FailForward @FailForward@social.cleverlibre.org

@mathias Oh, I forgot, in the taskwarrior ecosystem, I found `vit` a very exciting project. I later abandoned it, but it's good and promising.

@mathias re other cli tools: I'd say: don't push it too much. After two decades of living in and playing with these setups, my personal conclusion is that some things are simply better in windows-like UI, so I invest in integration of CLI/terminal tools (mutt, vim, etc.) with desktop apps, rather than pushing the cli experience to useless places. What I care a lot for, though, is that my storage formats are portable (maildirs instead of mailbox, markdown instead of anything else, WebDAV/CalDAV etc. for sync, rather than proprietary stuff, etc.)

But to answer the question:
* neomutt gives you mailbox search capabilities. For that I use old `mairix` (+`cron` indexing every night), not perfect but still works for me
* for todo lists and tasks management from CLI, you might want to check taskwarrior, but I personally go Seamonkey+Lightning way
* for passwords management you can go `pass`
* well, and of course if you are not a vim person (like I am), `orgmode` is the swiss knife for anything you might ever need for your notes, todolists, etc. After all that emacs thingy is an operating system of its own anyway. Or so I've heard :-).

Either way, I derive the most value from deep reading of `ssh` and `gnupg` manuals. There's HUGE amount of stuff possible when you look into seamless integration of tools at remote vs. local.

@mathias And of course `man mailcap` and `man mutt` are your friends too.

@mathias re html and other rich content in mutt: check here: https://git.qoto.org/-/snippets/188

Specifically in your case, the line

`text/html; elinks -dump %s && rm -f %s.html ; copiousoutput`

I guess you'll find out how to proceed from there.

@davidoclubb

Thanks! This is very useful. And I am glad it is clear on licensing. I am mostly using https://openclipart.org/, but this is a great addition.

@stephaniewalter@mastodon.design

@mathias Well, if you'll get frustrated with config and feel a need for a potential acceleration in finding a solution, drop me a line. Maybe I'll be able to help, even though my mutt setup is very stable in a particular spot since many years, so I probably don't know about all the fancy edge features.

@mathlover

They very much are a thing! And how to use it? Here you go: http://www.sliderules.org/

@niconiconi @mukmuk@social.linux.pizza

@mathias So what makes NeoMutt so much better than Mutt?

(guy living in `mutt+vim` since 20 years and too lazy to change his habits, but occasionally contemplating that the grass might be greener elsewhere)

@academicalnerd There's this funny thing I noticed on myself: When I "explicitly ask myself" in the evening to wake up at a certain time, my body does it almost precisely on spot. I am not going into deeper reasons why that's the case (for me at least), but it works for me since ever (like 80-90% of times). Maybe it's a result of some inner anxiety, or something. Dunno.

Of course this only works when my health is OK-ish, that is, no alcohol and at least so-so not sleep deprived, or dead tired.

My problem is different: if my body decides to wake up at some time, regardless of how long I slept, I'd have a difficulty falling back to sleep. Sometimes meditation helps, but it's difficult nevertheless.

@djoerd

```
$ echo `find ~/academic/scientific-administration/reviewing/. | grep txt | wc -l`*450 | bc
```
84.150 U$D

Man, for all the reviews I ever did for free, I could buy myself a nice piece of a property. And these are only those I kept, there were many I entered directly into somebody's idiotic review system.

Stupid they are coming up with all these good ideas only after I quit the hamster wheel.

@Hirammanson I only came marginally in contact with that technology, so I have absolutely no clue about the details. But maybe some of these can be of use: http://wiki.cogain.org/index.php/Eye_Trackers

Also consider asking at stackexchange.

@freemo Aha, thanks for telling me about the button. That's useful. I saw the button being disabled, but I wondered why that is the case, I thought that the person disabled follows on their side generally for some reason - as I had no reason to suspect he/she blocked me, the conversation from my side was pretty fine. As I said, I learn something new every day 🙂 .

Re the bot: that would be useful. The last time somebody blocked me, the person at least told as much before doing so. Although I was quite baffled about it too, but it's anybody's choice what they want to read of course.

