BLOG QUESTION CHALLENGE 2025

Matto challenged me to accept the "Blogging Challenge 2025".

A month passed.

CALCUTTA IS LOCATED IN DEBIAN TZDATA-LEGACY

For those running Debian and derivatives: is Emacs' worldclock showing Bangalore ASIA instead of IST? One option: apt install tzdata-legacy.

ZNC AND RCIRC AND AUTHINFO.PGP

The password needs to be in quotes.

HOW AI IS HINDERED BY THE GDPR AND OR THE EPRIVACY DIRECTIVE

I am experimenting with Ollama and Ellama. Then this happened:

BLOG - GOPHER - ELPHER

Copies of my blog posts are available as Gopher posts. Here is how.

COMBINING EMACS AND ASCIINEMA

This shows how to record an Emacs demo using Asciinema.

NOTE-TO-SELF: ORG TREE SLIDE MODE, AND WHITEROOM MODE

A short blog to remind myself to combine Org-Tree-Slide and Writeroom-Mode, the next time I do a presentation.

HONK! MY FIRST SYSTEMD TIMER

Along with the update of Honk to version 1.2, I add a systemd timer to keep its database lean.

UPDATED FIRST STEPS WITH NIX ON DEBIAN

Mixing Debian with Nix in 2023 (updated from 2021)

OVERCOMING "LISP CONNECTION CLOSED UNEXPECTEDLY" BY CLEANING .CACHE/COMMON-LISP

Cleaning up whatever is in .cache/common-lisp helped me get around issues that began with the update of slime and swank to version 2.28 in Debian unstable.

Using slime would invariable go something like this: