Recent history of Apple vs. sovereign states is a real time vindication of Polanyi. Capital is always subordinate to the state (even if it proclaims to be the opposite).
Readit NewsI think the usual advice is to try the vanilla Emacs, maybe use better-defaults (either directly or just for inspiration), as it is a relatively light customization. The setups people use tend to be quite different, as do their opinions on packages, so I doubt there is a single satisfactory and agreed upon "source of truth". Others' setups may be useful to check out, possibly pages of emacswiki.org, chatter on the #emacs IRC channel at libera.chat.
Edit: As for heavily customized versions (Doom, spacemacs), I have not tried those myself, but occasionally saw people having issues with those, and others not being able to help them, since it was not clear what sort of magic is going on there. So I would not recommend those to new users, at least not if you would like to learn the basics and get a better hang of it, to be able to debug it, though some seem to be happy with those.
I will second the recommendation to start with vanilla emacs. That isn't to disparage releases like spacemacs & doom. I simply found those to be more useful once I fully understood the power that comes with a fully reprogrammable editor. There is a learning curve and there is also a mental model to adopt, and I think that adopting the mental model is easier when starting raw and building up from scratch. Once you feel comfortable maybe try spacemacs or doom to see if they offer advantages for your workflow.
I also highly recommend the resources at https://www.masteringemacs.org
This person is missing that modern global society is rigidly organized around principles of competition. It's not the case that people don't care -- instead we are systemically pressured into putting all of our care into getting one over everyone else and taking care of our own. A society organized around different principles would give us the space to care about our collective wellbeing. Hopefully one day we'll get there.
tammer commented on Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku anthropic.com/news/3-5-mo... · Posted by u/weirdcat
This demo is impressive although my initial reaction is a sort of grief that I wasn't born in the timeline where Alan Kay's vision of object-oriented computing was fully realized -- then we wouldn't have to manually reconcile wildly heterogeneous data formats and interfaces in the first place!
I'm hearing that most hospital cybersecurity insurance requires Crowdstrike (or a product like it) on all the endpoints, so if that's true the liability might fall back on them. It will be a protracted argument for sure.
This is likely the case in a lot of places. We're still in the midst of ransomware groups targeting hospitals.
tammer commented on Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance cloud.google.com/blog/top... · Posted by u/radeeyate
has anyone done an analysis on how much big tech revenue comes from the DoD, particularly as its changed over time?
tammer commented on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops old.reddit.com/r/crowdstr... · Posted by u/BLKNSLVR
Ever heard of a LAN? You don't need internet access for every single machine.
even the most secure outbound protection would likely whitelist the CrowdStrike update servers because they'd be considered part of the infrastructure
tammer commented on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops old.reddit.com/r/crowdstr... · Posted by u/BLKNSLVR
When I saw 'Global IT Outage' trending I assumed it was another major cloud service failure. Obviously this has far wider impact because of the need for intervention on individual endpoints.
The irony is dawning on me that for much of the recent computing era we've developed defenses against massive endpoint outages (worms, etc.) and one of them is now inadvertently reproducing the exact problem we had mostly eradicated.
tammer commented on The internet is already over (2022) samkriss.substack.com/p/t... · Posted by u/thinkingemote
This had my attention at first but I’m not sure it led me anywhere. For discussion of the fundamental contradictions with the current structure of the Internet (that lead to the problems described herein & more), I highly recommend The People’s Platform by Astra Taylor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People's_Platform
It’s a decade old at this point & yet continues to be startlingly relevant.
https://open.substack.com/pub/nothinghuman/p/the-tyranny-of-...