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@veer66 @jt3 You said the G-word! I'm surprised at that, given your other tech choices

@veer66 By the way, I'm not sure if it matters to you, but #emacs has a GREAT #telegram interface, #telega. That alone would me on Telegram https://github.com/zevlg/telega.el/

@veer66 #Zulip rules, but so does Telegram. I have never considered them competitors in the same space, though. I don't do much IM in Zulip; I basically use it as a great email-extension with my work teams

@avelino interesting idea. I'm hypocritical here since I actually do no protection of my phone number, but the phone number itself is the weakpoint, right? I respect several commenters who hate to regard phone numbers as personal identifiers, and somehow dwell in burner phones etc.

Related to this topic might be #DeltaChat @delta , which has all the decentralized characteristics of email itself. The concept is beautiful, although I couldn't make the leap a year or two ago when I tried it.

@avelino Not that I've tried it, but isn't that the concept behind Matrix?

Or, you know, #dired in #emacs

I came across blog (RSS) to Mastodon in a topic recently, and am now seriously considering it, with a Karl Volt-style "built to last" mentality -- read Mastodon via #RSS-feeds, post to #Mastodon via my #blogs. Any killer suggestions? @publicvoit #BuiltToLast

@radehi @freemo I've never really tried search before now, but just tried it on the text from one of my toots and it seems to work fine, showing first my own matches and then related toots. Using qoto and the web interface here.

@avelino That is an excellent question. I think it comes down to whether the benefits of cross-pollination out-weigh the problems with too much entanglement. In this case, my view is that emacs is a clear winner, because it excels at interfaces and text-management, and the since those things can be very profitably construed into that problem space, Emacs benefits outweigh the down-sides. Not only does one get to keep benefits of common highly-developed interface, the considerable cognitive burden of context-shifting is minimized. This is a clear win in my view.

Coming across another "#vscode vs #emacs" thread, I just have to ask, how is vscode at doing email? How about RSS feeds? Spreadsheets? Daily agendas? Because emacs is very, very good at those...

@alpha1beta @AndiS Thanks for the reply. That was my understanding -- that there is no client-less way of interacting with stuff. But I thought I'd double check.

I think this way of thinking might encourage full-blog responses to things, which isn't necessarily bad.

@alpha1beta Is there any way of interacting with them other than logging in to a client?

@freemo I was afraid you'd say that. I was hoping you'd say, "no, I used some proprietary software" and I wouldn't feel pressure to improve my LaTeX resumes (which haven't been updated in years)

@freemo That is a gorgeous formatting. Did you write it in LateX?

The thing about ghosts in the machine is that sometimes they just fix themselves as suddenly as they broke. #GhostsInTheMachine