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nemoniacon The anti-growth state of mind on the Åland islands

Wait, "between Finland and Sverige"?!

Why not "between Suomi and Sverige"?

Or "between Finland and Sweden"?

Is it because Åland is mostly Swedish speaking that "Finland" gets written in English and "Sverig" gets written in Swedish?

nemoniacon Xpra: Persistent Remote Applications for X11

Are there any security implications of running this over ssh?

nemoniacon Multiple nations enact mysterious export controls on quantum computers

This is reminiscent of the US government considering PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) with keys larger than 40 bits to be munitions and so could only be exported under license.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_i...

nemoniacon Booting Linux off of Google Drive

Speaking of booting Linux from places, what I would like to be able to do is carry a Linux image around with me on my (Android) smartphone, plug the phone into a USB port on a laptop and boot the Linux image from there on the laptop. Does such a thing exist?

nemoniacon Tetris Font (2020)

ASCII only?

nemoniacon Emacs Microfeature

In that case aggressive-indent-mode will save you hundreds of keystrokes per day.

nemoniacon Logic gates using liquids (2019)

There is some prior art on using liquids for logic gates.

See the 3-bit Hydro-pneumatic Adder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qP9HfUOCN4

nemoniacon GDPR: Is It Worth It?

> "what is exactly PII data?"

PII is not even mentioned in the GDPR. It is a notion in US law.

nemoniacon Parallel garbage collection for SBCL (2023)

How can you enable it? It's not obvious from the compilation instructions.

nemoniacon Show HN: BandMatch – “Tinder” but for finding musicians to create bands/collab

Needs a GDPR statement to be legal in EU and UK.

nemoniacon The world's loudest Lisp program to the rescue

Is it really established wisdom that multiple inheritance might be an anti-pattern? Anyone care to elaborate?

nemoniacon Understanding and avoiding visually ambiguous characters in IDs

Other prior art is the use of a modified base 58 encoding in Bitcoin addresses.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Base58Check_encoding

nemoniacon Modal is a matrioshka language based on pattern-matching to rewrite trees

In comparison, the Mathematica programming language is based on term rewriting.

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/119933/why-d...

nemoniacon Ask HN: Have you migrated to Proton mail/calendar/pass/etc.? How was it?

I had a paid account Proton Mail for several months recently but it is hopeless for my use case, namely using their Proton Bridge so that I can use my mail reader of choice.

Proton Bridge does not work as advertised. Its IMAP server loses mails, puts them in unexpected places and synchronises incorrectly.

I cancelled my account.

nemoniacon Nix – A One Pager

https://guix.gnu.org/

nemoniacon Show HN: I've built a locally running Perplexity clone

Llocalsearch uses searxng which has a feature to blacklist/whitelist sites for various purposes.

nemoniacon TinySSH is a small SSH server using NaCl, TweetNaCl

What is a "word of code"? I've seen "lines of code" but what's a "word" in C?

nemoniacon The internet is slipping out of our reach

"Do you often append "reddit" or "wiki" to your Google search queries?"

Well no, I haven't even used Google for search in years. I use a proxy and I also usually have a Wikipedia tab and a Reddit tab open to search there directly when I want to.

That helps keep a part of the Internet out of my reach and I'm very happy with that.

nemoniacon European Commission's use of Microsoft 365 infringes data protection law for EU

This is the key sentence but it's not clear to me how to parse it:

"The EDPS has therefore decided to order the Commission, effective on 9 December 2024, to suspend all data flows resulting from its use of Microsoft 365 to Microsoft and to its affiliates and sub-processors located in countries outside the EU/EEA not covered by an adequacy decision."

Does it mean suspend flows to Microsoft anywhere and to its affilietes and sub-processors outside EEA?

Or does it mean suspend flows to (Microsoft and to its affilietes and sub-processors) which are located outside EEA?

In other words can data still flow to Microsoft within EEA?

nemoniacon More than 2M research papers have disappeared from the Internet

Use DOIs, they said. URLs are just transient, they said. But DOIs are permanent, they said.

Could it be that the whole DOI system was just a ruse by the commercial academic publishers to re-intermediate themselves between academic authors and readers in the age of the WWW?

nemoniacon A Look at Nix and Guix

Could you say more about how you feel that...

> Guix System unfortunately seems too tied to HPC with a little attention for modern desktop needs.

I ask because Guix meets all my modern desktop needs.

nemoniacon LaTeX and Neovim for technical note-taking

You can use the ox-pandoc library to export from Org Mode in Emacs to 65 different formats (at time of writing) including all the ones you mention.

For some formats that pandoc does not output, there are also specialised ox-format libraries.

There are even several exporters to Github-flavoured markdown. I personally find both ox-pandoc and ox-gfm very useful for that purpose.

https://github.com/kawabata/ox-pandoc

nemoniacon Ethernet: The Basics

My thoughts exactly. I could have used this article when I was researching to wire my whole house for CAT5 25 years ago. I moved house last month and put in a mesh network. It felt far too easy!

nemoniacon The EU Wants Its Own DNS Resolver That Can Block 'Unlawful' Traffic,TorrentFreak

“The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” — John Gilmore (1993)

nemoniacon Git tips and tricks

How about an RSS feed on your blog? If there's one there, it's not obvious.

nemoniacon Tips for Remote Workers

Excellent tips!

> 18. Have something nearby that helps you to decompress... I have an electric guitar + and a loud amp.

I've got one of these. It's loud but doesn't disturb the neighbours.

https://www.amazon.nl/dp/B0824PN6WQ

nemoniacon Pandoc

While pandoc is certainly a very useful tool, don't you think it's overkill to call a 143MB (on my Linux system) pandoc executable to do word (un)wrapping?

Emacs has `fill-paragraph` built in and `unfill-paragraph` is a short function definition [1]. Both work across multiple paragraphs.

[1] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/UnfillParagraph

nemoniacon On Leibniz Notation

A positional notation was introduced previously by De Bruijn but presumably Sussman and Wisdom came up with theirs independently since they don't cite him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_index

nemoniacon Why do EVs crash more than gas powered vehicles

Why was the headline changed from "Teslas crash more than gas-powered cars"? The article even states that it's "Mostly a Tesla thing".

nemoniacon Critical Gitlab vulnerability exposes 2FA-less users to account takeovers

Am I missing something or does the security release recommend updating to the latest version without saying what that latest version is (at time of writing)?

Come to think of it, how can you find what version of Gitlab is being run? (through the web interface on a CE instance)