Re: [dev] Suckless DNS server

2023-07-20 Thread Jan Klemkow
On Wed, 19 Jul 2023 16:42:58 +0200 (CEST), Sagar Acharya wrote: > Please let us know authoritative and recursive DNS servers. I also use unbound and nsd in official setups, because its OpenBSD default and I need to serve more than A and records. In testing setups I like dnsmasq, because it

Re: [dev] Suckless DNS server

2023-07-20 Thread Sergey Matveev
*** Sagar Acharya [2023-07-20 07:11]: >Authoritative suckless DNS server recommendations please! https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/projects/nsd/about/ by the same developers of Unbound. And their ldns can be used to do all authoritative DNSSEC-related stuff. -- Sergey Matveev (http://www.stargrave.org/)

Re: [dev] Suckless DNS server

2023-07-19 Thread Sagar Acharya
Hello, folks, Authoritative suckless DNS server recommendations please! Thanking you Sagar Acharya https://humaaraartha.in 20 Jul 2023, 10:32 by minsh...@umich.edu: >> I meant `ntohs`... and this further proves your point. >> Thank you for your insight & for the article. >> > > +1 ! >

Re: [dev] Suckless DNS server

2023-07-19 Thread Greg Minshall
> I meant `ntohs`... and this further proves your point. > Thank you for your insight & for the article. +1 !

Re: [dev] Suckless DNS server

2023-07-19 Thread Jeremy
On 07/20/23 04:57AM, NRK wrote: > > C standard defines shift operator as multiplication and division by > powers of 2. And the result of `x * 256` never depend on the system's > byte order and so neither does `x << 8`. > > Rob Pike already has an excellent article on this, so I'll just refer to

Re: [dev] Suckless DNS server

2023-07-19 Thread NRK
On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 03:20:21PM -0700, Jeremy wrote: > crypto_uint16 uint16_unpack_big(const unsigned char *x) > crypto_uint16 y; > > y = x[0]; y <<= 8; > y |= x[1]; > > return y; > } > > As you're probably already aware, if there were 3 answers, and you > were running this

Re: [dev] Suckless DNS server

2023-07-19 Thread Jeremy
On 07/20/23 12:09AM, NRK wrote: > FYI I'm not exactly interested in defending dq because I know nothing > about it, but the above criticism at least seems more like knee jerk > reaction due to something being different rather than actual/technical > criticism. > > - NRK > Thanks for your

Re: [dev] Suckless DNS server

2023-07-19 Thread NRK
> const char *e_str(int i) > { > X(0,"no error"); > X(EINTR,"interrupted system call") > X(ENOMEM,"out of memory") > X(ENOENT,"file does not exist") > X(ETXTBSY,"text busy") > X(EIO,"input/output error") > ... > return "unknown error"; > } > > Maybe this is just comedy? The real

Re: [dev] Suckless DNS server

2023-07-19 Thread Jeremy
On 07/19/23 04:20PM, Sergey Matveev wrote: > >Which DNS server do you recommend to use? > > https://github.com/janmojzis/dq is pretty lightweight and simple. I respect the endeavour but this author seems to dine pretty heavy on thick paint chips. Before returning from strtoip4, he does the

Re: [dev] Suckless DNS server

2023-07-19 Thread Sagar Acharya
Please let us know authoritative and recursive DNS servers. Thanking you Sagar Acharya https://humaaraartha.in 19 Jul 2023, 18:50 by stargrave+suckl...@stargrave.org: > *** Sagar Acharya [2023-07-19 15:08]: > >Which DNS server do you recommend to use? > > https://github.com/janmojzis/dq is

Re: [dev] Suckless DNS server

2023-07-19 Thread Sergey Matveev
*** Sagar Acharya [2023-07-19 15:08]: >Which DNS server do you recommend to use? https://github.com/janmojzis/dq is pretty lightweight and simple. It is based on DJB's https://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html, but supports IPv6 and most importantly DNSCurve, that does not rely on single trust anchor and just

[dev] Suckless DNS server

2023-07-19 Thread Sagar Acharya
Which DNS server do you recommend to use? I use pdns, I think a DNS server can be a thing which merely resolves a string and cryptography for encryption, namely DNSSEC. Comments around the concepts are welcome. Thanking you Sagar Acharya https://humaaraartha.in

Re: [dev] [dwm][PATCH] Add function to exec into another executable

2023-07-15 Thread Dmitry Bogatov
On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 08:48:29PM +0600, NRK wrote: > Hi Dmitry, > > > but I don't need to restart X, which is much more annoying. > > There's no need to patch anything to achieve this. You can do something > like this in your xinitrc: > > while :; do dwm; done > > This will re-run dwm

