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amszmidt

@amszmidt@mastodon.social

sauerpunk gnu hacker / software freedom or bust / wizard of zymurgy / lisp machine revolutionary / professional curmudgeon

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lispegistus, to Lisp
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I've got some light relaxing reading lined up for my Saturday :) #lisp

amszmidt,
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@lispegistus @screwtape I heard thhat @amszmidt is a total asshole.

amszmidt,
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@screwtape @lispegistus I was thinking of a small toot series where I describe the CADR in detail, it is a pretty little machine and much simpler than one might thing (it is much simpler than the Z80!)

davidho, to random
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When you see the best selling vehicle in America on a French street, you realize how ridiculous it is that we let this infestation happen in the US.

📷: @briceperrin

amszmidt,
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@davidho @briceperrin To put it into some perspective:

Ford F-150 2029 mm (79.9 in) / 2430 mm (95.7 in) with mirrors
Chery eQ1 1670 mm (65.7 in)
Volvo V60 1890 mm (74.4 in) / 2052 mm (80.8 in) with mirrors

The V60 is a big car already ... the largest width of a car in EU is 255 cm.

mattsheffield, to emacs
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A question for the community: Is it possible to use the Tramp feature to connect to a remote Emacs daemon? I ask because I have a file which I always have open on a remote pseudo-tty, but sometimes it would be nice to use my desktop Emacs with its nice proportional fonts and custom sizes to edit.

I want to connect to the same remote daemon so I can see unsaved changes and not have to worry about sync.

amszmidt,
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@mattsheffield I don't think the question makes much sense, Tramp is more of a "remote file" system than anything. Can you SSH to the box? Then X11 forwarding would solve it using something like:

ssh FOO.MACHINE -f emacsclient -c --display=$DISPLAY

amszmidt,
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@mattsheffield Yeah, seems like a distinction without meaning. You have it running in the background, serving a client .. and it can use TCP (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/TCP-Emacs-server.html). The issue here would be forwarding the GUI part, which would require X11 forwarding or equivialent.

@hajovonta

amszmidt,
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@hajovonta Ok, can you show an example of how @mattsheffield would resolve the problem he is having?

amszmidt,
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@hajovonta it is definitely not easier to open the file locally than using TRAMP over SSH.
@mattsheffield actually, that should be good enough if you just wanna see if you have unsaved stuff — you will have a auto save file lurking around, and if you can access the box remotely you can check for that.

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@hajovonta @mattsheffield and even a lock file…

fsf, to random
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Truly free GNU/Linux distributions like Dragora, Trisquel, or Parabola tend to have fewer contributors but all the same hosting expenses as larger distros. Have you donated to support them yet? https://dragora.org/en/donate.html

amszmidt,
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@hogsy @fsf "Works for me" ... Maybe someone fixed something?

amszmidt, to amiga
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To those using #Amiga, is the system source #FreeSoftware? Can you rebuild the whole system?

amszmidt, to random
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#LispM curiosity .. in the CADR Console debugger, to start the remote machine one types "105 FOOBAR" -- can anyone explain why? #LispMachine

amszmidt, to random
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If you are doing testing, you're not a real programmer. #CommitAndRun

awoodsnet, to vim
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People often talk about Emacs vs Vim. Every developer I’ve met uses Vim. Occasionally, some of the vim users will say they have previously emacs, but switched to vim.

So where are all the people who are currently using Emacs?

I’m not trolling or looking for an argument. I legit want to know!

amszmidt,
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@phundrak @hajovonta @0x1de @awoodsnet You don't need to customize eshell to get that behaviour. It also works for any file access .. DIRED? yup. M-x copy-file? yup!

Sprinkle some bookmarks on top of that for easy access to remote files ...

Another cool thing is file shadowing: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/File-Shadowing.html

amszmidt, to random
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@Reiddragon @screwtape Common Lisp is both a high and low level language. What I am referring to is more akin to assembler, C is not a suitable language period -- just the compiler is larger than the whole Lisp Machine system including microcode.

amszmidt, to random
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Random pondering about sustainable software, and operating systems like Project Oberon, Forth, Smalltalk, and the Lisp Machines .. Systems that a single individual can maintain (maybe not write ...)

amszmidt,
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@screwtape Any sustainable system needs to be entirely free software.

amszmidt,
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@screwtape Second critera would be, one single implementation language -- maybe two, a much lower level one.

amszmidt, to random
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"has banned FOO and its employees from ever contributing to BAR" -- a statement that should never be accepted in an project.

amszmidt,
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@glitzersachen A blob cannot be free if it is is not free. Free Software has an actual meaning.

amszmidt,
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@glitzersachen Are you going to dismiss everyone working at SCO and Microsoft? Where do you live? I need to know wether you are ok to talk to.

amszmidt,
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@glitzersachen Ok, and what does that have to do with a patch you get sent from a @microsoft.com address? What does that have to do with a patch from @sco.com address? Assume patches are sensible.

amszmidt,
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@glitzersachen It was a argument made from the devils side. You are saying that one is fine to dismiss contributions by people simply by association. By the same logic, I should be able to dismiss anything you say simply by association with a country, no? Or does that become quite unfair?

amszmidt,
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@glitzersachen Ok, then Nvidia, or some random mil-tech. I do not care who.

amszmidt,
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@glitzersachen But that has literally nothing to do with WHO is contributing.

amszmidt,
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@glitzersachen The copyright assignment is not that extensive. And the disclaimer from an employer is not that scary.

amszmidt,
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@glitzersachen You are asking different questions, if corporation is compromised or not is TOTALLY IRRELEVANT to accepting a contribution from someone having a @foo.com address. You can read the contribution. QED, muting this nonsense.

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