I hope that once I’m done it’s a set it and forget it experience.
While that's possible, there are also so many things to entice one into adding more.
But that's still much more pleasant a blessing, making changes because of something you want, rather than because of something the developers did.
Though, as for "done"... many emacs users [especially those who got really infected with emacs] may tell you it's never done. ;)
It's plausible though.
Some say the default config is, for them, done.
Confluence of stress burnout, and character traits.
Is worthwhile to explore both the psychological and societal precursors to such.
... Probably worthwhile looking into narcissism too. Albeit many perspectives on the topic, there are common themes and distinct insights to catch, that are sometimes difficult to really have sink in, so distinct and alient an umwelt exists behind the contrastingly "normal" facade. Until blow-out.
... Probably worthwhile looking into autism too. Maybe AuDHD specifically (whom are the majority). The absence of the socially normativising stuff, from the different neurophysiology, almost like we're having to do all the work of the cerebelum, the gpu, in the forebrain, the cpu, with the neuronal journeys having more finegrain, less pruning, and fewer main reinforced trunks, and so experience far more of the intricate detail all the way there, and all the way back... it's not just exhausting in itself, the extra brain power required for all the meta-navigation, only having the intricacies of side roads of working-it-out-now, none of the popular motorways of presumption, but also exhausting from the resultant clashes, and the cassandra syndrome, putting up with a majority who dismiss what you see in preference for their shared reality, regardless of how well it can be seen otherwise... no judgement on who's right or wrong there, only a consideration of what it's like, having to live like that. ... I can imagine that adds a whole other dimension of burnout to be experienced. And then when having found something that can accommodate you, avails a space where you're finally allowed the control you need to soothe your fine-grain sensitivities from that different awareness frequency range, gives you that peace, and then that area expands back into the social space, where there's still a different umwelt clash, each modality appearing stupid to the metrics of the other modality. And in the absence of support nor aptitude in that other's stubborn paradigm, for your own stubborn paradigm, whether you try to brashly persist in your integrity, or you try to bend to fit, it exhausts, either way. And then melt-downs and rage-attacks and so on can happen. Especially when got so close to it, and identified with it, this new thing you made that availed you such grace, that could save the world, that's part of you... and then these ungrateful swine come along and threaten it!? Yeah, I can see how such blow-outs could come about.
Especially bad if one has both autism and narcissism. The narcissism would preclude their any will whatsoever to self improvement. They'd have total aversion to accountability. No real introspection, and thus no real regret or apology is possible. Only pretence. If even that. Sometimes the grandiosity slips out of the mask of even the most covert narcissists (and community narcissists, martyr hero narcissists, vulnerable narcissists, etc). Narcissists, especially the true ones, where it has become their personality, and not just a rare incidental moment or rarer trait, in having itpped past the point of introspection, into delusional non-reality in fantasy love of their self image, no longer able to distinguish other people as other people, seeing them only as means to their own ends, and lingering in that, growing more machiavelian, psychopathic, even sadistic and demented. And in a way, a bit of a saving grace for us all, if the autism's louder than the socially manipulative covert machiavellianisms. Better the devil we can see [because they lack the social aptitude to hide], than the devil we cannot see [because they hide among us, pretending to be the paragons of virtue].
As in not just honest ones for robustness against outages, but, sock puppets?
Oh! Is that maybe why my network choked to a mere double figure kb crawl after I posted about it [~ and pasting the diatribe for posterity, and so others wouldnt have needed visit that]?
I just presumed it was the dozen distro ISO I was downloading at the time too, in a distroholic relapse.
... I'm not really paying attention to all this drama.
Automatically?
There are only 2 tools in the standard windows troubleshooting toolbox.
Reboot.
Reinstall.
There is no other way.
Just realised... mcedit's more accurately the longest used, at least in terms since first used [maybe ~ unsure], and would (and do) still use. But then, if longest used is counting actual time used... nnnnnnothing comes close to emacs. No other text editor serves also as my irc client, organiser, therapist, games system, rss feed, and potentially oh so much more, like email client, 3D modeler (no, seriously), video editor, data analysis, file management, graph generation, slide-show presentations, astrophysics stuff, drone piloting, publishing preparations, printer operation, 3D printer operation, databases, finance and transaction handling, accounting, audio editing, screensaver, web browser, even potentially replacing my terminal multiplexor and even my window manager.
