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@peterdrake I need to read me more PL text books!

@eqf00 Thanks for the good reply! "Functional" deriving from mathematics (esp. Church) makes sense, and then I can see how that term could be adopted. I think your intuition about Rich Hickey wanting Clojure "more functional" makes sense. I can see that there are several senses of the term. Calling Lisp functional might be using an older sense of "functional" that predates the OOP vs FP contemporary discussions

"I will take for granted the fact that Lisp is commonly acknowledge to be a FP language, so I will not explain why Lisp is a FP language." Oi. Time to figure out where this is commonly acknowledged (and why Rich Hickey didn't think it was all that common when he made #clojure an FP lispy). https://tilde.town/%7Eramin_hal9001/articles/emacs-unix-04_lisp-does-fp-better-than-bash.html

Handy! Now I don't have to go to my phone, share to my Telegram, and open it on my PC. Just open them straight in Firefox from phone to desktop (without having to push them to a different device, open the push, etc). https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/view-synced-tabs-other-devices

@eqf00 @debacle I'm with you on the uniform experience thing. Emacs is quite good at interfaces

@eqf00 @debacle as a professional web dev I'm biased, but why get rid of a good browser? It is the culmination of a great deal of work and intelligence. Do you find it ethically/security questionable?

Reading "Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons" it pointed out a major problem with biometrics: besides the obvious problems with physical disfigurement, you can never "change password" so data breaches can never be recovered. Once hacked or framed, forever.

@debacle

I tried eww for a while, but found the system freezing during browser waits was a problem for exwm. I was very pleased when I switched to W3M for the same uses. I use them for read-only needs of the internet (which is a lot). The thing is, Firefox is GOOD at social media. For example, see the attached image, where each color indicates a different Firefox Container for each of my Mastodon accounts with their matching Twitter accounts, and a few others.

@debacle Me too, except with #gnus. But I do a lot in my browser, and that's where I miss my kill ring.

Is there a good way to have my system share a kill ring with #emacs? There is cognitive dissonance in going to emacs, where I can cut multiple things and then yank the one that I want right here, to my browser, where I have to make sure the thing I want to paste is the most recent thing I copied/cut.

The only major falling I know of for social media web apps vs native is that it takes a couple more steps to "share to", eg share a photo to Twitter