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You know what, I like that I’m bald. I can always joke with other folks at work (“Are you sure you want to make this a regular meeting? You’ll end up like me!” - at which point I point my head and get a laugh or two).

If there was any period in my life when someone judged me for being bald (say, a potential date) then screw it, I didn’t need them anyway. It’s a low-level “no shitty people” filter in that regard, kind of like being ... https://taonaw.com/2025/11/05/you-know-what-i-like.html

I caved and bought a pixel 9a. It’s heavily discounted. Getting rid of grapheneOS just seems to be too much of a pain.

Emacs' windows navigations and some Emacs zen: https://taonaw.com/2025/05/09/emacs-windows-navigations-and-some.html

Turns out I didn’t know and forgot about all sorts of built-in fucntions in Emacs that help you navigate windows better. A bit of help from System’s Crafters (thanks @daviwil ) video and I wised up quite a bit.

Linus kickstarted a de-googling series because Google's tracking is enough material for a couple of 20-minute videos. He goes through all of the big things, including YouTube.

It's no surprise that part 2, which discusses YouTube in depth, was removed from the platform because of "violating YouTube's Community Guidelines." If this is not proof of the quality of the content, I don't know what is.

YouTube removes a video explaining how to de-google: https://taonaw.com/2024/09/05/youtube-removes-a.html

#google #privacy

What the hell is Emacs, anyway?

I'm not sure I explained it in a way that makes sense. The problem is not explaining what tool Emacs is or what kind of software; that's pretty easy: It's a text editor.

Asking what is Emacs sells it short and doesn't explain why so many people swear by Emacs every day.

Perhaps a better question is why. So, as the blog's title suggests, don't ask why; I'll explain anyway.

What is or why Emacs?: https://taonaw.com/2024/08/18/what-is-or.html

#emacs

@BrandonsJournal felt blogging too much about blogging might be a problem, so I thought I'd reply by blogging. Of course.

Blogging about blogging is writing about yourself: https://taonaw.com/2024/06/23/blogging-about-blogging.html

#blogging #writing

@thomasfuchs I didn't know that's the guy who made ELIZA. I also didn't know he wrote a response to what happened when people started using ELIZA. Fascinating.

You can't really purchase a physical copy of this book, seems like. Isn't that a bleak sign of sorts in itself?

@thomasfuchs looks like a good read: https://archive.org/details/computerpowerhum0000weiz_v0i3

@emilygorcenski

This captures some of the points I want to write about. Do you have the source of this post by any chance?

@SwiftOnSecurity so you're finally offering yourself as a world leader. About time.

I'm annoyed.

micro.blog is based on Hugo, which is good and all, but it also means I need to play with Hugo if I want to change anything. For example, have the dates in ISO format.

Before you respond with links to Hugo documentations and tell me how easy it is --

the reason I'm testing out micro.blog is *because* I'm tired of working with #Hugo . I have a wiki, I have a blog, and I want to go into video recording.

If it turns out I have to spend an hour figuring out Hugo again, I'm out.