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Rocksolid Light (rslight) is a web based Usenet client. https://github.com/novabbs/rocksolid-light

Interesting, thanks! Reminds me of the long gone Syme project, cf. https://github.com/symeapp/syme

I wish Firefox could render AsciiDoc, MarkDown etc. natively. There are extensions, though, e.g. https://github.com/simov/markdown-viewer

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 all over have a look at the 1999 website a-blast.org / assoziations-blaster.de

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/Wikipedia:External_links

Thunderbird is about to get native CardDAV support, currently available in Beta via Config mail.addr_book.useNewAddressBook set to true.

FWIW, for some accounts I use a second profile via `thunderbird --new-instance`.

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 Google Talk, IRC, Odnoklassniki, and XMPP (Twitter finally gone). Support for Usenet News is appreciated, though I enjoy Pan.

On GNU/Linux I thus consider GNOME Evolution as best alternative. (Haven't looked at the KDE suite for some time with Akonadi being too heavy last time I tried it on my simple machine.) Neither Claws, Geary, Sylpheed, or others offer such broad support, although those are very nice GUI clients.

Further alternatives are listed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_email_client

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/

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 – an even more simple format with one entry per JSON feed line (admittedly with redundancy across lines) would have been great, too.

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-latency/

https://danluu.com/term-latency/

https://danluu.com/latency-mitigation/

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.

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 give Quicksy users the ability to automatically discover you based on your phone number. This lets you enjoy the privacy-friendly, federated nature of Jabber/XMPP while giving your less tech-savvy friends a low barrier entry into that world

// not affiliated; saw this recently, like the idea.

Usenet, IRC, RSS, XMPP, ... Well, still rockin'

There's the rub. Many distributions hardly add any substance, yet the topic is so popular.

Good point, at least i3 or sway don't do their own distributions – afaik.

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]

Could that be a plugin to Thunderbird?

Thanks! Not using Gmail myself, but maybe people using mixmax.com for deferred mails don't mind a pointer towards this non-intrusive alternative.

Nice. Reminds me of ranger's bulkrename: https://github.com/ranger/ranger/wiki/Official-user-guide#bu...

Thanks!

Watson reminds me of Timewarrior. https://taskwarrior.org/docs/timewarrior/

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 email address, your Gmail emails and other conversations, and your Gmail contact list [...] We may anonymize your Personal Information so that you are not individually identified, and provide that information to our partners.

https://mixmax.com/privacy.html https://mixpanel.com/privacy/

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')
  source=("http://download.fman.io/fman.deb")
  sha256sums=('SKIP')
  package() {
    tar xzvf "$srcdir/data.tar.gz" -C "$pkgdir/"
  }

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, though.