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tom4000··on ChucK: Strongly-Timed, Concurrent, and On-the-Fly Music Programming Language
That sounds like a neat idea. Reminds me on SoundFont.

But isn't Midi the equivalent to SVG, Wave the equivalent to BMP, Flac to PNG and MP3 the one to JPEG?

tom4000··on 33 Beautiful Open-Source Icon Sets
Not all of the presented icon sets are Open-Sourced. Some are, some are free and for some you have to pay with information about you like your email address. So the title sounds nice but it is just wrong.
tom4000··on Emacs.dev now routes you to vim.org
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19294029
tom4000··on Upvote for HN Darkmode?
Another good usage for Stylus.
tom4000··on The Der Spiegel journalist who messed with the wrong small town
Plus it is not behind a pay wall.
tom4000··on Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (2012)
I'm very happy with mu4e in combination with isync.
tom4000··on Mozilla Announces Experimental Partnership with ProtonVPN
Thank you for pointing on the post.
tom4000··on Show HN: Websites in 2018
Didn't get any useful content. Goddesses bless script blockers.
tom4000··on Mozilla Announces Experimental Partnership with ProtonVPN
Why Proton VPN and not something privacy friendly? As ProtonVPN like NordVPN is run by Tesonet is has the same issues.

Why does Mozilla trust in Tesonet and why should their users do?

http://vpnscam.com/heres-why-you-cant-trust-nordvpn-and-prot...

tom4000··on Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released
My best friend. She saw me being happy to use Linux and that I do everything on it she did on Windows before.

Of course it still needs an opened mindset to use Linux but its disadvantages in some use cases.

She is using OpenSuse.

tom4000··on Guide to email in Emacs using mu and mu4e
For rendering HTML emails I use either shr or w3m. To get it more readable I make the text area smaller with writeroom-mode/olivetti-mode in the mu4e-view-mode-hook. But both modes apply just after opening an email a second time.

Do you have any hint?

tom4000··on Guide to email in Emacs using mu and mu4e
With `pkill $(pgrep mu)` or even with `pkill mu` you can kill mutt and any mu$ process as well.

`pkill -x mu` matches the whole name without substrings.

tom4000··on Guide to email in Emacs using mu and mu4e
Agree with using Isync. Notmuch lacks the backward synchronization to the IMAP server and to another mail client then notmuch.

I primarily use mu4e but want to see changes on my mobile as well as on any remote computer using a web client in a browser.

As far as I know notmuch can just be synchronized to another notmuch instance.

tom4000··on Guide to email in Emacs using mu and mu4e
Good for you. To save power and use smaller machines should always be an option. Indexing saves much resources here.
tom4000··on Hardening macOS
Recommending Google's and Cloudflare's DNS is not privacy friendly at all. Even when you use an VPN and push all your domain name requests to either or.
tom4000··on Google, but for colors
Doesn't work out of the box with tracking protection in browsers enabled. So I don't see any color and I guess I don't have to.
tom4000··on Show HN: VEEER – A Lightweight Window Manager for Your OS X
Nice afford. Why exactly it is not OpenSource yet?
tom4000··on Does Emacs violate the Unix philosophy of doing one thing very well?
The best comment seen on Reddit is "it does one thing well, it's a perfect Lisp interpreter."
tom4000··on Airbnb teams up with developer to launch branded apartments
Hostels?
tom4000··on Pass: A standard Unix password manager
Not at all. While Masterpassword does not save any passwords but generates it based on some unique parameters live - pass stores passwords and notes encrypted with GPG in a git repository.

The list differences to LastPass is long.

Pass is OpenSource. Pass doesn't store your information on anybody else's computer by default. Pass has not first party browser plugin and is therefore not open to attack through browser plugin holes.

On the other hand you control everything by yourself including batch updating your passwords. And there's no online service.

tom4000··on Emacs and Magit

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tom4000··on Way Cooler tiling window manager
Did you try [chunkwm](https://github.com/koekeishiya/chunkwm) yet? It's the successor of kwm which I have tried on macOS. Mainly I use i3 at Linux but for some work I have to use macOS as well. The only native apps which feel Linux like are iTerm and Emacs (the mac port) because it's possible to suppress the window decorations. Every other native app takes for a real tiling wm too much space with its Titel bar and other frames.
tom4000··on Horcrux: A Password Manager for Paranoids
1. In pass everything is encrypted but you have to give names to each gpg encrypted password file.

2. Right. I use rofi-pass on Linux which fills in the selected password or other login data without any clipboard action.

3. True. Never thought about this but sounds clever.

4. Same answer as in 2.

Plus I have a good password history through the git commits. Of course I push it just in my local network.

And I use more then just one password store. And inside you can folder based decide who can decrypt the passwords and who not.

tom4000··on Sublime Text 3 Build 3124
Me too. Started with some GUI editors like Text Mate and Gedit; came to ST3 (bought a license); tried Atom; got convinced to VIM and use Emacs with evil now.
tom4000··on Fork: Fast and Friendly Git Client for Mac
Git itself is Free And Open Source; so I just use Free And Open Sourced clients for.
tom4000··on Marp: Markdown Presentation Writer
For that gap I wrote a GitHub pages compatible Jekyll wrapper: https://github.com/tasmo/reveal-jekyll
tom4000··on Apple Watch Is About to Become a Perfect Podcast Machine
In an Apple Watch is space for very small microphone only. It can record only a small range of frequencies. A result could be some low quality podcasts recorded with a smartwatch.
tom4000··on Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox
Did the same some weeks ago!
tom4000··on Install an ArchLinux distro in userspace with no root privileges
Thanx for sharing!
tom4000··on CSS Styles for cooler looking ascii-art
I'd prefer plain style without shadows.