#+TITLE: Emillo's org-social feed #+NICK: emillo #+DESCRIPTION: GNU/Linux user #+AVATAR: https://emillo.net/images/avatar.png #+LINK: https://emillo.net #+FOLLOW: andros https://andros.dev/static/social.org #+FOLLOW: rossa https://rossabaker.com/social.org #+FOLLOW: john https://johnhame.link/social.org #+FOLLOW: omid https://omidmash.de/social.org #+FOLLOW: eoin https://eoin.site/social.org #+FOLLOW: adsan https://adsan.dev/social.org #+FOLLOW: nickanderson https://cmdln.org/social.org #+FOLLOW: sachac https://sachachua.com/social.org #+FOLLOW: cherry https://cherryramatis.xyz/social.org #+FOLLOW: Leandro https://cybervalley.org/org-social-leandro/org-social.org #+FOLLOW: concavi https://concavi.net/social.org #+FOLLOW: alephoto85 https://www.alessandroliguori.it/social.org #+FOLLOW: shom https://shom.dev/social.org #+FOLLOW: https://comacero.eu/social.org #+FOLLOW: http://gemini.quietplace.xyz/~razzlom/social.org #+FOLLOW: https://notxor.nueva-actitud.org/social.org #+FOLLOW: https://codeberg.org/mester/CosasSociales/raw/branch/main/social.org #+FOLLOW: https://haiverin.scot/social.org #+FOLLOW: https://rosaelefanten.org/social.org #+GROUP: Emacs https://org-social-relay.andros.dev #+GROUP: Org Social https://org-social-relay.andros.dev #+GROUP: Org Mode https://org-social-relay.andros.dev #+GROUP: Elisp https://org-social-relay.andros.dev #+GROUP: Random https://org-social-relay.andros.dev * Posts ** first post with org-social :PROPERTIES: :ID: 2025-08-16T12:28:27+02:00 :LANG: en :MOOD: 😊 :END: First attempt at using org-social. I think the idea is pure genius! Kudos to [[org-social:https://andros.dev/static/social.org][andros]] for that. One of the things that I miss the most about the old internet before social media and the consequent enshittification - and even before forums - is (I'm old, I know) *usenet*: reddit is the thing that today is most similar to that experience, but with a huge and deal-breaking difference: centralization and ownership by a single actor. Usenet was a place to discuss and learn, grow, sometimes argue about the topics you were interested into. Like email, it was - an open standard - not bound to a single corporation/entity - not bound to a single client/app - decentralized - potentially indefinitely persistent (unlike forums) If email was internet's killer application, usenet was its collective application, and it was so good until it lasted. And why it died? There were too few monetization oppportunities :-(. It's not a coincidence that [[https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.minix/c/dlNtH7RRrGA/m/SwRavCzVE7gJ][Linux was born on Usenet]] and I think we need to bring back that free, collaborative, collective, interesting usefulness of the internet that goes beyond corporate profitability. Org gives us the power of pure text, org-social can create a small community of like-minded people that (I assume) love Free software, emacs, org-mode. Even the majestic oak tree grows from a small acorn, and I think org-social is definitely a step in the right direction for planting that acorn. Maybe integrating it with something like [[https://nostr.com/][nostr]] could be an idea to protect it further. I'm a developer, albeit not a formally trained one so I don't know if I will be to par to contribute good code. I have used elisp only to configure emacs so far but I definitely want to use and actively support this project. Very very well done! ** test voting on a poll :PROPERTIES: :ID: 2025-08-18T12:38:07+0200 :LANG: en :TAGS: :REPLY_TO: https://andros.dev/static/social.org#2025-08-18T10:49:34+0200 :POLL_OPTION: No, I prefer to use the current model (micro blogging). :CLIENT: org-social.el :MOOD: 😀 :END: ** test reply to andros :PROPERTIES: :ID: 2025-08-18T14:18:02+0200 :LANG: en :TAGS: :CLIENT: org-social.el :REPLY_TO: https://andros.dev/static/social.org#2025-08-18T13:13:03+0200 :MOOD: 💭 :END: I tried to vote on your poll, don't know if my vote "registered". About the replies I was somewhat expecting that the reply showed on a lower level heading under the post that the reply referred, like the typical `thread view` works on email clients. I see that you replied to my first post but was very difficult to correlate the two. Maybe a keybinding for switching from the actual "flat", strictly temporal view to the "threaded" view? Some other ideas: - visual line mode enable flag for org-social-timeline view - startup initial visibility (similar to [[https://orgmode.org/manual/Initial-visibility.html][org mode #+STARTUP option]]) - show/hide detailed post properties (I actually in 1.2 see only the post ID inside :PROPERTIES: if I want to se the original I have to go to the full remote file) - we now all have our social.org file, which I see as our first "topic", the seminal one. In the future with the growth of contents and user it may be beneficial to split/create new topics (or