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

On Mon, 24 Feb 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:

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On Sun, 23 Feb 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:
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D <nospam@example.net> writes:
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On Thu, 20 Feb 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:
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Now... do you seriously think anyone would ever be interested in that? ;)

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LOL!  It turns out I'm *highly* interested in your leafnode.  Please,
can you put a package somewhere and let me look at it, try it out et
cetera?  I've been thinking about doing something like that myself.  I
can probably just live with your changes.

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Of course!
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Please grab a copy here:
https://send.vis.ee/download/749384a5de2f4f33/#6ZgrL_j_qwmhqBNuXenoJA

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Thanks!  Got the package and unpacked it fine.  By the way, fdm is
already pulling my mail and I know it's able to download NNTP articles
too, so chances are it can do what leafnode has been doing for you.
I'll keep you posted.  Thanks very much for providing the package.

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Really?? I had no idea! Maybe I can scrap my leafnode setup then and
move to fdm? I think fdm (well I guess, I haven't actually checked)
might be more minimal even than leafnode, so thank you for the
pointer! I will definitely have to check out the fdm manual today! =)

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Precisely---fdm is minimal.  The reason I am not yet setting it up for
news is because fdm all by itself is not enough.  You need to reply to
articles and fdm will not send articles out for you.  It will only
download'em, so you can read them.  (I assume this.  I haven't tried
it.)

Sounds perfect for my needs. Alpine, my email client, has built in news functionality. The thing is that you can activate it by turning on "rich headers" and if you do that a Newgrp: field pops up. If you fill in the newsgroup there, alpine then magically takes care of posting it to the group.
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.

So for fdm to work with Gnus, say, (which is what I use), Gnus will need
to somehow know to which NNTP server to post my follow-ups.  If I use
Gnus in its traditional sense, then this work is already done.  If I
change to fdm, Gnus will likely see all messages as mail.  So it's not a
complete solution.  It's a hacker thing.  It always takes various
modules and need to work together to work.  It's the price we pay.

True!

And by now I am willing to write a new one from scratch, so I intend to
make leafnode obsolete as well.

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Best of luck! =) Sounds like a nice project!

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It is. :) It's the most fun I've ever had with programming.  I think
Common Lisp is a big part of it.  I tried Racket before Common Lisp.
Common Lisp is so much my way than Racket is.

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? ;)