Re: [dev] [dwm][PATCH] Add function to exec into another executable

2023-07-15 Thread NRK
Hi Dmitry, > but I don't need to restart X, which is much more annoying. There's no need to patch anything to achieve this. You can do something like this in your xinitrc: while :; do dwm; done This will re-run dwm after it quits. And if you want to quit for real, then you can just

[dev] [dwm][PATCH] Add function to exec into another executable

2023-07-15 Thread Dmitry Bogatov
Hello. I want to share my patch that I have been using for couple months that simplifies reconfiguring of the dwm. It adds function to execute into another executable, be it another build of dwm or another window manager. I have following lines in `dwm.h': static const char *dwmcmd[] =

Re: [dev] Suckless paint/graphic editor program [OS topic]

2023-07-12 Thread Hiltjo Posthuma
On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 02:59:04PM -0400, fo...@dnmx.org wrote: > 1s of all I'd like to say I'm sorry because of the e-mail formatting that > seems > to happen.. someone did tell me clients don't like that, but I do not > unfortunately have health to figure this out, I will remember this, >

Re: [dev] Suckless paint/graphic editor program [OS topic]

2023-07-12 Thread fossy
1s of all I'd like to say I'm sorry because of the e-mail formatting that seems to happen.. someone did tell me clients don't like that, but I do not unfortunately have health to figure this out, I will remember this, though, for the future. (Talking about my last e-mail, I think) > On Tue, Jul

Re: [dev] Suckless paint/graphic editor program

2023-07-11 Thread fossy
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 3:24PM wrote: > > I'd love if we could use the GPU directly like pixel changes, etc, without > > all > > the 100 fancy APIs, managers, etc. > > I ran across this and it might be of interest. > https://github.com/uobikiemukot/yafblib > It lists the BSD console as an

Re: [dev] Suckless paint/graphic editor program

2023-07-10 Thread LM
On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 3:24 PM wrote: > I'd love if we could use the GPU directly like pixel changes, etc, without > all > the 100 fancy APIs, managers, etc. I ran across this and it might be of interest. https://github.com/uobikiemukot/yafblib It lists the BSD console as an option. I

Re: [dev] Suckless paint/graphic editor program

2023-07-10 Thread fossy
> On Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 3:36PM wrote: > > That's too much options to check out for me, but a console-based option > > (to me > > that sounds like not needing X11? Because ideally that's what I'd want.. I > > want > > to get rid of a Window manager and in the future use something like dvtm) > >

Re: [dev] Problem with windows name

2023-07-10 Thread Dr . André Desgualdo Pereira
Thank you so much Страхиња Радић! This works perfectly. André. On 10/07/2023 9:35, Страхиња Радић wrote: > I managed to fix root window title being shown incorrectly by skipping > conversion only for root window. I attached a patch with this message. Feel > free to review it, I will make

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-10 Thread Marcel Plch
On Wed, Jul 05, 2023 at 09:59:27AM -0500, Dave Blanchard wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jul 2023 11:56:58 +0300 > Sergey Matveev wrote: > > > >I did manage to open you article, although I had to use a VPN. For some > > >reason website doesn't load without it. Greetings from Russia! > > > > It is available

Re: [dev] Problem with windows name

2023-07-10 Thread Страхиња Радић
I managed to fix root window title being shown incorrectly by skipping conversion only for root window. I attached a patch with this message. Feel free to review it, I will make any necessary corrections. From c5b399e138f6873e2eb9a292d55c5382e654f074 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From:

Re: [dev] Problem with windows name

2023-07-10 Thread Страхиња Радић
Adding to gettextprop in dwm.c: // ... if (!XGetTextProperty(dpy, w, , atom) || !name.nitems) return 0; FILE* log = fopen("/home/user/dwm.log", "at"); fprintf(log, "---\n"); fprintf(log, "atom = {%lu}\n", atom);

Re: [dev] Problem with windows name

2023-07-09 Thread Страхиња Радић
I debugged dwm, adding to drw.c: static void log_msg(const char* fmt, ...) { char buf[4096]; va_list args; va_start(args, fmt); vsnprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), fmt, args); va_end(args);

