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GNU Emacs is probably the easiest way to capture the spirit of working on the Lisp machines. Interlisp is an ongoing project that takes you even further down that road.

This brief missive regards a response to the impact of AI on Internet publishers. As search engines move toward providing AI summaries as part of their search results, where does t…

I'm using KDE Akregator. It's nice to have a consistant interface for checking the headlines, and only opening web pages to give them a closer look.

This is one of those articles that demonstrates why email should be distributed. Letting Google and Microsoft run email for the planet is just asking for problems. There are some t…

At work, my employer is still running Microsoft products for the desktop environment. At home, assuming I'm using Microsoft products at all (rare), it's from inside the Chromium we…

An attempt to write English based on Anglo-Saxon runes (Futhorc) devised by Nothelm Hurlebatte.

I think it depends on your needs. Working corporate environments with 1000+ hosts, LTS operating systems are big help. On the other hand, for smaller cases, call it a work group or…

The Trinity Desktop Environment is still carrying the KDE 3.5 torch. The Q4OS Linux distribution (Debian based) provides it as a primary desktop.

Another way to think about it is that the terminal has become software, like many other things. Web browsers have become a terminal of sorts too.

This clearly shows the risk of letting someone else run your email services.

I read this with some interest because I've self hosted personal email since about 2001, with experience in email management going back to 1995. The challenges presented are certai…

I'd call it more than a shell. It's more like a text oriented Lisp (Emacs Lisp to be specific) runtime environment with built in editing, interpretation, compilation, and debugging…

Regarding the Common Lisp writings, I rather liked the third edition of LISP by Patrick Henry Winston and Berthold K.P. Horn (1989).

Very recently, I tried using a combination of nail(1), and calendar(1) on OpenBSD as an email and calendaring combination for home use. "nail" is provided by the OpenBSD s-nail pac…

Maybe this will provide some momentum to SeaMonkey or other browsers?

I wanted the TI-99/4 that was marketed at the beginning of the 80s. As it turned out, I didn't own a computer until buying a Tandy PC-6 pocket computer in the mid-eighties. Fast fo…

I'm familiar with a site that once had around 30 Vaxen for scientific computing in the late 1980s. This included Vax 11/780s, 11/750s, uVax I's, uVax II's and eventually a Vax 8800…

I don't. A laptop is used for email when needed.

I run email for myself with OpenBSD. The only spam mitigation is spamd(8) in blacklist mode, using nixspam. DKIM isn't checked for inbound mail. Outbound email is signed using the …