Monthly Archives: July 2015

Moxie Marlinspike

I’ve written many times about the need to make email encryption accessible to Aunt Millie (see here, here, and here for example). Sadly, it’s a really hard problem. Now, maybe there’s some hope. The Wall Street Journal has an interesting … Continue reading

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Associating ielm with a Buffer

Another handy tip from Wilfred Hughes: Today's hidden Emacs gem: pressing C-c C-b in an ielm buffer lets you associate it with a buffer, so you can inspect buffer-local variables. — Wilfred Hughes (@_wilfredh) June 7, 2015

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The EFF’s Most Important Cases

This is the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s 25 anniversary. ars technica celebrated that anniversary with a nice article on the EFF’s most influential cases from its first 25 years. The takeaway from the article is that the EFF has been fighting … Continue reading

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There is No Internet of Things

A useful corollary to There is No Cloud. There is no Internet of Things, only other people's computers in your house. — Jacob H-A (@j4cob) July 15, 2015 In many ways, this is worse. Who knows what all those computers … Continue reading

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The Emacs C-x 4 Bindings

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a very nice review of the【Ctrl+x 4】key bindings. Most of us learned—or at least read about—those when we started with Emacs but probably forgot about them because they were too esoteric for us then. That’s where … Continue reading

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Magit 2.1.0 Summary

Over at LWN.net, Nathan Willis has a nice summary of the Magit 2.1.0 features. Obviously he doesn’t cover all the features or even all the new features but it’s worth reading for getting an idea what’s in the latest release. … Continue reading

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Basic Org Tutorial

Over at the Worg site, David O’Toole has a nice tutorial on the basics of Org mode. It covers only the outlining and TODO features but there’s still some meat there for the more experienced Org user. For example, I … Continue reading

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Seven Emacs Settings

Timothy Pratley lists Seven specialty Emacs settings with big payoffs. These suggestions are “special” in that they aren’t basic settings that every new Emacs user gets around to implementing. Not everyone will want to use all of them. For example, … Continue reading

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If You’ve Got Nothing to Hide…

…you’ve got nothing to fear. For those of you who are as sick as I am of hearing that bit of tendentious nonsense floated by those who want to stick their noses into every aspect of your affairs, Jacques Mattheij … Continue reading

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NSA Bulk Metadata Collection Resumes

This is why you must always resist government overtures to impose surveillance programs: You can never get rid of them. Despite expiration of the enabling legislation, the clear fourth amendment issues, and the lack of any productive results, the FISA … Continue reading

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