But I did start using mcedit a clear decade before emacs. ... I probably launched each for the first time, around the same time late 2003 to early 2004, but didn't start using emacs (at all) until 2014, whereas mcedit soon became a fave (especially in the midst of the nano'ites thinking they had won their category of text editor, yet few of them seemed to have even heard of mcedit).
... Ah well, even though it's still legit, if I had thought of it at that time, I could have wrangled mcedit into longest, leaving room for something else as honourable mention. ... Maybe neovim. Maybe leafpad.
I really did a yearly config rewrite for a while
In my experience, which seems to be identical experience of many, including the one who got me into emacs, emacs config re-writes tend happen every decade, rather than every year. Nice and peaceful like that. :)
First: The 8-bit Commodore screen editor was hard to beat for its time, so let’s go with that, even though I probably used the BBC Micro arrow / copy system before that.
Yep. I couldn't remember the names of the text editors I used on those old 4-bit green radiation-gun computers of the 70s-80s... so I just went with first after becoming a windows refugee. What a great blast from the past though, thinking of my early days, with commodores, spectrums, bbc-micros, and whatever that one we had from before that was called. M-mm-mmmm. Joyous nostalgia kick. :)
There’s something to be said for editing an editor’s source code inside itself.
True that. :)
I've had to calm down, and not listen to it too much.
*remembers the sitar*... okay, playing it again one more time today.
I happen to be listening to autechre when I saw this.
Disappointed it's a different æ.
Pure Devuan's where I ran to, when life got brutally hard and I needed to simplify with something dependable. Did not disappoint. Old faithful.
Even when now back to running complicated multi-distro systems, I still make sure Devuan's one of the cornerstones.
Just for fun and discovery.
Same as for distros and DE/WM.
Share your own, as an image, or just a written list. :)
Mine:
;) I didn't want to wait and see if @misty@lemmy.zip would make a text editor one. So I just made my own. :)
On the left pane, I issued
for i in (brl list | egrep -v bedrock) ; echo $i | toilet -f future -t $argv | lolcat ; strat -r $i neofetch ; end
(That's fish btw.)
(And yes, neofetch, because I don't yet know how to get fastfetch to respect the strata.)
IIRC, the details on this, a couple years old system since last reinstall of the OS: Hijacked MX, imported AntiX and Artix, fetched the gentoo, devuans and void... package counts not too misleading about what's getting used most, once looking past which came with a fatload preinstalled (MX & AntiX), and which split their packages more causing a bigger number (all the ones based on debians and devuans). Void's my first go-to for any package. Gentoo for when I want to get fussy (e.g. for Gimp or Emacs), the devuans generally for stability, and for what I can't get from void or gentoo. And artix just for the AUR... which I'm currently on pause from using, after being extra careful to gut out anything that could even be remotely afflicted by the recent several bursts of malware attacks. But, besides there being more devuan than gentoo this time (only the one active gentoo stratum? :O), this is a fairly typical daily driver setup for me... Frankly, it has not changed much for about a decade or more. I've got it dialled in, how I like it. With my 4 cornerstones. Void, Gentoo, Devuan, Artix.
And, before anyone has a [love, or hate] fit about the font (~ 6pixel in st, just for the screenshot to fit it all in ~ my eyes are not that good any more, bigger (12pix I think) in the date, top right), it's called nztt, and is my fave one of many I made a while ago, as part of what had became known as dbtfc ("Digit's Big Tiny Font Collection"). Maybe there are a silent indifferent majority, but most of what I hear are the reactions at the extremes, to nztt. It's genuinely my daily driver, most places. ... Not on web pages though... nztt's designed to maximise vertical space while still being comfortably readable (at least to my own peculiarity of dyslexia), and thus breaks the layout of a lot of websites expecting letters twice as tall with 10 times the vertical space wasted. It's ttf, not a true pixel font, but it is designed to best fit at 6, 12, 18, etc pixels size. Largely inspired by "clean" font, old 80s screen fonts, and my other explorations into tiny fonts.
