Nostr notes by Mehrad :kde: :emacs: :rstats:

Are you also on the same version? I can also confirm that the ...

2026-10-29T14:03:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…qdfe
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Are you also on the same version?

I can also confirm that the Ctrl+Enter only sends a single line to console, although my console stays like that for a long time. I didn't wait to see when it get out of it, but as you can see a simple `print("aa")` in the console takes so much time that I managed to take a screenshot and annotate it and it still was not done.

Posit (npub1e58…ey66)

Have anyone faced this issue in the recent update of #Positron ? ...

2026-10-29T13:34:37Z

Have anyone faced this issue in the recent update of #Positron ?

When I run something in the console, it says "submitting" (which I don't know what it means) and it get stuck there until I press Ctrl+c.

This does not happen when I run R in terminal.

Posit (npub1e58…ey66) #RStats

Regarding the forum moderation, I have a lot more details in the ...

2026-10-29T11:25:40Z

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Regarding the forum moderation, I have a lot more details in the first post about the jolla (npub1xrs…qupw) phone. There are a lot of links there to archived pages to demonstrate some of the points that the forum is not in healthy state imho. I would be thankful if you can also gove that older blog post a read and give me feedback too.

I really appreciate the links and feedbacks. :)

2/2

Thanks for the feedback. As for PDF, I didn't mean just ...

2026-10-29T11:25:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…lm24
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Thanks for the feedback.

As for PDF, I didn't mean just reading. I meant some app that allows some level of annotations (highlights, add text, ...)

Regarding the SailfishOS bug tracker, it doesn't look active. 58 open issues but not so many closed ones. At least the latest closed ones are not by the devs or jolla (npub1xrs…qupw) . Seems people are closing the issues themselves. So ...

As for password manager, there is SailWarden, but that's third-party and hard to trust in this domain.

1/2

I wrote a small blog post regarding my experience on using ...

2026-10-29T09:54:01Z

I wrote a small blog post regarding my experience on using #JollaPhone2026 for a few months. I hope it helps others to decide to buy the phone, and to help the community to hear more opinions about the ups and downs that some users are experiencing.

As always, constructive feedbacks are very very welcome.

https://mehrad.ai/posts/20261028-few-months-into-using-jolla-phone/

#Jolla2026 #Jolla #JollaPhone #SailfishOS jolla (npub1xrs…qupw)

البته کلمه «فلز» رو با «عنصر» ...

2026-10-27T06:41:52Z

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البته کلمه «فلز» رو با «عنصر» جایگزین کنیم کل مشکل حل میشه به نظرم، بخصوص توی متن انگلیسی. درسته؟

«فلزاتی مثل کربن و اکسیژن»؟ راستش ...

2026-10-27T06:30:23Z

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«فلزاتی مثل کربن و اکسیژن»؟ راستش انقدر تعجب کردم که به خودم شک کردم و رفتم تعریف «فلز» رو دوباره خوندم:

https://www.britannica.com/science/metal-chemistry

بعد دیدم این سایت sci.news هرچیزی سنگینتر از هیدروژن ‌و هلیوم رو فلز گرفته 😳
نمیدونم به این سایت sci.news چقدر میشه اعتماد کرد، ولی من اعتمادمو از دست دادم.

I wonder if I should learn #Braille or #MorseCode. I know a ...

2026-10-26T17:42:25Z

I wonder if I should learn #Braille or #MorseCode. I know a little bit of both (about 15 minutes practice a day for a week on each topic), but I wonder which one is a more important thing to learn. What do you think?

RE: https://kompektiva.org/@milo/117501219391056966 This is a ...

2026-10-25T12:23:13Z

RE: https://kompektiva.org/@milo/117501219391056966

This is a really valid concern imho. The #SciHub , #LibGen , and #AnnasArchive are really important for humanity. I'm sure there is now even more incentive for certain publishers to pour money into taking these archives down.

quoting
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I'm so worried about the recent advancements of AI in the field of cybersecurity. I'm particularly worried about Libgen, Sci-hub, and Anna's Archive.

منطقی و به جا. اگه امکانش هست ...

2026-10-25T07:16:11Z

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منطقی و به جا. اگه امکانش هست انگلیسی هم بزن که من boost کنم

Thanks. I was not looking for a solution. It was more of a ...

2026-10-24T19:13:44Z

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Thanks. I was not looking for a solution. It was more of a surprise post, that they Android Fiasco was supposed to start in Jan 2027 and yet in October 2026 I am forced to deal with it.

Thanks for the reply.

Was watching a video from @npub1s6n…c8vz and one of his ...

2026-10-24T19:08:11Z

Was watching a video from Jadi (npub1s6n…c8vz) and one of his sentences was too cool for me not to share. The talk was in Persian, and I translated and somewhat paraphrased:

> For digital freedom, protocols are more important than platforms.