communities if you will) - second [[org-social:https://omidmash.de/social.org][omidmash]] idea of separating the register, which represents the actual "community" or "topic" Cheers! ** debian trixie and new emacs configuration :PROPERTIES: :ID: 2025-08-26T21:39:46+0200 :LANG: en :TAGS: debian emacs bankrupcy :CLIENT: org-social.el :REPLY_TO: https://andros.dev/static/social.org#2025-08-26T07:46:11+0200 :MOOD::writing_hand_tone2: :END: Indeed, August is a month of vacations, besides I was busy upgrading my (three, four? I don't remember) machines to debian 13 trixie (which by the way is fantastic) but doing so I've started to feel a bit uneasy about my old, messy emacs configuration... Basically I declared /emacs bankrupcy/ :O So, inspired by [[https://github.com/ISouthRain/OpenEmacs][openEmacs]] I started a [[https://github.com/emillo/emacs_configuration][new literate config]] from scratch (of course it's still WIP with plenty of TODOs). I use emacs at work, at home and on mobile/e-ink devices so the first requirement was to being able to tell apart what is native vanilla emacs from what comes from an external source as I don't want to rely too much on packages when there is a built-in alternative. Some of the reasoning is explained in the README. Another thing that trixie brings to the table is a perfectly compiled emacs 30.1. I usually build emacs from source but this time the version included in the distro is adequately /current/, with native compilation and whatnot so I kept that and used also many emacs packages directly from the debian repo. The conf is splitted in four files, the ~early-init.el~, ~init.el~ containing vanilla features, ~provided-by-debian.el~ containing packages available in debian and ~provided-by-gnu-nongnu-melpa.el~ for everything else (currently empty). Let me know what you think! Ah, I also corrected the social.org being served as file. ** Welcome new users :PROPERTIES: :ID: 2025-08-31T22:24:31+0200 :LANG: en :TAGS: org-social :CLIENT: org-social.el :MOOD: :END: Hello and welcome to new users [[org-social:https://sachachua.com/social.org][sachac]], [[org-social:https://cybervalley.org/org-social-leandro/org-social.org][Leandro]], [[org-social:https://www.alessandroliguori.it/social.org][alephoto85]], [[org-social:https://concavi.net/social.org][concavi]], [[org-social:https://cherryramatis.xyz/social.org][cherry]], [[org-social:https://shom.dev/social.org][shom]] (new /to me/ of course, maybe I'm missing someone) I already have 13 people in my social.org: it's growing every day! I tried the rust client developed by [[org-social:https://adsan.dev/social.org][adsan]]: really impressive! Just trying org-social-after-save-file-hook of the new 1.3 version kindly published by [[org-social:https://andros.dev/static/social.org][andros]] ** Poll vote :PROPERTIES: :ID: 2025-09-03T16:53:47+0200 :LANG: en :TAGS: :CLIENT: org-social.el :REPLY_TO: https://andros.dev/static/social.org#2025-09-03T12:12:57+0200 :MOOD: :POLL_OPTION: Yes :END: ** Org-social version 2 :PROPERTIES: :ID: 2025-10-02T22:20:48+0200 :LANG: en :TAGS: org-social :CLIENT: org-social.el :REPLY_TO: https://andros.dev/static/social.org#2025-10-01T11:14:55+0200 :MOOD: :END: Terrific update [[org-social:https://andros.dev/static/social.org][andros,]] it's coming along really well! The avatar support helps a lot to spot who's talking. Also the limit on recent posts is good but having been absent for a while I had to do a lot of "Show more" to reach my latest post (I edonistically wanted to see my personal [ 👤 Profile] and found no other method to do so). Next thing I'll try is to add myself to the emacs group. Well done! PS: enjoied also Terron's photoroll ;-) ** reply to sympodius on typewriters :PROPERTIES: :ID: 2025-10-09T23:11:07+0200 :LANG: en :TAGS: typewriters craftmanship olivetti :CLIENT: org-social.el :REPLY_TO: https://haiverin.scot/social.org#2025-10-06T13:56:25+0100 :MOOD: :END: I actually enjoied *a lot* your blog post, having a little ..ehm.. problem with typewriters. It started in 2015 when I found, next to the garbage dumpster, an Olivetti Studio 45 (design by Ettore Sottsass, the father of the more famous Olivetti Valentine), with its case and almost perfectly working. Offended by the blasphemy of trowing away such a design masterpiece and small mechanical marvel, I took it home and there it started my hoarding problem. Well [[https://emillo.net/images/ellington_studio45.webp][it had quite a testimonial too]]. I give each typewriter a name and the studio 45 is the "*Galeotta*", from a famous verse of Dante Alighieri "/Galeotto fu il libro e chi lo scrisse/" describing a book that made spring the love between Paolo and Francesca, meaning that this one is the culprit that justifies all other stray cats taken home for next to nothing, mainly Olivettis as I'm in Italy and here they are very common, but also a couple (or maybe