do you know an android app which supports that? I use orgzly to access my notes on Android. I think if org-street supported links as well it would be easier to then just open it from the note itself.

I don’t, I’ve tried every mobile Org thing and none of them work very well IMO. I export an .ics file, upload it to a web server, and subscribe to that with ICSx on my phone. ICSx adds them to the normal system calendar, so the LOCATION prop turns into the calendar event location. Tapping it in the calendar app opens it in maps so you can navigate there.

btw did you see that package for using OSM on Emacs?

Yes, very impressive stuff.

What does this mean for Lemmy instances and the practice of blocking and banning users and instances?

Nothing at all.

From the text of the bill:

This chapter applies only to a social media platform that functionally has more than 50 million active users in the United States in a calendar month.

Lemmy doesn’t have that many users, and if we’re being honest, probably never will. So this unbelievably stupid and bad law doesn’t apply, and isn’t likely to in the future.

Hopefully it’s struck down, though I wouldn’t count on anything reasonable or logical coming from the ghouls on the Supreme Court these days.

Love this band.

Chat systems aren’t email, or Usenet, or forums, and while it is a good feature in the context of those async / longer-form communication, where you need the context, it doesn’t work nearly as well for realtime chat, where you already have the context because it happened two seconds ago.

The convention of replying in thread or in channel is a combination of personal preference (I like/dislike or am/am not used to threads), group expectations (we have agreed to reply in threads/in channel), and muscle memory (I mostly talk in channels that reply in thread, but this one expects it in channel). As the number of participants increases, it gets hard to manage, so you get a mix of in-thread or in-channel replies (and in-thread replies to in-channel replies), which leads to a fragmented, inconsistent mess and people complaining about both styles at once.

Can’t wait for this album to drop!

Cursed! I love it.

why do they keep making it worse

There’s a world of difference between can and wants to. And as I already pointed out, the existing client is incomplete in important ways, like error handling. So even if I was excited to fuck around figuring out how it works, it still wouldn’t be as good as actual documentation.

I get that this isn’t important to you, but continuing to insist that it’s documented when it objectively isn’t is indefensible. Just say that you don’t care and let folks decide whether they want to deal with it or walk.

bye then

I’ve had this conversation with you before. Nothing has changed since then, and all my arguments stand.

In what way have they “taken a back seat?” Taken a back seat to what?

Taken a back seat to browser development.

And in what way does this manifest? They lack features that the web UI has? Why are you bringing it up here instead of filing tickets with mobile apps?

It seems silly to say they’ve “taken a back seat” when they’re entirely different pieces of software written by different individuals. It’s like saying that Chrome development is taking a back seat to DuckDuckGo. They’re different things entirely.

I don’t believe those client apps are built by the same folks as Lemmy…

They aren’t except for ‘jerboa’.

It’s a side project by a Lemmy developer, not an official part of Lemmy.

…therefore whether they “function properly” is purely a concern for their developers and users.

It’s a concern because most users connect to the Internet through mobile apps.

Lemmy is non-commercial and as such “the market” doesn’t work in the same way as an integrated product like Instagram, Twitter, etc.

I’m not addressing the differing world market systems. I’m addressing how most people connect to the Internet.

You seem to have confused and incorrect ideas about how the internet works.

It’s my, general, understanding that most people connect to the Internet through mobile apps.

Certainly, a lot of people use mobile apps.

If this is the case, then why have apps such as Remmel, Lemmur and jerboa taken a back seat?

In what way have they “taken a back seat?” Taken a back seat to what?

They seem to be there for anyone who wants to use them, and look like they’re actively maintained.

IMHO, it would be a mistake to market Lemmy without these mobile apps functioning properly.

I don’t believe those client apps are built by the same folks as Lemmy, therefore whether they “function properly” is purely a concern for their developers and users.

Lemmy is non-commercial and as such “the market” doesn’t work in the same way as an integrated product like Instagram, Twitter, etc.

Browsing eww through tor.

I suppose, but it seems rather niche.

When writing into forms, automatically open a temporary buffer to prevent keylogging.

Pointless. A keylogger is most likely to run at the OS level, so it doesn’t matter what program you type into.

A copy wrapper that destroys the kill ring after yanking. (For sensitive data, like passwords.)

Generally not needed. auth handles storing many credentials without needing to use the kill ring at all. password-store has password-store-copy, which wipes out the kill-ring contents after 45 seconds.

In general, Emacs is not the right level to solve any of the problems you seem to care about; the OS is. You’d be better served by starting with a hardened Linux, like Skulls or Qubes, and customizing from there.

I was looking into it, but the Lemmy API isn’t documented at all. The devs have some documentation for the JS client library and believe that this is all that’s needed. I wasn’t motivated to tear the JS lib apart to figure it out, so I didn’t.

But if you want to, that’s what you need to do.

They really put the riff in terriffic.

oh, well, there are also different type of learnings. some people might find it difficult to read and comprehend walls of text, while a video might be way more accessible to them. it’s not always about the kids.

Yes, that’s fair.

However, one must balance accessibility with quality, and many of the ones I’ve seen are not very good quality — though admittedly, I haven’t seen Emacs-specific ones, since I’m comfortable with it & can figure things out on my own. But this seems to be true in general, across a variety of subjects I have seen them for.

Since they’re targeted at beginners, the audience has no way of knowing whether the advice being given is good or not. You can follow along and it might work, but it also might be a completely preposterous way of accomplishing the goal.

not exactly a video tutorial, but i have to say that the interactive tutorial is something i really like. thanks. :P

I know The Kids These Days love a video tutorial, but they tend to be made by people who are enthusiastic, but not experts, and are not the best source of information. Reading the official documentation is faster and more accurate.

There’s no substitute for building expertise by doing.

would you suggest using emacs in terminal or the “display” version?

I strongly recommend the GUI version over the terminal version. Terminals have a rather limited interaction model which is a hindrance to using some of Emacs’ more advanced features, like displaying images, using different typefaces, and using all the key combinations Emacs supports.

You can start here: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/

And if you launch Emacs and press C-h t — that is, press Control-H, release them, then press t — it launches the built-in, interactive tutorial.

Fantastic!

Funny, I was just the other day appreciating that Lemmy didn’t try to open in a new tab.