To add to context, RSS is a protocol, any feed reader such as the good old Google Reader was a platform.

Video URL (Persian):
https://youtu.be/Iy0jN7JrDlk

#quote

I have 4 apps from @npub1mtr…trt0 that cannot get update and ...

2026-10-24T15:36:51Z

I have 4 apps from F-Droid (npub1mtr…trt0) that cannot get update and #Android throws this error. Is it related to app side-loading restrictions that Google planned to impose from Jan 2027?

#fdroid

I'm gonna leave this link here: ...

2026-10-24T14:52:15Z

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I'm gonna leave this link here:

https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/117496361898193798

Can you explain the revenue model more?

2026-10-23T12:09:45Z

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Can you explain the revenue model more?

I'm having a hard time finding answer to these: 1. How do you ...

2026-10-23T07:09:46Z

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I'm having a hard time finding answer to these:

1. How do you generate revenue?
2. Who owns the data?
3. Under whose supervision/administration the data is stored?
4. What are the guarantees about data not being misused?
5. What happens to data if you go bankrupt?

I personally like your videos and occasional ramblings. It makes ...

2026-10-22T13:08:42Z

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I personally like your videos and occasional ramblings. It makes me feel the enthusiasm (and the pain) about the thing you are discussing, especially when it pairs with facial expressions and body language.

The issue with text in general is that the only way to convey a tone is through text. No pauses, no voice volume change, no facial expressions and etc. So the text length would be more visible.

Regardless, I think this form of blog post is good and can have it's own category.

Looks good. Feels more like you in some of your YouTube videos. ...

2026-10-22T05:34:50Z

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Looks good. Feels more like you in some of your YouTube videos. Feels more "natural", but at the same time it is very very long blog post compared to the amount of "information" it contains 😅

I forgot to add that their own "support" chatbot ...

2026-10-20T06:11:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…hjag
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I forgot to add that their own "support" chatbot hallucinates over their own documentation and FAQ. It is practically waste of time. I have exported transcripts as proof.

Also, their human support has latency of few days. Their own chatbot says their average response time is 6h but based on personal experience it can take over a day to get a response.

Overall, I tested it to know it better, and now I know not to touch it again. :)

The project design is very rudimentary and makes lots of ...

2026-10-20T06:06:26Z

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The project design is very rudimentary and makes lots of mistakes. There are a lot of parts that it does not see and should be reminded constantly.

The [re]search is OK for a elementary school, but very suboptimal compared to Perplexity.

It also lacks permanent file storage for Projects, so very hard to have a curated set of documents to use.

Also, they only allow very limited number of file extensions to be uploaded. 90% of programming languages are rejected based on extension!

I tried it for 10 days, for these (canceled subscription 1h ago): ...

2026-10-20T06:06:26Z

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I tried it for 10 days, for these (canceled subscription 1h ago):

- Research: finding what scientific articles are relevant to my question

- Coding project design: brainstorming (not coding) a relatively simple project that takes about a week to code with hand

- Code completion in my code editor

The code completion is a joke. It is frankly unusable. Github Copilot is immensely better.

1/2

Looking deeper into this, I now realize I have seen this package ...

2026-10-19T09:30:43Z

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Looking deeper into this, I now realize I have seen this package before and have tried to integrate it into my config, but I have dismissed this because it does not allow multiple package managers on the same machine. I have Arch and Guix, and it defaults to only Guix. I filed this feature request 8 months ago:

https://gitlab.com/jabranham/system-packages/-/work_items/44

Why? Can you give a bit more context? I believe the future of ...

2026-10-19T06:12:43Z

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Why? Can you give a bit more context? I believe the future of desktop Linux is rolling release, but for some reason in my head it translates to Arch or Guix, although Void, OpenSuse Tumbleweed, and Solus are also rolling release.

Not an answer to your question, but be very careful about your ...

2026-10-19T06:04:37Z

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Not an answer to your question, but be very careful about your data and binder. You cannot delete your account and you have to aske the to do so. I did email them to first provide me with all the data they have from me, and then delete them in accordance to GDPR. Not only they didn't provide me with all the info they had (I have proof), but *after* they claimed they have removed my account, they'd employee was visiting my LinkedIn account

Arch is very good, but if you had issues with drivers, you can ...

2026-10-18T12:38:16Z

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Arch is very good, but if you had issues with drivers, you can try Atomic Fedora. It has done wonders on my 10+ year-old computers.

Yes I could. To be fair, I usually avoid any screens during the ...

2026-10-18T12:11:46Z

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Yes I could. To be fair, I usually avoid any screens during the headache This is the first time the question lingered in my head until after the headache is gone.

Thanks for the paper. I skimmed through it, but I'm not sure if it answers the question. It says it "resembles" symptoms in people 🤔. But you are right, I can and have to dig deeper in the literature. It is an interesting topic personally.

