Notices by Erin 💽✨ (erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net), page 2

@lanodan I have lore.kernel.org added to Thunderbird via NNTP and its great.

Its deeply upsetting that the specification for mailto:address?in-reply-to=message_id is 26 years old and yet barely any software supports it besides Thunderbird :-(

And the alternative option is downloading an e-mail message file (.eml), opening it, and replying to that; but how many people even have desktop e-mail clients setup any more?

I understand the dislike for e-mail based patch workflows. I have a soft spot for sending my changes with git send-email but I don’t think its a good code review or change management process.

But mailing lists… I don’t really understand the dislike people have for mailing lists. Some of the best technical collaboration I’ve ever done has been via mailing lists. Most of them you don’t even have to be a subscriber to start conversations on; they’ll accept e-mails from anyone. And, unlike with forums, the replies come back to my e-mail inbox, which means its harder to forget about posts I’ve made.

Of course there is something to be said about how e-mail tooling can be obnoxiously minimalist, arcane, or just a thing that people don’t have setup any more in the same way as they did in the past.

@pid_eins I was about to say “we’re getting PIDFD_SELF and you could use that in the same way as e.g. AT_FDCWD“ except both PIDFD_SELF and AT_FDCWD are defined as -100. This sucks. Maybe we could get them made into different numbers before 6.13 drops? ;_;

@pid_eins My perhaps controversial opinion is that from userland the magic file descriptors should Just Work like actual file descriptors in every regard except that you can’t close() them or dup2 to them, but I guess that ship has sailed anyway.

(i.e. you should be able to stuff PIDFD_SELF into an SCM_RIGHTS control message and out of the other end pops a pidfd for your process; no need to pidfd_open(getpid()) and close() it)

@lanodan @domi @easrng prospero:// URLs from 1738 use ;parameters

also RFC2396 requires escaping it in path segments b/c its used for path params:

An example of a URI scheme using params is IMAP: imap://joe@example.com/INBOX/;uid=20/;section=1.2

@izaya I voted yes but honestly its more like “tights always look good. bare legs are high maintainance”

…also tights & leggings are enormously practical in winter

Its 2024 and somehow I am in an argument on an IETF mailing list about signing things & cross-protocol attacks.

@martyn this is a slight tangent, but: if you are at any risk of HIV transmission, PrEP taken daily is these days the single most effective method of prevention we have (even if you control for adherence; condoms sometimes get punctured or have manufacturing defects; if you forget to take PrEP occasionally, it’s still highly effective). It should be fairly easy to acquire at any sexual health clinic in Berlin.

Of course PrEP + Condom usage is more effective than either alone.

@atax1a @megmac tbh one thing i will say i like about postfix is that in most obvious places where you might want to delegate things to an external database it has a fairly simple protocol over a unix socket to do so

e.g. socketmap for recipient lookups

@atax1a @megmac i suspect that qmail could do similar things with simple shell scripts but a lot of my problems end up being socket-shaped instead of shell-script-shaped

Do you ever think about how “Tom’s Obvious, Minimal Language” is neither obvious nor minimal?

(Anyway not only is Toml a badly designed file format, but Tom‘s a dickhead; please pick something else)

@grawity now anyone who is showing something other than first6 + last4 is grossly violating PCI-DSS and needs to be shot.

DHL: Your package is in the packstation. Please collect it as soon as possible

Also DHL: You don’t currently have any packages waiting in any Packstations.

…could you folks make up your damn minds?