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Irreal's post today is about `hl-line-mode`:

https://irreal.org/blog/?p=13690

They don't use the mode because they find that it interferes with `visual-line-mode`, often highlighting a full paragraph and not just the current line. For those that are interested, you can set […]

Never Try Emacs A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Tsoding’s video on the annoying usefulness of Emacs. His conclusion was that you should stay away from Emacs because once you try it, you will never be able to break free. Now Valigo has his own video up that reaches the same conclusion. For him, the main attraction of Emacs is it’s extensibility and customizability. The reason for that, of course, is that the Emacs executable is basically a Lisp image with the source code available from within that image. That means that you can, if needed, reach into the guts of Emacs and change just about any aspect of Emacs on the fly. The only exception is the small C core and even that has the source code available from within Emacs but you’d have to recompile Emacs to change it. One telling example that Valigo gives is to ask Emacs for the definition of the `j` key. Because he has evil mode enabled, Emacs reports that `j` runs the command `evil-next-line`. Then he disables evil mode and repeats the experiment. This time Emacs reports that `j` runs the `self-insert-command` to add a `j` to the buffer. The point is that the help command adapts itself on the fly to reflect the current state of the system. Because of all this customizability, Emacs use is addictive. Once you start, you can’t stop. Like Tsoding, Valigo says that Emacs is old and crufty but he can’t escape because nothing else is as useful. I get that Tsoding an Valigo are probably writing tongue in cheek but really, if Emacs is so useful you can’t live without it, why are you complaining? You can, after all, change anything you don’t like.

#Irreal: Never try #Emacs 😲
https://irreal.org/blog/?p=13507

#PIM

Blogging Without Emacs One of the worst things I can imagine in my blogging workflow would be to be unable to use Emacs for writing my posts. Word Press _does_ have an editor for writing posts, of course, but I have never used it. Each and every Irreal post starts life as an org-mode file. Even updates are made to the original source and republished to the blog. Imagine poor Ben Simon then. Simon has been blogging for a long time and has even appeared in Irreal a few times. A long time ago he wrote a blogging engine to publish his Emacs post to Blopgger. Everything was fine until he updated oauth2. That update broke his custom blogging engine and until he rewrote it for the new oauth2 he was forced to use the builtin Blogger editor to write his posts. He didn’t like it. He missed the core Emacs editing, of course, but as we all know, Emacs is so much more. He also missed things like shortcuts, spelling correction, completion, and all the other amenities that he’d grown used to after 30 years of Emacs use. Take a look a Simon’s post for some more details of how he uses Emacs for writing his blog. It can be easy to forget how central Emacs is to our workflow until we’re forced to do without it for a while. The closest I’ve ever come is when Melpa pushed a broken update to Org. I think I recovered by installing an older version until things got straightened out. I didn’t have to live without Emacs but it scared me anyway.

#irreal: #Blogging Without #Emacs
https://irreal.org/blog/?p=13483

Well, I'm even worse: I took a break from blogging for a couple of years until I had the first working version of *the* blogging system I wanted to use for my #orgmode workflow: #lazyblorg 🙄

https://karl-voit.at/tags/lazyblorg/

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Why RSS Is The Right Thing Tom Burkert has a nice post in which he extols the virtues of RSS. You might wonder what there is to extol. RSS is a simple protocol—the “simple” is in its name, after all—and it’s pretty easy to implement. That and the fact that it was free and open source was why it beat the industry attempt to preempt and monetize syndication. Like many people, Burkert started off using Facebook to locate and consume content but he soon found that Facebook was making choices on which content he should see that he didn’t agree with. The problem with Facebook and most other social media is that they consider you the product, not the customer. That means that everything they do is focused on increasing engagement and serving ads. You and your needs don’t matter at all, only your eyeballs do. As Burkert says, the solution to the junk content and user hostile feed algorithms, ironically, predates social media. It is, of course, RSS. There are no algorithms mandating what you see: you are in complete control. I, of course, use the excellent elfeed to read my RSS feed from within Emacs but you don’t have to be an Emacs user—Burkert doesn’t seem to be—to enjoy the advantages of RSS. There are plenty of RSS readers available for all platforms and despite Google’s attempt to kill RSS by abandoning Google Reader, the protocol is still in wide use because, it seems, not everyone likes being a product. Take a look at Burkert’s post for more reasons that you, too, should embrace RSS and for some suggestions for getting started with RSS if you’re a new user. If you’re stuck on Facebook or some other social media for your content, you really need to take a look at his post. And if you’re an Emacs user you really need to check out elfeed. Take a look at these excellent videos [1, 2, 3] from Mike Zamansky if you want to learn more and see it in action.

