I am surprised this article is the first i am hearing about the relationship between Marlinspike and Meta for this product.

Marlinspike seemed like he might be ok, and now he’s working with a company that’s been proven time and time again that it can’t be trusted to do anything?

Lemmings, what are your thought on duck.ai?

Perhaps you could direct your teacher to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail#Criticism. This is just laziness and stupidity on the part of the school, IMNSHO.

EDIT: Although, to be fair, the school is probably getting this from Google for free—that’s how they getcha.

Have a look at the following from the Easy Linux Tips Project.

KeePassXC 2.7.12 still requires a .mozilla folder if I want to use their extension. The app data for LibreWolf is now nestled somewhere in .config. Would be kind of nice if KP could switch to XDG (if I’m understanding things correctly . . . )

If there is a BBC documentary to go with this, I’d love to see it.

You can always check AlternativeTo for FOSS (and non-US based) software alternatives.

1.Tineye? Not sure if it’s FOSS tho…

There’s Instant Street View, tho it’s just I guess a wrapper (???) for Google SV.

I hear ya. I have never had good luck with Scribus despite several dedicated tries. Still kind of learning Inkscape; I mentioned Krita instead of GIMP because it has full CMYK support. Depends on what your needs are I guess! 🙂

As far as InDesign—I don’t think it will probably ever have 1:1 feature parity, but LibreOffice Writer has recently gotten some new features that allow for more fine-tuned word and letter spacing as well as glyph scaling. A paragraph composer is on the horizon as well. There’s also Inkscape and Krita, but I’m guessing you probably already know about those…

EDIT: Also agitating for optical margin alignment on Writer; will see how that goes…

What is different between uniq and awk?

🙂👍

You are clearly on a higher level of consciousness than I will ever be (plus I’m old 👴).

Text, as far as I know (?) doesn’t take up that much space memory-wise, but on the other hand can you imagine the amount of server space that gets taken up by redundant text from people’s emails (just for starters)?

Some of my approaches to the apparently much-hated “Inbox Zero” are to be diligent about emptying the trash, not keeping copies of emails in my sent folder, and most importantly, to download messages, personal or professional ones (mostly the former) that I find personally valuable, and then delete the original email so it isn’t floating around forever in cyberspace. This leaves me with lots of txt files, which, as I said above, I then merge all together into one file and then edit. You’d think that there’d be a tool that cleans up the contents of email messages; there do appear to be some online ones, but I don’t trust them. While researching this problem, I found out about “(g)awk” and am now fiddling around with it to see if I can successfully clean up my files without completely messing them up, as in

awk '!seen[$0]++' input.txt > output.txt

making sure that I experiment on a duplicated file and not on the original. I barely know what I’m doing here, but I’ll see what I can come up with . . .

Hi @pheonixdown@sh.itjust.works, thanks for your response. Unfortunately I have no knowledge of python and my coding abilities are essentially nonexistent 🙁 . . .

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There’s also Thundermail, if they ever get around to actually opening it up . . .

Infomaniak may have changed since I tried making an account there, but when I did they asked for an address and phone number which I was not willing to provide.

May I suggest Master PDF Editor? It’s proprietary, and I think you may need to pay for some of the features, but I’ve used it for years and have generally been pretty happy with it. An open source alternative that I’m not as familiar with is PDF4QT, which is still a bit rough around the edges last time I checked.

As far as Wine goes, I have never gotten it to work with any Adobe product, ever, period. If you really need to use Adobe stuff, I suggest using it from a Virtual Machine with Windows.