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Went to local (Warrenton, Virginia) camera store today. Door locked during nomal business hours. Sign said to call. I did. Owner working the shop. Let me in. I asked “what changed?” “%60 increase on everything we buy due to tarrifs, I can’t afford to pay staff.”

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@kickingvegas Sure, GNU. I was using TECO emacs c.a. 79, Multics c.a. 81, maybe Gosmacs in that time frame and FINE and MicroEamcs a bit later. There was a bit of a cambrian explosion.

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I believe this is the 50th anniversry year of #emacs

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Ode to south Columbus: curious.port111.com

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@wdormann And it seems to be the big boys who are about to IPO. All press is good press.

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@jtr hang in there. Your lack of carpal tunnel syndrome future self will thank you.

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@jbaty I think I made a quill pen from a goose feather in my youth. Maybe that’s next :-)

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@jbaty As someone just dippingn his toe into the pen-not-pencil waters, I have to ask, what are you getting out of pens in the $100+ range? On reading an article by author Neal Stephenson about pens, I’m trying the Pilot G2 at $1 each and liking the result. What am I missing?

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A friend recently retired after a career as an editor for a major scientific publication. He and his colleagues were PhDs or ABDs in the field. Apparently for the past few years when people leave, they are just not bring replaced. AI is doing the reviews. AI reviews of AI generated content?

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Finished reading: The Storm Before the Storm by Mike Duncan 📚

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Because who dosn’t think about the fall of the Roman Republic? It covers a lot of the breakdown of the mores/norms that lead to Civil War (Marius, Sulla) and set the stage for Caesar and Augustus.

\n

There may be some modern parallells :-/

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There is a blind boy at our church. I realized yesterday that you (he) doesn’t need sight to “see” beauty, wonder and awe, things a camera just can’t capture, but poets can: Rocky Mountain High

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September 11. Happy memories. 4192. “A day that will live in famy”. ⚾️

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Using Science in Cybersecurity: curious.port111.com

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@eludom Being a little less headline-y, the sky-is-falling, “unplug the Internet now”-y

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Critial open source projects, like Linux, will be unable to track/respond to knonw (and likely, many more unknow) exploints in real time. A book by one of my former co-workers, a statistician, pointed out that CVEs/vuln declosers were just a known sampling of a much larger unknown pouplation and that in that world the only rational way to respond is to treat seucrutiy vulnerablities as a statistics problem.

\n

www.worldscientific.com/worldscib…

\n

The old ethical disclosuere model is now dead. The timelines are too tight. Resources in many open source pojects
\njust will not keep up, and I’m pretty sure commmercial projects are not going to now hire more people just to find/patch
\nbugs.

\n

We need a new model.

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Security Exploits Too Cheap To Meter? curious.port111.com

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Freud meets me at McDonald's: curious.port111.com

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You don’t have to turn off notifications when you’re writing on paper.

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@jacks Thanks. Great white noise. Knowing it’s fake makes it even easier to tune out. I may listen tonight.

\n

Marty Brenneman, Reds announcer, was the backgorund sound of many of my summers 1975-2019. “And this one belongs to the Reds”

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The end of the world has a very long history: curious.port111.com

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Monitoring your own car? curious.port111.com

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@sacha What Claude/ChatGPT can do with language is not to be believed. I fairly reguarly converse with it in my intermediate-level Latin (language requriement in college, hobby ever since). I recently visited my son in Sweden. For a few months ahead, I had it randomly feeding the odd Latin or Swedish quote, and giving me both so I I could do comparison. I had it generate sevearal HTML based Swedish Flash Card systems for phrases and words that ran in broswer on my phone (with the Latin and English equivilants). I’ve had long conversations with it about etemology and PIE roots (dig into “neighbor”). It wrote me a poem about Pete Rose (http://curious.galthub.com/blog/2022-12-10/), translated it to Latin, and later put it in dactylic hexameter. Incredible.

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@jtr I applied your style sheet, I think, curious.port111.com

\n

Not seeing huge chages, maybe just things the the theme overriding?

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@sacha Wow. So many ideas, so many tools, so may working parts. You have absolutly not helped me with the “there are too many shiny objects that I should look at” probelm :-)

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I have written up a worked example of “How I use AI to write, maintaining my voice” if that helps.

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@sacha I was curious about your sketch-note habit when I first saw it, but I’m begining to understand. Not much of a doodler, but there is a freedom on the page (lines to this, circle that, odd pictures) that I just don’t get online/at a keyboard.I find that in Org Mode (and now with GPTel on the back end feeding things to “The AIs” for review I get into endless edit-until-perfect cycles. Maybe my friend at Wispr FLow has a point. Maybe I should just micro.blog quickly sometimes.Another thought I may be trying out: just do the whole “post” in longhand. OCR it (Claude does well !), maybe clean up the spelling, maybe not. Post it. Long-ish form stuff without the endless edit cycle.Then of course the’re the whole questoion of “who am I thinking for anyhow”, is the thinking and end or a means….