three..) Olympias. I think I'm at 12 now... You really did a superb job on restoring the lettera 22, especially the case is astounding. I have a very similar one, the case is almost identical, same color but it has no tabulator and the finish is "goffrato", kind of a rough texture of the paint. Like yours (or should I say your friend's now), it has a small font face (from the photos I see that the ruler goes up to 100, whereas the typical pica font found in all others machines that I have stops at 80) and is an /elite/ font. Very nice machine that I dated to 1955. I share your feelings about the quality and the craftmanship of these machines; I have a theory that the quality of human manufacture generally is tending to fall with time. Another hoarding problem that I have is four track cassette recorders, I don't know if you're old enough to remember these, they are so attractive to me.. but this is another story :-) ** strange behaviour of reply in org-social.el :PROPERTIES: :ID: 2025-10-10T00:08:43+0200 :LANG: en :TAGS: org-social :CLIENT: org-social.el :REPLY_TO: https://andros.dev/static/social.org#2025-10-09T16:39:25+0200 :GROUP: emacs https://org-social-relay.andros.dev :MOOD: :END: Hello [[org-social:https://andros.dev/static/social.org][andros]] I don't know why my reply to sympodius ended up in the emacs group... when I hit reply it put the :GROUP: property, but I deleted it (It was meant to be a reply on a post on the timeline, not in the emacs group) ** :PROPERTIES: :ID: 2025-10-10T23:31:54+0200 :CLIENT: org-social.el :REPLY_TO: https://andros.dev/static/social.org#2025-10-10T09:17:55+0200 :MOOD: 🚀 :END: ** :PROPERTIES: :ID: 2025-10-11T23:30:13+0200 :CLIENT: org-social.el :REPLY_TO: https://andros.dev/static/social.org#2025-10-11T18:03:42+0200 :GROUP: Emacs https://org-social-relay.andros.dev :MOOD: ✌🏻 :END: ** :PROPERTIES: :ID: 2025-10-12T00:04:33+0200 :LANG: en :TAGS: recording music craftmanship diy music-production obsolete-media cassette tape four-track portastudio :CLIENT: org-social.el :MOOD: :END: Let's test a post with an image: [[https://emillo.net/images/tascam_244.jpg]] This is the latest acquisition for my collection of multitrack tape recorders, the mighty tascam 244. Made in Japan in 1982, it was one of the earliest of its kind (second only to the model 144, I believe) and still is a fantastic machine. The quality of the build is a testament to how good was Japan manufacturing in those years. Inside there is like, thousands of components and cables, the tape mechanism with its belts and gears, all neatly put toghether and you just /feel/ the quality of the project, the engineering, the execution, everything. And besides, it's just awesome looking. Operating it you really feel like you're piloting [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazinger][Mazinger]]. Basically what these devices enabled you to do was something short of a miracle in 1982: recording your band's demo on cassette with the option of /overdubbing/: you had 4 *mono* tracks of audio and you can record them one after the other adding parts like the big boys were doing in multi milion dollar studios. The device has a four channel mixer where you can fed microphones, lines but also directly electric guitars and basses, you get a very nice two-band semi parametric eq section (one of the big selling points of this unit), a stereo auxiliary send, a panpot and a fader. Limited, sure but all you needed back then. Lately there have been a revival on these machines, for their lo-fi character (even if in reality you can get pretty decent recording on these), the vintage vibe and the /limited/ character which forces you to focus on the music itself rather than on the technical details, a bit like typewriters. For example there is a nice (if you're into music production) youtube channel called [[https://www.youtube.com/c/MadeonTape][made on tape]] whose motto is "embracing limitations" that talks about these kind of machines. I'm particularly attached to this machine because in 1988/89 when I was teen I used one to record my dark/new wave band [[https://skankblocrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sb30-templa-mentis][Templa Mentis]], which in 2022 I remixed from the original tapes (prefectly sounding after almost 40 years) and has been released (also on cassette!) by the indie label Skank bloc records. ** :PROPERTIES: :ID: 2025-10-13T09:32:26+0200 :CLIENT: org-social.el :REPLY_TO: https://codeberg.org/eludom/org-social/raw/branch/main/social.org#2025-10-12T20:05:28-0400 :MOOD: 👋 :END: ** :PROPERTIES: :ID: 2025-10-13T23:00:48+0200 :LANG: en :TAGS: typewriters fountainpens planned-obsolescence addictions obsolete-media :CLIENT: org-social.el :REPLY_TO: https://haiverin.scot/social.org#2025-10-13T14:40:43+0100 :MOOD: 🖋️ :END: Wow, I've never tried an Hermes in person but from what I see they are highly regarded