abbr = "Most Addictive Feature of Fish Shell"

So glad to have encountered this community. So much to explore. I love people's recommendations of obscure lesser-known music.

Here's mine: soffmi muhod.

Currently playing semble^1^, as I do a lot.

I keep saying I'm soffmi muhod's biggest fan. I've not had anyone attempt to challenge me on that yet. ... I may be soffmi muhod's only fan. That obscure enough?

Something like 20 albums [(and over 20 hours to listen to)] (at least on bandcamp) over the past 20 years or so. And as far as I know, only 1 fan.

I find it really difficult to describe, even to put into some genre category. "Audio art", it says. "Ambient", it says. "Experimental", it says. "Zonk"(?), it says. It even says Boards of Canada is its mother, and Autechre is its father, and that it is a "child of music". As someone put it "a union with a tone generator [and something ~ I forget what]".

Is this obscure enough for this "Obscure Music" community? :)

Surely.

It's the most obscure I know.

^1^ After semble, I'm hard pressed to pick a fave album (except not the first and last, the weakest). ... [Backspaced over a start of an attempt to describe some highlights, like everon, ripoonjadi, pHphimorphia, the enthusiast, both the "sides", lojg mucg, jymg kega, counterpart, mq7, opsyem, Qavykr, qysqam, uwkivj mkiriac, and "the orange album", because then I realise that's nearly all of them]

The idea for this post started today when I saw in #emacs-til on libera.chat:

• [2026-01-17 22:30:19] TIL emacs is just not for old boomers lol
• [2026-01-17 22:31:53] also for younger boomers
• [2026-01-17 22:33:10] haha that's me!
• [2026-01-17 22:33:17] lil baby baby boomer
• [2026-01-17 23:25:18] the Youth of Today love Emacs
• [2026-01-17 23:25:29] I asked one of them back in... uh...
• [2026-01-17 23:25:31] 1991?

So I did a websearch for the youngest emacs user, and, the websearch results couldn't help but all be about how old emacs users are.

So I ask Lemmy...

Who is the youngest emacs user?

[And no, before anyone thinks otherwise, that image is not real. I just put that together for whimsical illustration, from an image search or 3, with a relevant comment, an image from an article about a 2 year old who self-taught the alphabet, and an image of an emacs welcome screen pasted together with the help of the GIMP.]

Who is the youngest emacs user?

Anyone younger than 40? In 20s? Teens?? Younger??!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.wtf/post/26550037 to fishshell@programming.dev just for the attention of more fish users.

fin - fish extensible text editor written in fish

It's really just a novel proof of concept.

Just showing off how useful fish can be.

And I really liked the idea of my text editor being extensible in the language I'm most familiar with, fish, using it every day on the command line.

I burned out on it after the first month (and wrestling undo/redo to work how I wanted next month (or two)), so progress has stalled for a few months [~ so it's not yet up to the level of features [e.g. syntax highlighting] before I start bootstrapping its development, writing fin in fin, rather than in emacs]. :/ But it still does the job. :)

(And, FYI, fish fans, see the fishsticks branch for the more fish-centric version (fewer unixy-tool dependencies (than main branch) and less awk(wardness) (than arctictern branch))

Feel free to contribute or fork, if you like the fun idea. :D

PS, fin is tiny. Fewer lines of code than e.g. even just the git thing in the default fish prompt. And it's a whole text editor! :)

Started on a whim. Is actually useable.

Rough idea made on a whim. Constructive and critical feedback welcome. Better memes depicting the idea even more welcome.

Image: A gloved hand peeling an Anarchy sticker off Malarchy.

Text: Malarchy masquerades as Anarchy, to look good, and make Anarchy look bad.

For one real world example among many, to consider stop falling for: Those palates of bricks that big money conveniently deliver to bank/capitalism protests.

Heh, I wonder how "over the target" this is, and gets heavily downvoted by agents and unwitting assets not liking the reveal or invite to scrutiny. ;)

[Edit: Since "Malarchy"'s not nearly as well known or as immediately understood as I imagined,

Mal-Archy, is a bit of a portmanteau made of:

mal

• 1. Evil; disease.
• 2. A prefix of Latin origin, through French (equivalent to dys- or caco- of Greek origin), meaning ‘bad,’ and implying usually imperfection or deficiency, and often simply a negative, as in malodor, a bad odor, malfeasance, bad- or wrong-doing, malformation, imperfect shape, maladroit, not adroit, malcontent, not content, etc. The prefix in this form occurs only in words taken from the French, or formed upon the analogies of such.

&

archy

• 1. A suffix properly meaning a rule, ruling, as in monarchy, the rule of one only. Cf. -arch.