Every time I have a headache, the same question comes to my mind: ...

2026-10-18T11:55:30Z

Every time I have a headache, the same question comes to my mind: Do other animals get headaches? If so, is it limited to primates or mammals or vertebrates?

I don't know why I get this much offended when a random ...

2026-10-17T14:57:24Z

I don't know why I get this much offended when a random person online bundles all machine learning methods with the genAI.

It is OK if you don't like something, but don't get nasty about things that you don't remotely comprehend. Machine Learning existsted long before you were born, and will be here long after you are gone. It is in healthcare, navigation, banking, industrial production, traffic control, forestry, even potato sorting after harvest.

Just calm down and use the correct term. Tnx

There are packages like arch-packer but it has few ...

2026-10-16T08:19:40Z

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There are packages like arch-packer but it has few limitations/issues:
1. haven't been updated for 9 years
2. only supports Arch
3. supports pacaur for AUR (which I think should be configurable by user)
4. as far as I can tell, does not handle orphan packages

https://github.com/brotzeit/arch-packer

#Emacs

A question for fellow #Emacs users: Is there an Emacs package ...

2026-10-16T08:14:25Z

A question for fellow #Emacs users:

Is there an Emacs package that acts as front-end to the Linux package managers? Something that abstracts the package managers like apt, pacman, emerge, eopkg, apk, dnf, ... and have a uniform interface?

[@emacs](https://a.gup.pe/u/emacs )

My stove fan's LED stripe died. Opened it and noticed it is a ...

2026-10-16T05:15:41Z

My stove fan's LED stripe died. Opened it and noticed it is a 220v AC module that is very easy to detach. Brought it out and spent 20 minutes understanding the circuit, and with a multimeter narrowed it down to a single dead resistor.

Tuned out it costs only 0.25 euros. I bet changing the entire module would have costs way more and would have wasted more of my time too.

I wish more and more consumer-grade circuit boards were fixable and had large components instead of those microscopic parts.

من کارم تحقیق در مورد دیابت هست ولی ...

2026-10-13T04:39:18Z

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من کارم تحقیق در مورد دیابت هست ولی فقط دیابت نوع یک که عموما برای بچه ها هست، و چون بچه ها تتو ندارن و چون دیتای من از بچه های pre-diabetic هست، من به گوشم نخورده، ولی ممکنه باشه. الان معمولترین نوع سنسور، سنسور های بلوتوث هست که پشت بازو نصب میشه.

تا جایی که میدونم، مشکل اینجور بایوسنسورها معمولا توی جذب و تجزیه ی مولکول در بدن هست.

نزدیک به ۱۰ سال هست که رنگ هایی برای ...

2026-10-13T04:16:17Z

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نزدیک به ۱۰ سال هست که رنگ هایی برای خالکوبی داریم که با تغییرات قند خون رنگشون عوض میشه و برای افراد دیابتی کاربرد داره که قندشون رو کنترل کنن. البته من هنوز ندیدم در عمل، ولی ایده به شدت جذاب هست.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/color-changing-tattoos-aim-to-monitor-blood-sugar-other-health-stats/

The questions are: 1. does the muffin-making timeframe overlaps ...

2026-10-08T04:18:25Z

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The questions are:

1. does the muffin-making timeframe overlaps with the low temperature hours?

2. How much heating is necessary in which room (e.g., +1°c is either below or dangerously close to dew point which can in long term cause mold issue)

I live in south Finland and we have been heating homes for the past few weeks.

Thanks. Lots of legal terms in your comment and in that article, ...

2026-10-07T21:32:04Z

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Thanks. Lots of legal terms in your comment and in that article, but if I understand correctly, the article says code completion is copywritable becausetge "personaliy" is there, but "wholly generated" code is _generally_ not copyrightable and therefore under public domain.

If my understanding is correct, then WTFPL license would perfectly fit, right?

I should read that one more time to learn more.

Does anyone know a way to install Flatpak software on ...

2026-10-07T20:58:59Z

Does anyone know a way to install Flatpak software on #SailfishOS?

I only found this thread:

https://together.jolla.com/question/225265/installing-flatpak-app/

And this abandoned project:

https://github.com/sailfishos-flatpak

#jollaphone2026 #Jolla

For the past few days I have been thinking if it theoretically ...

2026-10-07T20:52:02Z

For the past few days I have been thinking if it theoretically makes sense to have a #LLM trained exclusively on #GPLv3 code or even stricter, a specific language like C of Scheme or Common Lisp.

Does that somehow "solve" the licensing issue if the generated code is also GPLv3?

Can it be used for autocomplete, a.k.a tab completion, of that specific language in a GPLv3 project?

How about MIT or BSD licenses?

Note: This is just a thought experiment as I don't have any means to do any of these.

I rarely use RSS directly, as mostly it is used by my podcast ...