I'm still in XFCE on this T495 Thinkpad. I had intended to switch to using my wminizer script, populated with a standard 2 wmrotate scripts, the first populated with just xmonad, dwm, and herbstluftwm, and the other, the same, but also with openbox.
But I've always had things on here, never found a nice moment to interrupt things. ... The irony. This would be a non-issue with wminizer. But I've not yet done the first restart of X11 to get it running wminizer. So [even though I've already changed the config, ready to go] I'm stuck in that predicament that I wrote wminizer to be able to solve. XD
[PS, I'm burned out and left my repos in a terrible janky way, even by my scruffy standard... like the tagline on my codeberg profile says: "My stuff's scruffy. Don't use it."... ... though, if you don't mind fiddling around past my jank... wminizer is availing a very cool ability to have: Can change your wm without restarting X11, keeping everything running, and, can change the list of which wm you can switch to, too, keeping everything running uninterupted, without restarting X11.]
Nothing much fancy done to the XFCE. Didn't intend to stay. Made the bar nice and tight, how I like it. Only in recent days, (after months... years(!??) lingering in XFCE), I moved it to the top, to try, to see if that would be less annoying, fewer times of its pop ups from mouse overs on the taskbar buttons getting in the way of the things i want to click (e.g. active erc buffers listed in my mode-line in emacs). Should be fewer things up top that I'd want to be clicking where it shows. Mostly just the window bar there.
And so, that's why there's nothing much to see here. In the typical eye-candy unix porn sense. But... the eagle eye'd may have spotted the one tid-bit of show-and-tell that may excite some, perhaps as much as 1-10% as much as it excites me, highlighted in the right pane. ... two things in a way. 1st, there's bpt! And 2nd (the main excitement for me), in bpt, there's the htop fork, with the stratum column!
A few years back (I forget when... 2019?) I had been musing various ways (in my own janky limited-abilities-and-knowledge way) to get strata info on various system info tools [[[(see doodle drop down example)]]], and mentioning my own fledgling flailing failing efforts. And then paradigm surprised me one day, (iirc) simply saying "Happy Christmas", and presented a link to a version of htop (that he had made) that now had the stratum column. :) After a while, my continued use of it became contingent on me maintaining its old deps manually (~ and certainly, any efforts of mine to maintain patching for newer htop and deps, failed early fast and hard). And eventually, I failed managing to even maintain it... and so, for a few months or so, I'd become without htop with a stratum column. And so went back to trying to hack up my own solutions...
llm doodled another thing like that recently in the interim without it
function psbr2
# 1. Snapshot the entire output exactly once
set -l ps_data (ps aux)
# 2. Print header with the new column
echo "$ps_data[1] STRATUM"
# 3. Process each process line
for line in $ps_data[2..-1]
# Split by whitespace, automatically collapsing multiple spaces
set -l fields (string split -n ' ' $line)
set -l pid $fields[2]
# Resolve stratum for this specific PID
set -l strat (brl which $pid 2>/dev/null || echo "-")
# Append the stratum to the original line
echo -n "$line" ; set_color red ; echo " $strat" ; set_color normal
end
end
Though, true to my ways of janky code, that runs slow.
[Actually... If I'd put my mind to it more, I'd have done better than the llm there, I see now, looking at that again. Jeez they do silly things. ... anyways... moving on... no spoons to mend it now. Code's spoon expensive. Rambling this drivel's fine. I am obeying burnout recovery protocol with this. Honest.]
Anyway, that's just to give the gist, of some system info tool getting strata info added to it.
and then came paradigm again, now in 2026, with bpt this time, populated with... htop! (and 9 other packages, but meh, the htop with stratum column's the real highlight among the libs and other standard boring things).
So if your system is stratified, that may be handy for you. :)
That's the highlight here for me, main reason (besides boredom (while supposed to be resting from burnout)?) for posting:
htop with stratum column is back!
