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   ploum (ploum@mamot.fr)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 20:23:40 JST ploum

   • Neil Brown
   • Charlie Stross

   @neil @cstross : except a few websites, I’m doing the same with:

   Neovim for writing/notes
   Neomutt for email
   Offpunk for browsing/sorting ressources
   Toot for Mastodon

   (except when I’m sipping tea where I’m in Firefox, like right now).

   Offpunk, git, msmtp and offlineimap also allows me to work fully offline and only synchronize periodically through a "do_the_internet.sh" script.

   See:

   https://offpunk.net/

   https://sr.ht/~lioploum/offlinetools/

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     ploum (ploum@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 18:21:02 JST ploum

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     • Neil Brown
     • Charlie Stross
     • vassilis

     @vassilis @neil @cstross : you can use the git version easily. See https://offpunk.net/install.html

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     vassilis (vassilis@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 18:21:09 JST vassilis

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     • Neil Brown
     • Charlie Stross
     @ploum @neil @cstross offpunk not available in the ubuntu 22.04 repo.
     any hints?
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     ploum (ploum@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 19:17:39 JST ploum

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     • Neil Brown
     • Charlie Stross
     • vassilis

     @cstross @vassilis @neil : it is a thread about "terminal interfaces", Offpunk is a terminal browser.

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 19:17:40 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Neil Brown
     • vassilis

     @ploum @vassilis @neil Congratulations! An entire thread about a piece of software that NOWHERE mentions what it is, what it runs on, or why it might be useful (me: Mac user here, 100% workflow dependent on Scrivener).

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 19:29:11 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Neil Brown
     • vassilis

     @ploum @vassilis @neil Yes (my leading question wrt. terminal interfaces is tmux or byobu?), the point is, looking at the git page? NOTHING SAYING IT'S A BROWSER INTERFACE.

     Git project documentation is a smoking hole in the bottom of the Marianas trench these days. "See the 50 minute tutorial on my YouTube channel!" is by no means the worst of it.

     (Ignore me, I'm just a former technical author shrieking in hell.)

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     ploum (ploum@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 19:33:01 JST ploum

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     • Neil Brown
     • Charlie Stross
     • vassilis

     @cstross @vassilis @neil : You are perfectly right to complain when something is not clear.

     But is this link answering the question as it should? Do you have any remark on how it could be improved?

     https://offpunk.net/whatisoffpunk.html

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 19:40:10 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Neil Brown
     • vassilis

     @ploum @vassilis @neil Badly designed! Doesn't even mention web or html until the fifth paragraph, buries it under a mound of less-relevant protocols (eg. gopher). Hint: "browser" is not synonymous with "web browser". Lead with that!

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     ploum (ploum@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 19:47:43 JST ploum

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     • Neil Brown
     • Charlie Stross
     • vassilis

     @cstross @vassilis @neil : added "web" in front of broswer to make it clearer. Thanks for the feedback!

     https://offpunk.net/whatisoffpunk.html

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 20:06:40 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Neil Brown
     • vassilis

     @ploum @vassilis @neil Great! I wish I had the energy to set up a general Linux/software libre documentation project run to professional standards, but I'm about 30 years too old and burned out to start now …

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     ploum (ploum@mamot.fr)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 21:27:42 JST ploum

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     • Neil Brown
     • Charlie Stross
     • vassilis

     @cstross @vassilis @neil : I had lot of energy to write documentation in my 20’s and 30’s but it seems that tank has depleted as, I soon as I start to write, it turns into fiction ;-)