This week on The News Quiz, the panel assess the fall in inflation, Wes Streeting's latest bright idea.

Written by Lucy Porter, with additional material by: Mike Shephard, Tasha Dhanraj, Peter Tellouche and Alfie Packham. Producer: Rajiv Karia Executive Producer: James Robinson Production Coordinator: Jodie Charman Sound Editor: Marc Willcox

A BBC Studios Audio Production for Radio 4 An Eco-Audio certified Production

Democracy Now! 2024-10-21 Monday

• Headlines for October 21, 2024
• "Collateral Damage": Hundreds of Patients Trapped in North Gaza as Israel Intensifies Siege
• Report from Beirut: Israel Bombs Banks, Attacks UNIFIL in Expanding War of Aggression
• Will Netanyahu Incite a War with Iran? Leaked U.S. Docs Detail Israel's Attack Plans
• Facing Numerous Federal Probes, Elon Musk Spends Millions to Help Elect Trump & Gut Gov't Regulations

Download this show

Democracy Now! 2024-10-24 Thursday

• Headlines for October 24, 2024
• "This Is Just Terrorism": Israel Bombs World Heritage Site in Lebanon, Threatens Major Hospital
• "Ethnic Cleansing": Israeli Group B'Tselem Calls for World to Stop Israel's Siege of Northern Gaza
• CPJ Head Condemns Israel's Deadly War on Journalists in Gaza as IDF Threatens Al Jazeera Reporters
• Prominent Muslim Democrat Demands Answers After Being Kicked Out of Harris Rally in Michigan

Download this show

Matt and Daniel are joined by Felix Biederman of Chapo Trap House to survey the grooming proclivities of Israel’s freelance hacks, the problem with the Dutch, and the suburban Chicago dad’s threshold for declaring something “Our 9/11.”

Please donate to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund: https://www.pcrf.net/

Listen to Chapo Trap House at https://www.chapotraphouse.com/

Subscribe/listen to Bad Hasbara wherever you get your podcasts.

Spotify 

Apple Podcasts

This post is not about the Japanese martial arts Jiu-jitsu, it’s about a new VCS, or version control system. There are some great tutorials and introductions for Jujutsu, short jj, so I want to give some insight in how I use it day to day for this website.

Initialize a repository

You can initialize jj in an existing git repository like this:

$ jj git init --git-repo .

This will create a .jj directory next to .git. You can now use both git and jj, although I wouldn’t recommend it. There’s a work-in-progress native storage backend, but since all my projects are git repositories anyway, this works great for me.

Note that this is non-destructive; if you want to go back to git, all it takes is a rm -r .jj.

Get an overview

Running jj log in the repository for this very website gives this output:

$ jj log
@  qzsvtxpv hey@arne.me 2024-10-21 09:58:06 e18f7532
│  Add blog/jj-in-practice
│ ○  yoxxsupn hey@arne.me 2024-10-20 22:55:03 ae5d9109
├─╯  Add library/calibans-war
│ ○  tvkvwslw hey@arne.me 2024-10-20 22:49:54 5e4dee1f
├─╯  Add library/the-posthumous-memoirs-of-bras-cubas
│ ○  pywmtrys hey@arne.me 2024-10-20 21:20:11 7bda14b7
│ │  Add atoms/1
│ ○  xnlzypwn hey@arne.me 2024-10-20 21:20:10 8a004404
├─╯  Add atoms functionality
◆  wxxtrmqk hey@arne.me 2024-10-20 16:18:15 main HEAD@git 1eb46c81
│  Add weekly/166
~

This already shows one of the biggest differences, compared to git: There’s no branches, other than main. You can create branches, which are called bookmarks in jj, but you don’t need to. Instead, you work mostly with changes¹.

The terminal above shows the change w (you can use the first letter to reference changes; on your terminal it’ll be highlighted as well) as a parent to x, t, y and q. All these child-revisions don’t have a branch/bookmark, but they don’t need one. You can see what’s in-flight at this repository better than with any git repo, especially if branches haven’t been cleaned up in a while.

Create a revision

My usual flow with git is to leave changes in the staging area until I’m ready to commit. Sometimes, if I have to switch branches or want to save my work, I’ll stash or create a WIP commit.

