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Re:Patch runs ed, and ed can run anything by VMG on Thursday April 05, 2018 @05:01PM (#16768748)
Ironic considering he writes from an offline PC these days and does not own a mobile phone AFAIK
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Re:Patch runs ed, and ed can run anything by Slansitartop on Thursday April 05, 2018 @05:04PM (#16768760)
His reasons for doing that aren't related to security, but rather wanting Free Software purity.

Also I don't think his PC is "offline," but rather he does weird things like reading web pages via a script that scrapes the text and emails it to him.

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Re:Patch runs ed, and ed can run anything by 0x445442 on Thursday April 05, 2018 @05:30PM (#16768932)
That's not that weird. In fact, I remember there use to be a service called rss2email or something like that.
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Re:Patch runs ed, and ed can run anything by cyphar on Friday April 06, 2018 @05:57AM (#16772106)
I've actually emailed him about the topic of free software mobile phones. He is against them entirely, even if one was completely free software, because by design they track you using cell towers. He said that if he needs to use a phone he uses land-lines.

I can pull up the email if you like. He's a pretty reasonable guy if you ask him a question, and is surprisingly responsive.

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