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What Happens When You Build In Backdoors?

Posted on 2015-03-07 by jcs

They end up biting you in the butt. Matt Green’s post is a nice explanation of the FREAK exploit. You can read his post for the technical details, which, really, aren’t that interesting except that they show how making it … Continue reading →

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Customizing the Ace-Window Selection Face

Posted on 2015-03-06 by jcs

Abo-abo has made a slight enhancement to ace-window that makes it possible to customize the face of the selection character of each window. Take a look at the example in abo-abo’s post to see what I mean. It makes the … Continue reading →

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Reproducible Research with Docker

Posted on 2015-03-05 by jcs

Karl Voit retweets this Prove reproducibility, waste less time @mgymrek Gentle intro to Docker for reproducible research http://t.co/Dtp9BuHqiv #openscience — Jason Stirnaman (@jastirn) February 11, 2015 that points to this post from Stacy Konkiel that, in turn, tells us to … Continue reading →

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The Emacs Way

Posted on 2015-03-04 by jcs

Howard Abrams over at howardism.org has a nice post on the The Tao of Emacs. His idea is to compare the Emacs workflow with that of other editors such as Vim. While Vim users have a shell-centric workflow where actions … Continue reading →

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Yet Another Convert

Posted on 2015-03-03 by jcs

It appears that org2blog is on track for world domination. At least the world of Emacs and WordPress.

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The prin* Family

Posted on 2015-03-03 by jcs

This is really a note to myself but I’ll bet many of you are in the same boat. When I want to print something in Elisp, I usually use format but sometimes one of the prin* functions is really what … Continue reading →

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An Interview with Carsten Dominik

Posted on 2015-03-02 by jcs

I recently came across an old but interesting interview of Carsten Dominik. The interview was by Randal Schwartz on his FLOSS Weekly Netcast back in September 2010. Despite its age, the netcast doesn’t seem dated at all. Dominik is a … Continue reading →

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The Wages of Sin (Lenovo Edition)

Posted on 2015-03-01 by jcs

$10B. The article estimates that 1,000,000 people in America were affected. That means that I have to revise my previous estimate to 25¢.

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SBCL 1.2.9

Posted on 2015-03-01 by jcs

Steel Bank Common Lisp is out and available at the usual place. This month’s release has some optimizations and a bunch of bug fixes. You can get the details from SBCL’s NEWS page. As I say every month, if you’re … Continue reading →

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Just When You Thought It Couldn’t Get Worse

Posted on 2015-02-28 by jcs

What could make the Lenovo/SuperFish scandal worse than it already is? This could: .@iblametom @Forbes @kristamonster May I rephrase? “$250,000 is all it takes for Lenovo to sell its customers out.” — Reginald Braithwaite (@raganwald) February 27, 2015 If true and … Continue reading →

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