(But shshsh. Still linux's best kept secret. Hehe. You know what I mean if you know. If not [(or even if in the know, back to)]... ooh, look at the novel autumnal colour theme for the terminal, and, either "That font is base/sick/thegoat/wild/cool/snappy" or "Yeurgh. Do you actually use that font!? What's wrong with you!".)
Though this [intentionally buried lede] is exciting to me, it probably isn't exciting for anyone else, certainly not the majority... but isn't that the greatest glory of unix porn? Each their own.
... I better stop proof reading this before I keep adding more so much that it gets long. :3
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.wtf/post/38893194
3rd time lucky finding a home for this?
(Leaving the former re-post's unnecessarily long preface and refutation diatribe intact, because, lazy, and posterity and such... the bold bit's maybe rousing enough to be worth a quick read. But really, this post's just for the meme pointing at the idea, critiquing all the "disclosure" hubbub (likely even more now there's a movie of that name), with the simple contrast to "provision", revealing mere "disclosure" still does not emancipate us, merely reveals those who've hoarded the means of production have indeed hoarded far more than they let on, and still they're in the position of power over us to continue to agnotologically abuse us. ... Or at least, that's the kind of thing it speak to me with. ... Maybe others don't catch on to the same depth and significance.)
[Reposting from an unfathomnably-reasoned "not political" removal from political memes @ lemmy world. (see my spoiler expansion for my reply refuting that). Political Memes seemed the best place to post it, but they removed it ("not political" ~wat). I hope [re]posting this here is at least seen as relevant to politics. Sorry it's a mere meme, but, I hope the relevant depth behind it can be readily seen, and it's acceptable here. [Edit: It fits with this community's "Posts must be related to Conflict, Politicians, Nation-states, Electoralism, or International Relations". If that's not immediately apparent how, I can elaborate and reason on that extensively (and have already, in the spoiler copy of the reasoning offered to mods of the politicalmemes community).]]
Over 20 years ago, patent office whistle blower Tom Valone already disclosed that by the year 2000 there had already been over 3000 free energy device patents, secreted.
Disclosure? That’s your political aspiration and protest?
Lets aim a little higher.
Lets avail and provision everybody with the best.
Star Trek replicators, interstellar travel, and more.
Free energy tech + energy-to-matter transfer tech = they can print gold from nothing.
No cull necessary. No resource wars necessary. No mineral mining necessary. No combustion necessary. We never needed rockets.
Follow the tech arc from Michael Faraday through to Nikola Tesla (and the many less loud and showy between)…
Spaceships for everybody.
Reply to original post removal from politicalmemes @ lemmy world, refuting the reason, quote, not political, unqoute.
Removed Post Agnotology VS Emancipatory Technologies reason: not political. also, a little conspiracy based (which in itself breaks no rules)
Not political?
Wat.
How so? I do not understand.
The socio-economic implications of disclosure [or even, provisioning] of suppressed technologies that can emancipate people is obviously very much in the realm of politics. Or is emancipation no longer considered a political issue? If so, that's beyond my fathoming.
There are plenty of politicians who talk about disclosure.
Even one who was most famous because of his involvement in emancipation. (Abraham Lincoln)
And many political philosophies are all up in the idea of provisioning resources, or availing the best to each and all.
a little conspiracy based (which in itself breaks no rules)
???
I... I don't even know where to begin with that portion of the reason this post was supposedly removed, according to the modlog [... yet I can still see it and reply...? Evidently I do not yet understand how Lemmy works.].
Is that use of "conspiracy" in the ratcheted newspeak of the psyop phrase "conspiracy theory" used to dissuade scrutiny?
As in presumed spurious falsehood misinfo? Of the whole idea that there are suppressed technologies?
