Monthly Archives: August 2022

More On Google’s False Accusation

Posted on 2022-08-31 by jcs

I thought I was finished with the story of Google falsely accusing one of their users of child molestation but Ben Thompson of Stratechery has his own take on the matter that he describes in a long blog post on … Continue reading →

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Mastering Eshell

Posted on 2022-08-30 by jcs

Mickey has (re)posted his article on Eshell. I think he’s updated it a bit because he talks about Emacs 28 but regardless, it’s a great article and every Emacser should read it. The problem with Eshell is that there’s not … Continue reading →

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Quick Capture of Project Notes

Posted on 2022-08-29 by jcs

Ben Simon has a nice example of leveraging Emacs to solve a problem and reduce his workflow friction. During his video calls he would bring up a notepad file to capture his notes and share them with his the other … Continue reading →

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New Federal Open Access Policy

Posted on 2022-08-28 by jcs

Finally some sense from the US government. According to this White House news release, research funded by the government must be available to the public without cost or delay. In particular, the current policy of a one year embargo on … Continue reading →

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Refiling Org Headline Nodes

Posted on 2022-08-27 by jcs

Mario Jason Braganza has a useful post that considers moving a headline node from one org file to another. His use case is moving items from his TODO file to his current task file as he acts on TODO items. … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Knuth versus McIlroy

Posted on 2022-08-26 by jcs

One of our cherished stories, at least of one of my cherished stories, is the account of Don Knuth and Doug McIlroy solving the same problem. The problem was Given a text file and integer k, print the k most … Continue reading →

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An Afterword to Yesterday’s Post on Google’s False Accusation

Posted on 2022-08-25 by jcs

After I wrote yesterday’s post on Google falsely accusing an innocent man of child molestation, I saw this post on the story by John Gruber. My first thought was that I would fold whatever Gruber had to say into my … Continue reading →

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Google Falsely Accuses a Father of Molesting His Son

Posted on 2022-08-24 by jcs

What!? You’re stilling using Google services? Haven’t you been listening to anything I’ve told you? I’m sorry but I’m over being polite. If you’re still using Gmail, Google Docs, or Google Photos, then you’re being naively foolish and deserve whatever … Continue reading →

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Router Security

Posted on 2022-08-23 by jcs

Apple has a useful page on how to set up your routers securely. They don’t currently have a router product so this isn’t about how to configure an Apple product. The advice applies to any router. The page is advertised … Continue reading →

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More On the Brailsford-Kernighan Video

Posted on 2022-08-22 by jcs

The video chat between David Brailsford and Brian Kernighan has sparked a lot of interest and commentary among the Unix faithful. Dough McIlroy offered this story concerning egrep to the conversation. The egrep connection is that it was egrep’s regex … Continue reading →

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