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Or "fount" from older, non-American English.


Fount is definitely more correct. If we're talking a baptismal font, then it's font, but if were talking a fount of knowledge, the correct term is fount with font sometimes being used but derived from fount.

Etymology 1, meaning 3: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fount

Etymology 3: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/font


Thank you, I couldn’t remember which but I figured I’d hit Muphry’s Law either way.


Ability to handle email coming soon.


But can it play MP3s?


I'm sure eventually it will, it's law:

Every text editor, if it survives long enough, will end up implementing a partial, bug-ridden version of Emacs.


> Every text editor, if it survives long enough, will end up implementing a partial, bug-ridden version of Emacs.

Every text editor, including Emacs [...].


Emacs has EMMS for music, reusing mpg123/mpv/ffplay and the like, but it can emulate Vim well enough too ;)

Altough now I'm using 9front, Sam and Acme. I feel myself weird not using the keyboard but at least I understood structural expressions for Sam/Acme really fast, first with 'Vis' and next under Acme. Oh, Acme can do mail and news and a bunch more... because it has I/O since the beginning, you can plug anything into it, from commands to the text buffer to sockets. Even a crude HN client if you dare.


No, no, no, Emacs is a pretty good operating system, it just lacks a good text editor.


This is excellent clarity of thought.


It seems possible to me at least, that social media can distort or negate any parentally installed firmware, despite parents best intentions and efforts.


I agree. From 1st hand experience. Social media counters the socialisation and other awareness we grew with in the late 20th C


First thing I did after getting the csv export was throw together a python script to save all the URLs as PDFs based on the title. Not horribly robust, but a csv list of failed URLs will be ready when I wake up in the morning.


So is trolling: one of the meanings is: fishing by trailing a baited line along behind a boat


There's an AutoHotkey script for that!


But Pa won't.


"Pa will" was Vegemite's version of that pun with its original name "Parwill": https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/650489/vegemites-history...


https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/unix-power-tools/059600...

I used this a great deal, when I first started out on serious UNIX tasks (1996+)


And so it goes on: Egyptian temples defaced by early Christians, Palmyra temples destroyed by Isis...


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