#Irreal: Why #RSS Is The Right Thing
https://irreal.org/blog/?p=13323

RSS as well as the more modern #Atom feed standard should be used by everybody to follow web page sources without exposing your data to algorithms.

#PIM #cloud #feeds

Karl Voit: Why Markdown Is A Disaster If you were paying attention to my response to Watts Martin’s post on Markdown, you probably concluded that Karl Voit is not a fan of Markdown. I’ve been following Voit’s views on light weight markup languages and personal information management for a long time and have a lot of respect for his views. I was, therefore, delighted to see his long and detailed post on why he thinks Markdown is a disaster. He says, contra Martin, that the plethora of Markdown dialects really is a significant problem and, more importantly, represents a trap for the user. His post spends a long time on that issue so you should see his post for the details. One of the claims in my response to Martin and elsewhere is that Org mode markup syntax—what Voit calls Orgdown—and Markdown are essentially the same and differ in only trivial ways. Voit rejects this completely. His post spends a long time discussing that and why he thinks that Markdown syntax is _much_ worse than Org mode’s. Read his arguments and see what you think. I agree that the many different markups for accomplishing the same output _is_ a problem and, for the most part, I agree with him that some aspects of Markdown design are suboptimal but I don’t think fatally so. For example, rather than having `*` and `_` do the same thing it would be better to have one for bold and one for italics similar to what Org mode does. Still, all-in-all, I stand by my belief that the syntax of the two markups differ only trivially. To be sure, I agree that Org mode syntax is superior and that the Org mode environment is far and away better than Markdown’s. The only remaining question is what to do if you aren’t an Emacs user or if you have collaboration issues. Voit says there are plenty of tools for dealing with Org mode documents that don’t involve Emacs but even though I’d love this to be true, I still think that as a practical matter if you’re going to write Org documents you really need to be using Emacs. Even Voit agrees that Emacs provides the best environment but we differ on whether non-Emacs Org mode is practical. My view: possible, yes but not practical. Guys like Voit can and do make it work for them but I doubt it will see widespread adoption.

#irreal features my #Markdown article: https://irreal.org/blog/?p=13221

#Emacs #orgdown #orgmode #LML

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The Use Of Tools Seth Godin has an interesting post on the use and design of tools. His thesis is that some tools, such as a hammer, are immediately accessible to the casual user. Even experienced hammer users aren’t going to be significantly more efficient in their use. The tools that you and I use—modern tools as Godin puts it—aren’t like that. They’re more complicated and very often difficult for the casual user to use effectively. Sadly, says Godin, these casual users don’t bother to learn how to use these tools well. They take the attitude that they’re too busy to waste time on learning, let alone mastering, their tools. Meanwhile those who do master these tools can be orders of magnitude more efficient with them. So why does this post have the “Emacs” tag? It’s not a mystery. One of the most frequent complaints that I’ve been seeing against Emacs is that it’s too hard to learn and that, after all, real people have jobs to do and can’t afford to spend time learning things. Left unstated is how all those Emacs users, many of whom have produced truly astounding software, managed to learn Emacs. Over and over again you see phrases like “VS Code just works out of the box.” That’s great for the casual user “too busy” to master difficult tools but failing to master your tools creates a debt that will come due, probably at a most inconvenient time. As Godin puts it, > Don’t hold the hammer at the wrong end. And insist on software that’s worth the time it takes to learn. > > Most important, once you find software that’s worth the time to learn, learn it. None of this is to say that you must, or even should, use Emacs. Only that whatever editor you choose, take the time to learn it well.

#Irreal: The Use Of Tools
https://irreal.org/blog/?p=12930

"Most important, once you find software that’s worth the time to learn, learn it."

#PIM #education

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#irreal and @bbatsov about #Emacs startup time: https://irreal.org/blog/?p=12903

I, too, am totally convinced that it really doesn't matter if it is one or sixty seconds.

