mastodon 4.6.9Long time #Unix (v7, BSD, Solaris), #GNU #Linux, and #Emacs user and developer. Programming mostly in #JuliaLang but also #Octave. Into #cycling 🚲 and dismayed at #Brexit 🇪🇺.
Author of
Nature inspired methods for optimization -- a Julia primer for process engineering
Available free on the Interweb at http://tiny.cc/nl5yuz and ebook (PDF) for a price at http://leanpub.com/natureinspiredmethodsforoptimization #Julia #JuliaLang #optimization #NatureInspired #ProcessEngineering #book #ebook
Quasi New Bike Day
After 10000+ km, I thought it was time to properly service my bike. New chain, chainset, bottom bracket, disk pads. Rides like a new bike! Thanks to Balfe's in Crawley for an excellent service.
#BikeTooter #UKCycling #NBD #WorthWay #NationalCycleNetwork #NCN #NCN21 #Sussex #Crawley
So, in my quest to simplify my life, I have started to decouple myself from the large privacy invading cloud and AI based services (Microsoft and Google, I'm looking at you), especially with regards to calendars.
Emacs has built-in calendar, diary, and appointment capabilities. As I live in Emacs most of the time, these are sufficient for the vast majority of my calendar needs. However, until I achieve the holy grail of *Emacs on the go* (I'm getting there but not quite yet), I really do need an appointment notification system that works with my mobile phone.
The solution: advise (using `advice-add`) the `appt-display-message` function to send the appointment information to my phone, using `ntfy.sh` (so still cloud based but hopefully less intrusive).
This works because I have Emacs running 24/7 on my home desktop.
Happy Caturday to all that celebrate!
Why do people buy cat toys when some brown crumpled paper provides hours of entertainment? 😃
I use exwm (the Emacs window manager) on a Debian stable system.
As far as I can tell, I have customised everything I can to bring up either eww or firefox when I need to browse the web (eww preferred but some sites need a graphical interface with javascript, e.g. my bank).
Annoyingly, for some reason, opening a URL sometimes brings up librewolf. I cannot see anywhere in my config that references librewolf.
Does anybody have any suggestion on how to figure out why librewolf is being run instead of either eww or firefox?
Thanks!
PS - yes, maybe I should switch to librewolf instead of firefox... but that's for another day.
I will be examining a PhD student soon. I have to read their thesis. I brought out my reMarkable e-ink tablet to use it to read and annotate the thesis. So much better than using a laptop or (even worse) printing it out and carrying 200+ pages around...
I am continually impressed with this tablet. I have the first version which I bought when they first came out (10 years ago now?). I hadn't used it in a few months so it seems that there have been software updates. When I turned it on, several updates installed automatically.
The system works perfectly and now has new features and better performance. Kudos to the company for providing all updates to all of their different models, even the very oldest ones. 👍👏
In my dreams, my (similar age) mobile phone (stuck on Android 8) would have this kind of support. Ha.
Cycled the Downs Link from Christ's Hospital to Brighton via Shoreham-by-sea. A large segment of the route goes alongside the River Adur. We were lucky with the weather for once! Lovely day and a great ride.
#Photograph #Photography #LandscapePhotography #BikeTooter #UKCycling #NationalCycleNetwork #NCN223 #Sussex #DownsLink
Excellent article, by Blain Smith (@blainsmith@fosstodon.org), on the need for a broader education, especially for computer programmers:
https://blainsmith.com/essays/humanities-in-the-machine/
Thanks to Sacha Chua (@sacha@social.sachachua.com) for including this in her most recent weekly Emacs news post.
Edit: proper links for people mentioned.
Lovely wild garlic growing all along a forest path.
The bluebells are lovely this year (well, most years in fact).
Just got my electricity stats from the energy company. April was a good month. Imported 34 kWh (average of just over 1 kWh per day) but exported 284 kWh (almost 10 kWh per day)!
RE: @SusiArnott@mastodon.green
For those of you in the UK, don't forget to vote next month! Local elections often have very low turnout but we are at an interesting point in terms of possible outcomes from this election which may have long term impacts on national politics.
Every vote matters.
Anybody here have any experience on taking a bicycle (full size) on the Guildford-Gatwick route (via Redhill) with Great Western Railway?
The OS on the Pebble was updated in the past day or so. One of the news items says that there is now an "Extra Large" text size option, supposedly under "Display" settings. I cannot find it. Anybody else seen this?
I have noticed, however, that the "Large" text size setting is now applied throughout the system. This really helps, especially for the settings menu.