Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 11:34:24 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <8a7e56c9-779d-2250-2e9c-6dd67af88570@example.net> References: <67b21894$14$17$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <67b4fc88@news.ausics.net> <67b659f8@news.ausics.net> <87mseggwo1.fsf@example.com> <87frk8drdb.fsf@example.com> <2d9b3f1c-c742-e47f-84cf-599e01f9a044@example.net> <87ikp02i0x.fsf@example.com> <87msebw9sa.fsf@example.com> <87a5aau8bz.fsf@example.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="1700258"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; In-Reply-To: <87a5aau8bz.fsf@example.com> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:26669 On Mon, 24 Feb 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote: >> So if fdm can download the files in a nice spool folder format, I >> might even be able to apply my small python script to copy the news >> posting into Maildir folders, and there I can read, and alpine then >> posts. > > I'm sure fdm can download and write them to a Maildir: it's how I use > it. Oh, that might even make my python script redundant! This gets more interesting by the minute! >> Go is the next on my list. What is it that makes you like lisp so >> much? I have never considered it, so I am curious. Doesn't it wear out >> the () keys on your keyboard? ;) > > Lol. [L]ots of [S]tupid, [I]rritating [P]arenthesis. > > Have you ever used paredit-mode in the GNU EMACS? It makes you love the > parenthesis. You're a vim user, so you likely never heard of paredit. > If you have the energy, the time and the curiosity, you could watch a > 3-minute demo at > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6h5dFyyUX0 > > A few seconds will be enough to get the spirit, but I don't care if you > watch it---just skip it. Never heard of. It was a bit too quick, so I'm still not quite sure what it does. Some of that jumping around can be achieved in vim, but since I'm not familiar with lisp nor with exactly what he was doing, it is difficult to say. > It's a pleasure to use paredit-mode. Let me quote Donald Norman. I'm > gonna show a larger quote, but my point here is on pleasure of use and a > ``feeling of control''. This is true. I like the idea that everything is a file, and that log files are plain text. It increases my feeling of control over the system. That is why I do not like systemd. It moves away from this philosophy and frankly, I still have not experienced anything that I need systemd for, that could not have been solved without it. Sad!