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Consider the Sister
L: https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/consider-the-sister-2b94
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172253
posted on 2026.05.17 at 15:13:21 (c=0, p=3)

Consider the Sister

Amy Wallace has spent two decades guarding the human her brother was—against a world that prefers David Foster Wallace as a puzzle.

The Small Bow

Marco Antoniotti 1d ago

Daniel Kochmański 1d ago

Screenshot from the live system -- dispatch profile for the generic function %present

#mcclim #ecl

Marco Antoniotti 1d ago

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Daniel Kochmański 1d ago

and PRINT-OBJECT

Marco Antoniotti 1d ago

Erik Uden 🚩1d ago

Es ist kaum zu fassen wie wenig Transparenz für das Besitzen von Aktien, Lobbyspenden u.v.m. an Politiker:innen und Parteien existieren, aber zeitgleich die Massenüberwachung des gläsernen Bürgers voranschreitet.

Von Superreichen Repräsentant:innen des Staates wird von Datenschutz und Privatsphäre gesprochen, während zeitgleich an jeder öffentlichen Ecke Kameras stehen, Staatstrojaner gerechtfertigt werden, Palantir von Polizei und Co. genutzt werden soll, Klarnamenpflicht und Personalausweise für jedes soziale Netzwerk bald die Norm sind, oder zumindest zur ernsthaften Diskussion stehen. Doch wie viel Geld die Merz Mafia aus Lobbyverbänden bekommt muss von NGOs über Irrwege offengelegt werden.

Warum dürfen gewählte Repräsentant:innen eigentlich überhaupt Aktien besitzen, sollten ihre einzigen Interessen nicht die des Volkes sein? Es gibt einen Grund für diese autoritäre Entwicklung mit zeitgleicher Abkapselung der oberen Klasse und das ist der Faschismus.

Marco Antoniotti 2d ago

Paweł Świątkowski 2d ago

mediawiki.el got a bunch of updates recently and now I can again edit Wikipedia from inside #Emacs.

https://github.com/hexmode/mediawiki-el

The only problem is that internal Wikipedia tooling got way way better in recent years and it's just more convenient to use it instead.

GitHub - hexmode/mediawiki-el: Emacs interface to edit any mediawiki site

Emacs interface to edit any mediawiki site. Contribute to hexmode/mediawiki-el development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

Marco Antoniotti 2d ago

Christer Enfors 2d ago

This weekend, I realized I could generate stuff for my website directly from #Emacs. Given that the articles I write for the site come from #OrgMode and #OrgRoam, #elisp is the perfect platform for automatically generating the contents for the "Recent articles" sidebar, as well as an atom feed for feed reader users. These files are then copied with the HTML articles (converted from Org nodes) directly to the website using #rsync.
https://www.ttrpg-hangout.com/

TTRPG Hangout

Focusing on playing in homebrew sandbox worlds, OSR, NSR, and Solo RPG mechanics.

Marco Antoniotti 2d ago

Steve Bellovin 2d ago

The only error in https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/obituaries/peter-g-neumann-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jVA.pDm5.QUlwAMJBQtDV : he not only led people in singing Gilbert and Sullivan songs but also Tom Lehrer, whom Peter heard perform when he was an undergrad at Harvard.

Peter G. Neumann, Who Warned of Computer Security Risks, Dies at 93

For decades, he criticized the industry’s lax attitudes toward both computer security and individual digital privacy. And he developed solutions.

The New York Times

Marco Antoniotti 2d ago

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Vassil Nikolov | Васил Николов 3d ago

It is quite true that Emacs and its environment keep growing and evolving¹.

It is not true that you would look silly if you say something that used to be true but no longer is, if you do that in good faith.

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¹ My personal favorite is lexical binding.

@screwlisp @marcoxa @yantar92 @mdhughes @me

Marco Antoniotti 3d ago

AJ Sadauskas 3d ago

Months after putting it on hold (it's popular!), I finally get to borrow Cory Doctorow's ( @[email protected] ) Enshittification from Parramatta Library.

#book #books #enshittification #Parramatta #NSW #Australia

Marco Antoniotti 3d ago

David Gerard 3d ago

Did you ever idly wonder why there aren't already a zillion vendors of compatible hardware modules for Framework laptops? Did just nobody bother?

TIL the reason is that Framework made sure their design patents didn't let anyone else make modules https://patents.google.com/patent/US20230015249A1/en?q=(Framework)&inventor=Nirav+Patel&oq=inventor:(Nirav+Patel)+Framework

talk loudly about freedom with just an extremely prominent point of absolute central control? I Can't Believe It's Not Fashtech(tm)

US20230015249A1 - Modular computer system - Google Patents

One variation of a modular computer system includes: a chassis; an expansion slot; and an expansion card. The chassis includes a main board. The expansion slot: is arranged on a lateral side of the chassis; and defines a receptacle inset a bottom side of the chassis. The expansion slot includes: a latching member arranged within the receptacle; and a female connected to the main board. The expansion card includes: an enclosure configured to couple within the receptacle; a latch receiver configured to transiently couple the latching member to maintain the first enclosure within the first receptacle; and a male connector extending from the enclosure, and configured to interface the female connector of the expansion slot. The expansion card further includes an external port arranged at the enclosure and configured to interface with an external device.