Author Archives: jcs

Join the NSA and Do Illegal Things

Posted on 2014-11-09 by jcs

“We’re going to give you the opportunity to do stuff you can’t legally do anywhere else” — NSA Director's hiring pitch at Stanford. — Morgan Mayhem (@headhntr) November 6, 2014 You probably can’t legally do those things at the NSA … Continue reading →

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Rating Secure Messaging Applications

Posted on 2014-11-09 by jcs

The EFF has published its Secure Messaging Scorecard that rates several messaging applications on several important security axes. Some have all the desired attributes, others have none. Some, like Apple’s iMessage have most of the attributes but fail to be … Continue reading →

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Microsoft

Posted on 2014-11-08 by jcs

Still evil after all these years.

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Genes Best Removed from the Pool

Posted on 2014-11-08 by jcs

Yikes! Who would do this? No Irreal readers, I’m certain. Worse, all these instructions appear to be aimed at developers who should surely know better. I especially like the ones with sudo. Really, if you enter one of those commands … Continue reading →

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Dowsing

Posted on 2014-11-07 by jcs

Wilfred Hughes makes an acute observation: Trying to get good signal is the modern dowsing. — Wilfred Hughes (@_wilfredh) October 29, 2014 Sometimes, it does seem like that.

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Comments

Posted on 2014-11-07 by jcs

I’ve moved my comments to Disqus in the hope that that will be an effective way of keeping the spammers from using up resources and annoying my hosting provider. I’ve turned comments back on and we’ll see how things go. … Continue reading →

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Welcome to the Dark Side. We Have Macros

Posted on 2014-11-06 by jcs

Jason Lewis over at Practical Elegance has an entertaining duo of posts on moving to Emacs. Like me, he was a long-time Vim user and when he moved to Emacs, he went all the way and didn’t use evil-mode. As … Continue reading →

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Why Lambda?

Posted on 2014-11-05 by jcs

Thankful Monster explains something I didn’t know. Very interesting. So that's where lambda comes from. I always just kind of thought it was picked at random. pic.twitter.com/wAY1PYN73B — Gerascophobia (@itsbeardo) October 25, 2014

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New Stuff in Emacs 24.4

Posted on 2014-11-05 by jcs

Xah Lee has a nice post on some of the smaller additions to Emacs 24.4. Unless you like reading through NEWS files, this is a quick and easy way to find some nifty new features. I found a couple of … Continue reading →

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EWW

Posted on 2014-11-04 by jcs

Gabriel Chavez notes that EWW has, in a sense, completed Emacs: That's it. #emacs is officially an operating system now. pic.twitter.com/KU3ODWXqIH — gabriel_chavez (@gabriel_chavez) October 20, 2014 Not everyone, though, is impressed: #Emacs's new web browser is called eww. Appropriate … Continue reading →

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