PotatoP - https://hackaday.io/project/184340-potatop
A LISP-programmable laptop with battery life measured in years
[#]Lisp #EInk #SolarPower
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A post on trying to manage shared #OrgMode files (#OrgRoam) in #Emacs on mobile: https://babbagefiles.xyz/termux-extra-keys-emacs-org-roam-node-android/
(using #Termux (@termux) Extra Keys and #OrgNode)
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[#]Firefox claps back after #BraveBrowser's Play Store shenanigans - https://techissuestoday.com/firefox-claps-back-after-brave-browser-play-store-shenanigans/
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(more Pebble notes, a bit of discussion from one of the HN threads, on how Pebble got round iOS restrictions and cross-platform compatibility issues:
[from: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42847177 ]
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[#]Emacs #OrgMode note, bearing on performance and font-locking (and #LaTeX):
At least with Emacs 30.0.93 and Org-Mode 9.8-pre, I would not recommend having org-highlight-latex-and-related set to anything other than nil.
Doing so triggers Org to run org-do-latex-and-related, which badly affects performance.
(I was trying to look at the huge Org file with lots of headings containing the entire plays of Shakespeare [ https://github.com/jdtsmith/shakespeare.org ] and Emacs crawled into unbearably slow performance.
I often do have LaTeX snippets here and there and saw the setting mentioned in Prot's modus-themes manual [ https://protesilaos.com/emacs/modus-themes#h:dd8478da-f56a-45cd-b199-b836c85c3c5a ] and so had turned it on some time back.)
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(related to the potential Pebble resurrection)
a comment on one of the discussion posts: "My mood tracker for Pebble was the only one that has ever worked for me": https://www.nothingeasyaboutthis.com/moodapp/
(I still have a Pebble, but haven't tried the referenced MoodApp [ https://apps.rebble.io/application/55b65b171ad0f4bb56000061 ]. It's not the only mood tracker in the app-store, an even more starred one is Mood Tracker [ https://apps.rebble.io/application/557adc79bdeaadabcb00001b ].)
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[#]Pebble watches may be coming back: https://ericmigi.com/blog/why-were-bringing-pebble-back
(via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42845091 )
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In their news today (https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20250127#sitenews), Distrowatched shared the following:
We've been hearing all week from readers who say they can no longer post about Linux on Facebook or share links to DistroWatch. Some people have reported their accounts have been locked or limited for posting about Linux.
The sad irony here is that Facebook runs much of its infrastructure on Linux and often posts job ads looking for Linux developers.
Unfortunately, there isn't anything we can do about this, apart from advising people to get their Linux-related information from sources other than Facebook. I've tried to appeal the ban and was told the next day that Linux-related material is staying on the cybersecurity filter. My Facebook account was also locked for my efforts.
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Figuring out a stupid solution to a stupid problem with my #Emacs on my #Guix / #StumpWM machine.
There's surely an actual fix for this, but I figured out a stupid workaround at least.
Guix, XIM, Emacs, Multi_key, Shft+SPC | The Neo-Babbage Files
(Want to compose characters? Then you can't scroll backwards with Shft-SPACE. Want to scroll backwards with Shft-SPACE? Then you can't compose characters.)
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(Writan occurs only once elsewhere in Beowulf at l.1688, where it refers to something on a sword-hilt, either a runic inscription or an engraved image, it is unclear which.
þurh rūnstafas rihte gemearcod
geseted ond gesǣd hwām þæt sweord geworht
"So/Also on the sword-hilt of shining gold, it was in rune-staves rightly marked –
it was set down and said – for whom the sword was wrought."
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(I would note that the word forwrat which appears here is actually a prefixed form of the verb writan, which is the direct root of Modern English write.
Forwritan itself is a hapax legomenon in Old English, with this being the only extant occurrence.
Writan in Old English too usually means ‘to write, to form letters’, though it can also mean ‘to draw’, but its earlier meaning ‘scratch, cut’ is also found occassionally, in the sense of inscribing an image or letters into wood, stone &c.
But, outside of this single line in Beowulf, Old English writan means ‘to cut’ only in the sense of ‘cutting into, incising’, never ‘cutting’ in the sense of ‘chopping’ or ‘hewing’. However, elsewhere in Germanic we find Old Saxon uurītan denoting not only ‘to write’, but also ‘to cut, to wound’; cf. modern German reißen ‘to tear, to rip’. These cognates suggest that Gmc. *wreitan had a sense like ‘to scratch, to tear, (to cut?)’. The sense ‘cut asunder’ (‘tore asunder’?) of Beowulf 2705 forwrāt seems to preserve an earlier sense of the verb, otherwise unattested in Old English.)
