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New comment by _emacsomancer_ in "F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026"

_emacsomancer_ — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 17:09:18 +0000

GrapheneOS is working with a manufacturer to change this:[0]

> We're working with a major OEM and the devices will be the future versions of existing models they have now. The devices will be priced similarly to Pixels. The initial devices will have a flagship Snapdragon SoC for the best security and support time. Snapdragon flagships have significantly better CPU and GPU performance than Pixels. Snapdragon provides high quality Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GNSS and cellular support as part of the SoC. eSIM and other functionality is also provided by the SoC. Snapdragon has decent image processing functionality included too, and good neural network acceleration.

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/GrapheneOS/comments/1o32gpg/deleted...

New comment by _emacsomancer_ in "Reading English from 1000 AD"

_emacsomancer_ — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 17:06:59 +0000

See Colin Gorrie's "How far back in time can you understand English?".[0]

[0]: https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-u...

Dyslexia, Programming and Lisp

_emacsomancer_ — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:48:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.iwillig.me/blog/on-dyslexia-and-lisp/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037228

Points: 20

# Comments: 2

New comment by _emacsomancer_ in "Common Lisp Screenshots: today's CL applications in action"

_emacsomancer_ — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 01:45:42 +0000

(including HN! - https://media.simple.photo/12M3xnh3VhDMUgCs8DVhkTBI6OgDGGIX/... )

Common Lisp Screenshots: today's CL applications in action

_emacsomancer_ — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 01:44:35 +0000

Article URL: http://www.lisp-screenshots.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46983873

Points: 163

# Comments: 49

GNU Guix 1.5.0 Released

_emacsomancer_ — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:08:32 +0000

Article URL: https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2026/gnu-guix-1.5.0-released/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760084

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by _emacsomancer_ in "Show HN: An immutable ostree-based Arch Linux image"

_emacsomancer_ — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 19:48:00 +0000

Of course, SteamOS is an immutable Arch spin, so it's not as if this isn't an idea that's been had before, but Arch is indeed on the surface sort of a weird distro to implement as immutable.

New comment by _emacsomancer_ in "GNU Unifont"

_emacsomancer_ — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 05:19:55 +0000

The Guix pages have styling: https://guix.gnu.org

YC founder points out that jobs exist outside of working for police state

_emacsomancer_ — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 17:06:27 +0000

Article URL: https://bird.makeup/users/paulg/statuses/1913338841068404903

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43813389

Points: 95

# Comments: 48

New comment by _emacsomancer_ in "Things Zig comptime won't do"

_emacsomancer_ — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 18:48:59 +0000

And in Spanish here: https://www.poeticous.com/borges/el-disco?locale=es

(Not having much Spanish, I at first thought "Odin's disco(teque)" and then "no, that doesn't make sense about sides", but then, surely primed by English "disco", thought "it must mean Odin's record/lp/album".)

New comment by _emacsomancer_ in "Exwm: Emacs X Window Manager"

_emacsomancer_ — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 20:11:28 +0000

almost: https://github.com/a-schaefers/systemE

New comment by _emacsomancer_ in "Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover"

_emacsomancer_ — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 16:47:03 +0000

You can set default margins in the user interface of KOReader too.

New comment by _emacsomancer_ in "Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover"

_emacsomancer_ — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 16:43:00 +0000

I'd suggest KOReader, on various devices, as the best renderer and interface.

New comment by _emacsomancer_ in "KOReader: Open-Source eBook Reader"

_emacsomancer_ — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:19:10 +0000

One can also remove DRM from books one purchased with Calibre+DeDRM plugin.[0],[1],[2]

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Calibre/comments/1c2ryfz/2024_guide...

[1]: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=361503

[2]: https://forum.linuxconfig.org/t/calibre-and-dedrm-problems/8...

New comment by _emacsomancer_ in "KOReader: Open-Source eBook Reader"

_emacsomancer_ — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 01:33:24 +0000

And it works on Android too. Even for devices that aren't e-ink, I prefer KOReader to anything else.

New comment by _emacsomancer_ in "How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack"

_emacsomancer_ — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 05:18:19 +0000

> ....It's not some moral axiom that demands action to shut down problematic speech whenever it happens.

No, that would probably end up in a logical paradox, if one were intolerant of any degree of intolerance.

> It's a concept that has varied views on to what extent should tolerance of intolerance be extended and to what response is appropriate when it extends beyonds that threshold.

I don't know enough to have a particular position on the ACLU, but at least in theory an organisation defending free speech might decide that conditions have become such that defending certain things will lead to the inability to defend other things and choose to proceed differently on that basis.

New comment by _emacsomancer_ in "How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack"

_emacsomancer_ — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 03:24:38 +0000

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

New comment by _emacsomancer_ in "How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)"

_emacsomancer_ — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 08:08:01 +0000

TeX puts more space after periods/fullstops (which is why you're supposed to do special markup or other measures to mark '.' in the middle of sentences which aren't sentence-enders (e.g. like e.g.)). But it's generally smaller than the equivalent of two manual spaces.

(A nice thing in (La)TeX is that one could follow the "two spaces after a full-stop" rule, which then has the advantage of being an explicit marking for sentence boundaries (which your editor might be able to navigate; Emacs has a convention of assuming two spaces after a sentence-ending '.'), but then the TeX typesetting will take care of making it look right. I lost the habit of actually doing this, for better or worse, except when flycheck/checkdoc/package-linter.el makes me do it for docstrings.)

New comment by _emacsomancer_ in "A USB Interface to the "Mother of All Demos" Keyset"

_emacsomancer_ — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 19:10:59 +0000

There's a 1990s Alan Alda video interviewing Thad Starner with these elements: https://youtu.be/X7DM1mT8r7c

New comment by _emacsomancer_ in "Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones"

_emacsomancer_ — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 05:23:32 +0000

Yeah, I think KOReader started out for Kindle first, and then added Kobo (and then other things - works on Android for one, and KOReader is typically what I use if I'm reading on my phone too). I just went with Kobos from the start because it seemed like there were fewer problems with Kobos w.r.t. getting locked in/out of things than with Kindles, though Kobos are harder to get hold of (outside of Canada, I suppose) than Kindles.