physics are pretty hard to beat.
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@matthewlang thanks. Let me know when you want someone to give it a try.
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@matthewlang Nice. I’m currently using Ink because it has an archive link (all posts). Your new one looks nice … if you can fit an archive link in there somewehre I might try it :-)
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@toddgrotenhuis Of course you’d have to get the reference :-/
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@jtr yes, but why? Who are the .docx files for?
I guess, sadly, not everyone uses .org :-(
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@peterw to be fair, TOS took a few episodes before they figured their characters out.
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@jtr I just stepped outside for curiosity. Yesterday I shoveled a path on driveway. Today it’s under 3 to 6 inches of essentially ice. Wacking it hard with the corner of the snow shovel just breaks chips off the top.
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@jarrod Yeah, that sort of thing seems to be going ‘round.
I’m migrating my workflow to denote. A decade or more of old org files with a list of TODOs that will never get done. I think most are just moving to some sort of backlog. Are you using denote? -
This is going to be useful. Thanks.
#+BEGIN: denote-links :regexp "_emacs.*_planning" :sort-by-component last-modified :include-date - [[denote:20251211T142359][Denote migration strategy (2025-12-11)]]had to instlall denote-org (duh!). Learning…
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@jtr Excellent. I was unaware of meta notes.
One thing I’m working through right now is tagging scheme: minimal fixed set? An unbounded set, one for every project/person, etc? How do you approach this?
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@manton I’m still having issues. Spent a lot of time this moring trying to get a deterministic repeate-by, but it still seems non-deterministic at times.
I /think/ I have to convert “^J” to “^J^M” before pasting into the edit box on the web. It /usually/ works.
Whole posts wrapped sometimes.
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@jtr already there. Now I’m trying to refine tagging system per @publicvoit tagging rules karl-voit.at/2022/01/2…
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@jtr Yeah. I’m moving into denote at present. The more I learn, the more impressed I am.
Gonna be learning a lot more dired I think. Going to have to re-work my TODO workflow. ATM I capture most TODOs to a date-structured diary.org. Maype keep with links to notes as needd? -
@ayjay Can I read that article as an RSS feed somewhere ? Only 1/2 :-). I’ve been crawling into RSS (elfeed, scoring is marvelous) lately.
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@mark old workflows. Heh :-). I just admitted I’m no longer working on 80 column VT100s. visual-line-mode. curious.galthub.com/blog/2026…
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@eludom I’m still having problems with markdown that looks fine in preview, and works just fine when exported to my old hugo blog (http://curious.galthub.com/blog/2026-01-19/) formats as a blob of wrapped text when I post.
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@manton No. I use the web interface. Something really weird was going on with that post. I think maybe don’t spend the time debugging it and see if the problem crops up again.
I did just put up a new post (“Understanding Companies …”) that seems to have made it everywere it was suposed to go.
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@eludom It finished, but things still now showing up on curious.port111.com
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@manton Thanks for looking at it. Trying to re-post the same article now. It seems to be stuck on “Publishing latest changes to your blog…starting publishing”. Hanging with the progress bar about %5 :-?
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@ctietze my January 2026 Emacs Carnival post is here curious.galthub.com/blog/2026…
This year emacs-related goals include moving into denote, updating workflows, integrating AI where it makes sense and sharing more publicly. Specific packages will include denote, gptel, and likely something with Claude code. Still loving org-social. This is the year of the verb: “to emacs”.
[Apologies if this is duplicate content. There has been a glitch with the blogging platform and if this message shows up “normally” it’s been fixed]
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@manton There’s some really wonky or maybe very slow things going on.
My latest post is visible on mastadon: fosstodon.org/deck/@elu.
Is not showing up under my domain: curious.port111.com
and is not showing up under Posts when I log in to micro.blog micro.blog/account/p…
Something is either very slow or broken.
Have a look? Thanks.
—George Jones
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@ctietze my January 2026 Emacs Carnival post is here curious.galthub.com/blog/2026…
This year emacs-related goals include moving into denote, updating workflows, integrating AI where it makes sense and sharing more publicly. Specific packages will include denote, gptel, and likely something with Claude code. Still loving org-social. This is the year of the verb: “to emacs”.
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@jtr How goes Zen? I’m fairly happy with Brave, but it looks like Firefox/Mozilla is continuing down a bad path so maybe time to switch my backup browser.
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@knowprose @knowprose “I just wrote a book on…” is a proxy for “a human who has spent a lot of time thinking about…. and can probably summarize….and teach me about…” in less time than it work take me to come up to speed or read the book