Actually in this case I finally found that the person blocked me by FediLab telling me that speaking to them is futile. Qoto UI behaved rather chaotic. The responses of the person were (and still are) in my notifications, but when I click on each, they "dissappear". And after I reload the page, they are there again. It's a mess. This is some UI bug, or something, I suppose.

I find it interesting what happens when somebody blocks you on fediverse.

1. I send something
2. Somebody calls it bs
3. I point out it's actually reality and try to engage in a conversation
4. The person send a flurry of toots, calls me names and blocks me as I am still reading them.

And then fun starts.

1. I see the person's replies disappear, but my client still shows some of them in a chaotic order
2. I try to reply, but my toots are orphans
3. The person follows me, so I think they still engage
4. I try to speak to him/her, to no avail
5. My client shows I cannot follow them, while they follow me
6. On their local timeline, the whole conversation is still intact, toots which seem deleted to me are still there
7. After a while I realise the person probably blocked me without me understanding why that happened and I am speaking into a black hole.

I very well understand why blocking is there and why the sender had no way to know what's going on. I would still prefer the person at least telling me they block me so that I know what's going on.

Either way I think it's very impolite do block people in as civilised conversation, just because they disagree without finishing it. That we are in a digital world does not mean we shall behave like jerks. Nobody is forcing that person to read my stuff and I certainly am not asking anybody to respond to whatever I have in mind. I learn something every day. Just today I learned something about strange behaviours of others.

@loweel
Did you block me? WTF? We live in an interesting world.
@mathias

@loweel

So the flurry of your comments calling this story BS made me of course more curious. Here you have a Dutch news piece about the decision the NLD Navy and thus the government made: https://marineschepen.nl/nieuws/China-waarschuwt-Britten-en-dus-ook-Nederland-voor-reis-door-Zuid-Chinese-Zee-020121.html

Translations mine:

> This spring, in April of May, HMS Queen Elizabeth shall leave to the East for a journey through South China Sea to Japan. That's the plan.
> Besides British ships, also an American destroyer and the Dutch frigate Zr. Ms. Evertsen shall take part.

At least we know what are facts now.

@mathias

@loweel

Poor orphaned toot. Got abandoned by its family. I always feel strongly for them 😉 .

@mathias

@loweel

Re news being facts: that was always a fallacy, maybe you just did not notice. You are longing there for a past which never existed. After all, journalists are (and always were!) just normal humans, it would be silly to expect them not to have a point of view. But you are right, there's a value in explicit marking of what is news and what is an opinion. For instance The Guardian does that by using pale yellow coloured background for opinion pieces. I like that. At least it's honest, even though the paper is still biased by selecting what they publish and what they ignore. But that's OK, one can pick another paper if tehy wish so. I think it's the best we can hope for.

But seriously, if you want an unbiased stream of news, just read Reuters, or any other press agency of your choice. Another (BTW very) useful stream of unbiased news is Wikipedia Current Events sections. See e.g., here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events

Re reader not being a psychologist: if we absolve ouselves from trying to understand and interpret the world around yourself, what should we expect? Others doing it for us will always be biased...

@mathias

@loweel

I do not mean much. I just keep a bookmark with a quote from the article so that I can keep tracking this slowly moving development. Just because I am interested.

From my perspective this is a kind of a story in which we'll see the next headline in 3-6 months and it will play out over the next 10-20 years. I consider these slowly moving stories way more interesting and actually impactful than the constant and never ending panic in the everyday news. This is strategy. In this specific case, the signal is not the actual impact on the ground, but rather what different actors indicate they intend to do.

@mathias

# Western warships invade South China Sea as tensions escalate with Beijing

> Britain. France. Germany. Holland. Canada. All are sending warships to the South China Sea in growing “pushback” against Beijing.

Interesting developments in South China Sea: https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/british-and-canadian-warships-invade-south-china-sea-as-tensions-escalate-with-beijing/news-story/41cc91af2af8b5ec3126712d09fef454

@mathias