Notices by Fabio Natali (fnat@social.coop)

Announcement: our next #Emacs #London Meetup is Tuesday 12 May, 6PM. In person, at UCL in WC1N 1LE.

Emacs users of all levels welcome! Interested in Emacs but not really a user? More than welcome too!

Full details and registration:

https://www.meetup.com/london-emacs-hacking/events/314540885/

cc @ericsfraga @xenodium

Self-organised session "What the #Guix!?" in about 1h, 17:30 SoS Saal 6.

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/en/event/detail/what-the-guix

#39c3

Interested in #Emacs? #Guix? #Scheme? #Clojure? Anything with a high percentage of parentheses? Come and meet us at the #Lisp assembly!

We're the friendly bunch under the Lisp logo.

https://39c3.c3nav.de/l/lisp/

#39c3

cc @alexshendi

I know I shouldn't be surprised, but what pisses me off of the #AWS thing is that various UK-specific services and pieces of digital infrastructure (that I need to carry out my work) are down - because of an outage of a non-UK company in another country!

It doesn't sound like what the internet was supposed to be, does it. Something something "routes around damage"... Hrm.

Haha, unbelievable, I got mentioned by David Wilson @daviwil in a System Crafters stream! Thanks David!

https://youtu.be/sCUvUyS72aQ?t=3602

You're right, it's a bit of a reinforcing loop, as I learnt tons from your streams/materials - I'm glad you liked that particular post of mine.

Here's to many more years of System Crafters streams! (I'm sorry I rarely manage to join the live streams, but I tend to catch up afterwards.) 🙏 👍

@civodul Big yay!

If I understand correctly, this improves the user experience but, functionally, it's what can be achieved via `guix shell`?

Next #Guix Social is today, in just a few hours!

Andrew Tropin @abcdw will be talking about Arei/Ares, a modern, extensible IDE for #Guile #Scheme!

Time: 6pm GMT, 7pm CET. https://time.is/compare/1800_16_Jan_2025_in_London

Streaming: https://meet.jit.si/london-guix-meetup

More info (registration not required): https://www.meetup.com/guix-social/events/304634420/

cc @futurile

I know this would be massively backward incompatible and it can't be done... but I'd love 'guix shell' to default to '--no-cwd', that's what I want to do 90% of the time.

More than that, regardless of the usage frequency, '--no-cwd' is the safest option and I think it should be the default.

I know... alias etc.

#guix

Arrived in Hamburg, will be heading to #38c3 soon for a bit of day 0 vibe!

Ha, our #Lisp assembly has posters now! Yay!

New #Guix Social meetup today! Our special guest Christine @cwebber will be telling us about the work that the Spritely Institute @spritely has been doing on Hoot (Guile #Scheme in the browser, yay!) and all things distributed networking tech!

Time: 6pm GMT https://time.is/compare/1800_in_london
Video link: https://meet.jit.si/london-guix-meetup
More info: https://www.meetup.com/guix-social/events/303599147

See you there! :)

cc @futurile

(Posted previously as followers-only, now reposted as public, sorry for the noise.)

Things seem to be shaping up pretty nicely with the #38c3 #Lisp assembly!

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/en/assembly/lisp/

The assembly page has been updated with:

- a little logo (attached)
- a list of Lisp-projects that we plan to reach out to
- a CoC (bit of a work in progress, for now we're just referring to Guix's CoC...)

Coming next: IRC and Matrix chats.

#scheme #guile #emacs #guix #fennel #racket #clojure

Breaking news: the proposal for a #Lisp assembly at #38c3 has been accepted! This is so exciting!

38c3 is the 38th edition of the Chaos Communication Congress, the annual hacker conference happening in Hamburg, Germany from 27th to 30th December. Roughly speaking, a Congress assembly is a space that's made available for a self-organised group, to collaborate, organise workshops, talks, etc. around a specific project or area of interest.

#scheme #emacs #guile #guix #clojure #racket #fennel

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A friend had issues finding my #GnuPG key a few weeks ago and reminded me of Web Key Directory (WKD), a mechanism to make public keys available via HTTPS. So after meaning to look into this for a long time, I finally got around to do it.

You can now get a copy of my key with `gpg --auto-key-locate wkd --locate-keys me@fabionatali.com`.

Quick write-up on how I set this up: https://fabionatali.com/posts/make-your-gnupg-key-discoverable-via-web-key-directory/.

Hi, thanks for having me at https://coop.social, great to be here! 👋

A good chance to re-introduce myself: I'm Fabio, an aspiring critical technologist. I'm interested in technology and politics and the interplay between the two. I tend to care about technology's social/political/ethical aspects as much as or more than the purely technical ones.

#introduction

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I'm interested in #FreeSoftware, especially community-led projects - "free" as in "open/distributed governance" more than "open source".

My tech stack is primarily #Emacs and #Guix. I love programming languages of the #Lisp and #Scheme family.

Pronoun: they. #Vegetarian. #London-er.

More info on at https://fabionatali.com. (Until recently I was @fabionatali.)

#introduction

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