Monthly Archives: December 2019

A Useful Tip for the Holidays

Posted on 2019-12-21 by jcs

This is way out of the usual Irreal fare but it’s, at the same time, astounding, obvious, and useful for the Christmas season: You’ve got to be kidding me. After all these years… pic.twitter.com/dhNgjCVzeG — Chuck B (@chUckbUte) December 15, … Continue reading →

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Emacs As Your Shell

Posted on 2019-12-20 by jcs

I’m finally finding time to watch more of the videos from the Emacs Conference 2019. Howard Abrams gave an interesting talk on using Emacs as his shell and scripting language. As he says, it’s just him trying out some ideas … Continue reading →

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CNBC on Open Source

Posted on 2019-12-19 by jcs

The Programming subreddit has a pointer to an interesting CNBC report on Open Source. The report is in the form of a video that is just shy of 14 minutes long so while it’s not a comprehensive survey, it’s more … Continue reading →

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Mailfence

Posted on 2019-12-18 by jcs

Those of you who liked the suggestion from Monday’s post to get rid of your Gmail account may be wondering how to do that. Realistically, if you want an account that isn’t harvesting your data, you’re going to have to … Continue reading →

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Irreal SSL Certificate Update

Posted on 2019-12-17 by jcs

The new Irreal SSL certificate is (finally) activated. Despite appearances, I’ve been dealing with this since last Friday when I discovered the old certificate had expired. Of course, I got no notification of a pending expiry, just a browser exception … Continue reading →

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Google Blocking Some Browsers?

Posted on 2019-12-16 by jcs

There’s a mini-scandal roiling the Internet making the claim that Google is blocking some Linux browsers. It apparently started when onedoer complained on the KDE subreddit that he could no longer log in to Google services with Falkon or Konqueror. … Continue reading →

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A Bit of Wisdom…

Posted on 2019-12-15 by jcs

…from Paul Graham Ideology is artificial stupidity. — Paul Graham (@paulg) December 4, 2019

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Displaying Org-mode Notifications Natively on MacOS

Posted on 2019-12-14 by jcs

As many of you know, I live happily in the Apple Ecosystem but do virtually everything that doesn’t involve the browser in Emacs. One exception is my calendar. Events like “Renew ACM membership” or “Research ways of doing \(X\)” are … Continue reading →

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Strategies for Remote Work

Posted on 2019-12-13 by jcs

Ever since I read Mike Elgan’s article on The New Bedouins back in 2007, I’ve been fascinated by the idea of remote work. These days, remote work is commonplace and becoming more so but in 2007 it was an impossible … Continue reading →

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Expired SSL Certificate

Posted on 2019-12-13 by jcs

I noticed this morning that Irreal’s SSL certificate expired last night. I’ve ordered a new one that should be active shortly (although it was a hassle last time so who knows). In the mean time you can still reach the … Continue reading →

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