Large free software is not real free software. To customize one's software to one's needs, one has to understand it, tweak it and improve it. Bloated large free software does none.
Almost all GNU software is like that. It is unfortunate but one of the key reasons why GNU software survives is because it makes users dependent on it without allowing to shift to other software. Like gcc and linux.
Thanking you
Sagar Acharya
https://humaaraartha.in
1 Jul 2023, 12:05 by dormouse_AT_plch.xyz:
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 03:50:20PM -0400, fossy_AT_dnmx.org wrote:
>
>> > On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 11:14:56AM -0400, fossy_AT_dnmx.org wrote:
>> > > > Hey, Fossy,
>> > > >
>> > > > please be mindful of how you style your e-mails, when there is a quoted
>> > > > text, it is necessary to have an 'arrow' [>] at the start of each line,
>> > > > otherwise it is not considered a quoted text. For example, this part:
>> > > >
>> > > > > > I don't think anyone is shocked by your messages. They just come
>> off as
>> > > > > crass. Imagine going to a conference in real life and one of the
>> > > > > speakers goes on a 10 min rant filled with swearing and irrelevant
>> > > > > material halfway through his talk. Some people might be offended.
>> Most
>> > > > > would be thinking "why am I wasting my time on this idiot?".
>> > > >
>> > > > means that only the first line is from the e-mail you have responded
>> to,
>> > > > the other four are from your very own keyboard (quoted in this case
>> > > > because I am responding to that text).
>> > > >
>> > > > It's not a super huge deal, but it can mess up for example my
>> highliting
>> > > > in neomutt and could confuse some threading in different mailing
>> clients.
>> > > >
>> > > > To see the messed up highlight, see attached image.
>> > > >
>> > > > Have a good one.
>> > > > --
>> > > > # Marcel Plch
>> > > >
>> > > > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail
>> > > > /\ - against proprietary attachments
>> > > >
>> > > > ## What is that .asc attachment on my e-mails?
>> > > >
>> > > > * https://gnupg.org/
>> > > >
>> > > > ## Contact:
>> > > >
>> > > > * Website: https://plch.xyz
>> > > > * Gitea: https://gitea.plch.xyz/dormouse
>> > > > * Matrix: _AT_dormouse:matrix.org
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Hi!
>> > >
>> > > Alright..
>> > > I did know it looked weird, but I thought it was fine because I use a
>> dodgy
>> > > "dark-net" e-mail provider anyways, so the lining looked weird..
>> > >
>> > > So how I do it is download the file (don't bother copy-pasting, new-line
>> > > doesn't get included so everything just gets joined in one line), and
>> then
>> > > do a
>> > > pipe to `sed 's/^/> /'`.
>> > > I format my lines to 79c if it matters.
>> > >
>> > > But I think everything breaks on the e-mail client in the browser...
>> after
>> > > all,
>> > > I don't support ShitScripts in browsers, not have it enabled.
>> > >
>> > > I'll play a bit with e-mail web-site settings and see if that helps.
>> > >
>> > > Thanks for pointing it out, I do care how I look (starting from yesterday
>> > > :P).
>> > >
>> > > EDIT: Ah, I know what happens.. I need to somehow get sed to split lines
>> > > into multiple ones before appending the '> '.. because the e-mail client
>> > > also splits them above 76 or something like that.. cool client, but fucks
>> > > up shit like this.
>> > >
>> > > Any command or rather utility to do that? I'm looking at either sed with
>> > > brackets somehow, or probably something like `split`, `tr`? :/
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>> > Just get a better e-mail provider. dnmx is cool when you need top-notch
>> > anonymity, but this is just a regular dev forum.
>>
>> I deny non-top-notch anonymity not only because I consider it
>> immoral/unfair to
>> myself, but also because my life depends on it.
>> I've said/made/shared things with solid logic/linked evidence that puts
>> governments and/or corporations in ugliest/darkest/evilest of lights, if that
>> makes sense.. as well as done a few fun things such as denying the law
>> manipulation over my life :).
>>
> Haha, understandable. Thanks for everyone affected by the ugly stuff.
>
>> > I host my own and stuff works fine. (Dovecot, fetchmail, neomutt)
>>
>> I am considering running my own suckless e-mail server, but only and only
>> after
>> I make my computers go trough a router/firewall rules to be 100% sure
>> there are
>> no clear-net leaks possible :-).
>>
>> I heard that e-mail software is usually ultra-complex?
>> How hard can it be?
>> suckless.org has 'Mail clients', but I see no 'Mail servers'. What is
>> recommended?
>>
> Dovecot is nice, not sure if suckless. I love suckless philosophy, but
> don't solely rely on it, I just don't mind larger 'bloated' programs if
> they do one job well with little footprint. Dovecot's rather easy to
> configure with TLS enforcing, open-DKIM, stuff like that. That's clear web
> tho but you always need a clear web exit-node if you really want to reach
> people.
>
>> > Vim has a nice feature for formatting text, you just visually select block
>> > of text, press Gq and all text is <80c per line. Neomutt even passes some
>> > argument to vim so that it trims lines automatically.
>>
>> Vim is also bloated as hell at over 700000 SLOC (including comments and
>> everything, wc -l).. I'd rather just use pre-installed `vi`..
>> I did use Vim in the past. I do miss it, that's why I started my own text
>> editor that will be (I hope) as minimalistic as Vi, but as functional as Vim.
>> I seen there's vim-tiny or something? But I don't trust it to be suckless.
>>
>>
>> > It's fairly easy to get really frustrated without even realizing it if
>> > things just don't work and you keep to work around them all the time.
>>
>> Pretty much my life :) (there eye problem I have for >1year).
>> I miss programming and feeling like a god creating my little, meaningful
>> universe.
>>
>>
>> > * Website: https://plch.xyz
>>
>> Damn, you look chill. Share that calmness immediately!
>> I love people having their own web-sites, especially when they self-host,
>> especiallyx2 if it's over a holy-net(such as I2P)
>>
>>
> There will be an I2P mirror, it just takes time I don't want to put in to
> maintain.
>
> The server needs software maintenance bottom-up, so I'll probably delay it
> after OS migration and I still have quite some time before EOL of critical
> stuff. As long as I have security updates I'm fine with it.
>
> Not to mention I want to expand the website itself and I'm still coming up
> with ideas.
>
> --
> # Marcel Plch
>
> () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail
> /\ - against proprietary attachments
>
> ## What is that .asc attachment on my e-mails?
>
> * https://gnupg.org/
>
> ## Contact:
>
> * Website: https://plch.xyz
> * Gitea: https://gitea.plch.xyz/dormouse
> * Matrix: _AT_dormouse:matrix.org
>
Received on Sat Jul 01 2023 - 09:28:18 CEST