In jj, there is no staging area—everything is a revision. Let’s create a new revision on top of my revisions where I add atoms functionality:

$ jj new -r p

Running git log again:

$ jj log
@  kxqvnxnw hey@arne.me 2024-10-21 10:03:20 22c020cf
│  (empty) (no description set)
○  pywmtrys hey@arne.me 2024-10-20 21:20:11 HEAD@git 7bda14b7
│  Add atoms/1
○  xnlzypwn hey@arne.me 2024-10-20 21:20:10 8a004404
│  Add atoms functionality
│ ○  qzsvtxpv hey@arne.me 2024-10-21 10:03:18 27229dca
├─╯  Add blog/jj-in-practice
│ ○  yoxxsupn hey@arne.me 2024-10-20 22:55:03 ae5d9109
├─╯  Add library/calibans-war
│ ○  tvkvwslw hey@arne.me 2024-10-20 22:49:54 5e4dee1f
├─╯  Add library/the-posthumous-memoirs-of-bras-cubas
◆  wxxtrmqk hey@arne.me 2024-10-20 16:18:15 main 1eb46c81
│  Add weekly/166
~

You’ll notice that our active revisions are now left-aligned, and the one to add this very blog post has moved to the right. There’s no hierarchy, they’re all descendants of Add weekly/166.

After doing some work, e.g. adding a new atom, I can describe that revision with jj describe. This is comparable to git commit, but it doesn’t actually create a commit or a revision, it only describes the current one.

Sometimes I want to update a previous revision, in this case Add atoms/1. I can run jj squash to merge the current one with its parent.

Push and pull

To fetch new revisions, I run jj git fetch; to push branches/bookmarks, I run jj git push. This uses the same git server it was using before.

Before pushing, I need to move my bookmark to the revision I want to push. I push the main branch to deploy my website, so if I wanted to publish my atoms functionality (should I?), I would run jj bookmark set main -r p before pushing.

Rebase and split

Sometimes I need to rebase. Fortunately that’s a lot simpler than it is in git: I can run jj rebase -s <source> -d <destination> to move revisions around. If I wanted support for atoms for this blog post, I would run jj rebase -s q -d p and it would move the revision for this blog post on top of “Add atoms/1”.

jj also does automatic rebasing, e.g. if you squash changes into a revision that has descendants.

And if I have a revision that I’d like to be two, I run jj split and interactively select what belongs to which revision.

Undo

Undoing an (interactive) rebase in git is not fun. jj undo undoes the last jj operation, doesn’t matter if it’s abandoning (deleting) a revision or doing a rebase. This is a life saver! You can also run jj op log to display your last jj operations.

Things I stumble upon

I’ve been using git for a long, long time. My brain assumes that after a commit, I’m working on the next one. It also assumes that jj describe does the same as git commit (it does not). I often describe a revision and continue editing files, which then erroneously get added to the current revision. I’m not saying this is wrong, it makes sense in the jj world, but I keep tripping over that and have to run jj split to pull changes out again.
alterae on Lobste.rs pointed out that you can describe and immediately create a new revision on top of it with jj commit. Thanks!

One other thing is that you cannot check out a revision directly (or maybe I just don’t know how to), so when I’ve moved to a different revision and want to move back, I run jj new <revision>, which creates an empty revision on top of it. This means that if I’m not done with the revision, I have to keep running jj squash to move changes into it.
gecko on Lobste.rs pointed out that you can check out a revision directly with jj edit <revision>. Thanks!

Why it works for me

A week ago, I removed jj from my website’s repository, to see if I’d miss it. I added it back the same day. Jujutsu feels lighter than git, while at the same time giving you a full overview of what’s in-flight right now². Having no staging area means I only need to worry about revisions (see caveat above).

If trying new things sounds fun to you, give Jujutsu a spin!

Further reading

• Official Jujutsu Tutorial
• Comparison with Git
• Steve’s Jujutsu Tutorial
• Chris Krycho’s jj init essay
• Chris Krycho’s video on jj

1. What’s cool about a jj change, is that updating it doesn’t change its ID. ↩

2. If you work in large projects with many contributors, you can tune your jj log to only your revisions. ↩

Krystal and Saagar discuss Arab Americans refuse Kamala, Scahill confronts MSNBC on Gaza, Sinwar video released, Israel preps Iran strike. 

To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show AD FREE, uncut and 1 hour early visit: www.breakingpoints.com

Merch Store: https://shop.breakingpoints.com/

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Journalist Gareth Gore investigates the finances and political influence of the conservative Catholic order, Opus Dei. 

Matt and Daniel are joined by Katie Halper (The Katie Halper Show, Useful Idiots) to cover the tragic killing of Aysengur Eygi by an IDF sniper, the difficulty in extracting a straight answer from the US State Department, and the Israeli tween publicity corps.

Please donate to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund.

Subscribe to the Patreon

Subscribe/listen to Bad Hasbara wherever you get your podcasts.

Israel is trying to invade Lebanon while carpet bombing large swaths of the country. But so far, Hezbollah has demonstrated it is still a strong resistance force despite some recent setbacks. What comes next?  

To discuss this and more, Rania Khalek is joined by veteran war correspondent and analyst Elijah Magnier for a special live episode of Dispatches.  