2026-10-06T17:10:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…e5pk
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I rarely use RSS directly, as mostly it is used by my podcast app, but I use Emacs' elfeed for some blogs

https://github.com/emacs-elfeed/elfeed

As far as I understand, choices 1,2, and 4 are practically the ...

2026-10-03T23:38:31Z

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As far as I understand, choices 1,2, and 4 are practically the same thing as long as the project is not just bunch of markdown files.

I didn't think about version controlling my study material. ...

2026-10-02T10:59:45Z

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I didn't think about version controlling my study material. Retrospectively I know I should do it.

Thanks. After your comment, I have tried it. No error. Since I ...

2026-10-02T09:39:10Z

In reply to nevent1q…0sm5
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Thanks. After your comment, I have tried it. No error. Since I didn't find any issue, didn't see anything relevant in the documentation, or in the git repo issues, out of desperation, I created a super minimal example (18 lines) and asked Perplexity for help.

Turned out the org-drill silently exits if none of the drills has body text. The suggestion was to add a comment. It worked!

I wish org-drill was returning clear message/error indicating the issue.

Thanks again for the help.

I'm getting prepared for a language exam and I have a ...

2026-10-02T09:15:02Z

I'm getting prepared for a language exam and I have a org-mode file with the phrases and sentences that I use for practice. After some minor changes, org-drill stopped working and it just shows the end of session buffer immediately upon execution. This is not the first time this happened to me during the past week, but now that my file is few thousands of lines, it is impossible to know the reason.

Any idea/suggestion is highly appreciated on how to find the issue.

#Emacs #OrgMode

Thanks for the links. I would also like to add mine to the mix. ...

2026-09-30T20:48:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…j5ez
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Thanks for the links. I would also like to add mine to the mix. When I started putting together my own config, I decided to document everything in enough details that a person who's new to Emacs can use it as a starting point:

https://codeberg.org/mehrad/.emacs.d

Nadiyar (npub17jf…am7x) I think you will find this thread by Zenie (npub1670…kvhv) interesting.

I didn't know about Casual and Anju #Emacs packages. Nice ...

2026-09-29T18:36:15Z

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I didn't know about Casual and Anju #Emacs packages. Nice work Charles Choi 최 민수 (npub19me…hdkd) 👍

For others who are not familiar with them, I found this presentation by Charles Choi 최 민수 (npub19me…hdkd) from 2024 EmacsConf:

https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/casual/

Several years of working with Emacs for almost anything text ...

2026-09-29T17:38:16Z

Several years of working with Emacs for almost anything text related, and I still have a hard time accepting that rectangle operations and registers are both ubder `C-x r`.

I remember I heard/read somewhere that rectangles and registers are fundamentally the same thing, but I don't get it how copying/killing a rectangle and jumping to register, or creating bookmark and window configurations are fundamentally the same :blobcatThink:

The good thing about Emacs in this situation is that all your ...

2026-09-29T07:05:58Z

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The good thing about Emacs in this situation is that all your keybindings would stay the same, all your elisp scripts would virtually work the same way, and all your Emacs tools like dired (file manager), magit (git frontend), proced (process manager), erc (IRC client), elfeed (feed reader), and EMMS (media player) would workthe same way as before.

Tbh I had to use university's Windows laptop for a week while ...

2026-09-29T06:45:41Z

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Tbh I had to use university's Windows laptop for a week while they were purchasing a new desktop for me. My productivity went down so bad that I was living in putty with tmux.

Now that I have Emacs, Windows probably is more tolerable.

Anyways, I don't know much about Win11 these days, but I installed AltDrag which later was abandoned and AltSnap is the continuation.

Similar to when the only use-case of Internet Explorer was to ...

2026-09-29T06:03:37Z

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Similar to when the only use-case of Internet Explorer was to download Chrome/Firefox, the best use-case of Windows in to create bootable Linux/BSD USB stick to wipe the system and install Linux/BSD.

با توجه به شواهد، میشه این فرضیه رو ...

2026-09-28T04:29:29Z

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با توجه به شواهد، میشه این فرضیه رو قابل قبود دونست که «دین» در طول تاریخ همیشه به نوعی یه «بنگاه اقتصادی» بوده. به عبارت دیگه همیشه دید بیزنسی سنگینی توش وجود داشته. حالا هر دینی به شکل خودش پول میگرفته. یا خمس و ذکات بوده، یا مالیات، یا دونیشن (چه اجباری چه اختیاری). و همیشه پایگاه های قدرتمندی هم داشته به واسطه‌ی این اقتصاد، چه مسجد و کلیسا، چه معابد اقوام آزتک و مایا.

تنها دینی که من میشناسم که تا این لحظه به هیچ شکلی پول قبول هم نمیکنه، pizzaism هست 😅

https://pizzaism.weebly.com/

I don't know the exact specie, because the fish was cleaned ...

