Category Archives: General

Annual Who Has Your Back Report

Posted on 2015-06-27 by jcs

The EFF has published its annual Who Has Your Back? report. The idea is that they look at those technology companies that deal with our private data and rate them on the following criteria Follows industry-accepted best practices Tells users … Continue reading →

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A Tip for Artist Mode

Posted on 2015-06-26 by jcs

If you use artist mode in Org mode, you may find this tip useful. use artist-mode in #emacs to do ascii-art block diagrams, if using org-mode do it inside of #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE block after hitting C-c ' — Bryan Murdock (@bdmurdock) … Continue reading →

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DuckDuckGo Bang Searches

Posted on 2015-06-26 by jcs

If you’re a DuckDuckGo user—and you really should be unless you like having your search history logged and sold—there’s a very nice shortcut you can use when searching specific sites. Suppose, for example, you want to find the documentation for … Continue reading →

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Lisp Functions in Org Table Calculations

Posted on 2015-06-25 by jcs

Sacha Chua has a nice post on how she uses an Org table to keep track of medications her family needs and how it automatically calculates how many she needs to buy based on how long they need to be … Continue reading →

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2 or b

Posted on 2015-06-24 by jcs

Over at the Google+ ErgoEmacs community, Xah Lee asks is it easier to type 2 or b on a QWERTY keyboard. The majority of people said ‘b’ but I was surprised at how many felt ‘2’ was easier. If you … Continue reading →

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All Your Conversations are Belong to Us

Posted on 2015-06-24 by jcs

LWN.net is reporting on a Debian bug report complaining that Chromium, Google’s open source version of their Chrome Browser, was downloading a binary blob after it started. The responsible Debian maintainers did not have access to the code for the … Continue reading →

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There is No Cloud

Posted on 2015-06-23 by jcs

A handy reminder from vierito5 (via Karl Voit): Periodic reminder: There is no Cloud. It's just someone else's computer. pic.twitter.com/v4MxtTHR0f — vierito5 (@vierito5) June 15, 2015

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Undoing Git Actions

Posted on 2015-06-23 by jcs

Git is a wonderful thing and despite its reputation for being really hard to use, is easy to understand and use for the usual cases. The problems occur when you make a mistake and the easy mental model you have … Continue reading →

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Trust Us—We’re Wise

Posted on 2015-06-22 by jcs

The next time the government asks you to trust in their good and mature judgment, remember this.

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Org and Beamer

Posted on 2015-06-22 by jcs

Presentation software. Windows has Power Point, Apple has Keynote, and Linux has Open Office. Everyone hates presentation software and everyone uses it. If you’re someone who works on multiple platforms, you might have to learn to use two or more … Continue reading →

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