I've been using Emacs For Mac OS X [0] for years, and I'm quite happy with it. Releases every few months, keeping up with the upstream Emacs changes, and good integration with macOS. Works as a stand-alone GUI or within the terminal.
Readit NewsLordGrey commented on Getting Emacs and macOS to Play Nice brainbaking.com/post/2025... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
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He probably already got one, from Vizio, for leaving them out of the lawsuits.
LordGrey commented on Vm.overcommit_memory=2 is the right setting for servers ariadne.space/2025/12/16/... · Posted by u/signa11
For anyone not familiar with the meaning of '2' in this context:
The Linux kernel supports the following overcommit handling modes
0 - Heuristic overcommit handling. Obvious overcommits of address space are refused. Used for a typical system. It ensures a seriously wild allocation fails while allowing overcommit to reduce swap usage. root is allowed to allocate slightly more memory in this mode. This is the default.
1 - Always overcommit. Appropriate for some scientific applications. Classic example is code using sparse arrays and just relying on the virtual memory consisting almost entirely of zero pages.
2 - Don't overcommit. The total address space commit for the system is not permitted to exceed swap + a configurable amount (default is 50%) of physical RAM. Depending on the amount you use, in most situations this means a process will not be killed while accessing pages but will receive errors on memory allocation as appropriate. Useful for applications that want to guarantee their memory allocations will be available in the future without having to initialize every page.
LordGrey commented on Internal RFCs saved us months of wasted work highimpactengineering.sub... · Posted by u/romannikolaev
> The RFC approach has several advantages over verbal alignment. First of all, it is more precise. The need to write forces the author to clearly structure their thoughts into a coherent logical narrative. While writing, the author has time to examine their proposed solution from different angles and clearly see pros and cons of it.
> Another advantage of the document over verbal explanation is that a well-written RFC leaves little room for misinterpretation. It can include diagrams, examples, or calculations to illustrate and support the idea.
> Finally, we can return and reread the RFC later. Human memory is unreliable; already after a day, details that were crystal clear in one’s mind start to get blurry. When these details are written down, it is easy to review them at any time.
‘You have to write things down, because spoken words disappear into the air,’ was one of the first bits of feedback I received in my teacher training.
> The most common objection is that writing proposals is “a waste of time” compared to writing code.
The extra time spent writing is actually spent thinking.
>> The most common objection is that writing proposals is “a waste of time” compared to writing code.
> The extra time spent writing is actually spent thinking.
Until someone decides that using ChatGPT to write your RFC is a good idea. Then you get something that looks great, but the person behind the prompt actually understands less.
LordGrey commented on “Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number ericdaigle.ca/posts/super... · Posted by u/e_daigle
> Screenshots aren’t really crucial to anything being discussed here, but I like to provide only the best blog posts to my tens of readers ....
A sentence clipped from a point a little past the introduction, but catchy nevertheless.
I suspect there will be more than "tens of readers" shortly.
LordGrey commented on FBI Wanted List: Fraudulent Remote IT Workers from DPRK fbi.gov/wanted/cyber/frau... · Posted by u/smurda
Just a couple of days ago, I received an email from our HR department requesting information about a recent hire. Basically, they asked if I or anyone on my team had physically met that person. My company still embraces remote work, and everyone on my team is remote. As luck would have it, the person in question lives near another team member and they had met up for a company function (once).
I assume that the request was related to something like this: Preventing fraudulent remote workers.
LordGrey commented on Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025... · Posted by u/ArmageddonIt
Hilarious: I looked at first two examples on the page, showing a menu and contextual menu, and I saw no problem. Icons? What icons?
That's when I realized that, much like advertisements on a web page, my brain had utterly filtered them out.
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