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Monthly Archives: December 2018
Or Maybe Not
Despite yesterday’s post, it appears that SSL is not, in fact, working for Irreal. I’ve been trying to reach my hosting provider’s technical support but without luck. Sorry for the delay. I’ll let you know when things get resolved. In … Continue reading
Irreal Is Secure
A few of you have written to me complaining that Irreal’s SSL certificate had expired. That was news to me because I had never gotten an SSL certificate and as far as I knew, Irreal didn’t have one. It turned … Continue reading
The GCHQ’s Need for Bulk Hacking has “Evolved”
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
Experts Use Emacs and Vim
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
Literate Programming with Org-mode
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
Query
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
The Ignorant, The Stupid, and The Insane
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
You Are a Target
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
The Psychology Replication Crisis
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
Capturing Receipts
Moritz Schäfer has posted the workflow he uses to capture photos of receipts into an Org file. His method is to capture receipts by taking a photo of them with his smart phone using an app—it sounds like JotNot Pro—that … Continue reading