HELP THE SHOW BY TAKING THE AUDIENCE SURVEY, PLEASE! http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=2QI_qFPHzCDZ&ver=standard

This here is a PATREON TEASER! Matt and Daniel sat down with Will Menaker of Chapo Trap House and Movie Mindset for a nearly 2-hour episode. We've got an hour for you here, and you can join the Patreon for 55 minutes of bonus content from this interview. 

In this episode Matt and Daniel guide Will through the Biden-Harris PR plan, the shameful questioning of Ta-Nehisi Coates by double-circumcisee Tony Dokoupil, and the Israel-Klingon connection.

Please donate to Mercy Corps: https://www.mercycorps.org/

Ryan and Emily sit down with NYTimes' Ezra Klein.

To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show AD FREE, uncut and 1 hour early visit: www.breakingpoints.com

Merch Store: https://shop.breakingpoints.com/

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I am of course using org mode for organizing my tasks, notes and other paraphernalia.

In addition, I generate static web pages from org using hugo, with each org heading representing a single post.

I often find myself needing to refer to files stored in a directory, especially image files that can be org embedded and then passed through to Hugo by the ox-hugo package.

Navigating to the file and manually generating the appropriate org link can be just a little cumbersome - to initially pick up the file name and then insert the relevant org attributes.

dired-copy-filename-as-kill is a function I often use in dired, which copies the filename under point. I can then use something like tempel to insert the attributes. However, while the combination of copying the filename in dired and then remembering the tempel shortcode is quite efficient, I think this could be accomplished more cleanly with some Elisp and a dired-mode mapping.

Here is a typical embedded image form, which restricts the image within the org document to 300 pixels and to 100% width when exported through hugo to my web site.

#+attr_org: :width 300px
#+attr_html: :width 100%
[[file:emacs/20240918111443-emacs--Transforming-Dired-File-Paths-into-Org-Links-with-Emacs-Lisp.jpg]]

Lets walk through a custom function, my/dired-file-to-org-link, which transforms the dired file path under cursor/point into an org link and copies it to the kill ring for easy pasting.

(defun my/dired-file-to-org-link ()
  "Transform the file path under the cursor in Dired to an Org mode
link and copy to kill ring."
  (interactive)
  (let ((file-path (dired-get-file-for-visit)))
    (if file-path
        (let* ((relative-path (file-relative-name file-path
                                                  (project-root (project-current t))))
               (org-link (concat "#+attr_org: :width 300px\n"
                                 "#+attr_html: :width 100%\n"
                                 "file:" relative-path "\n")))
          (kill-new org-link)
          (message "Copied to kill ring: %s" org-link))
      (message "No file under the cursor"))))

When my/dired-file-to-org-link is called in a dired buffer, it gets the file path under the point, transforms it into an Org link with specific attributes, and copies the link to the kill ring. This enables you to quickly paste it into your Org file.

I map this to the letter b in the dired-mode mapping, which for me mnemonically refers to (b)log and the b key is not one I currently use in dired.

Note also the use of project.el with the project functions, as I have a project top level defined for my website content, allowing for an easily generated relative path name.

Therefore for example, 20240918111443-emacs--Transforming-Dired-File-Paths-into-Org-Links-with-Emacs-Lisp.jpg from dired in an emacs directory is transformed into :

#+attr_org: :width 300px
#+attr_html: :width 100%
[[file:emacs/20240918111443-emacs--Transforming-Dired-File-Paths-into-Org-Links-with-Emacs-Lisp.jpg]]

This week on The News Quiz the panel unpack Sue Gray's cabinet exit, the arrival of man (and possible Irish Law firm) Morgan McSweeney and James Cleverly pipped at the post.

Written by Geoff Norcott

With additional material by: Cody Dahler, James Farmer, Tom Mayhew and Christina Riggs. Producer: Rajiv Karia Executive Producer: Pete Strauss Production Coordinator: Jodie Charman Sound Editor: Marc Willcox

A BBC Studios Audio Production for Radio 4 An Eco-Audio certified Production

In today's episode Nick and Ciarán look at the German response to the 1 year anniversary of Oct 7th, the arms that come from Europe and go to Israel and how Greta Thunberg must be stopped.

HOW TO SUPPORT US:
https://www.patreon.com/cornerspaeti

HOW TO REACH US:
Corner Späti https://twitter.com/cornerspaeti
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cornerspaeti/
Julia https://twitter.com/KMarxiana
Rob https://twitter.com/leninkraft
Nick
Uma https://twitter.com/umawrnkl
Ciarán https://twitter.com/Ciaranxo

Support Corner Späti

Watch full episodes on Rumble, streamed LIVE 7pm ET.

