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  • snowcrash1 year, 6 months ago | link | | source

    Well, it's not like I'm a great fan of slrn either (and not a great fan of s-lang in general); it's visibly burdened by a significant amount of obsolete features, standards, behaviors, configuration options and overall keeps quite a conservative approach, even at the cost of compromising usability. Nevertheless, it's the only command-line client I'm aware of which support NNTP over SSL, emacs + gnus aside, and that's my main reason for using it. I do most of my mailing / usenet posting remotely, on public shells (namely SDF), so mutt and slrn are tools I slowly became accustomed to, in lack of a better replacement.

  • snowcrash1 year, 6 months ago | link | | source

    Glad you got it working right, well done! I just tested it and can confirm it's working, saved a screenshot here.

    I was able to to authenticate using my credentials and verified I was allowed to post. Attempting to follow up on threads resulted in slrn spawning mutt to reply, so I suppose reply-to is the standard method to post comments (via mail, through a smtp -> http gateway)?

    I noticed it's a bit slow at getting headers, so being able to download articles to a local spool (e.g. via slrnpull) would be a good option, but I wonder if other users would be ok with that. Cheers!

  • snowcrash1 year, 7 months ago | link | | source

    This is an extremely interesting read even for somebody with no background knowledge in the field (that is me). Thanks for sharing

  • snowcrash1 year, 7 months ago | link | | source

    This article is so on-spot and concisely written. I concur with you, that's an extremely common problem but I suspect hardly anybody recognizes its very existence, much less its impact on communication. When replying to a technical question on a topic we feel knowledgeable about, it's easy to fall for the temptation of showing off without actually thinking whether out contribution is of any actual support

  • Potential Key mechanism behind synapse degeneration in Alzheimer’s brain discovered advances.sciencemag.org
    • cognitive science
    • health
    • pharmaceuticals
    via snowcrash 1 year, 7 months ago | archived | 0 comments
  • snowcrash1 year, 7 months ago | link | | source

    Unfortunately I'm quite rusty now, at best. Haven't practiced in years. Sometimes, when I'm mood for jokes, I reply to people in Latin (simple sentences), but I'm far from being capable to actually speak it as I used to be

  • snowcrash1 year, 7 months ago | link | | source

    Thanks, this brought me 10 years back. During my high school days(1) I fell in love with Latin and Greek to the point I would spend half of my spare time on a online platform called 'Splash Latino'(2) translating homework for people I didn't know. At some point I was writing my notes in Latin. Oh the memories, I miss those days.

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    • 1 I attended an Italian 'Liceo Classico MaxiSperimentale', with a primary focus on humanistic subjects + a supplement in physics, law and computer science...yes we studied a lot, but it was fun!

    • 2 https://www.latin.it/

  • Arc of life: Peter Singer iai.tv
    • ethics
    • identity
    • philosophy
    • politics
    • science
    via snowcrash 1 year, 7 months ago | archived | 0 comments
  • snowcrash1 year, 7 months ago | link | | source

    I'll recommend also Between Past and Future and Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. Arendt is not properly an historian but a political theorist, so history itself represents for her the background on which she bases a broader and timeless philosophical and anthropological debate

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