asciilifeform: emacs is unbeatable on account of the customizations - not only of appearance (i've a different highlighting mode for every type of animal, and most are not the stock included ones) but mechanics - how do folks get along on other editors without 'hungry arrow keys', for example ?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: laugh if you will, misc-fixed-medium-r-normal
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i enjoy colours, good fonts, etc. and so will not use emacs in a term if there's any choice about it
asciilifeform opened today's mail, is leafing through 'ada 95 rationale' and it's a joy
asciilifeform: (if this was in the log - link to log)
asciilifeform: why switched from that to the remote thing ?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i presume the second item on this list was a build of traditional emacs for apple ?
asciilifeform: mostly trad emacs but with gui hooks for the os
asciilifeform: iirc the canonical emacs on apple is 'aquamacs'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's rather like how you cannot have an engine use more energy for, e.g., alternator, than burning fuel yields
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: back to the cn phactory gurlz, it's an open economic question whether a particular one can physically generate enough wealth to pay for 'carroting' it
asciilifeform: china isn't in a deathcage match against rest of the planet trying for 200 yrs. to render its population for fat and to more easily get at the minerals
asciilifeform: this is how you tell the difference. but this is elementary alphabet to #b-a folks
asciilifeform: idk if these folks run the phillipino content farms, but they are almost certainly the shepherds of the usg db with palmprints linked to blockchain tx from idiots
asciilifeform: PeterL: the notion that the folks paying are getting -anything- other than lighter wallet - is a laugh
asciilifeform: linked up with blockchain as well as they can
asciilifeform: take with grain of salt, but folks fairly deep in the belly of the beast have suggested that 'noblis' is where the handprints from 'bitcoin atm' crap, pseudonyms from 'changetip' chumpatron, 'aml/kyc' idiocy, etc. all ends up.
asciilifeform: i suggest that everyone check their server logs for these clowns
asciilifeform: (why these folks insist on publicly advertising this act, is beyond me)
asciilifeform: had various mildly smoking guns for this in stash for a while, now add the fact of them crawling specific pages on me site
asciilifeform: thing is, the man knows what he's doing. not 'useful idiot', he. is including the zombie horde of 'people' for whom 'gpg is hard' in order to reach his conclusion, rather than reached his conclusion because useful idiot and automatically included them
asciilifeform: because gigglets like this have a way of 'disappearing' from forums
asciilifeform: ot about Convergence. Years later, I had to abandon DoNotTrackMe (by a Moxie-run company, Abine) nee 'Blur' for Ghostery instead when the former got an update that kept hogging the CPU. An email to Abine just yielded a response to keep updating Blur, but the problem never went away.'
asciilifeform: 'I simply asked him -- in a private email -- if there was a signature for Convergence someplace because I didn't see any online. He accused me of being "inflammatory" and stated it was necessary to "take a leap of faith" (i.e. download and run it without verification). This was back in 2012, mind you. He appeared to be oddly anti-PGP back then, too. Frankly, after that I had no appetite for any more of his, erm, style and forg
asciilifeform: moxie's sekrit thingy is open source though << ahahahaha lol. open just like openssl
