An ag(e)ing hacker - posts tagged as "parentheses"

p≡p-mail-tool: easy privacy for email with existing Mail User Agents (p≡p is working with Gnus!) — 2023-08-07 03:05 Updated: 2024-01-11 12:15

During the last month and a half I have unfortunately mostly disappeared from GNU, having been busy and focused writing p≡p-mail-tool (https://codeberg.org/pEp/pEp-mail-tool), a new work project I have let overflow into my personal time as a beautiful little hack in which I believe. p≡p-mail-tool is of course free software. Motivation Freedom of speech and privacy are more and more threatened by governments and hostile corporations working against the public interest. In this season of death of liberty the minimum we can do to respond is making surveillance more difficult, by providing the general public with easy tools to use for [...] Read more

I will remember John McCarthy — 2011-10-25 23:55 Updated: 2014-07-26 14:57

I’ve just learned that Professor John McCarthy (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JohnMcCarthy(computerscientist)>) died two days ago on October 23, at the age of 84. He was the father of Lisp, Artificial Intelligence, Non-Monotonic Logics and Situation Calculus; and garbage collection, and time-sharing. An amusingly absent-minded brilliant mathematician and thinker with philosophical inclinations, and a technological optimist. I’ve loved reading his lightly sketched deep thoughts in his plain unassuming style(1), so different from the pretentious generations of big-egoed Lispers who came after him, myself included. And who even cares now if I agree with what he said one hundred percent, or not; I’ve never met [...] Read more