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Germany discovered that, alongside Nazi nostalgisers, they have folks called Reichsbürger who were planning a coup and had infiltrated deep enough into state structures so that the matter demanded some attention. According to wider reporting, the raid involved collaboration from Austrian and Italian authorities too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH-N-L7oUQk

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Browsers & Technology / Re: What's the best kind of interface for writing and typing?

Last post by Frenzie - 2022-12-03, 22:49:16

Quote from: ersi on 2022-12-03, 20:30:59

From another video of his it appears that he is brother of Tech Lead (as a millionaire) who is probably familiar to you.

Somewhat. Insofar as I am I definitely don't want to watch him.

Quote from: ersi on 2022-12-03, 20:30:59

I have thought about the controversy that Emacs does not adhere to "Unix philosophy" that programs should be small, do just one thing and do it well.

Since you mentioned Xah.

http://xahlee.info/UnixResource_dir/_fastfood_dir/fastfood.html

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Browsers & Technology / Re: What's the best kind of interface for writing and typing?

Last post by ersi - 2022-12-03, 20:30:59

From another video of his it appears that he is brother of Tech Lead (as a millionaire) who is probably familiar to you. Dick Mao^[1] is a far more creative insulter and intensely angry at life, but it's nice that he is less scummy and less scammy than Tech Lead. And rewriting Emacs is a life choice I definitely understand.

A while ago I read some book that talked about how there used to be a type of computers called Lisp machines that by now have ceased to exist. Such a terrible loss, but apparently RMS noticed early enough where the wind was blowing and made his GNU project a Unix-like, which turned out to be the correct choice. Still, it would be nice to have a machine that only runs Lisp and whose only job is to launch Emacs.

I have thought about the controversy that Emacs does not adhere to "Unix philosophy" that programs should be small, do just one thing and do it well. Instead of a philosophy, it seems to be a limitation of C language. C is binary-compiled. When you launch a the binary, it loads everything into memory, but since memory was precious in old times, C programmes could not afford to be big. So the so-called philosophy is due to the nature of C language. Whatever Unix-like there is in the GNU project, it is done as per Unix conventions and limitations of C. Emacs does not have to obey the limitations of C.

¹Now that's an amusing username, or maybe real name.↵

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Otter Browser Forum / christmas release ?

Last post by Quetzal - 2022-12-03, 18:58:41

hi all, then, its soon christmas ...

do is it possible to think, that we(I) will have the luck to see under the christmas tree a new OtterBro release

there's some time that there is nothing for win10

thank's a lot

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Browsers & Technology / Re: What's the best kind of interface for writing and typing?

Last post by Frenzie - 2022-12-03, 16:52:50

That was quite amusing.

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Browsers & Technology / Re: What's the best kind of interface for writing and typing?

Last post by ersi - 2022-12-03, 15:43:49

This guy is a bigger hater than Xah Lee. He hates Emacs so much that he made his own distro, called Commercial Emacs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kflDJ9L4siw

And yes, Emacs' slowdown on long lines is a serious obstacle when editing webpage files and should have been fixed last century. It sometimes gets in the way in basic prose too.