I love that Emacs notices merge conflicts in Bazaar versioned files,
highlighting the differences in green and pink. It's a small thing, but I really
miss this automation for when working with Git — I have to manually type M-x
smerge-mode.
The feature works by looking for conflict files and markers …
read moreA few years back, only the legal and computing industry understood the dangers of software patents. Today I was amazed watch John Oliver's detailed and hilarious treatment of the subject on Last Week Tonight (YouTube). The narrator summed up our concerns beautifully:
read moreIn the last decade, the number of software …
I've recently returned from LibrePlanet 2015 where I presented a workshop called Rock Your Emacs. The workshop is designed to help Emacs users over the initial barriers to writing their own customisations with Lisp code. While we're waiting for official videos to be published, here's the video, slides and exercises …
read moreThere’s just one minor annoyance with my new LibreBoot Thinkpad X60 from GLUGLUG. Working it hard causes it to overheat and shut down. Thankfully, the fan turns out to have much more capability than the defaults allow; all but solving this problem.
In Trisquel GNU/Linux 6.0, the …
read moreThe recent resounding defeat of ACTA in the European Parliament has given me a lot of hope. Many citizens took the time to contact members of parliament and this seems to have made all the difference. I hope that Australian can also reject this harmful agreement. That won’t happen …
read more*The following is a letter written to Choice, the leading Australian consumer advocacy organisation.
I urge Choice to speak out against products like the Amazon Kindle electronic book reader. They use Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) technology to restrict your basic freedoms.
The Kindle uses DRM technology to give Amazon full …
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