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Bammesberger himself published extensively on Beowulf [see https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=bammesberger+beowulf ], including an article touching on one of the passages that I discussed in my "How (exactly) to slay a dragon in Indo-European":
Bammesberger, Alfred. 2012. Beowulf's Last Fight (Beowulf, 2702B–2705). Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 165-167. [ https://sci-hub.se/https://www.jstor.org/stable/43344563 ]
Bammesberger 2012 argues that in the passage:
geweold his gewitte, wællseaxe gebræd
biter ond beaduscearp þaet he on byrnan wæg,
forwrat Wedra helm wyrm on middan
['Then again the king himself (= Beowulf) gathered his wits, drew a slaughter-seax biting and battle-sharp that he wore on his byrnie. The Helm of the Wederas (= Beowulf) cut asunder the dragon in the middle.']
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(One of my early publications was in Historische Sprachforschung — during Bammesberger's tenure there as editor –: an article on reconstructing details of an Indo-European myth/story about a battle with a dragon:
Slade, Benjamin. 2008[2010]. How (exactly) to slay a dragon in Indo-European? PIE
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Alfred Bammesberger (b. 1938 in Munich) was Professor of English & Comparative Linguistics at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, with wide-ranging interests and publications in historical and comparative linguistics, especially Indo-European, early Germanic, as well as Baltic and Celtic linguistics, with special interest also in runic studies. He was editor of Historische Sprachforschung [one of the, if not the, oldest linguistics journal still in existence, dating from 1852] from 1985-2015. He died on 7 January 2025.
https://www.ku.de/die-ku/kontakt/presse/presseinformationen-detail/sprachwissenschaftler-prof-dr-alfred-bammesberger-verstorben
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A link on HN to a page discussing "the two hard problems in computer science"
(i.e. "There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.")
But there's an interesting reference in the HN comments:
"Phil Karlton famously said there are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. I gather many folks suppose "naming things" is about whether to use camel-case or not, or picking specific symbols we use to name things, which is obviously trivial and mundane.
But I always assumed Karlton meant the problem of making references work: the task of relating intension (names and ideas) and extension (things designated) in a reliable way, which is also the same topic as cache invalidation when that's about when to stop the association once invalid."
["McCusker" in the comments on a thread on 'On the history of the question of whether natural language is “illogical”', referencing an essay by Barbara Partee on the origins of formal semantics of natural languages and Montague Grammar.]
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blog post on trying to upgrade an #Atari
STacy from 1 MB of memory to 4 MB - https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/01/refurb-weekend-atari-stacy.html
"Ask any Atari Stacy owner how to open an Atari Stacy and the answer is always "never, if you can avoid it."....
Stacys are horrible machines to work on. Nobody likes being inside of one. The daughterboards don't have keyed connectors (including the power supply!) and are constantly attempting to come free, the display "cable" is actually a Medusa's wig of wires that like to short (!), the top case is a huge bulky sheet of increasingly fragile plastic that somehow has to fit around the floppy drive yet down on the keyboard simultaneously, and the entire laptop is an uneasy sandwich held together by a small set of screws in plastic races that strip and fracture with little provocation. So why do we tolerate this very bad, bad, bad, bad girl? Because most of us will never see the much lighter and streamlined STBook in the flesh, let alone own one. If you really want a portable all-in-one Atari ST system, the Stacy is likely the best you're gonna do.
And we're going to make it worse, because this is the lowest-binned Stacy with the base 1MB of memory. I want to put the full 4MB the hardware supports in it to expand its operating system choices. It turns out that's much harder to do than I ever expected, making repairing its bad left mouse button while we're in there almost incidental — let's just say the process eventually involved cutting sheet metal. I'm not entirely happy with the end result but it's got 4MB, it's back together and it boots. Grit your teeth while we do a post-mortem on this really rough Refurb Weekend.
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Mouseover text: According to Green's Dictionary of Slang, the slang verb form of cock is attested in English as early as 1450 and in specifically Scottish sources by 1768. All I can figure is Macdonald was such a 'grandma' to use Tolkien's insult, that he either didn't know or couldn't imagine people taking it in a prurient way.
Red button extra:
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SMBC: "I collect times that authors innocently said something filthy."
[#]cocks
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[#]Mastodon to transfer ownership of key Mastodon ecosystem and platform components (including name and copyrights, among other assets) to a new non-profit organization, affirming the intent that Mastodon should not be owned or controlled by a single individual.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-people-should-own-the-town-square/
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Why Yemeni Coffee Shops Are Suddenly Everywhere in Texas
"....Yemeni coffeehouses have been booming in recent years in Texas’s biggest metropolitan areas, particularly Dallas–Fort Worth and Houston...."
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