2026-09-27T02:08:10Z

In reply to nevent1q…mzdj
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I don't know the exact specie, because the fish was cleaned and then dried, but based on size, skin color, scales, and fins, I would say it is whitefish.

Tried dried fish for the first time. I don't know the ...

2026-09-26T16:41:48Z

Tried dried fish for the first time. I don't know the technique that was used, but it didn't taste like smoke, it was as dry as paper, not oily at all, a bit salty, and the color od the meet was not changed.

I like this more than beef jerky.

I strongly believe it more boils down to some MDs think ...

2026-09-25T18:20:32Z

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I strongly believe it more boils down to some MDs think statistics is a useless thing they are obligated to do when they want to publish. I have rarely seen power calculation and Statistical Analysis Plan done prior to data collection in the university hospitals.

I don't know how to get the message across to a Prof, MD, PhD ...

2026-09-25T16:36:18Z

I don't know how to get the message across to a Prof, MD, PhD that:

1. we cannot change the statistical test just because you don't like the p-value

2. multiple-testing correction needs to be done even though your favorite gene becomes insignificant.

3. Sample size of N=3 when dealing with multi-omics is *too* small

This is not the first time I'm facing this, but this is the first time my statistical knowledge and research integrity is questioned!!

#Statistics #Academia #Bioinformatics

Nothing beats a good coffee, and no coffee beats a good Turkish ...

2026-09-23T05:59:02Z

Nothing beats a good coffee, and no coffee beats a good Turkish coffee.

I used Jabref before Zotero. These days I try to keep track of ...

2026-09-23T05:19:57Z

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I used Jabref before Zotero. These days I try to keep track of both in case one of them stops getting developed or become proprietary software.

This #jabref release is going to be huge! Just the pre-release ...

2026-09-22T21:36:39Z

This #jabref release is going to be huge! Just the pre-release change-log is huge. I'm really looking forward to this release.

https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/releases/tag/v6.0-beta.1

#Academia #CitationManager

I'm running Signal on Android v8.26.4 and Signal Desktop from ...

2026-09-17T13:47:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…qa4p
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I'm running Signal on Android v8.26.4 and Signal Desktop from Arch Linux official repo v8.27.0

This is not the first or second time I'm having this exact issue. I have posted about this issue previously on Mastodon as well.

I haven's seen any service degradation notice from Signal, ...

2026-09-17T11:32:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…x035
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I haven's seen any service degradation notice from Signal, and their website does not have status page.

As for Army or other clients, they might (logically they should) have their own relay, and a country's army communication should not rely on a non-profit infrastructure.

What I am frustrated about is lack of visible log in the app or status page for their server. It makes it very hard to know if it is my problem, Signal's problem, or my contact's problem.

#Signal again is having the issue that the messages are ...

2026-09-17T11:19:39Z

#Signal again is having the issue that the messages are apparently sent but does not get delivered.

This is frustrating. There is not clear log that can be checked, and there is no clear sign that Signal servers has issues. This is regardless of using phone app or desktop app.

The more I use #DeltaChat, the more I believe a centralized messaging is suboptimal.

Signal have been quite unstable during the past few days for me regardless of the device, internet, and even city!

#SignalApp

Just to add to @npub1fhf…2t42 comment, even Emacs has its own ...

2026-09-14T05:58:02Z

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Just to add to Tim Ch-AI-se (now with bonus spooky) 👻 (npub1fhf…2t42) comment, even Emacs has its own regex. I come from Perl and usually use the -P in grep to activate the Perl style, but sed and awk only sipport extended regex as far as I know.

Also the website Tim Ch-AI-se (now with bonus spooky) 👻 (npub1fhf…2t42) shared is a really good one. I often find myself reading the following website as well. It has nice detailed explanation.

https://www.regular-expressions.info/lookaround.html

Also for a quick test of a regex in your browser, you can use this website.

https://regexr.com/

I personally haven't had much problem with MS Teams in my ...

2026-09-12T05:43:14Z

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I personally haven't had much problem with MS Teams in my browser as long as it is chrome-based. But the Outlook, SharePoint, and Office365 are slow and buggy regardless of hardware, internet connection, or browser.

The amount of man-hours wasted on coping with these MS products is way more than the money institutes have to pay to hire dedicated sysadmin to manage on-prem servers.

I believe I have to paid a 50% more salary just because I have to ...

2026-09-11T16:01:56Z

I believe I have to paid a 50% more salary just because I have to deal with Microsoft nonsensical and poorly-designed mail server and office suite.

I still don't know why people are paying top money to use a set of product that are this bad.

Spent 20 minutes drafting an email in Outlook web, and the damn thing glitched out. my email is no were to be seen. Not in draft, not in sent!

> Frustrating when work intrudes upon emacsing! I think I have ...

2026-09-10T14:05:47Z

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> Frustrating when work intrudes upon emacsing!

