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@mitchmarq42xyz@emacs.ch github.com/casouri/vundo looks pretty good, and is maintained and up to date, it seems. :Thanks for the suggestion!

I was experiencing freezes of sometimes up to 30 seconds about 3/4 of the the time when I used my muscle memory to hit "undo", which I do as part of my regular "kill-line undo" combo. Something must have changed recently because I started to have show-stopping freezes of my emacs thread when I tried a routine "undo." I finally managed to squeeze a `toggle-debug-on-quit` and, with a bit of patience, got a C-g in during the freeze. The culprit in the resulting stack trace was my global undo-tree mode, which in combination with my other settings must have started failing. I turned it off by removing the line in my init.el and also running `global-undo-tree-mode` to toggle the mode and&; far, no more funny freezes on undo. There are occasions when the undo tree is great and useful, but not at the cost of sometimes completely being a show stopper.

@erik it's one of those things -- I've been undoing in emacs since the dawn of time, but didn't know until last year that if I select an area it is localized!

The fact that out-of-the-box includes "undo-in-region" is not only super cool, but also extremely useful. I just copied a bunch of stuff, changed it into org headings, updated the title, then realized that the stuff had multiple lines, so I undid just the heading part and removed the linebreaks before going back to headings -- without undoing the title change.

@publicvoit I use exwm, so it's all emacs with some Firefox, generally. Occasionally there's gimp or inkscape, but 95% of my work is in emacs and orgmode.

I need a bunch of historical weather data. After some dead ends, I've found Open-Meteo:

- years of data
- hourly observations
- all the metrics, even weird ones
- downloadable as CSV
- API available
- free for non-commercial use

I'm in total shock. This is the greatest service of all time, and it's been right here all along --> @openmeteo

@publicvoit Ah! Thanks for the tip! I realized I can do it in raw , without consulting the unicode table, with `set-input-method` `Tex` `` ` a `` For one-offs, though, the unicode table is simpler

Will "Live Tweeting" a big event cause issues on a instance? I know that cross-posting back in the day between Twitter and Mastodon seemed not good

Today I am reminded that the difference between lazy "a la" and correct "à la" is called a "grave accent," not the pinyin 4th tone. We are doing french-english, not chinese-latin characters! In that's "LATIN SMALL LETTER A GRAVE"

Upgraded to check; mute system on-off. Somehow my VLC had been set to mute (but nothing else in the system). Weird.

til the most used web engine is not Webkit or Gecko -- it's Blink. Funny that I have been hearing about the others for years. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparis

@veer66 as in, use magit to delete files off the disk? Yeah; I think magit "k" removes them from tracking, magit "K" actually deletes the files.

What's more introverted -- social media instead of in-person social, in-person but no social media, or neither (if possible?)?

can be self-hosted. This gets around things like user limits, which are a current blocker. But should we? Pro, cons, alternatives? Dear Internet, please advise

@Crell I did look at yours, but Stack Overflow errors have taught me the hard way that PHP has changed a lot recently. Isn't much of PHP different since you wrote the book?

I'm looking for recent books or up-to-date text on with PHP. is changing rapidly and all the books I see are nearly a decade old. Any good recommendations?

@jdst258 @fsf Skype does real-time voice-to-text (I found out by accident). Anyone else?

I had a bash file that was suddenly failing. After TOO LONG debugging, I found that one of the included functions had been broken so it ended with `fi}` instead of `fi\n}` so a linebreak had been removed. As a result the cron job that depended on that script was failing.

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