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General Software Discussion / Re: Syncovery - OneDrive - Encryption

« Last post by Tuxman on August 22, 2019, 05:28 AM »

Never assume that anything which you don't encrypt before uploading will be encrypted on the remote server.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Eudora, Hermes and Pandora - also compared to TheBat! and other email clients

« Last post by Tuxman on August 22, 2019, 04:08 AM »

FWIW:
The next The Bat! (version 9) will have a ribbon layout. Ribbons!  Blergh.

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What's the Best? / Re: Newsreader programs

« Last post by Tuxman on August 22, 2019, 04:04 AM »

I have uninstalled GNU Emacs this week - the last thing I did with it was browsing the Usenet.

I was briefly considering to try the Forté Agent, but the free/open source XanaNews is more than enough for me.  Granted, I don't use binary newsgroups, so if you misuse the Usenet as a filesharing software, it might not fit everyone's needs...

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to convert FLAC albums to tracks?

« Last post by Tuxman on August 22, 2019, 03:32 AM »

something that can take my perfectly ripped FLAC files and either export them as individual tracks using the metadata from the associated CUE file for proper filenames and tags, etc.

-Deozaan (August 18, 2019, 04:44 PM)

I use XRECODE (started with XRECODE2, happily continue with XRECODE3). It is not that great when it comes to smart tagging though. A good companion is beets which has replaced Mp3tag for me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: forum software

« Last post by Tuxman on August 22, 2019, 03:29 AM »

Both SMF and its fork ElkArte are free software, in one way or the other. Still, if I had the choice, I'd write my own forum software, (more or less) a PunBB or Phorum in a less insane language. I had already started twice. But there's only so much lifetime ...

I had a XenForo once. It was nice, but it had no users. Also, that one XenForo design is everywhere today, all newer forums look exactly the same. That's boring.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Eudora, Hermes and Pandora - also compared to TheBat! and other email clients

« Last post by Tuxman on August 22, 2019, 03:17 AM »

like, can you just make the editor wrap like a normal window?

-superboyac (August 21, 2019, 11:30 AM)

It automatically wraps - or rewraps - long lines when you press Alt+L, I find that handy, actually. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Goodbye, Bitbucket!

« Last post by Tuxman on August 22, 2019, 02:56 AM »

CVS is nice because of its low overhead. OpenBSD will probably migrate to their own "got" soon which is a NIH alternative to Git, effectively ending work on the last remaining CVS client.

Time for SCCS... 
http://sccs.sourceforge.net/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Goodbye, Bitbucket!

« Last post by Tuxman on August 21, 2019, 05:48 PM »

I try to stay the hell away from Git, but I found out that GitHub supports SVN clients, so I might bookmark that for later...
Thank you, Deozaan.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Goodbye, Bitbucket!

« Last post by Tuxman on August 21, 2019, 04:55 PM »

Just looked at Sourcehut again. A lot of "this is beta" and "actually, this is run by one person" yet. I'll keep an eye on it this time!

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: Unping all the links!

« Last post by Tuxman on August 21, 2019, 04:54 PM »

Moved the repo over to Darcshub:
https://hub.darcs.ne...der/unping_all_links

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General Software Discussion / Re: Goodbye, Bitbucket!

« Last post by Tuxman on August 21, 2019, 03:53 PM »

Ahh, Sourcehut. Why do I keep forgetting that?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Goodbye, Bitbucket!

« Last post by Tuxman on August 21, 2019, 03:04 PM »

I had registered an account at the Pijul Nest when I first read about it, but I'll wait until the blinking "beta quality" text is removed ...
Technically, it sounds like an adequate "modern Darcs".

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General Software Discussion / Goodbye, Bitbucket!

« Last post by Tuxman on August 21, 2019, 02:44 PM »

After years of making me sufficiently happy, my favorite project hosting platform declared yesterday that they'll phase out Mercurial support next year because "everyone uses Git. come to the dark side hurr durr".

I'll move all of my projects over to Darcshub (the smaller ones) and probably somewhere else (the larger ones) before the deadline. Expect surprising updates in some of my threads. Still, it's kind of a "self-fulfilling prophecy" in my opinion: Take away Mercurial support, spend all of your marketing money to promote Git - and then claim that nobody seems to use Mercurial anyway. Oh geez.

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Eudora, Hermes and Pandora - also compared to TheBat! and other email clients

« Last post by Tuxman on August 21, 2019, 09:06 AM »

I have Ctrl+F'ed through the revision histories and "editor" is mentioned rather often - usually the HTML editor though. I'm not on my The Bat! computer here, so I could evaluate it later. Never searched for boxes, honestly.