I think I have to put this on the dopr of my office 🤣

I was remote working today and needed to use the #Emacs on my ...

2026-09-10T12:01:30Z

I was remote working today and needed to use the #Emacs on my work machine. Tramp is generally slow, x11 forwarding is useless because of Wayland, and didn't want to work in terminal (it was my backup plan). I learnt about waypipe. I'm amazed how smooth the experience is over ssh!

```sh
waypipe ssh $REMOTE emacs
```

And I have Emacs GUI as if I'm sitting behind my work computer. Proced, dired, org-agenda, org-roam, recentf, ... all running remotely but I interact with them locally. Beautiful!

I strongly disagree. GenAI is a tool. One can provide it as a ...

2026-09-09T16:18:08Z

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I strongly disagree. GenAI is a tool. One can provide it as a service, or one can run it on their own hardware.

This is similar to saying insulin is not a tool because the end user has no control over its production. Same for James Webb telescope or even GPS!

I think we, the scientific community, need to read this. GenAI ...

2026-09-09T07:13:46Z

I think we, the scientific community, need to read this. GenAI models are tools, really performant one in fact, but the companies behind them are for-profit and they don't play by the ethical guidelines we have in place in #academia . Until there is clear legal guardrails, we need to be vigilant about the tools we use and how we use them, be it genAI or no.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/openai-fought-dirty-on-career-making-math-problem-says-nyu-mathematician/

I guess the more you want to explain it, the larger word count ...

2026-09-08T13:09:09Z

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I guess the more you want to explain it, the larger word count you need.

The "Functional declerative" is another approach, but theybare two large words with a pretty big meaning baggage.

I wonder how Ludovic Courtès (npub13ah…4c8l) would approach this issue.

I would say "declarative" is the common theme, although ...

2026-09-08T06:20:23Z

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I would say "declarative" is the common theme, although so far I myself have used "Guix/Nix" in presentations. I also like "*ix"

I know many doesn't consider a digital book as a ...

2026-09-07T18:25:28Z

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I know many doesn't consider a digital book as a "book", but my library of DRM-free ebooks and audiobooks is larger than my physical books. I personally would be interested to buy the epub or Opus DRM-free English version, assuming that the price is within my budget (in the similar price range as the frech epub) or 150% higher in case of Opus audiobook.

Exactly. Another example is J. K. Rowling. I love Harry Potter, ...

2026-09-06T13:27:37Z

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Exactly. Another example is J. K. Rowling. I love Harry Potter, but it doesn't mean I'm supporting their transphobic idea.

Also, for years Linux kernel had Reiser filesystem, although he killed his wife.

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

Antonis (npub1f8q…e26h)

You got it very wrong. Please consider reading my post again (or ...

2026-09-06T13:21:44Z

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You got it very wrong. Please consider reading my post again (or maybe a few times).

I'm saying any person has two or more aspect in their life. Why should we avoid using a healthy OpenSource software just because the programmer have said something wrong (assuming what Prot said is wrong. I'm not interested in the topic so I haven't read it).

Their sociopolitical opinion and their programming have nothing to do with each other. Boycotting A because B is bad seems unhealthy to me.

I put it in my wishlist to read some scientific articles about ...

2026-09-06T10:33:45Z

I put it in my wishlist to read some scientific articles about the Cencel Culture. Socialogy and phycology are far from my field of research, but would be nice to educate myself about the premise of Cancel Culture if I manage to find some introductory and less technical articles, so that I can comprehend it without having deep understanding of technical theories and paradigms.

Any suggestions is highly appreciated.

And it goes without saying that having an opinion is something, ...

2026-09-06T09:55:23Z

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And it goes without saying that having an opinion is something, acting on it is another, plus in most countries, expression of certain idealogies are illegal (e.g., racism, CP,...).

So my comment covers the legal part, and the others are by definition illegal and therefore a crime.

I wonder why someone's technical work, especially OpenSource, ...

2026-09-06T09:51:13Z

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I wonder why someone's technical work, especially OpenSource, should be judged by their personal views?? If ExonMobil make a post about benefits of vaccination, is that enough justification that we run, sell our bike, burn our public transport tickets, and fuel our cars with their petrol?

Imho people should have the freedom to have their personal opinion. We, as the consumer/audience choose what to read/watch, and we should be careful what factors we consider.

#FLOSS #Opinion

Exactly. I'm with you. It would drastically improve guix ...

2026-09-05T16:05:27Z

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Exactly. I'm with you. It would drastically improve guix usage. I am happy with my progress in elisp, and I'm eager to learn guile scheme more.

And then we have lisp, which imo are very good languages, easy to ...

2026-09-05T11:16:08Z

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And then we have lisp, which imo are very good languages, easy to read but writing speed is not as high. Or maybe my writing speed is low because of lack of enough experience 😅

I generally divide languages in two groups:
Those that are general and are good to be used as glue (e.g., bash, python, lua), and the more performant languages but with some higher level of complexity (e.g., R, Perl, Rust, Go, /C(\+{2})?/)

Unfortunately Sebastian didn't put anything under Artistic ...

