Monthly Archives: September 2015

Lenovo Yet Again

Posted on 2015-09-30 by jcs

From Irreal’s You Can’t Make This Stuff Up department we have news of Lenovo once again secreting malware on their computers. This time it’s on the top-of-the-line Thinkpad model widely assumed to be immune from this nonsense. I know lots … Continue reading →

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Cory Doctorow on Ad Blocking

Posted on 2015-09-29 by jcs

Over at The Guardian, Cory Doctorow has an excellent article on ad blocking and the future of Internet advertising. He makes a point that I haven’t seen before: it’s only a matter of time until one of the big data … Continue reading →

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Seven Years of Reproducible Research

Posted on 2015-09-28 by jcs

Christophe Pouzat has posted the slides from his talk Seven Years of Reproducible Research: From R / Sweave to Org. As the title suggests, the talk covers Pouzat’s evolution from using R and Sweave for reproducible research to using Org … Continue reading →

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What We Really Mean

Posted on 2015-09-27 by jcs

Like all great humor, it’s funny because it’s so true: Every time a developer says "temporary workaround" I remember this list. pic.twitter.com/OpI48BvJxo — Dare Obasanjo (@Carnage4Life) September 4, 2015

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Still Not Paranoid?

Posted on 2015-09-27 by jcs

Perhaps this will help. Remember yesterday when I wrote about the MI5’s Andrew Parker assuring us that “MI5 is not about “browsing the lives” of the public? Here’s what they do when they think no one’s watching: The Intercept reports … Continue reading →

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Turing Complete Documents

Posted on 2015-09-26 by jcs

I thought this was pretty funny until I realized it applies to my beloved Org mode too. Why is it that the first thing we do after developing a new document format is to make it Turing-complete? Seriously what is … Continue reading →

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Browsing Users’ Lives

Posted on 2015-09-26 by jcs

Andrew Parker, head of MI5 and Britain’s representative of the international cabal of nosey Parkers1 who wish to scrutinize every bit of our on-line activities—for our own good, of course—is complaining to the BBC about how hard it is to … Continue reading →

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You Can’t Make This Stuff Up

Posted on 2015-09-25 by jcs

Would be too snarky for me to point out that these are the same people who want us to give them our crypto keys? — matt blaze (@mattblaze) September 24, 2015

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The Scope of the Interactive Declaration

Posted on 2015-09-25 by jcs

One of the very useful things I learned from Xah Lee’s Emacs tutorials is that almost any code can be attached to the Emacs Interactive declaration. The only rule is that the code must return a list of values for … Continue reading →

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How to be a Real Language

Posted on 2015-09-24 by jcs

A language isn't really a *real* language until its got an #emacs major-mode ;-) https://t.co/wPicLkDvh8 — Ian Rumford (@ianrumford) August 18, 2015

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