Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one

@servant Goooooodnight.

@joel Yeah, I've never seen the moreutils installed by default. I don't use most of them, but I like in particular sponge, ts, and vipe.

sponge: soak up standard input and write to a file [that's its description, but I'd like if it were called "buf" or something, because what it does is buffer stdin until EOF, then write it to stdout. I love it]
ts: timestamp standard input
vipe: insert a text editor into a pipe

https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/

@RL_Dane @joel Since this means you're typing directly into ts, only Backspace, Ctrl+W (delete 1 word), and Ctrl+U (delete whole line) can be used for editing I think. This adds an effect in the spirit of pen and paper, where your words are harder to correct and so mean more as they come out.

@RL_Dane @joel On my phone, I just do `ts >> myJournalsName`, via Termux. `ts` (a "moreutil") is a utility that timestamps stdin to stdout.

@pixelherodev@fosstodon.org By ear! That's cool.
I'm sure you can tune it all the way, it just seems so tedious/long. Cool

T-Mobile hotspots (at least on this cell plan) throttle really hard really early 😠
Eh, better than no hotspot.

It was, like, going at 60KB/s before tho d:`,

@pixelherodev@fosstodon.org You can do it ;D

@retronav Check this out: “An Ohio judge has ruled that a Cleveland State University’s virtual scan of a student’s room prior to an online test was unconstitutional. The ruling marks a victory for digital privacy advocates around the country, who have spoken loudly against the practices of online test proctoring for many years.” https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/23/23318067/cleveland-state-university-online-proctoring-decision-room-scan

Did some research, it looks like Google is/might/will use the Signal protocol and perhaps support E2EE group chats in the future, and open these up beyond their chat app(s?). 🤞🤞

@steinarb @fribbledom *Cringe*

@RL_Dane Yeah I've used xman before XD

@RL_Dane The GNOME Help app can view manpages (at least on Ubuntu?) but the UX of getting there is bad (I'm frustrated to say this but I am definitely not surprised about that).
Come to think of it, `man foo > foo` then viewing foo with a plaintext editor sounds like an OK idea. Except the width might be narrow.

@RL_Dane @dallin@fosstodon.org At least with Google Chat, RCS messages can be end-to-end encrypted*. But I don't know how much that means if G-Chat's E2EE method is proprietary/G-Chat only.

*Except group chats I think.

I'm getting adamant ;|

@dallin@fosstodon.org Google has a #GetTheMessage campaign now: https://www.android.com/get-the-message/
Not too long ago I got an Android phone, and went to college. Making friends, we got in a group chat, and eventually me and I think one other in the group were discovered to be the ones with Android, though they didn't mean it in a rude way.

But still, it can cause interpersonal gaps. Harming personal messaging between your devices and a competitor's is one of the saddest forms of #bigtech #vendorlockin I can think of :(