Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy

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.

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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? ;)

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Lol.  [L]ots of [S]tupid, [I]rritating [P]arenthesis.
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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
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6h5dFyyUX0
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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!