Category Archives: General

Tell Me Again Why You’re Still Using Windows

Posted on 2018-12-15 by jcs

Microsoft has been caught again spying on their users. Microsoft, of course, claims it’s all a big misunderstanding. They explain, Facebook like, that if you don’t want to share your data you have to adjust this obscure setting involving diagnostic … Continue reading →

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Is Org the Borg?

Posted on 2018-12-14 by jcs

I laughed when I saw this tweet: omg you guys .org -> .tex -> .pdf is a great work-flow for sharing information. It’s like #inception though – first #emacs became my OS and now everything I create in Emacs is … Continue reading →

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SSL Update

Posted on 2018-12-12 by jcs

SSL appears to be working now. Sorry for all the confusion.

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The GCHQ’s Need for Bulk Hacking has “Evolved”

Posted on 2018-12-10 by jcs

In what could be considered a corollary to The Iron Law of Data Collection1, the UK’s GCHQ (their version of the American NSA) has informed Parliament that their use of bulk device hacking—originally promised to be used sparingly only in … Continue reading →

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Experts Use Emacs and Vim

Posted on 2018-12-09 by jcs

Over at the Triplebyte Blog there’s an interesting post on editors, who uses them, what languages their users code in, and how their users did in their interviews. By now you’ve undoubtedly heard about that last aspect: Emacs and Vim … Continue reading →

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Literate Programming with Org-mode

Posted on 2018-12-08 by jcs

Niklas Carlsson has posted a rerecording of a talk he gave at work about the power of Org-mode for literate programming and exploratory programming in general. Although he is running Emacs with the Doom package, you should have no trouble … Continue reading →

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Query

Posted on 2018-12-07 by jcs

This is a question for Emacs users on macOS 10.14 (Mojave). Since upgrading to Mojave and recompiling Emacs with the display patches, I’m seeing a delay of about 5 or 6 seconds when I invoke Safari from Emacs. This happens, … Continue reading →

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The Ignorant, The Stupid, and The Insane

Posted on 2018-12-06 by jcs

Every Irreal reader knows, I’m sure, about the proposed encryption—anti-encryption is more accurate—law that the Australian Government is trying to push through Parliament. When it was first proposed, I thought that it was another case of politicians being ignorant of … Continue reading →

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You Are a Target

Posted on 2018-12-05 by jcs

Last week, I wrote in Nothing to Hide that although the “I Have Nothing to Hide” folks believe they are too unimportant to be targeted by governments and hackers, that is almost certainly wrong. Serendipitously, the current issue the SANS … Continue reading →

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The Psychology Replication Crisis

Posted on 2018-12-04 by jcs

I’ve written several times about the dismal reproducibility rate of experiments in Psychology. Mostly that’s been in support of my contention that “Tech Addiction” is a nonexistent problem made up by journalists looking for something to write about and supported—when … Continue reading →

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