Instead of asking users to download data and reupload, maybe animations using actual CSVs and query artifacts (graphs) are more illustrative for people in a hurry or people who cannot come up with a query question atm?
And the privacy bit would be more convincing if people can see that part of code.
I don't know whether you would like to disclose the whole source and what you would do if the product takes off, so didn't explicitly ask you to open source. But yeah, show users what was sent would be helpful, better if there's some way users can verify.
I'll think of a good way to do that. Love the idea of a ready made demo project, which will force me to see if there is a good use case for the thing. Appreciate the useful feedback.
I've used {GNU |X}Emacs intensively for over 20 years and never thought about doing a thorough study of many of the things it provides like you do in Emacs Solo. Your work is inspiring to me in showing me what dedication and thoughtfulness can achieve, even when it seemed at the beginning as trivial as one tending their own homestead. Many, many kudos.
I used GMT for map making in my dissertation in 2008-2009. It was fascinating to be able to make great-looking maps with reliefs, shades and legends using publicly available terrain and border data.
Taskwarrior has a `log' subcommand, originally used to note down tasks that you have already done. In combination with the tool's search & filter capabilities this results in a quite decent log tool.
You can use a specialized tag to separate your log from your finished tasks. I was using "+memo".
So
task +memo +yak "Tuned up my Emacs config a bit now it boots -0.02s faster"
You can use Taskwarrior's other features such as projects, contexts etc. with this. And of course you can use as many tags as you like.
Also you can customize report formats for your log, and create shell aliases to make logging and looking up easier.
Nice! I use Fedora Silverblue and Emacs. Since Silverblue uses toolboxes (OCI containers), it would be nice to put most config codes into projects and set up one toolbox for each of the projects. That way, I can start working on a new computer in 10 minutes, without setting up all those environments.
I am unemployed for 6 months now, and I watch YouTube from time to time, and search for all kinds of things. From a human viewer perspective, the ads were more related to my YouTube watching behaviour than my browsing history. I use DuckDuckGo but let Google Analytics see me.
Recently I decide to start doing video essays. I searched for a ton of medieval history stuff and watched a ton of related clips. I notice that YouTube began to show ads of at least 2 "I get rich from millions in debt" self-help workshops/courses to me, which I've never shown any interest in.
I have watched audio equipment review videos as well, and that's the only possible connection I can establish between the ads and my online behaviour. Are a lot of unemployed people seeking to enter audio/video making? Or are the snake oil ads showing on many people's screens because of the dire economic situation many of us are in?
I'm sure someone will tell me why this isn't happening, but I perceive a correlation between anything I type into FB Messenger (or HN) and subsequent ads. And I mean quickly.
So, my question for you is have you been making comments or sending messages online about debt, money, wealth, etc? Then again, maybe Skynet just knows you're unemployed and that's what makes you a target for get-rich-quick.
I seldom talk about my financial status online. But I have been searching for jobs on Glassdoor and talked with people on WeChat and a few social networks in China regarding my job seeking.
Thinking that just that could make me a target of these crooks ... wow, just wow.
On large, generic platforms like Facebook and YouTube, I sense the possibility that these ads that are essentially spam can drive a much higher conversion than the legal businesses' ads, and eventually drive out other types of ads. Those are not nigeria princes asking you for "hlep", you can tell the guys behind it put in a lot of efforts and serious money, some made it like a trailer of _The Pursuit of Happyness_. There's no way Google or Facebook's AI could tell that they are suspicious schemes.
I think I've scraped the bottom of the barrel of YouTube content and ads, the worst are these Japanese weight loss commercials.
How's your situation, are you still learning and pursuing your own journey? I can totally relate to the feeling of being out of work but I believe strongly that our work is a calling and we must listen to our intuition on the journey to mastery of our art.
I am learning to be an independent content producer if that's a thing. But I have family and there's constant self-imposed pressure to pursue a regularly paid job. I am juggling between job applications and making things at the moment. I guess I really need to talk to people and think it through.
Your kind words give me a lot of support I need. Thank you.
I submit this for discussion for I worry that in our current self-isolation due to the endemic, could we self-impose coersive persuasion that make us even more isolated from the society and the reality?
Org-mode syntax is no better than that of AsciiDoc, or arguably Markdown.
But I can assign keywords and unique id to sections, include sections from another file, generate indexes and sitemaps in fully customizable manners, incorporate other programming environments. What markup languages can do that?
Org-Mode syntax is an interface to a powerful writing/authoring environment. To dismiss it as a `markup language' is not a good way to advocate its adoption. Something similar can be said to ways people appreciate the power of Emacs.
Instead of asking users to download data and reupload, maybe animations using actual CSVs and query artifacts (graphs) are more illustrative for people in a hurry or people who cannot come up with a query question atm?
And the privacy bit would be more convincing if people can see that part of code.