by the community (I also wander around r/typewriters) and I love the aqua color of their keys. If I'm not mistaken they are swiss made, but even if Switzerland is very close to Italy I've never found one here in the wild. Probably they were too expensive for the average italian... Also fountain pens are addictive, I know... I use them for urban sketching and I got more than I care to admit 😋 started with Lamy Safaris, then a couple of Noodler's Ahab and finally settled on my preferred brand: Platinum. Their carbon desk pen is one of my favourites and I also have the 3776 Century, the most expensive of the bunch. They represent the sacred graal for sketching in ink and watercolor because by design they take *Carbon Black* Ink, one of the few waterproof inks for fountain pens. And they have a mechanism in the pen cap that has an air tight seal and so they can resist weeks or even months without drying. But in the end I rarely go out with a fountain pen, when I'm out and about in my pocket kit I tipically use the super nice (to me) uni-ball eye ub-150 by mitsubishi (also japanese) tucked into the spine of a A6 spiral notebook by clairefontaine. Japan made stationery is hard to beat in my opinion. More than mass production itself I think the problem we have with the current manufacturing is planned obsolescence: in the past they were for the most part building things to last; now they build things to break ASAP after the end of the warranty. In reality in certain industries (the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel][phoebus cartel]] of light bulb producers it's almost a century old now) they were doing it for a long time, but now it's /the standard/ for any product. And they also blatantly *lie about it*: I just replaced a led lamp that was quoted 12000 hours that died with less than 3000! Vinyl: when I was young vinyl was so expensive that I couldn't afford it so the addiction started further on, like when they were hyped with the CD and they were throwing vinyl away. Now I have reached the point that at flea markets I have to *avoid* vinyl crates to beat the temptation. [[https://www.emillo.net/images/platinum_carbon_pen.jpg]] ** :PROPERTIES: :ID: 2025-10-14T09:05:34+0200 :CLIENT: org-social.el :REPLY_TO: https://rosaelefanten.org/social.org#2025-10-14T01:12:27+0200 :MOOD: 🥋 :END: ** :PROPERTIES: :ID: 2025-10-19T19:45:49+0200 :LANG: en :POLL_OPTION: Mechanical; Ten-key-less :TAGS: :CLIENT: org-social.el :REPLY_TO: https://johnhame.link/social.org#2025-10-18T23:57:21+0100 :MOOD: :END: I agree with [[org-social:https://rosaelefanten.org/social.org][tux0r]] that the feeling of the IBM model M is unsurpassed, I have three of them and currently one of the three is on sale. Unfortunately The model M is too big for my desk and I also needed the option of bluetooth to write on tablets and phones, so I tried for a while the (first version I believe) thinkpad bluetooth keyboard but the feeling was subpar. Then I switched to a chinese Redragon tenkeyless with blue switches, not bad but it had no BT. Then I settled with my current main keyboard which is a Filco Majestouch TKL Convertible 2 with brown switches, a bit pricy but it should be the definitive one. Excellent keyboard, can pair with four BT devices and also has the cable connection, and most important of all (from an emacs perspective), the ability of /switching in hardware/ caps lock with control: what a selling point! :-) ** :PROPERTIES: :ID: 2025-10-19T21:18:12+0200 :LANG: :TAGS: :CLIENT: org-social.el :REPLY_TO: https://rosaelefanten.org/social.org#2025-10-19T20:27:13+0200 :MOOD: :END: The one I'm selling is [[https://www.subito.it/vi/595557609.htm][this one]], it's perfectly working but aesthetically has a small sign of a soldering iron on the front, and it has the ISO layout, with italian keycaps. Also, it's sold without the SDL cable (that I need for the other two). ** :PROPERTIES: :ID: 2025-10-19T21:32:23+0200 :LANG: :TAGS: :CLIENT: org-social.el :REPLY_TO: https://rosaelefanten.org/social.org#2025-10-19T21:26:39+0200 :MOOD: :END: I think (I have to check) that I have only two cables and three keyboards, so I will keep for the two that remain. Probably got to sell them anyway in the future, but I'll like to keep at least one "just in case". Currently they're tucked away somewhere, but if you're interested I can search for them. I remember to have had some problems with the USB adapters, for some reason the < and > keys didn't work. I investigated and found someone on ebay that sold a SDL usb cable, but I don't recall all the details. ** :PROPERTIES: :ID: 2025-10-23T13:33:39+0200 :CLIENT: org-social.el :REPLY_TO: https://andros.dev/static/social.org#2025-10-23T08:07:38+0200 :MOOD: 🚀 :END: ** :PROPERTIES: :ID: 2025-10-27T16:55:12+0100 :CLIENT: org-social.el :REPLY_TO: https://andros.dev/static/social.org#2025-10-26T22:51:12+0100 :MOOD: 🚀 :END: