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by gnuarch 3y ago
Rocksolid Light (rslight) is a web based Usenet client. https://github.com/novabbs/rocksolid-light
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by gnuarch 5y ago
Interesting, thanks! Reminds me of the long gone Syme project, cf. https://github.com/symeapp/syme
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by gnuarch 5y ago
I wish Firefox could render AsciiDoc, MarkDown etc. natively. There are extensions, though, e.g. https://github.com/simov/markdown-viewer
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by gnuarch 5y ago
Following an inline link on Wikipedia I know what to expect, basically a definition of the linked concept. External links on the other hand I consider more like footnotes at the end of a book chapter or an article. Regarding inline links al
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by gnuarch 5y ago
No inline links encourages a more legible writing style. What if Wikipedia had external links all over? > External links normally should not be placed in the body of an article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedi
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by gnuarch 5y ago
Thunderbird is about to get native CardDAV support, currently available in Beta via Config mail.addr_book.useNewAddressBook set to true.
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by gnuarch 5y ago
FWIW, for some accounts I use a second profile via `thunderbird --new-instance`.
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by gnuarch 5y ago
On GNU/Linux Thunderbird ist my favourite GUI mail client, offering support for a variety of standards, including e.g. CalDAV (CardDAV in Beta), OpenPGP and S/MIME. Not sure whether Chat should be part of it, currently offering Go
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by gnuarch 5y ago
Reminds me of Rob Hart's 2019 dystopian novel "The Warehouse", which seems to be quite popular on Amazon, too. https://robwhart.com/the-warehouse/
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by gnuarch 7y ago
Feed reader support for JSONFeed (Brent Simmons and Manton Reece, jsonfeed.org) is quite unclear at the moment; maybe only iOS Reeder apart from NetNewsWire? It's a pity, as Web feeds in JSON can be produced in a more ad-hoc fashion –
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by gnuarch 7y ago
Dan Luu recently measured latency of computers of the past, keyboards, terminals. See posts listed on https://danluu.com/ https://danluu.com/input-lag/ https://danluu.com/keyboard-laten
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by gnuarch 7y ago
Can't find the source, but vaguely remember this line from a Usenet or mailing list post, maybe by Tim Bray: The lack of </> in XML is a crime against humanity.
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by gnuarch 7y ago
https://quicksy.im/ – a spin-off of the popular Jabber/XMPP client Conversations with automatic contact discovery. > Even if you are not a Quicksy user you can enter your Jabber ID into the Quicksy Directory and giv
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Lazy Consensus · Open Source Software and Strategies (OSS) Wiki(en.osswiki.info)
1 points by gnuarch 7y ago|0 comments
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by gnuarch 7y ago
Usenet, IRC, RSS, XMPP, ... Well, still rockin'
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by gnuarch 8y ago
There's the rub. Many distributions hardly add any substance, yet the topic is so popular.
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by gnuarch 8y ago
Good point, at least i3 or sway don't do their own distributions – afaik.
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Wasted Creativity in the GNU/Linux Distribution Diversity(write.as)
36 points by gnuarch 8y ago|43 comments
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by gnuarch 9y ago
Kindle Oasis 6" is still the lightest (without case, that is). The now available firmware 5.8.11 offers more font weights. Supposedly, also audio via bluetooth will be available. [fixed typo]
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Announcing Gutenberg, a static site engine (2017-03-25)(vincent.is)
2 points by gnuarch 9y ago|0 comments
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Discourse plugin to keep NNTP and Discourse in sync(github.com)
1 points by gnuarch 9y ago|0 comments
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by gnuarch 9y ago
Could that be a plugin to Thunderbird?
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by gnuarch 9y ago
Thanks! Not using Gmail myself, but maybe people using mixmax.com for deferred mails don't mind a pointer towards this non-intrusive alternative.
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by gnuarch 9y ago
Nice. Reminds me of ranger's bulkrename: https://github.com/ranger/ranger/wiki/Official-user-guide#bu...
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by gnuarch 9y ago
Thanks!
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by gnuarch 9y ago
Watson reminds me of Timewarrior. https://taskwarrior.org/docs/timewarrior/
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Ask HN: Podcast about last week's HN stories
1 points by gnuarch 9y ago|0 comments
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by gnuarch 9y ago
What do you guys think of Mixmax? Heard of people liking their service for making appointments within Gmail, and e.g. receiving read receipts. From their privacy policy: > [...] Mixmax may securely access or store your name, your Gmail e
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by gnuarch 10y ago
Should this PKGBUILD work? pkgname=fman-bin pkgver=0.3.0 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="A modern file manager for power users" arch=('x86_64') url="https://fman.io/" license=('Proprietary
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by gnuarch 10y ago
It sounds like a simple blog platform for blog posts with short content and no title only, including syndication (RSS/atom) and some subscription functionality. Details are discussed in a not so Open Web Slack channel for backers only,

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