Author Archives: jcs

GPGTools for OS X

Posted on 2015-08-27 by jcs

If you’re running OS X and use the native mail app, you know that it can be hard to integrate the GPG encryption suite. Fortunately, there’s a custom solution for the Mac called GPGTools that integrates GPG with OS X … Continue reading →

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What’s Up With the Cat?

Posted on 2015-08-26 by jcs

Schrödinger: How’s my cat, Doc? Vet: I have good news and bad news.. — Viktor Winetrout, Jr (@Cpin42) October 6, 2014

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Daring Fireball Demolishes a Particularly Silly Article

Posted on 2015-08-26 by jcs

Irreal readers know I like and use Apple products but I’m not a paid up member of the cult so I seldom write about the subject. The most fascinating thing about Apple, I think, is the derangement syndrome that it … Continue reading →

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Artur Malabarba Tells it Like it is

Posted on 2015-08-25 by jcs

Who can argue? Services that claim to "cost less than your daily coffee" are seriously deluded if they think they're as important as my daily coffee. — Artur Malabarba (@AMalabarba) August 22, 2015

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Converting from Word to Org

Posted on 2015-08-25 by jcs

In a comment to one of my recent posts (1, 2) on converting from Org mode to Word doc format, Grant Rettke pointed me to an interesting Org Mode mailing list thread on how academics leverage Org mode for writing … Continue reading →

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Safe at Last

Posted on 2015-08-24 by jcs

Now I don't have to worry if someone steals my potatoes: they're hashed and salted. pic.twitter.com/BMNxRK7c0H — Jonathan Fuerth (@jfuerth) April 12, 2015

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Karl Voit Lightning Talk

Posted on 2015-08-24 by jcs

PIM export Karl Voit gave a lightning talk on Org Mode at the recent Chaos Computer Club Camp2015. Being a lightning talk is was pretty short. That’s too bad, I would have liked it to be a bit longer. The … Continue reading →

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Schneier on Going Dark

Posted on 2015-08-23 by jcs

There’s been an alarming increase in Law Enforcement’s campaigning for mandatory backdoors in communication software. They are increasingly taking their case “to the people” with dishonest Op Eds intended to induce fear of terrorism and the other four horsemen. Bruce … Continue reading →

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Super- and Sub-Word

Posted on 2015-08-22 by jcs

I’ve blogged about this before but here’s a handy chart to server as a reminder: #Emacs subword-mode, superword-mode, camelCase, snake_case http://t.co/34mROSF4rs pic.twitter.com/wj3mNEKmAq — Xah Lee (@xah_lee) August 18, 2015

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The Network is Hostile

Posted on 2015-08-22 by jcs

Matthew Green over at Cryptography Engineering has a depressing piece on the security status of the network. He says that the network is hostile and that that hostility is baked in by its design. Our packets travel through routers and … Continue reading →