~b @torresjrjr@qoto.org

The Helios microkernel
https://drewdevault.com/2022/06/13/helios.html

Entirely written in #hare.

As I announced earlier, I've been working on an alternative to PrivacyTools, PrivacyGuides, etc. All of them target non technical users, have sponsors and affiliate links.

The Privacy Raccoon - Digital Self-defense against mass surveillance
https://raccoon.ebin.city/

It's not finished yet, there's a lot of work to do. But I wanted to announce it so people can contribute to it. If you're interested in contributing, go here:
https://raccoon.ebin.city/README.html

telex muzeum v trebotove. maji tam nejmin 10 funkcnich dalnopisu propojenych pres ustrednu a spoustu dalsich kramu. stoji to za navstevu. stop

@Moon @zxcvfadsf @p I think putting arbitrary images (who decides there is a dog emoji but not an axolotol one?) within text should have never been the job of the text encoding system. All of that crap should be entirely up to the frontend displaying the text which may interpret some string as a custom image (like ), or otherwise if you want images within text just write in some rich-markup language like HTML TempleOS's hypertext

@hiro @zxcvfadsf @Moon I don't know how Hindi works but Arabic is a rendering problem.

> would require color as an intrinsic property of characters

That was the exact moment we decided to destroy ourselves.

Implementing regular expressions in Hare
June 3, 2022 by Vlad-Stefan Harbuz @vladh
https://harelang.org/blog/2022-06-03-implementing-regular-expressions-in-hare/

#hare #harelangblog

fossil/venti really are very nice and it is great to have a system that is very easy to hack.

I looked over to check the time and it was the Plan 9 clock, which always takes a second to read. The dots indicating the hours are all the same shape/color, and the hour hand is the same thickness as the minute hand. I figured it'd be trivial to tweak, so I popped up the source. Finding the source is a pain in most Linux distros, but on Plan 9, the location of the source code is at the bottom of the man page. But you don't even need to do that: there's a program called src(1)¹ that can print the location of the source code, or just open it up in your editor². So instead of untarring anything or `apt-get source` or whatever, I just typed `src clock`.

The source was easy to read, about a hundred lines, and I did the tweak and thought "Oh, I should post a patch to fedi, there are people on fedi that use this." But I'd made the changes already, so what do I do to get a diff?

This is the magic part: yesterday(1)³. You type `yesterday $filename` and it mounts the archive (for which you do not need root, because you control your namespace so every mount works like FUSE, and the fileserver enforces permissions itself, so unlike zfs or whatever, any user can securely inspect snapshots and filesystem history) and then prints out the path to that file from yesterday's dump (or whenever, just yesterday is the default). So you can do "diff `{yesterday /sys/src/cmd/clock.c} /sys/src/cmd/clock.c"⁴ and this gives you the diff.

Whole process took about five minutes from wanting to tweak something to installing the new version and retrieving the diff. It was quicker to do than to explain. Nearly everything on Plan 9 is like that, you see something you wanna tweak and you can tweak it with no friction, because the source is simple and available and because of fossil and venti⁵, you can get the full history of arbitrary files.

Here's the diff and a screenshot. (The clock is still nothing impressive but it is somewhat faster to read it; anyway, this is how you do that.)

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¹ http://man.9front.org/1/src

² The plumber handles this: http://man.9front.org/4/plumber . The overview is that it's sort of like things like OSX's "open" or XDG's () "xdg-open", but arbitrary data instead of filenames/URLs only, and the plumber is much more hacker-friendly. So the plumbing file says things like "if it looks like the path to a C file, send it to the 'edit' port" and whatever editor you have open listens for things sent to "edit", sort of like pub-sub. There are also rules in $home/lib/plumbing for starting whatever it is that you want to start, so if there's nothing listening for "plumb to edit" you can tell it how to start up your editor.

³ http://man.9front.org/1/yesterday

⁴ While grabbing the link to the 9front manual, I noticed that the man page also covers `diffy`, which basically does this. I did not know about diffy. Sometimes I post this stuff and someone says "Who cares?" and "Why would you post this?" and that's why. I hope it is useful or interesting to whoever reads it, but trying to explain it is often very useful to me, I find stuff out or it makes me think things through more carefully than just using it.

⁵ I will keep posting this until I am blue in the face: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/venti/ . Here's the fossil paper, too, for good measure: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/fossil/ .
clock.diff
clock.png

Duck Chess - https://duckchess.com/

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Chess involving a rubber duck aka chess for programmers!

#FairMail just got discontinued.

As announced by the developer himself, he stopped maintaining all of his apps. All of the repositories are archived and apps were pulled from the Play Store.

Appeal response: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/closed-app-5-0-fairemail-fully-featured-open-source-privacy-oriented-email-app.3824168/page-1087#post-86909811

https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/closed-app-5-0-fairemail-fully-featured-open-source-privacy-oriented-email-app.3824168/page-1087#post-86909853

This is a big problem with the Play Store, and one of the reasons I don't like it: you never know when your app is going to be literally yeeted the fuck out of there.

Many good apps were pulled from there, with no support nor any regarding for the life of the people that earn money with this model.

Apple is no different, it just doesn't publish your app directly if you don't comply with its guidelines.

I don't know if Marcel will ever read this, but I'm really sorry that you had to end this. I used FairMail in the past and it was a great app, very well crafted. Thank you for your work!

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On a side note, read also this: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/closed-app-5-0-fairemail-fully-featured-open-source-privacy-oriented-email-app.3824168/page-1087#post-86909365

That is the balance of the experience of the person behind FairMail.

To be honest, people should really appreciate more programmers that spend their (free) time working on software that respects privacy and freedoom other apps do not.

https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/blob/master/PRIVACY.md

See if the Gmail app does the same. It does not.

I really hope he recovers from this at some point of his life, because this might be a very depressing situation.