- Then: We’re gonna straight up knock you out.
- Now: If we cheap out on the dose, we can guarantee your shot wears off half way through.
blood sucking leeches versus privacy sucking websites …
don’t really have a favorite – started with Thunderbird a long time ago but switched over to webmail fairly early on
now that I’ve started to build a new system, I started to look around at the various options (and maybe getting off webmail or at least having local storage “backup”) – the standard GUI clients (Thunderbird, Evolution, KMail, BlueMail, Mailspring) seem to be … fine – but none of them really stand out
recently stumbled across some nice screenshots of aerc and the idea sounds really appealing, but I’ve never had any contact with terminal email programs and found out they’ve followed a completely different evolutionary path than GUI apps (even terminology has diverged between the two) – GUI apps keep trying to be an all-in-one (email, contacts, calendar, tasks, …) whereas terminal programs almost seem to to favor a “balkanization” of effort – aerc looks like it’s grabbed a middle-ground, you can run it as standalone or go all in with a fully customized setup – problem I’m running into is I can find lots of “how” guides, but very little in the “what” or “why” side of things …
(minor nitpick: change ‘x’ and ‘y’ to what the axes actually are)
“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
—G.K. Chesterton paraphrased by Neil Gaiman, “The Red Angel”, Tremendous Trifles (1909)
“The real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development.”
—Albert Einstein, “Why Socialism”, Monthly Review (1949-05)
“Copyright should protect the artist, not the publisher.”
nano -m <file>
or set mouse
in your nanorc
and sometimes you just need a text editor, not an entire thesaurus
Mark V. Shaney did nothing wrong!
Besides, what are we going to do, not develop it? Just abandon the whole technology? That’s nonsense.
The tech industry will happily abandon it as soon as the next hype train comes along – we’ve already seen it happen with multiple “innovations” – dotcom, subprime, crypto, NFTs …
”Labor Day – the day we celebrate all those who can’t afford to take the day off.”
any chance we can get UAW to stage a hostile takeover?