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This is actually a good link. Thank you. It's usage that is the big driver, and LLMs are a big driver in emissions and other damage to the environment.

I won't belabour the point, but I think someone needs to correct their misconceptions. You're comparing a single, average person's usage of AI in a day -- not the billions who actu…

Well, I doubt that. I mostly work from home. But also I live in a big city (London) with a working public transport system.

The one thing that had me reading to the end was the mention near the top of the environmental impact of LLMs, but he never got back to it. I'm currently writing an onboarding doc …

Clojure 1.6, Emacs 24.5... These are pretty old versions, at least of those.

https://eamonnsullivan.co.uk Not updated much, though. Couple times a year, generally.

I got briefly excited about this one, but I've run into the same issue of needing the IT department to explicitly permit me: https://github.com/jgunthorpe/cloud_mdir_sync/issues/25…

I too am a bit surprised this made it on the front page. Mu4e is definitely niche, and I wouldn't crow about it like I do org or magit. I've only been using it for less than a mont…

This was my second attempt to get email working on Emacs and I gave up the first time, too. I persisted this time and I _think_ it will pay off. There is the obvious danger of this…

I tried both. The error from davmail suggests it was specifically blocked/prohibit and I failed using actual Thunderbird.

This is an important point that I missed and didn't mention: My work and school life were really hard and chaotic. This is so intrinsically part of me that I didn't even notice, bu…

I worry about all of this labelling that we apply to various ends of the "normal" spectrum. Where does it lead us? Is it actually helping? I easily score as ADHD, but I'm in my 60s…

I love these packages (like this, Spacemacs, Doom, etc.), even though I've used Emacs for over 30 years. I don't use them directly, but they give me ideas and alert me to packages …

I'm a principal software engineer with a degree in history. You don't need a science degree to understand most of these issues sufficiently to legislate them. But you need humility…

I absolutely understand that, but it seems concerned with the same things (preserving a minority language) and there are lots of initiatives in this area all over the U.K. Literall…

I find it odd that the article makes almost zero mention of how Ireland is doing with its very closely related form of Gaelic. Ireland has arguably been at least slightly more succ…

So, I saw this link and immediately thought, "I bet the discussion will be about how we should use N100s, instead." I wasn't disappointed. Even on dedicated Pi forums, you see that…

I think I've been operating this way for a long time: My notes, software and wiki are almost all in plain text -- source, markdown or org mode in Emacs, usually -- and open image/v…

I did pretty much the same thing. The issue wasn't cats (I have two, but they'll gladly let anyone pet and feed them), it was that I can't hear the doorbell from my WFH office. I w…

That's an excellent point. I don't think HA is anywhere close to being something that could carry a separate professional services industry, like many more mature projects (e.g., R…

A section I cut out of the blog before posting was my experiences with Z-Wave. Most of my smart plugs are Z-Wave, which was part of my issue with Zigbee coverage/instability (smart…

I keep it up-to-date religiously and rarely run into breaking issues, but I have occasionally. I keep an eye on the release notes ( https://rc.home-assistant.io/blog/categories/rel…

Author here: Yeah, I cut that out at the last minute, but my feeling is that if you need to use the dashboard, the automation has failed. I put the app on my wife's phone, but she …