Lars Hesel Christensen

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Old hand Erlang and Elixir dev.
Living inSwitzerland
@timbray leafblowers! Don't get me started!

If you do stuff in Elixir, Erlang, Gleam, AtomVM or adjacently. You can just ASK to be on BEAM Radio (https://beamrad.io). We do reach out to people but very few people ask. Only the spammers in my inbox.

We want to show more of what happens in the ecosystem so don't be shy :)
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Welp, I have just cancelled my Microsoft Office 365 recurring subscription.

Two reasons.

1. I only ever use it to check tracked changes to the copy edits on novels—once a year—which my publishers process in Word. As of this month, LibreOffice is good enough for the job (just tested at book length).

2. CoPilot in Office would open me up to accusations of breach of contract—my book contracts warrant that they're all my own work: CoPilot brings that into question.

So good riddance to Office365!

"How to block a specific MQTT client via TLS in VerneMQ"
Oh, some nice person made a video about that.
Wait, no. It's an AI video, and it gives wrong information. It reinvented a non-existent config format, etc.

Just another small example of how AI poisons the open-source documentation space. And that YouTube channel uploads a generated video every couple of seconds.
#OpenSource

@frescosecco I could make some joke about 'killing children' (processes of course), but I'm sure it would be deemed bad taste. Gute Besserung!
@gausby ok, noted.
@folfdk I'm currently reading the book 'Mastering Emacs' by Mickey Petersen and in a passage he mentions 'Universal bookmarks' (the content is later in the book, haven't read it yet) which made me think that obviously Emacs can do bookmarks and googled it. Mickey's book is fantastic with lots of small stuff I had no clue about. Even after having used Emacs for so long.
@folfdk built in feature: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Bookmarks.html - it'll be interesting to see if I'll use it in my daily work or if it'll be one of those features I think are cool but won't actually use. Time will tell.
Bookmarks (GNU Emacs Manual)

Bookmarks (GNU Emacs Manual)

After having used emacs for almost 30 years I finally learned about bookmarks. bookmark, list, save. Tested in info pages and epubs (using the nov package) so far and works perfectly. What a fantastic feature :)
If Earth's whole mass collapsed into a sphere with a radius of about 9 mm, it would become a black hole.
Incredibly dense, of course, but I still find it more surprising that it's something we can think and imagine. Not infinitely big or small or unthinkable. The blue planet is just a blueberry now.