If so, it may serve you [whoever attempted to remove this post] very well to look into the patent system, and agnotology. The patent system has several levels by which technologies that can be of benefit to each and all are suppressed. [For brief general outline] From corporations [1] buying patents, [2] buying patent extension rules through corruption of the legal system [and political systems], to sit on patents for technologies that would compete and even obsolete their cash-cow technologies, and even [3] outright secreting patents (e.g. under the spurious reasoning of "national security") [as highlighted by the first line of the post, about a patent office whistleblower's reveal]. The agnotology industry is vast. There are several good books [(~ I presume they're good~ I've not read them all yet)] about agnotology, the study of the creation of ignorance. When something gets classified to a higher level of secrecy, which seems to tend to happen on an over-cautious reflex, it almost never goes back the other way. [Edit: A couple good quotes about that [1]]
Further, even the choice of using Geordie LaForge from Star Trek TNG was due to the political implications.
So, given all that reasoning, surely it's easy to understand how I'm confounded by the appearance of this post in the modlog, with the reasoning given.
Removed Post Agnotology VS Emancipatory Technologies reason: not political. also, a little conspiracy based (which in itself breaks no rules)
What part of it, at all, was "not political"?
Disclosure, political issue, spoken of by politicians and other advocates and opponents.
Resource provisioning, political issue, arguably the core issue of all socio-economics.
Emancipation, political issue, of deep historical and contemporary importance.
Star Trek, Geordie La Forge, chosen because of the political insinuations/implications, that tie in with the message.
Whistleblowing about the patent system, a deeply politically entwined system, and a directly political action.
"Lets aim a little higher." & "Lets avail and provision everybody with the best." etc, an encouragement of a higher political aspiration.
"Free energy tech + energy-to-matter transfer tech = they can print gold from nothing." ... again, very obviously has political implications. Radically different economic system, where even gold can be printed like fiat.
"No cull necessary. No resource wars necessary. No mineral mining necessary. No combustion necessary. We never needed rockets." Political issue, political issue, political issue, political issue, political issue. Right to life, peace, environmentalism & resource management, environmentalism and right to roam freely without polluting rents, and freedom to leave and not be deceived to be kept down as a serf or slave, respectively. Just to keep it short about how each part of this is political. Can elaborate far longer on each part.
"Follow the tech arc from Michael Faraday through to Nikola Tesla (and the many less loud and showy between)…" again, highlights the broader poliltical implications here, with Nikola Tesla chosen as example with famous political implications with his idea of powering the world wirelessly for free at health affirming frequencies, and industry tycoons rejected his idea, with the famed line "where would we put the meter?", and Michael Faraday chosen as example to show how far back this goes, and to evoke curiosity of what and who, doing what, lays between these two towering examples of science and innovation that can (and has) changed the world, and radically shifted politics and empowerment of people and power alike.
Spaceships for everybody.
Highest political aspiration?
So, again, I'm baffled. How did this get flagged as not political? Every single bit of it is deeply political.
spoiler [1]
“We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity… anything you can imagine we already know how to do.” — Ben Rich, former Head of the Lockheed Skunk Works
“It is easier for us to pay a private contractor to re-invent something so it will come out at a lower classification level, than to try to declassify it.” – Bennett Hart, then Deputy Director of the National Reconnaissance Organization
Midnight Anakin: I have implemented age verification, on April 1st, 2026.
For April fools day?
For April fools, right?
The idea for this post started today when I saw in #emacs-til on libera.chat:
- [2026-01-17 22:30:19] TIL emacs is just not for old boomers lol
- [2026-01-17 22:31:53] also for younger boomers
- [2026-01-17 22:33:10] haha that's me!
- [2026-01-17 22:33:17] lil baby baby boomer
- [2026-01-17 23:25:18] the Youth of Today love Emacs
- [2026-01-17 23:25:29] I asked one of them back in... uh...
- [2026-01-17 23:25:31] 1991?
So I did a websearch for the youngest emacs user, and, the websearch results couldn't help but all be about how old emacs users are.
So I ask Lemmy...
Who is the youngest emacs user?
[And no, before anyone thinks otherwise, that image is not real. I just put that together for whimsical illustration, from an image search or 3, with a relevant comment, an image from an article about a 2 year old who self-taught the alphabet, and an image of an emacs welcome screen pasted together with the help of the GIMP.]
Who is the youngest emacs user?
Anyone younger than 40? In 20s? Teens?? Younger??!