Archy, ruled by.

Mal, bad.

And it's like "Malarkey", deceptive foolishness too. But with more dominating unjust power overtones.

Malarchy. ]

PS, While I'm at it... Some relevant quotes:

"Governments have always used the pretext of ‘public safety’ to suppress dissent. They create the very chaos they claim to fight, so they can pose as saviors." -- Errico Malatesta

"The history of the State is the history of violence, but it is also the history of lies—lies told to the people to make them accept their own enslavement." -- Peter Kropotkin

"Every act of government violence is wrapped in the flag and sold as patriotism. The State’s greatest trick is making people believe that their oppressors are their protectors." -- Emma Goldman

"States don’t just respond to crises—they need crises. They need enemies, real or invented, to justify their existence. The ‘war on terror’ is just the latest version of a very old game." -- David Graeber

"The first revolutionist is the State itself. It revolts against its own principles, against its own lies, to better enslave us under new disguises." -- Mikhail Bakunin

"The most effective way to neutralize a radical idea is to take its symbols, drain them of meaning, and sell them back to the people as a commodity." -- David Graeber

"The worst enemies of anarchy are not its open opponents, but those who pretend to be anarchists while serving the interests of the powerful." -- Errico Malatesta

"Beware those who wrap themselves in the red flag to hide their betrayal." -- Gustave Lefrançais

"They fear our ideas, so they steal our symbols." -- Anonymous

"The State’s favorite anarchist is a fake one."

"Real anarchy threatens power. Fake anarchy is power."

"They wear our symbols like costumes… but their script is written by the State

"The State is nothing but a vast machine for the oppression of the masses, a machine that lives on lies and thrives on the ignorance of the people." -- Mikhail Bakunin

"Fascism and capitalism are not opposites—they are partners in the same crime. One gives the orders, the other provides the guns. Both rely on your fear, your confusion, and your obedience. Do not believe their lies. Do not obey their commands. Think for yourself, act for yourself, and trust only in solidarity." -- Errico Malatesta

[Edit: oh... I already added this to the end too... Why was that other responder requesting... "You can post 10000 quotes but not just tell us what you mean with “Malarchy”? "Oh... their intention was on the "just"... as in to rid the quotes... no wait, but why did they also say I can add 10,000 quotes... I'm very confused... their answer was already there... why were they~ ugh, never mind. Well, it's now added above as well as beneath the anarchists' quotes depicting malarchy; power/archy's deceitfulness. Surely there wont be a third responder asking what's malarchy now, since that's been well covered here at least 3 or 4 times now. Unless they're just up to more malarchy.]

mal noun

Evil; disease. A prefix of Latin origin, through French (equivalent to dys- or caco- of Greek origin), meaning ‘bad,’ and implying usually imperfection or deficiency, and often simply a negative, as in malodor, a bad odor, malfeasance, bad- or wrong-doing, malformation, imperfect shape, maladroit, not adroit, malcontent, not content, etc. The prefix in this form occurs only in words taken from the French, or formed upon the analogies of such. (Oh, I did not know that… “The prefix in this form occurs only in words taken from the French, or formed upon the analogies of such.” Interesting. And I dare say, fitting, what with all the revolutionary spirit in France.)

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archy adjective

Arched. archy brows A suffix properly meaning a rule, ruling, as in monarchy, the rule of one only. Cf. -arch. Archy, ruled by.

Mal, bad.

This was bad enough with "just people"... Now these years A.I. contributes to this churn... I hope the fediverse never gets "successful" enough to attract "influencer" bounties. Fediverse keeps internet alive... for now.

PS, In a sea of misinformation, everybody's a shill. [That there's attacks on Candice Owens is beside the point.]

I love these three socialist lemmies. So I'm posting this here. Not sure how well or how mixed a reception this will get here. Not sure if the right place to post it. Plausibly shall step on some toes (with the bottommost instance of "not my left") a bit. And I imagine there may be some responses nitpicking that 3 of the "not my left"s are more left than "my left" ~ to which I say, misses the point. Anyhoo... enjoy, or don't. I strive to protect your freedom to receive things however you wish. Love that bitch called interpretation. ;D But I do hope it sparks some interesting thought, discussion, and maybe even is a useful tool. At the very least, it'll help (a bit) to explain what I mean when I keep saying "not my left", to those who misrepresent the authoritarian left as "the left", or even really really misrepresent by calling the nowadays so-called "liberal" (left side of authoritarian right) as "the left".

No explanation given. Just a whimsical little image for our beloved emacs, I made a while ago, in response to something, I forget what. Is just fun.

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