2026-09-04T08:54:01Z

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Unfortunately Sebastian didn't put anything under Artistic License. They could at least put their idea and approach (i.e., the method) under artistic or CC-BY and the code under MIT.

As far as I understand their project, it is more of a artisan thing and their repo and python code is almost all Claude generated. That's why I'm suggesting two licenses.

Alas, it looks like a cool project with beautiful aesthetics. I wish them the best 🍻

At this moment, the rust clone is under MIT and has attributes to ...

2026-09-04T08:48:17Z

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At this moment, the rust clone is under MIT and has attributes to the python repo. This was done in the `b723882` commit which was done 9 hours ago. Before this commit, they still "had" attributions and MIT license but without enough details.

As far as I see and comprehend, what they did is not illegal, although it would have been more moral and ethical to call it "rust clone of SpliceCraft" in the repo description and the README.

I think the method, if published in a journal, should probably be ...

2026-09-04T07:22:43Z

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I think the method, if published in a journal, should probably be under CC-BY. The implementation if is not under Artistic Licence, is a fair game, but the idea, if is CC-BY is violation of license.

What should you do if your office-mate keeps violently banging ...

2026-09-02T10:13:30Z

What should you do if your office-mate keeps violently banging their mouse on the desk out of frustration?

Asking for a friend 🙄

This is nice article by @npub1vg2…lxfp The graphs puts it in ...

2026-09-01T10:43:28Z

This is nice article by K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁 (npub1vg2…lxfp)

The graphs puts it in perspective. I actually wondered for a long time how Github and Gitlab are dealing with this? Do the crawlers use `git clone` for them? Especially because a lot of discussion is in issues and PRs.

One of the sentences that I really liked was this one:

> Training an LLM on content produced by the LLM gives it the equivalent of a digital prion disease

https://social.kernel.org/objects/e5499a9d-7405-48fe-8b7d-7df2fc373034

I don't getbthat understanding from the text, especially the ...

2026-08-28T11:40:10Z

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I don't getbthat understanding from the text, especially the 2nd paragraph. It even mentioned chess, which the general public should not directly associate with chatbots.

Perhaps Wikipedia can be improved to help the layman grasp the idea better. Alas, this is a real issue that, to many, any ML is considered genAI.

aerique (npub1qwh…8uph) Dr. Bruce Simpson (npub1d0r…g2fh)

I believe blaming it exclusively on marketing is inaccurate. ...

2026-08-27T16:19:44Z

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I believe blaming it exclusively on marketing is inaccurate. Millions of people have spent time on reading the specs of new WorldCup ball, or reading about some gossips, nighter of which is affecting their life, but they don't want to spend 2 minutes to read the first two paragraphs of the Wikipedia page on AI:

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

Also there are "certain" nasty people who think spellchecking need machine learning, which is yet another hilarious topic of its own 🤦

Dr. Bruce Simpson (npub1d0r…g2fh)

Today marks the 2^7 (128th) day to the #Google will block every ...

2026-08-27T08:25:45Z

Today marks the 2^7 (128th) day to the #Google will block every #Android app whose developer hasn't registered with Google, signed their contract, paid up, and handed over government ID.

Side-loading apps through alternative stores like f-droid would also get affected.

I believe it would be a big loss, but we can still do something about it:

https://keepandroidopen.org

#KeepAndroidOpen

It's not just BBC unfortunately. An absolute majority of ...

2026-08-27T05:01:04Z

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It's not just BBC unfortunately. An absolute majority of "AI haters" (or whatever term they are referring to themselves) don't know the difference. A very large majority of posts I see on Fediverse are considering any sort of ML "bad", without understanding how much ML in involved in their daily life, from weather forecast to survival analysis in cancer treatment.

I've been cirsed on fedi because I'm applied ML scientist working on cancer and Type 1 Diabetes!

Best of luck. Emacs have been by far the most net-positive ...

2026-08-26T19:00:13Z

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Best of luck. Emacs have been by far the most net-positive (gain/effort) workflow experience I've had for the past two decades.

I have one small suggestion if you are also new to elisp like I was: although org-mode code block exist and is handy, try to also see if you like `ielm` (`M-x ielm`) which is the REPL for elisp. I personally find it easier to try things in ielm.

David Wilson (npub1kff…as0y)

Yes, I have a personal project in which I'm trying to seem ...

2026-08-25T17:07:12Z

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Yes, I have a personal project in which I'm trying to seem the "friendship" between instances. That's where I noticed many are struggling with this.

I read somewhere that the peer list accepts some sort of globbing or regex.

I have dug a bit deeper and collected statistics on how many ...