Soon, they'll want more money from me. The Bat! 9 is around the corner. Sigh!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Eudora, Hermes and Pandora - also compared to TheBat! and other email clients

« Last post by Tuxman on August 21, 2019, 05:26 AM »

I messaged Pandora's author now, he said GnuPG will come in "late fall maybe".
Waiting ...

I admit that it is rather usable. 

edit:

The editor in the Bat really is quite weird given that were in 2019.  I thought it was weird in 2009!  And guess what....NOTHING has changed lol. 

-superboyac (August 12, 2019, 10:55 AM)

They changed quite a few aspects of it - not visually though.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Eudora, Hermes and Pandora - also compared to TheBat! and other email clients

« Last post by Tuxman on August 16, 2019, 10:38 AM »

I'd like to submit a feature request for GnuPG support to Pandora's author but the forum refuses to send me an activation e-mail.

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Eudora, Hermes and Pandora - also compared to TheBat! and other email clients

« Last post by Tuxman on August 16, 2019, 07:53 AM »

GnuPG is nowhere to be seen except The Bat. 

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DC Member Programs and Projects / birdcries: View tweets with privacy - and without bullshit.

« Last post by Tuxman on August 15, 2019, 11:26 AM »

- with the Twitter API, this is gone -

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Living Room / N.A.N.Y. and the Too Many Projects Phenomenon

« Last post by Tuxman on August 13, 2019, 07:07 AM »

As some of you may know, I usually have a dozen unfinished projects in my pipeline. So many ideas, but only such a limited time!

When I started participating in the N.A.N.Y. contests, it motivated me to get some of these projects done instead of just having them float around as a rough TODO list. Now some of these projects take too much time, so I publish them early in the next year. That leads to a certain feeling that I should probably write more code until the end of the year is approaching fast, because it feels wrong to submit projects twice.

Now my increased productivity - or, at least, I hope that's what it is - has an interesting side effect: When I'm working on a project and I am stuck, I start another one for the time being. I usually choose a different toolset for each, so I'm not stuck in the same place in more than one project at a time.

So I am currently trying to finish one COBOL, one Pascal and one Perl project until Dec 31, and I am mostly sure that only the Perl project will be done within the time frame (because it is already "done", I only need to adjust the GUI and tweak the performance before I consider it release-ready). One of the big problems with projects which have no paid deadline is that you just don't care enough anymore...

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Living Room / Re: Any good free android scientific calculator?

« Last post by Tuxman on August 13, 2019, 06:22 AM »

Nothing's better than HiPER Calc Pro.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Altap Salamander now freeware

« Last post by Tuxman on August 11, 2019, 09:34 AM »

A new, fully-functional public release is made every few months or so.

-BGM (August 11, 2019, 09:13 AM)

The 64-bit version has not been public and free for years.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Altap Salamander now freeware

« Last post by Tuxman on August 11, 2019, 08:00 AM »

So the unpaid version is artificially crippled. That's not what I would call a "freeware" software.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Eudora, Hermes and Pandora - also compared to TheBat! and other email clients

« Last post by Tuxman on August 11, 2019, 07:21 AM »

I would probably use Pegasus Mail today if its IMAP configuration wasn't so weird. It's a bit sad that Pegasus 5.0 has been delayed for ... more than a decade now?

I am "mostly" happy with my current e-mail situation (The Bat! on Windows, varying clients on other systems), but, you know, the grass on the other side of the fence...
I did not know that Eudora was still a thing, so I had not tried it even once. I had a short test ride with the HERMES installer linked above. Impressions:

1) Wow, that thing looks outdated. A Windows 3.11 application, very roughly compiled on Windows 98 and not updated since? Yes, that's obvious.
2) A lot of dialogs and "information" pops up. Ugh.
3) I (somehow) like the Lotus-Notes-like look and feel ... but still, ugh.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Altap Salamander now freeware

« Last post by Tuxman on August 11, 2019, 03:42 AM »

FreeCommander (64-bit) is a paid software. Point proven.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Altap Salamander now freeware

« Last post by Tuxman on August 10, 2019, 03:58 PM »

Hmm. I tried Ztree a few months ago, and, although I like tree-based file managers (when I had an Android phone, X-plore was my favorite by far), I found it surprisingly lacking.
XYplorer never grew to me.