Become part of our Locals community

- - - 

Follow Glenn:

Twitter

Instagram

Follow System Update: 

Twitter

Instagram

TikTok

Facebook

LinkedIn

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here is a totally rough list of aspects that I came up with to start thinking about how I do personal information/knowledge management and how I want to explore other people's systems.

Quick reflections on my setup:

Israel, with the full backing of the U.S., claims to be massacring civilians in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon in self-defense. Does this have any legal merit? What about the rights of Palestine and Lebanon? To discuss this and more Rania Khalek was joined by longtime human rights lawyer Craig Mokhiber.

This is just part of this episode. The full interview is available for Breakthrough News Members only. Become a member at https://www.Patreon.com/BreakthroughNews to access the full episode and other exclusive content.

Somehow, I missed this great reference to Ron Galloway’s outline for using Org mode to organize a book. Fortunately, Sacha had me covered with her excellent Emacs News.

If you haven’t written a book before, it may be surprising how necessary Galloway’s template is for the actual mechanics of writing a book. Even if you’re organized and divide your book into a main file and separate files for each chapter, you’ll soon discover that you want some place to put notes, log your progress, track your references, and brainstorm ideas.

Every author solves these problems in different ways with different file structures but Org is especially amenable to providing a useful framework for organizing these things.

I wrote my books before I discovered Org mode—or perhaps before it existed—but my structure was essentially the same. The nice thing about Org is that you can access—and work on—all those files from a single top level file.

If you’re writing or considering writing a book, take a look at Galloway’s outline. It’s an excellent starting point for our own project.

Watch the Documentary by Al Jazeera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPE6vbKix6A or at https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish

Watch full episodes on Rumble, streamed LIVE 7pm ET.

Become part of our Locals community

- - - 

Follow Glenn:

Twitter

Instagram

Follow System Update: 

Twitter

Instagram

TikTok

Facebook

LinkedIn

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are on a mission from Beer to Eternity, in this warm and witty new podcast that celebrates new and half-remembered trivia as they try to find entertaining links between random places, people and things.

Could you make your way from The Starship Enterprise to the Air Fryer, armed only with A-Level Economics and a Geography degree? Hugh Dennis is going to have to. While Steve Punt will have to pick his way across Africa, to find what links Machiavelli and Madagascar. Across the series, they’ll be joined by guests including Ken Cheng, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Isy Suttie and Marcus Brigstocke, on a scenic route which takes in Shampoo, The Gruffalo, Watford Gap Services and Yoghurt.

Written and hosted by Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis With Jessica Fostekew Produced by Victoria Lloyd Recorded at Maple St. Creative Mixed by Jonathan Last

A Listen Production for BBC Radio 4

Has your dentist ever told you that it's recommended to get routine dental X-rays every year? My (former) dentist's office did this year—in writing, even. And they claimed that the recommendation came from the American Dental Association.

It's a common refrain from dentists, but it's false. The American Dental Association does not recommend annual routine X-rays. And this is not new; it's been that way for well over a decade.

The association's guidelines from 2012 recommended that adults who don't have an increased risk of dental caries (myself included) need only bitewing X-rays of the back teeth every two to three years. Even people with a higher risk of caries can go as long as 18 months between bitewings. The guidelines also note that X-rays should not be preemptively used to look for problems: "Radiographic screening for the purpose of detecting disease before clinical examination should not be performed," the guidelines read. In other words, dentists are supposed to examine your teeth before they take any X-rays.

Read full article

Comments

Democracy Now! 2024-10-14 Monday

• Headlines for October 14, 2024
• "Under Siege": Hospital Director in N. Gaza Refuses to Leave Patients Amid Israeli Evacuation Orders
• "Every Day Is a Breaking Point": North Gaza Desperate for Medicine, Fuel, Food, Water & Shelter
• "Surrender or Starve": Israel Weighs Plan to Liquidate Northern Gaza as Siege on Jabaliya Intensifies
• Israel Attacks U.N. Peacekeeping Forces as U.S. Sends 100 Troops Anticipating Conflict with Iran

Download this show

Krystal and Saagar discuss Biden sending 100 US Troops to protect Israel, horrific videos of Gazans burned alive after Israel bombed tents around a hospital, Krystal looks into the Trump campaign directing Elon Musk to ban the JD Vance dossier, and Governor Gretchen Whitmer apologizes for her bizarre Dorito video.

To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show AD FREE, uncut and 1 hour early visit: www.breakingpoints.com

Merch Store: https://shop.breakingpoints.com/

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ryan and Emily sit down with Dropsite News' Jeremy Scahill to talk about Jeremy's career, interviewing Hamas, Edward Snowden, Blackwater and more!

Counterpoints Discount for DropSite News: https://dropsitenews.com/counterpoints

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.