How often do you start your editor? I start emacs once at booot and keep it running, using emacsclient to open additional files from the command line.
Look, I think that writing your own editor is useful because one learns a lot. And of course, it doesn't need to use Lisp or even be extendable at all. But it's not Emacs any longer if you remove the Lisp part.
To answer your question: I actually start my editor many times a day. I know the "start once and use emacsclient" workflow is the standard and most efficient way for Emacs users, but I personally tend to open and close editor windows frequently, just like using a simple notepad.
Regarding the Lisp part, I completely agree with you. As I mentioned in other threads, if you remove Lisp, it is absolutely not Emacs anymore.
I am not trying to build a true Emacs, nor am I trying to deny its great philosophy. I just deeply love the physical typing experience and muscle memory of Emacs keybindings. My goal was simply to extract that specific UX and package it into a standalone app that I could run immediately without any setup.
So you are right—it is just a personal project to recreate the typing feel I love, rather than an Emacs replacement!
"Auch in diesem Fall hätte Palantir gerne mit den Autoren des Berichts zusammengearbeitet, um unseren Ansatz zur Entwicklung und zum Einsatz von Technologien zum Schutz der Privatsphäre und zur Wahrung von Rechten detailliert darzulegen." (In this case too, Palantir would have welcomed the opportunity to collaborate with the report's authors to provide a detailed explanation of our approach to developing and deploying technologies that protect privacy and uphold rights.)
It's not the function of the press to collaborate with the people/companies they write about.
Unfortunately(?), the original headline was just wrong. The DPOs did not impose a ban, the DPO community of Switzerland just recommended to move out of the cloud. This is not exactly news either, they have been leaning towards more restrictions for quite a while. But in most situations they can only issue recommendations, not binding rules.
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The proposed eVoting solution will not do you much good then. It still relies on paper mail getting to you in time, and untampered with.
I understand the problem Swiss persons living abroad have with voting, but there are better ways to solve this than putting the whole vote at risk due to unsecurable Internet voting.
Switzerland manages to hold state-wide votes four times a year, usually combined with local topics, with a paper/ballot based system quite well. Voting more often than every 4 or 5 years is not a reason to introduce eVoting.
But then, for grown-up democratic countries with a stable political system, hardly anything is a reason to introduce eVoting :-)
No. But this is the same with ballot or mail votes in Switzerland, identity is not verified. So in theory you could fake paper voter cards already today, but it's difficult to scale this onto a useful level.
The verification system for the proposed eVoting system works with verification codes individual to a voter. So even if you and I vote YES on a certain topic we will have different verification codes.
Look, I think that writing your own editor is useful because one learns a lot. And of course, it doesn't need to use Lisp or even be extendable at all. But it's not Emacs any longer if you remove the Lisp part.