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@jtr XFK == Xah Fly Keys.

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My web-foo mostly stoped at HTML, but I’m sure stealing your CSS again. Just another learning curve to come up…

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The online off-ramp: curious.port111.com

","summary":"Information hidden in a sea of data isn’t information. A paper booklet beat its digital twin — starting to write and think more on paper instead.","url":"https://curious.port111.com/2026/08/24/the-online-offramp.html","date_published":"2026-08-24T14:33:45+00:00","author":{"name":"George Jones","url":"https://curious.port111.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F33%2F1647264.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eludom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-24 14:33","date_timestamp":1787582025,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https:///@/117150976145744720"]}},{"id":"96257278","content_html":"

Neal Stephenson writes with pen and paper.

\n

nealstephenson.substack.com/p/writing…

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Some good arguments for it.

\n

Ironically, at least a few hardcore #emacs users Aldi have a habit of also writing a lot on paper

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Will voice kill the keyboard? curious.port111.com

","summary":"After experimenting with voice journaling, George Jones concludes that traditional keyboards and paper enhance thoughtful composition, while voice optimized capture speed.","url":"https://curious.port111.com/2026/08/22/will-voice-kill-the-keyboard.html","date_published":"2026-08-22T14:29:49+00:00","author":{"name":"George Jones","url":"https://curious.port111.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F33%2F1647264.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eludom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-22 14:29","date_timestamp":1787408989,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https:///@/117139636628695617"]}},{"id":"96166052","content_html":"

@jtr I like the theme. Seeing light on linux, dark on phone. Guess that means I’m schizophrenic in my own theme choices. Could I steal your theme again?

\n

Let me know if you try the move to XFK. It takes committment and at least a few weeks of being very clumsy.

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I poked my head into substack again. It shows me things I think are interesting, but it’s back in algorithm land begging for attention.

\n

2015 called. It wants my attention back.\nProbably not.

\n","summary":"","url":"https://curious.port111.com/2026/08/20/i-poked-my-head-into.html","date_published":"2026-08-20T23:08:26+00:00","author":{"name":"George Jones","url":"https://curious.port111.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F33%2F1647264.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eludom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-20 23:08","date_timestamp":1787267306,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https:///@/117130350370248718"]}},{"id":"96062183","content_html":"

@jtr it’s a problem. There is increasingly no “we”.

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@kev The general wisdom that held true for my career (retired now) was that pay raises came when you moved companies.

\n

Then there was that time I joined a silicon valley startup that got bought by a big company with RSUs from both….

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@jtr Again, Xah Lee is the source of truth on many things. Keyboards: Xah Keyboard Guide share.google/nBMNQ6c36…

\n

Of course one irony is that with the switch to xah fly keys, the control key becomes far less important. XFK is not emacs, it’s just built on top of it.

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@jtr see Advantage2 Wired Ergonomic Keyboard for Mac & PC | Kinesis Keyboards share.google/F4fo3RCnP…

\n

I’ve used them exclusively for 10 years.

\n

I might do split if starting over, but if it ain’t broke…

\n","url":"https://micro.blog/eludom/95855973","date_published":"2026-08-16T08:14:47+00:00","author":{"name":"George Jones","url":"https://curious.port111.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F33%2F1647264.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eludom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-16 08:14","date_timestamp":1786868087,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95838340","content_html":"

@jtr Between work and home I’ve had 5 Kensis Advtangae’s. Being able to use my hands is important.

\n","url":"https://micro.blog/eludom/95838340","date_published":"2026-08-15T21:37:04+00:00","author":{"name":"George Jones","url":"https://curious.port111.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F33%2F1647264.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eludom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-15 21:37","date_timestamp":1786829824,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95819189","content_html":"

@jtr If you add this

\n

(global-display-line-numbers-mode)

\n

You get line numbers (very useful if you want to edit the same file with /bin/ed :-)), and it shows you which single lines were visually wrapped.

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@jtr On the line-wrap thing, I do the follwing instead (visual-fill-column package).

\n

When I tested your setup, the first line was indented poperly, but subequent ones sill went to column 1. visual-fill-column seems to handle it correctly (not going back to column 1 for subequent lines:

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(remove-hook ’text-mode-hook #’turn-on-auto-fill)

\n

(require ’visual-fill-column)

\n

;; Add visual-line-mode and visual-fill-column-mode to text-mode-hook
\n(add-hook ’text-mode-hook (lambda ()
\n(visual-line-mode 1)
\n(visual-fill-column-mode 1)
\n;; (visual-fill-column-toggle-center-text)
\n)
\n)

\n

;; Set the desired wrap width
\n(setq-default visual-fill-column-width 120) ;; because 80 character terminals were a thing?
\n#+end_src

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@jtr Xah Fly Keys will take you a couple weeks/a month or so of re-training. You’re really not using “emacs” (in the RMS/Guy Steele sense) anymore. All your muscle memory is now worng. But I’ve found it (and most of the choices Xah makes) to be very sensible and usable.

