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Rocksolid Light (rslight) is a web based Usenet client. https://github.com/novabbs/rocksolid-light

Interesting, thanks! Reminds me of the long gone Syme project, cf. https://github.com/symeapp/syme

I wish Firefox could render AsciiDoc, MarkDown etc. natively. There are extensions, though, e.g. https://github.com/simov/markdown-viewer

Following an inline link on Wikipedia I know what to expect, basically a definition of the linked concept. External links on the other hand I consider more like footnotes at the en…

No inline links encourages a more legible writing style. What if Wikipedia had external links all over? > External links normally should not be placed in the body of an article. ht…

Thunderbird is about to get native CardDAV support, currently available in Beta via Config mail.addr_book.useNewAddressBook set to true.

FWIW, for some accounts I use a second profile via `thunderbird --new-instance`.

On GNU/Linux Thunderbird ist my favourite GUI mail client, offering support for a variety of standards, including e.g. CalDAV (CardDAV in Beta), OpenPGP and S/MIME. Not sure whethe…

Reminds me of Rob Hart's 2019 dystopian novel "The Warehouse", which seems to be quite popular on Amazon, too. https://robwhart.com/the-warehouse/

Feed reader support for JSONFeed (Brent Simmons and Manton Reece, jsonfeed.org) is quite unclear at the moment; maybe only iOS Reeder apart from NetNewsWire? It's a pity, as Web fe…

Dan Luu recently measured latency of computers of the past, keyboards, terminals. See posts listed on https://danluu.com/ https://danluu.com/input-lag/ https://danluu.com/keyboard-…

Can't find the source, but vaguely remember this line from a Usenet or mailing list post, maybe by Tim Bray: The lack of in XML is a crime against humanity.

https://quicksy.im/ – a spin-off of the popular Jabber/XMPP client Conversations with automatic contact discovery. > Even if you are not a Quicksy user you can enter your Jabber ID…

Usenet, IRC, RSS, XMPP, ... Well, still rockin'

There's the rub. Many distributions hardly add any substance, yet the topic is so popular.

Good point, at least i3 or sway don't do their own distributions – afaik.

Kindle Oasis 6" is still the lightest (without case, that is). The now available firmware 5.8.11 offers more font weights. Supposedly, also audio via bluetooth will be available. […

Could that be a plugin to Thunderbird?

Thanks! Not using Gmail myself, but maybe people using mixmax.com for deferred mails don't mind a pointer towards this non-intrusive alternative.

Nice. Reminds me of ranger's bulkrename: https://github.com/ranger/ranger/wiki/Official-user-guide#bu...

Thanks!