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embark-org file missing in straight build

embark-org.el file missing This issue is a repeat1 of an old, closed one. because I cannot re-open that issue. I have tried the fixes mentioned there and more, but to no avail. What’s wrong when straight builds the embark package, it omits the embark-org.el file which is present in its embark repository directory. This results in blocking errors as I have things that depend upon functions from embark-org. Directions to reproduce (use-package embark)

guix pull: error: Git error: the SSL certificate is invalid

Intro I am trying to ease my way into GUIX by starting with just using it as a package manager, but my effort was stalled early. I’m getting: $ guix pull Updating channel ‘nonguix’ from Git repository at ‘https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix'… guix pull: error: Git error: the SSL certificate is invalid This is occurring after adding a couple to channels.scm: (cons* (channel (name 'nonguix) (url "https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix") (introduction (make-channel-introduction "897c1a470da759236cc11798f4e0a5f7d4d59fbc" (openpgp-fingerprint "2A39 3FFF 68F4 EF7A 3D29 12AF 6F51 20A0 22FB B2D5")))) (channel (name 'flat) (url "https://github.

gmail pop3 suddenly broken for getmail

For years I’ve been using pop3 to collect my gmails, without problem. However, since yesterday it is failing. I use getmail and have made no changes since originally getting it working. When I use getmail -vvv I get the following error: Retrieval error: server for SimplePOP3SSLRetriever:recent:«myaddress>@gmail.com@pop.gmail.com:995 is broken; offered message GmailId1718e4039279f0fe but failed to provide it. Please notify the administrator of the server. Skipping message… I don’t see any notification of recent changes, but my mail client is devoid of gmail functionality now.

movemail: mailbox (file) cannot lock: Conflict with previous locker

I receive an error when something somewhere crashed, and couldn’t get my mail into emacs Gnus with the following error: movemail: mailbox `/var/spool/mail/webdevtory’: cannot lock: Conflict with previous locker (1 return). Continue? (y or n) Continuing was useless (didn’t show my new mail), restarting the whole machine didn’t work. So just go to the directory and delete the .lock file in there. Back to health.

Getting Twitter Media gif/videos to work

I was receiving the error “We cannot play the video in this browser. Please try a different web browser.” I noticed they worked in Chrome but not Firefox; in my experience this is because Firefox has some additional protections against non-free software that CHrome doesn’t care about. I identified that my browser was missing some codecs checking youtube and spotting the red-boxes under “what does this browser support?” Looking around I found this solution.