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@quad @joelle

I never got up the gumption to figure out self hosting after reading this depressing piece... https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html

@icedquinn should I be seeing icons when you do :ablob stuff?

A decade ago #Google had in their contract "do no #evil" and #Facebook was the badguy in terms of #OpenSource and #ethics. Today it seems exactly the opposite -- Google removed that line from their contract, and Facebook champions the open source. I still have no inclination to use either one, but fascinating turnaround.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. -Carl Sagan #dependencies #cider #clojure #quotes

@icedquinn You're an Irish ginger? I wonder if that explains a lot ...

#WebDesignFail I can't use the back button in my browser but have to hit their custom back button. Guaranteed I learned this the hard way and then had to search. Bad experience, Jimmy Johns

@nickanderson very cool! I've also started using the TS stamping method (though I haven't actually attached anything for a few days)

@mmisamore would the old "timestamp instead of boolean" capture your needs? So it says WHEN validated? Or is it not just a time-based validation? Also, you could probably change it to `:validated nil` rather than trying to delete it?

@simongray what a cool project! I have done some work with Wordnet (English), but that was in C++ I think. But I am very interested in its non-big-data uses for language work. I love seeing what you are working on in Clojure.

@daviwil That was good. I've been meaning to try denote, but my current note toking with orgmode files has been good for me for years

My favorite non-socialized music player for Android, https://f-droid.org/packages/com.simplemobiletools.musicplayer/ #SimpleMusicPlayer, has no trouble at all playing my .opus (better than .mp3, though less known)! Victory for getting off of #SAS!

so weird. This morning at the office my #Firefox failed to connect to ANY site. #Chromium worked fine, as did email. All I can think is that I left an in-development web app open all night in a private window. Killed all instances and restarted and Firefox is good again. It's actually not the first time this has happened, where `pkill firefox` solves it. Weird.

@avandeursen Those HN discussions are excellent! Many of them point to the problem of comparing it to modern Twitter, which has some excuses for its code size. I would point out what may be outside many developers awareness: the fact that we are talking about it, and that there is also a case to be made in defense (whether that case prevails or not), means that the title is a success, in the "click-bait" sense. It leading to such great discussions is extremely valuable. I also love the comment that points out that re-investigating the common architecture is valuable.

@mmisamore admittedly I haven't done much with metadata, but if you data is being persisted, wouldn't a clear solution to be to insert a "validated?" value on to the data, so that instead of checking for the ABSENCE of something, you are checking for the presence of it? This feels idiomatic to me, given the additive nature of lisp in general (eg the REPL)

@ericsfraga @freemo

Great tip! Does it break reverse compatibility?

@nickanderson The strange thing is the added external concept of "node" as opposed to the regular linking of the actual files on your disk.

@freemo

@freemo that would be the typical non-attachment simple link. With attachments, a randomly named directory is created adjacent, and the filename is encoded/nomalized. Then the org file gets an `attachment`key added which includes said generated encoding.

I guess the benefit is that it is independent of the original file which could be trashed, modified, or deleted. But the indirect refactoring is a little strange.

#emacs #orgmode #attachment #files are really cool; they can allow me, eg, to attach the wav file of that crazy voicemail from my son to my journal entry for the day. The moment you do that, however, you are introducing application lock-in to your org file; future readings of the plain text cannot recover that attachment unless they are using orgmode, likewise git. I am probably still going to do it, though. But this is annoying.