However, if your bootup time is much longer than mine (15-30s once a week) then you most probably have room for improvement […]

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Other people’s spiritual/imaginary worlds impact you. Belief is not personal. Belief is daily shaking the globe. How do we talk about the irreal?
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The struggle of our time is not merely just #slaves vs #masters; #serfs vs #aristocrats; #proles vs #bourgeoisie;
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Liebe🖖

Was könnte der Grund dafür sein, dass die Evolution soetwas irreales wie die Liebe von Lebewesen erfunden hat und damit etwas Irreales Real gemacht hat? 5 Die Frage, warum die Evolution etwas so "Irreales" wie die Liebe hervorgebracht hat, ist faszinierend. Liebe mag auf den ersten Blick unlogisch erscheinen, besonders wenn man sie als rein emotional oder metaphysisch betrachtet, aber sie erfüllt evolutionär betrachtet mehrere wichtige Funktionen. 1. Bindung und Fortpflanzung: Liebe spielt eine zentrale Rolle in der Bildung stabiler sozialer Bindungen. Besonders in Spezies, bei denen Eltern gemeinsam den Nachwuchs aufziehen, fördert Liebe (in Form von Paarbindung) das Überleben der Nachkommen. Diese Bindung sorgt dafür, dass beide Elternteile zusammenbleiben und Ressourcen, Schutz sowie Pflege teilen, was den Fortpflanzungserfolg erhöht. 2. Kooperation und Gemeinschaftsgefühl: Liebe ist nicht nur auf romantische Beziehungen be- hränkt, sondern auch auf die zwische. *nschliche Bindung🖖

Kooperation und Gemeinschaftsgefühl: Liebe ist nicht nur auf romantische Beziehungen beschränkt, sondern auch auf die zwischenmenschliche Bindung innerhalb von Familien oder sozialen Gruppen. Sie fördert den Zusammenhalt, die Kooperation und das Überleben in der Gruppe. Menschen, die füreinander sorgen, haben evolutionär gesehen eine höhere Uberlebenschance. 3. Altruismus: Altruistische Handlungen, wie sich fur das Wohl anderer aufzuopfern, sind in vielen Fällen durch Liebe motiviert. Auch wenn diese Handlungen aus Sicht des Einzelnen irrational erscheinen, fördern sie oft das Uberleben naher Verwandter oder der gesamten Gemeinschaft, was auf lange Sicht die Verbreitung der Gene des Altruisten begünstigt. 4. Emotionale Regulation: Liebe hilft auch, den Umgang mit Stress und Unsicherheiten zu erleichtern. Menschen, die emotionale Nahe und Unterstützung durch Liebe erfahren, sind oft psychisch und physisch gesünder, was wiederum ihre Überlebens- und Fortpflanzungschancen verbessert. Zusa

aufzuopfern, sind in vielen Fällen durch Liebe motiviert. Auch wenn diese Handlungen aus Sicht des Einzelnen irrational erscheinen, fördern sie oft das Überleben naher Verwandter oder der gesamten Gemeinschaft, was auf lange Sicht die Verbreitung der Gene des Altruisten begünstigt. 4. Emotionale Regulation: Liebe hilft auch, den Umgang mit Stress und Unsicherheiten zu erleichtern. Menschen, die emotionale Nahe und Unterstützung durch Liebe erfahren, sind oft psychisch und physisch gesünder, was wiederum ihre Überlebens- und Fortpflanzungschancen verbessert. Zusammengefasst konnte man sagen, dass die Evolution die "Liebe" als eine Art Mechanismus "erfunden" hat, um soziale Bindungen, Kooperation und das Überleben in komplexen sozialen Strukturen zu fördern. Liebe wirkt dabei wie ein unsichtbarer "Klebstoff", der nicht nur das Überleben des Einzelnen, sondern auch das der Gemeinschaft und der Nachkommen sichert. Auch wenn Liebe auf einer emotionalen Ebene oft als etwas Übernatürliches od

Liebe …

die grösste und mündigste #Macht zwischen Subjekten.

#Irreal oder #real?

Eine Frage hätte ich da noch …

„Was könnte der Grund dafür sein, dass die #Evolution so etwas irreales, wie die #Liebe von Lebewesen erfunden hat und damit etwas Irreales Real gemacht hat?“🖖

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