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Could this potentially open up the possibility of implementing a user-level desktop session serialization and restoration feature? Similar to how Emacs handles per-directory sessions.

Looking at the security of twitter account, it looks like an insider job at Twitter. Unimaginable without inside help.

They are late though. Last year I have switched to Debian because of very few DIY repair options in MacBooks. And I discovered OS superiority as well. Everything in Debian (Gnome) is so fast - opening PDF files, Files (finder), Terminal, EMacs. Debian running on i5 is much faster then macOS running on i7.

what I infer from the article is that the author doesn't talk to parents much. It is the frequency that keeps our memory cells charged.

After driving a four-wheeler for a decade, without touching a bike, people tend to forget balancing. Although it takes very little effort to revive it. Just a session or two may be.

Same should be true for languages. Start talking frequently and it will revive all your language skills.

True. And some states will still take another couple of generations. For example, no sense of Indian-ness was observed when killing Assam policemen by the fellow Indians on the other side fighting over state border.

I remember a discussion a couple of years ago. Why Indian states are not as straight cut as US states? The above incident is an example why it is not possible as yet here. I am not saying it is good or bad.

One big problem with the current internet is that the DNS for the top level domains (like .com) is controlled by centralized entities, such as ICANN.

The TLD here is .eth; who controls it. As far as I have understood, this service is selling kind of NFT. But the ultimate linkage with the real world is controlled by a single entity (company).

I don't get what is the benefit.

I am glad that they have come together, finally. After a serious threat from social media companies like Facebook and Twitter. Social media companies have grown too much in power. And they are misusing it all the time.

The decision of Google to build RSS support in Chrome is also part of the same plan. Now you don't need an account on TW, FB to follow someone's blog.

WhatsApp should give an option to upload my public-key. I want to generate public key on my computer using some other free software. For non-tech users, they may keep generating keys however they want. But there should be an option.

That is the only way to guarantee that it really supports privacy.

I wish there is a socket available to experiment with it on a breadboard.

I still do it. And I feel much better if I take a 1.5 to 2 hour sleep after lunch. Of course, I don't go immediately after lunch. But I sit in /Vajraasana/ for 15 mins and 15 min quick reading; and then sleep.

What I like about Lisp's syntax is that the cursor (point) is always in a complete Lisp program. You move up one set of parenthesis, again a complete program. Move up further .... till you reach the top (file-level).

So this gives good opportunity to Editor makers. Compile "this" level, 1-level-up, 2-level-up and so on. In an editor you can always check your program while coding.

Example is Cider package for Emacs for Clojure programming language.

We cannot generalize here. Holi is mostly a north-Indian festival. Kumbh is for all; so there we can say that it affects everyone. But this year very few people traveled.

Also when we say "Medical systems collapsing" then we should be specific. Because there are 700+ districts and there is a different story everywhere.

My father and mother went to the community clinic at a walking distance from my house and there was no queue at all. No wait. Now on 1st of May, it is my and my wife's turn.

And if you use Emacs then Tramp covers it.

I have not named RMS. FSF and the cause is bigger than RMS.

I have read many translations but the could not find anything close to the Hindi translation - "Patanjalya Yog Darshan". This is a short book. And if you want to go deeper then "Paatnjali Yoga pradeep". But even the Hindi language in the latter is pro-level.

Instead of `hathyog pradeepika', I find `patanjali yog darshan' more enlightening. According to Patanlaji, there is more to Yoga than just physical health. He divides the book into various parts. But the main, which the general public relate to, is `saadhana pad'. It starts with

/Atha yoganushasanam/ == अथ योगानुशासनम == let us start yoga with discipline.

This is the first /sootra/ (verse). And every verse builds on the previous. And in the 2nd verse he defines what is yoga.

/Yogashchittavruttinirodhah/ == योगःचित्तवृत्तिनिरोधः == ...

Literal meaning of Yoga is add, sum, to be one with. For believers, it could be - "to be one with God", for spiritual, meditating people - "to be one with supreme consciousness". And as Vivekananda explains to non-believers, you can think of atman as a form of energy... it can never be created nor destroyed... so just oscillate between energy and partical form... and yoga means to be one with the source (energy).

As par India system of yogic tradition, that is the goal of every human being and Patanjali tells us how to achieve that. /Yogashchittavruttinirodhah/ "Yoga means suppressing (/nirodhah/) the fluctuations (/vrutti/) of mind (/chitta/)." Well, I am using close meanings. Patanjali divides our mind into various logical parts.

I find this really fascinating. Must read. But the best book that I have found is in Sanskrit and Hindi.

My frustration is for the stupid people in the GCC mailing list who think that those individuals are bigger than the ideological cause.

They even started contemplating that GCC should fork away from FSF.

I would like this to put statistically. Out of 40 students in my class (1990s), no one aspired to be an IAS or IPS. There could be two reasons. (1) They didn't want to be corrupt, OR (2) They might be thinking it is beyond their intellectual reach.

Further, I was brought up in a public sector township. All the families were having one Govt job. Still only a few (1 or 2) wanted to join a govt service.

I don't want to generalize anything. Because the sample set is too small. But just want to bring a perspective. If you have seen something like 15 out of 40 wanting to become an IAS officer just to get bribed then please put the figures. This is specifically for @Kamaal.

I have long waited for a Pure GNU OS. Redhat's, oops sorry, IBM's move gives more motivation to use Guix.

It will be stupidest thing to do. But I am not sure what is the source of such a rumor. I had tweeted my concern and someone replied to me with a video of Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman. She is completely denying outright ban.

The video is in this tweet: https://twitter.com/wildwind78/status/1371440962724098051?s=...

Banning is not a solution to anything. And as far as the value is concerned, it will definitely go down initially when legitimate people will pull out. But in the long run, it will rise because of the alternative illegal use of the currency.

Another thought is that there are ~200 countries. Some of them survive only on illegal funds. Will it be possible to ban this thing completely?

During candidate selection, we were desperately looking for something like this. Code sharing is available at many places. But running the code is nice feature. But as @jarofgreen pointed out, how will you stop abuse?

I doubt the technical feasibility of this. How can internet be blocked only for one person in a city? There are gazillion ways to access internet.

I recall the "Linux is obsolete" thread. After a long time I read something like that.

Please share any first hand experience if you have faced any internet blockade anytime in last few years. I am seriously skeptical of the news portals now a days.

The reason for my skepticism is that I have never faced internet censorship. I was in Delhi till last June.

I just want the disconnect button. It used to sit in status bar. I don't want to fetch things when I am reading downloaded articles.

This is not correct information that the new laws adversely affect the interest of farmers.

It hampers the middleman more than the actual farmers. North part of India has two states which have significant contribution to farming in India - Punjab and Haryana.

New laws allow the farm owner to directly sell the crop to the corporate without any middleman. In the above two states the trade is tightly controlled by middlemen. Hence the issue. In other states, very few people are protesting.

protected India's farmers from the free market

What does this line mean in the article? The author is highly biased against free markets.

This article talks about one of my pains. This idea of apps was once explored by Mozilla. Remember XUL? XULRunner? I wish they come up with something of that sort soon. Not only that. I also want Mozilla to come up with an alternate for NodeJS. Why can't Firefox's JS engine be separated?

They care about features.

This I certainly don't agree. Telegram would have been the most popular app in India if this was true. It is only recently that WA has come close and slightly more in some cases.