Tagged "Technology"

So, another quick post in the vein of quick, Emacs-related content. I just set up E-Mail in Emacs with mu4e! That, I feel, is a great step in the journey to doing everything in Emacs. Albeit I still believe that I won’t ever switch to Emacs as my primary web browser or PDF viewer. Those two positions are firmly held by firefox and zathura respectively. Anyhow, Emacs is a great text-based interface and E-Mail is primarily a text-based medium, hence why I think that they are practically perfect for each other.

Earlier, I wrote a post about how I enjoy using Emacs as my text editor of choice. Obviously, I cited its extensibility as one of the main factors. However, I did not really elaborate on what that brings to the table in terms of actual functionality. So, in this post I would like to make a little showcase of a thing about Emacs which I absolutely love; namely, org-mode.

Clickbait titles aside, I actually think that Emacs is a terrible editor out of the box. So, how come I use it anyway? In this post, I will contrast Emacs with VI(M) in order to point out some important factors in choosing the perfect text editor.

I think we can all agree that the internet is a fantastic invention that has shaped both the 20th and 21st centuries; for quite a while it was the wild west of innovation. Nevertheless, what once was a great variety, has now declined into a monolith wherein only a few companies have monopoly: Google, Amazon and Facebook, among others, dominate practically every possible service. If you want entertainment, you watch YouTube; if you want online shopping and hosting, you go to Amazon; if you want social media, you go to Facebook and Instagram; if you want communication, you go to WhatsApp, Messenger and G-Mail. Suffice it to say, almost everything you do is enabled by “Big Tech”. And although it is fair to argue the fact that these services may in some ways simplify our lives or make them better, there are certain issues with the way in which they and the internet are currently operated. Namely, the model employed in this new era raises questions about privacy, sustainability and efficiency. This especially in the wake of the recent Facebook server outage that took Facebook itself, Messenger and WhatsApp along with it

Alright, so this is a kind of a quick post on the topic of centralised and decentralised file synchronisation, and why you should care about which type you use for your files.

Let’s introduce some basics: