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I don't know whether you would like to disclose the whole source and what you would do if the product takes off, so didn't explicitly ask you to open source. But yeah, show users what was sent would be helpful, better if there's some way users can verify.

I like your interface aesthetics.

Instead of asking users to download data and reupload, maybe animations using actual CSVs and query artifacts (graphs) are more illustrative for people in a hurry or people who cannot come up with a query question atm?

And the privacy bit would be more convincing if people can see that part of code.

I've used {GNU |X}Emacs intensively for over 20 years and never thought about doing a thorough study of many of the things it provides like you do in Emacs Solo. Your work is inspiring to me in showing me what dedication and thoughtfulness can achieve, even when it seemed at the beginning as trivial as one tending their own homestead. Many, many kudos.

https://archive.is/CkH4t

I used GMT for map making in my dissertation in 2008-2009. It was fascinating to be able to make great-looking maps with reliefs, shades and legends using publicly available terrain and border data.

Taskwarrior has a `log' subcommand, originally used to note down tasks that you have already done. In combination with the tool's search & filter capabilities this results in a quite decent log tool.

You can use a specialized tag to separate your log from your finished tasks. I was using "+memo".

So

    task +memo +yak "Tuned up my Emacs config a bit now it boots -0.02s faster"

Also you can customize report formats for your log, and create shell aliases to make logging and looking up easier.

Edit: typo

Nice! I use Fedora Silverblue and Emacs. Since Silverblue uses toolboxes (OCI containers), it would be nice to put most config codes into projects and set up one toolbox for each of the projects. That way, I can start working on a new computer in 10 minutes, without setting up all those environments.

fw seems to make this more feasible.

Yeah, those 5-min infomercials are nightmare.

I am learning to be an independent content producer if that's a thing. But I have family and there's constant self-imposed pressure to pursue a regularly paid job. I am juggling between job applications and making things at the moment. I guess I really need to talk to people and think it through.

Your kind words give me a lot of support I need. Thank you.

I seldom talk about my financial status online. But I have been searching for jobs on Glassdoor and talked with people on WeChat and a few social networks in China regarding my job seeking.

Thinking that just that could make me a target of these crooks ... wow, just wow.

On large, generic platforms like Facebook and YouTube, I sense the possibility that these ads that are essentially spam can drive a much higher conversion than the legal businesses' ads, and eventually drive out other types of ads. Those are not nigeria princes asking you for "hlep", you can tell the guys behind it put in a lot of efforts and serious money, some made it like a trailer of _The Pursuit of Happyness_. There's no way Google or Facebook's AI could tell that they are suspicious schemes.

I am unemployed for 6 months now, and I watch YouTube from time to time, and search for all kinds of things. From a human viewer perspective, the ads were more related to my YouTube watching behaviour than my browsing history. I use DuckDuckGo but let Google Analytics see me.

Recently I decide to start doing video essays. I searched for a ton of medieval history stuff and watched a ton of related clips. I notice that YouTube began to show ads of at least 2 "I get rich from millions in debt" self-help workshops/courses to me, which I've never shown any interest in.

I have watched audio equipment review videos as well, and that's the only possible connection I can establish between the ads and my online behaviour. Are a lot of unemployed people seeking to enter audio/video making? Or are the snake oil ads showing on many people's screens because of the dire economic situation many of us are in?

I submit this for discussion for I worry that in our current self-isolation due to the endemic, could we self-impose coersive persuasion that make us even more isolated from the society and the reality?

a world of "applications should ask me when they want to do something" transparency.

Why not make the user know what applications do: which files, ports, devices it has to access, and what data it emits, to begin with?

Org-mode syntax is no better than that of AsciiDoc, or arguably Markdown.

But I can assign keywords and unique id to sections, include sections from another file, generate indexes and sitemaps in fully customizable manners, incorporate other programming environments. What markup languages can do that?

Org-Mode syntax is an interface to a powerful writing/authoring environment. To dismiss it as a `markup language' is not a good way to advocate its adoption. Something similar can be said to ways people appreciate the power of Emacs.

I am not sure this helps people get into the habit of paying attention to news instead of hovering over social media sites, other than raising awareness. Every one of the feeds can flood your RSS inbox in a few hours, and a normal person simply don't have time to catch up with all of them. I remember this was how I abandoned RSS the first 5 times.

You may want to pick only a few of them, maybe one for each political leaning, and look at their site to see if they provide feeds by section, then pick the section you are interested in, instead of importing the OPML whole.

I think my laptop's heaviness helps :P If I want to write something outdoors I remember to pick up my notebook if I remember how clumsy my laptop is. At home, it is always by my hand.

I use an A5 size notebook by a Japanese vendor, the brand is Stalogy. It has ~185 thin sheets and weighs only ~100g. The paper is quite good, light and sturdy. If you use a fountain pen or ball pen, the marks won't smear the other side of the page. Highlighters can be seen from the back but you won't mistaken the marks for those on this side. Haven't tried watercolor though.

The covers may become a bit wrinkled if they are wet, but inner pages are not much affected by water if you press them flat when drying. I find this out after I spilled some water in my bag. Luckily no electronic gadgets were in it then.

I have tried to use a dozen of 'digital' tools for tracking tasks and taking notes. Bullet journal is the first analog thing I tried and it remains in my daily routine for 3 months now.

I have problem understanding the efforts to reimplement the concept in various software systems (Evernote, org-mode, etc.). Why confine yourself in the limited computer system?

Emacs Org-mode's org-babel functionality. I have a few org-mode files storing all the dotfiles, put under version control. I can update and deploy them from within Emacs.

Yes, and the angle of attack sensor also stops the stall warning if it reads a value above a certain threshold, discarding the value as invalid.

But apparently the airplane can still fly for a short time even at this crazily large angle. Therefore when the pilot did the right thing to reduce the angle, he triggered the stall warning again and completely got confused. I think this is a major design flaw in Airbus's system.