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Re:Emacs Turns 50 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @11:24AM (#50275245)
Good opportunity for us Emacs users to proselytize: send an intro video to a few people who don't use Emacs but should :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJZDmO5yOxE

So much is missing (e.g. "Group of Seven" yields nonsensical results). Nice idea, but probably needs a couple of orders of comprehensiveness to be anything close to justifying it's name :-)
This is not a fix per se, just one way to mitigate the issue until older PHP versions are updated and/or one uses this CVE as the final motivation to update those really old PHP sites ... :-)
The thesis being that if you can pack multiple models onto a single GPU, you can actually increase processing capacity with a fixed amount of hardware.
Re:A third way of using Linux on Monday October 05, 2026 @05:39PM (#49971215)
Emacs text interface, Emacs GUI interface, and ... sorry what's the third one? :-)
Re:The Next 3x in Inference Won't Come from Faster Kernels on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:16PM (#49896761)
One unique idea for solving the chip shortage: pack more models into each existing GPU by having them share the resources. :-)
He is charged with obstruction, but under domestic terrorism (as defined by a national security presidential memorandum).
According to the article, he was actually using GrapheneOS and gave the border official the Duress PIN. So I guess technically it was the official that erased the data :-)
Depends on what qualifies as a password "manager", but I've been using pass (https://www.passwordstore.org/) for years on multiple desktops, and have recently added iOS app sepass to my setup (https://sepass.modiot.com/).

Quite complicated to get it all setup (definitely not for non-technical users), but both are GPL and I now have all my passwords available with hardware protection (yubikey on desktop, secure enclave on iOS) in all locations.

Re:In Emacs, Everything Looks Like a Service on Friday July 10, 2026 @08:36AM (#48859028)
Came across this recently, which I find is a good and short intro to Emacs for people who don't use it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJZDmO5yOxE

Hi HN. We use YubiKeys on desktops/laptops with pass/password-store, and have been fiddling with various ways to get them to work on our phones and tablets for a long time. Sort of dawned on us that since the Apple secure enclave gives the same sort of "non-extractable" protection as a YubiKey does, we could just use that. Paired with touch/face-id, seems like a pretty good YubiKey alternative for a mobile app. Since we could not find an iOS password-store client that uses the secure enclave, we wrote one.

Bit of a fiddly setup process (see https://github.com/modiotlabs/sepass#using-the-app), but otherwise we're finding it very useful.

Really appreciate any feedback on this, especially potential vulnerabilities or weak approaches we are taking. We are not full-time cryptography/security experts, so would particularly like to see a hearty critique of how we've gone about this from anyone who is.

Re:What's so special about Emacs? [video] on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @01:47PM (#48196630)
Thanks.

Not the original author, but I agree completely with the sentiment that it is good way to get across what's special about Emacs in a relatively short amount of time.

Re:10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home on Thursday April 30, 2026 @03:27PM (#47967120)
It's wild to me Time Machine works on your network. Are you just doing "first backups" over and over again, or have you somehow achieved the very rare state where Time Machine can run for, say, a week at a time without falling over?

Sorry, this is snarky and off topic, but I'm nostalgic for the days when Time Machine "just worked".

And then in vim you can spawn a shell to run ... oh, never mind.
Re:Coding Agents Could Make Free Software Matter Again on Sunday March 29, 2026 @06:30PM (#47568107)
Free software has never mattered more.

All the infrastructure that runs the whole AI-over-the-internet juggernaut is essentially all open source.

Heck, even Claude Code would be far less useful without grep, diff, git, head, etc., etc., etc. And one can easily see a day where something like a local sort Claude Code talking to Open Weight and Open Source models is the core dev tool.

Re:How the world’s first electric grid was built on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @05:45PM (#47509876)
The power generated from Niagara river stations was traveling on an international "grid" between Canada and the US in the late 1890s.
Re:Malus – Clean Room as a Service on Thursday March 12, 2026 @02:48PM (#47355366)
Man, how could they not wait 2.5 weeks until April 1 !!!
Re:The dead Internet is not a theory anymore on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @05:42PM (#47342423)
Emacs will solve this too:

https://github.com/tanrax/org-social

:-)

Re:Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @05:11PM (#46224631)
This may help, it has an example pizauth config (scroll down to "Authenticating with pass and pizauth"):

https://stuff.sigvaldason.com/email.html

Re:Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @08:50AM (#46217687)
This another similar resource with some additional stuff about using mu4e-org:

https://stuff.sigvaldason.com/email.html

Re:EmacsConf 2025 on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @06:31PM (#46128382)
The "watch" method is so awesome:

    mpv https://live0.emacsconf.org/gen.webm
Re:Editing Code in Emacs on Sunday November 23, 2025 @06:36PM (#46028503)
I used Emacs for several years before I discovered "project" (it's built in). If you're navigating dired trees or similar to find files or grep for strings in groups of files, this is like magic:

C-x p f (find any file in the current "project", e.g. git repo)

C-x p v (grep the whole project super fast)

It's embarrassing how long it took me to realize it was there all along. :-)

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