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Sure, I started using (emacs) org-mode about a decade ago after deciding I wanted to get my notes out of Evernote. Obviously I wanted to avoid migrating again in the future, I wanted something as close as possible to plain text that wasn't in a SaaS.

org-mode happened to tick all the boxes while allowing me to:

* make links to lines from e-books I can click and go straight there

* refer to part of an email

* todo and agenda

* export in a easily to many formats to share with my coworkers or friends

* have some basic spreadsheet functionality (I don't really have need for an office suite)

* inline source code I can eval like a REPL, etc etc.

I probably could have used a handful of tools to get what I wanted, but org-mode offered all that and more. I expect I'll probably use it the rest of my life.

as for this particular project? I'm not a vim user, but it's nice to know that should I decide become one, I've got options.

funnily enough it's something I've been working on for my personal dotfile setup but instead unfortunately decided to go with ansible for now despite being a big fan of both nix and nixos. Nix was just a bit too heavy for some of the small lxc containers etc I wanted to setup.

the next release of Crystal will also be 1.0 too.

https://crystal-lang.org/

Qt is lovely but the company that controls it is in a bad place financially and it's not clear what will become of Qt if they go under.

this part has always been clear:

"Should The Qt Company discontinue the development of the Qt Free Edition under the required licenses, then the Foundation has the right to release Qt under a BSD-style license or under other open source licenses. The agreements stay valid in case of a buy-out, a merger or bankruptcy."

https://kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.php

I also had the benefit of being able to walk away from my stupid early deceptions instead of them being massively successful.

I can't relate to him because I honestly don't know what that does to a person.

Yep, it's close to how I see it.

org-mode is great tool for emacs as an environment. If the idea of having such a tool so close so tied into how you're working then it's the best tool I know of.

If you just want a markdown-ish outliner you can probably get that workflow elsewhere.

following the cigarette example though at some point the trend seems to stop declining and the black market fills the gap

in some sense tax havens are kind of like black market banks

That's precisely what the government does on sensitive topics. That's why there's no anti-vax and conspiracy theory bs. What "we" want isn't always a good thing for running a country.

That is not at all their role. That conspiracy theories are unverified is what makes them theories, that they take a pro-vax stance is based on the data, research and reaching out to experts in the field.

What you're describing is the propaganda arm of a regime, not a media outlet.

It's a public broadcaster, WE own it. The idea that the government should set the agenda for it either as an organization or via intimidation is insanity.

It should represent the diversity of people that it in itself is there for. It should have diversity of political thought, culture and the ability to report on whatever it can fact check.

but an evil that isn't going away, so now you have two.

I'm not anti-cryptocurrency, but we should be striving to be better than what we're creating an alternative to.

I kind of wish my parents had never been told this.

I think being told I was "gifted" might have blinded them to a much more important problem - that I had severe ADHD.

the idea is for it to be a troll and a signal with plausible deniability

more along the lines of the "okay" gesture https://www.adl.org/blog/how-the-ok-symbol-became-a-popular-...

port blocking is a whole other problem.

I'm referring to the rapidly growing number of people behind CGNAT.

This might actually be the future of running net-accessible stuff on your own devices

I sure hope not, demand ipv6.

I feel like that's starting to happen in Australia, we got streaming services a decade after most other places so it's not as ingrained and piracy is starting to look like a superior service again.

whats the USD price showing in the store?

can't see it from here: "Not Available In Your Country"

I tried a wicker basket as a test mesh this week and had a great deal of trouble with the handles.

For closed objects though the results are probably better than I've found in commercial software.

Neither,

Emacs takes an everything and the kitchen sink approach and org-mode embraces that.

I don't know that is bad.

Without Emacs, org-mode is just weird markdown.

The way it can quickly link between different types of unrelated content just doesn't make sense outside Emacs.

Depends, personal freedom or more of an ethical freedom?

At some point, unlimited personal freedom begins to look like taking away the freedoms of those you're targeting.

interesting, "incompatible with all your devices".

Wonder if it's a region or android version thing.

about 50-60 miles off for me too

it's not in the same place as the rest of my data is the feature to me.

If you can do it at a price competitive to what I can buy storage (and everything that comes along with housing it) and worry about it then it's one of the few things I'm happy enough to have a managed service for.

edit for a bit more context: I do a lot of video work so my storage needs are constantly growing.

I'm for better prosecution of incitement of violence. This should also include spreading of false information designed to create a false sense of distress and push people to violence.

I think this is the only option that ticks all the boxes for the solution I've been trying to find in my head.

that last paragraph is something I've naively never given much thought and you're right.

The rise of facist groups has really made me realize how disproportionate 'free speech' can be.

The first example that comes to mind is police presence at protests against them. If 100 of them show up and 1000 counter protestors show up then the onus is on the police to protect their protest.

The minorities targeted by these hate groups are at a disadvantage in so many ways, they are more likely targets of the police, they are more likely to already have convictions so the risks are higher in the legal system. They are much more likely to be killed by the police.

free speech is not necessarily a level playing field and these groups are both aware and weaponize that.

Sure, some won't.

We had 13 mass shootings in the 18 years prior and then 0 the 22 after.

We don't much mind what they think.

I really really liked hopper.

it's probably the one app I missed most switching to windows.

x64dbg eventually grew on me and I like it nearly as much.

I think you may have just done the same.

I'm Australian. You know, the place where gun control actually worked pretty well.

Taking up arms against a government in your lifetime? Yes I'd call it unlikely.

It is so strange to me the effort people will go to with things like guns to protect themselves from the highly unlikely.

Yet we're having these debates about what to do about climate change which is looking very likely.

We should be working on it, if we end up being wrong then the very worst case is we've gotten ourselves off our dwindling fossil fuel supply a bit early.