So close on mutt! :)

I have it set up so that it autoconverts all HTML messages to plain text as best as it can. If it’s not good enough, I have a macro set up to launch the HTML version in Firefox so it’s usable. (None of the images come through, which is potentially a feature.)

I did look into writing HTML mail with mutt, and it’s even uglier than reading. The gist of it is to basically have a wrapper script that launches some kind of HTML editor, then builds the multipart message (maybe autoconverting HTML to text so you can have both) and headers, then launches mutt -H email.txt to prepare to send it. If it looks good, send it from Mutt as normal. I don’t know how well this would work with attached inline images, but it sounds potentially quite painful.

But I don’t regularly send HTML messages, so I haven’t bothered with that route. I’d just bring up TB if I had to.

(I can say, for me, since I went back to mutt, I’m happier with email than I’ve been for decades. And my RAM is happier, too. But I probably spent 20 hours configuring it. And everyone probably hates my preformatted text. They get back at me by sending 30 MB HTML-only mails. 🤣)

The absolute best thing about it was that after suffering under Microsoft’s shitty operating systems for years, you were running a Unix-like on your own hardware. That part was amazing.

I built soooo many kernels. 😅

Another disinformation paradise. Go for it.

Oh, the things I’m going to create under the X logo…

Trump blinks again.

Musk running illegal generators at his A1 farm… Coincidence?

To the rich, fines are just fees.

Whoever wrote that code is definitely the right team to rewrite social security.

I love TB, but I also love simplicity. I just configured mutt (which I haven’t used in 20 years) and love how fast and easy it is. Of course, it took me days to get it where I needed it, but using it reminded me of how bloated these other apps can get after years of additions.

Glad to hear about the mail service.

FML. This reminds me I just got trn to built for reading Usenet. I’m reverting.

Love it. I played so many of these games in the 80s. Makes me a nostalgic for a simpler time.

There are real risks with relying on a private company, owned by Elon Musk, as a channel for communications

Damn right. Time to fire up a mastodon instance.

I should have been more specific that this was a Pixel. Does your phone have a way to accomplish the same thing?

Agree. Did Google not kiss Trump’s ass enough? Is that why they’re still going after them?

On Android, hold the power button until the menu shows up, them choose “lockdown”. The next unlock will require a PIN.

Rust has some big binaries due to static linkage, and the Rust coreutils gets around this Busybox-style, compiling everything into one binary that you hard link to. Pretty neat. The project is easy to build and mess with without installing if you’re curious about it. And you could add the build dir to the front of your path if you want to try it out with low risk.

I noticed this on my web logs earlier. Couldn’t believe how popular I was until I saw “AI” in the user agent string for 90% of the his.

Why would you give a machine money?

To be clear, you’d give the company that owns the machine money.

Just use the generation tools yourself and then you have the copyright.

Except that it sounds like no, you wouldn’t by this court case, right?

it’s just worthless AI slop.

I agree. :)

I’m following 42 hashtags, a bunch of science, teaching, and programming stuff, mostly (I’m a CS instructor). But also things like #trains. :) And the state and city I live in.