2026-08-25T14:36:29Z

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I have dug a bit deeper and collected statistics on how many instances are affected by this and how many subdomainof this troll they have in their data. JSON file of some instances are over 7MB and ins predominantly this domain! It is crazy

I really don't understand why LSPs are written in Typescript ...

2026-08-25T08:00:07Z

I really don't understand why LSPs are written in Typescript instead of a more performant language. Take bash-lsp:

https://github.com/bash-lsp/bash-language-server

Why do we need Node.js as a dependency for #Bash #LSP?

#LanguageServerProtocol #NodeJS

Thanks, the idea behind it is nice and it is well executed. But ...

2026-08-24T12:24:58Z

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Thanks, the idea behind it is nice and it is well executed. But as far as I understand, this is a cross-poster script to fetch JSON from last.fm and create a normal post using v1 mastodon API.

I'm more looking for a platform that can do scrobbling. something that can be used as scrobbler rather than using a centralized platform.

Hirad (npub120c…vgkl)

there are quite a few self-hostable solutions, and at least two ...

2026-08-24T12:12:42Z

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there are quite a few self-hostable solutions, and at least two of them are Bluesky-ready, but I failed to find one that supports ActivityPub so that we can use it on Mastodon.

Interesting. Thanks for sharing the link. Couldn't find this ...

2026-08-24T12:11:17Z

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Interesting. Thanks for sharing the link. Couldn't find this link on libre.fm, and some links like the roadmap are 404.

Do you know if they are interested in federation and ActivityPub?

The maintainer said on the website that they are not on any social media anymore (Ctrl+f mastodon):

https://libre.fm/about

I wish there was a Fediverse platform for music #scrobbler. ...

2026-08-24T12:04:46Z

I wish there was a Fediverse platform for music #scrobbler. Something similar to last.fm but OpenSource and supporting #ActivityPub. There is libre.fm, but despite being active, I cannot find their source code and I believe they are a centralized platform.

It would be great if we can also self-host our music history and be able to share it.

There is multi-scrobbler under MIT license that can be a nice place to start:

1. https://github.com/FoxxMD/multi-scrobbler

#Fediverse #scrobbler

I'm looking Volume 28, Issue 4 of the "The Mathematical ...

2026-08-24T09:56:29Z

I'm looking Volume 28, Issue 4 of the "The Mathematical Intelligencer" journal [1] which is published on 2008-11-07 . I contacted Springer but they said they only sell the issues from max 2 years prior. Does anyone know where I can get my hands on physical copy of that issue?

1. https://link.springer.com/journal/283/volumes-and-issues/28-4

#AcademicChatter #academia #math

I don't necessarily agree with your hard take, but I am ...

2026-08-22T08:19:30Z

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I don't necessarily agree with your hard take, but I am writing this to add one more company that is shipping linux phone with linux pre-installed: jolla (npub1xrs…qupw)

The phone is designed from the ground-up to run SailfishOS (RPM-based linux distro):

https://jolla.com/

Guido Günther (npub1xpu…cgcr) [@pine64](https://social.treehouse.systems/@pine64 ) Purism (npub1qy0…nsak)

Distrobox and repology.org are the perfect combination. Needed ...

2026-08-20T17:37:31Z

Distrobox and repology.org are the perfect combination. Needed the latest Zola on my Fedora (which have not packaged Zola at all), and Guix is one version behind (so as Nix).

In repology saw that AlpineEdge has the latest version of Zola packaged. One `distrobox create` later I have the software I need with a very low disk footprint.

After skimming through the README, I'm not clear on how one ...

2026-08-19T05:32:11Z

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After skimming through the README, I'm not clear on how one can select the language. All examples as far as I could tell are using R, right? Can I select the language for each node or does it do auto-detect? Also, ehere do we liload the packages? You used dplyr filter function but I didn't understand where was the package loaded.

Overall, looks like a neat idea. Conceptually makes sense. Well done 👍

I believe some institutes have some form of fixed-connection ...

2026-08-18T08:35:54Z

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I believe some institutes have some form of fixed-connection telephone. Places such as Police, tax office, banks, but also suspect that they are using some VOIP-based system based on Asterisk or Elastix (i used to admin two Elastix servers and I don't know it is still maintained or not).

The official news (link in my previous post) was that landline is now fully depreciated.

Finally managed to find the article from their institute's ...

2026-08-18T05:49:43Z

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Finally managed to find the article from their institute's library:

https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000185756

Michael Ross Tech news (npub1wy6…hzkr) Thanks for sharing.

Read the entire article and I'm yet to know "how". ...

2026-08-18T05:45:55Z

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Read the entire article and I'm yet to know "how". The Science daily is approaching demise. Paragraph after paragraph of rambling without any solid information.

I opened the DOI link and: "Your IP Address has been blocked"

I'm interested to know why the unencrypted data in this case matters, when they are using wifi radio waves?