\n","url":"https://micro.blog/eludom/95815121","date_published":"2026-08-15T12:22:13+00:00","author":{"name":"George Jones","url":"https://curious.port111.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F33%2F1647264.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eludom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-15 12:22","date_timestamp":1786796533,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95815066","content_html":"

@jtr I had this problem, and the beginings of carpal tunnel syndrome ~10? years ago. Two solutions: Xah Fly Keys and Knesis Advantage II keyboard. No problems since.

\n

The keyboard is probably the easier fix. Puts control and other common keys under your thumbs

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@jtr Your timing (or my mistakes) are good. I screwed something up in my config, so I’m going through another “Emacs bankrupcy” (so much cruft!), just stealing most of your “Gems”. Thanks. Again.

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I did the fateful thing. I updated all my #emacs packages after not touching them for 5 months. Now I’m recompiling emacs from the latest sources to try to make mysterious new errors go away. You pull one thread…

\n","summary":"","url":"https://curious.port111.com/2026/08/14/i-did-the-fateful-thing.html","date_published":"2026-08-14T21:23:51+00:00","author":{"name":"George Jones","url":"https://curious.port111.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F33%2F1647264.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eludom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-14 21:23","date_timestamp":1786742631,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https:///@/117095965692527876"]}},{"id":"95602634","content_html":"

@jacks Maybe they could use a simulated Ronald Regan voice (as the radio announcer for a Cubs away game he once made up play-by-play when the ticker went dead).

\n","url":"https://micro.blog/eludom/95602634","date_published":"2026-08-11T21:19:50+00:00","author":{"name":"George Jones","url":"https://curious.port111.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F33%2F1647264.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eludom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-11 21:19","date_timestamp":1786483190,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95516511","content_html":"

Different outlooks: curious.port111.com

","summary":"","url":"https://curious.port111.com/2026/08/10/different-outlooks.html","date_published":"2026-08-10T12:56:50+00:00","author":{"name":"George Jones","url":"https://curious.port111.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F33%2F1647264.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eludom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-10 12:56","date_timestamp":1786366610,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https:///@/117071323440505532"]}},{"id":"95359536","content_html":"

@manton Just wondering. I think it becomes a problem when the bots start driving up bandwidth costs.

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This is not sustainable. People will just stop providing content\nif they have to pay for the bots and the time to fight them.

\n

patronview.com/news/99-p…

\n","summary":"","url":"https://curious.port111.com/2026/08/07/this-is-not-sustainable-people.html","date_published":"2026-08-07T15:52:25+00:00","author":{"name":"George Jones","url":"https://curious.port111.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F33%2F1647264.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eludom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-07 15:52","date_timestamp":1786117945,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https:///@/117055026210068534"]}},{"id":"94958205","content_html":"

Annoy a marketing person. Set your phone to always use greyscale. Much less interesting that way :-)

\n","summary":"","url":"https://curious.port111.com/2026/07/31/annoy-a-marketing-person-set.html","date_published":"2026-07-31T08:35:14+00:00","author":{"name":"George Jones","url":"https://curious.port111.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F33%2F1647264.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eludom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-31 08:35","date_timestamp":1785486914,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https:///@/117013670578607253"]}},{"id":"94957551","content_html":"

Stop Android apps from running: curious.port111.com

","summary":"","url":"https://curious.port111.com/2026/07/31/stop-android-apps-from-running.html","date_published":"2026-07-31T08:11:15+00:00","author":{"name":"George Jones","url":"https://curious.port111.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F33%2F1647264.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eludom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-31 08:11","date_timestamp":1785485475,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https:///@/117013580737189735"]}},{"id":"94774619","content_html":"

What do I really need? curious.port111.com

","summary":"","url":"https://curious.port111.com/2026/07/28/what-do-i-really-need.html","date_published":"2026-07-28T06:53:19+00:00","author":{"name":"George Jones","url":"https://curious.port111.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F33%2F1647264.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eludom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-28 06:53","date_timestamp":1785221599,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https:///@/116996284170643941"]}},{"id":"94689065","content_html":"

Done. \"\"\"\"\"\" : curious.port111.com

","summary":"","url":"https://curious.port111.com/2026/07/26/done.html","date_published":"2026-07-26T11:20:27+00:00","author":{"name":"George Jones","url":"https://curious.port111.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F33%2F1647264.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eludom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-26 11:20","date_timestamp":1785064827,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https:///@/116986855354356173"]}},{"id":"94291354","content_html":"

Inside a Sami kåta \"\" : curious.port111.com

","summary":"","url":"https://curious.port111.com/2026/07/19/inside-a-sami-kta.html","date_published":"2026-07-19T14:58:25+00:00","author":{"name":"George Jones","url":"https://curious.port111.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F33%2F1647264.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"eludom"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-19 14:58","date_timestamp":1784473105,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https:///@/116948409540279249"]}}]}