d@nny disc@ mc²Mar 21

unrelated to anything but

searching for anything at all emacs intro related brings up a lot of people with very flashy css and incredible SEO telling you yeah here's what someone said on reddit. that's how emacs works we just follow instructions we don't understand

https://f-santos.gitlab.io/2020-04-24-mu4e.html

yeah you gotta use this tool. i assume you're using arch linux, because you like following instructions that aren't explained to you.

first thing about email on emacs: install openssl from arch linux repos. everyone knows this

First, you should install SSL development libraries,
sudo pacman -S openssl

i will grant this is some seriously snazzy css. but those are not the "SSL development libraries"

and also citing your sources at the top with the "install openssl using sudo" is the precise inverse of how to wield snazzy css

if it wasn't literally arch linux openssl (red links are debatably kinda cool) and the code block that announces "Shell Script" -- sir that is not a script

Reading and sending mails from within Emacs: a tutorial for mu4e

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i like that it's uncomfortable to know what to call shell shit
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cause it's used in really distinct ways! it has identities!
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every github clone is a liability now which is cool. it's now a local liability
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OMG NVM VIBES OFF THE CHARTS https://www.djcbsoftware.nl/about.html

If you have no idea what a PGP-key is, then this is as good a time as any to learn about it!

I APOLOGIZE SIR

djcbsoftware

djcbsoftware dirk-jan binnema software

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@hipsterelectron i very deeply wish that we had made pgp and local email really easy and awesome to use instead of the privacy-theatre that is proton et al.
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@emenel well so email is an IETF spec so that was never going to happen. let's not blame ourselves here
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@emenel hey guess what the worst parsing code i've ever seen for a text format is used for
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@emenel you're like oh https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/email/parser.py that's not bad

yeah hey what's this underscored file

cpython/Lib/email/parser.py at main · python/cpython

The Python programming language. Contribute to python/cpython development by creating an account on GitHub.

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@emenel https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/email/_header_value_parser.py
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@hipsterelectron wheee!
Mar 21 at 8:53pmWeb
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@emenel we can do better!

oh wow last month! https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/0f7cd5544a4dd1d7cf892c93c661510d619caaa7

gh-144156: Fix email header folding concatenating encoded words (#144… · python/cpython@0f7cd55

…692) The fix for gh-92081 (gh-92281) was unfortunately flawed, and broke whitespace handling for encoded word patterns that had previously been working correctly but had no corresponding tests, u...

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@emenel https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/reference/installation-report/ json is ok. i accept it
Installation Report - pip documentation v26.1.dev0

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@emenel i will stop now but these processes are occurring actively and there is no engineering decision making happening. in particular the PEP process is a sham of democracy. i think we can avoid this