Re: [dev] Problem with windows name

2023-07-09 Thread Страхиња Радић
On 23/07/09 08:43AM, Dr. André Desgualdo Pereira wrote: > # xprop > xprop shows the correct name, but it doesn't has the _NET_WM_NAME defined as > it used to have on Debian 11 and before (I guess it is because missing > library > tkinter for python2.7). > Example: WM_NAME(STRING) = "André

Re: [dev] Suckless paint/graphic editor program

2023-07-09 Thread LM
On Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 3:36 PM wrote: > That's too much options to check out for me, but a console-based option > (to me > that sounds like not needing X11? Because ideally that's what I'd want.. I > want > to get rid of a Window manager and in the future use something like dvtm) I've been

[dev] Problem with windows name

2023-07-09 Thread Dr . André Desgualdo Pereira
# The Problem: dwm status bar fails to display the name of Libreoffice and OpenOffice windows # Conditions (when it happens): 1) Debian 12 (previous Debian worked fine) 2) The file name must contain a latin character (one of these: áâãéíóôúç) and NOT contain other

Re: [dev] Announcing a couple small X11 utilities

2023-07-08 Thread fossy
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2023 at 03:43:31PM -0400, fo...@dnmx.org wrote: > > I love such tools.. Is it possible to make something console-based? > > Most terminal emulators (I think?) already have some option to > dump the screen content into some image format. If not, I don't > think it'd be difficult

Re: [dev] Help to debug window name with special characters

2023-07-08 Thread NRK
On Thu, Jul 06, 2023 at 10:23:45AM -0300, Dr. André Desgualdo Pereira wrote: > Second, xprop change from > WM_NAME(STRING) = "André Desgualdo Pereira.odt - OpenOffice Writer" > to > WM_NAME(STRING) = "André Desgualdo Pereira.odt - OpenOffice Writer" > and also a new attibute seems to be added: >

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-07 Thread Lordkrandel
On 7/4/23 18:06, Nikita Krasnov wrote: > What would be the point of using minimalist software if > bloated and excessively complex programs completely > satisfy all my needs? Probably your needs don't align with the philosophy. I also use `Thunderbird`, as I receive HTML emails. `Firefox`,

Re: [dev] Help to debug window name with special characters

2023-07-07 Thread Dr . André Desgualdo Pereira
Reporting a progress: I suspect the problem is OpenOffice and LibreOffice expect a working Tkinter module for python2.7 but Debian deprecated python2.7. So no _NET_WM_NAME is set. Weird thing is that somehow the name is set correctly if it cointains a japanese character (even with latin

Re: [dev] Help to debug window name with special characters

2023-07-07 Thread Dr . André Desgualdo Pereira
lol you are funny. I wish I didn't have to use anything else, it would be so much easier. On 05/07/2023 18:50, Nikita Krasnov wrote: > > Some window name are incomplete on dwm status (screenshot attached). The > > name is "cut" after the first special character (for example: if a window > >

Re: [dev] Announcing a couple small X11 utilities

2023-07-07 Thread NRK
On Thu, Jul 06, 2023 at 03:43:31PM -0400, fo...@dnmx.org wrote: > I love such tools.. Is it possible to make something console-based? Most terminal emulators (I think?) already have some option to dump the screen content into some image format. If not, I don't think it'd be difficult feature to

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-06 Thread fossy
Agreed. Jeez, man! I'm answering to s many e-mails at once, that I might as well write a script for downloading, `sed`-ing the e-mail, answering to it and copying it, then pasting it deleting garbage.. Jokes aside, what the fuck did you start, Nikida? ;P > > Joking aside, this case

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-06 Thread fossy
I cannot believe that a lot of you still use the clear-net as it is! Instead of depending on it's limits, do yourself a favor and learn how to use I2P(https://i2pd.website) or at least Tor/Tor Browser (https://torproject.org) > On Wed, 5 Jul 2023 11:56:58 +0300 > Sergey Matveev wrote: > > > >I

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-06 Thread fossy
I feel the same way. Even the scrollback patched into St doesn't seem right (unless there's some other patch, I don't remember). Tmux fixes that, and.. well.. I prefer using Tmux, and it's pre-installed on OpenBSD, so what the hell? multiple cut-n-paste buffers? Could be one of more important

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-06 Thread fossy
Well.. althought I absolutely love anonymity and freedom (of speech and in generaL), bots and especially A.I. do have me concerned.. and I'm someone who wants I2P and Yggdrasil or some combination of that/something similar to be internet 2.0... so problems like that would exponantially rise. My

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-06 Thread fossy
> > I take a practical approach. I use simple programs when > > they do the job well, and more complex programs when > > they get the job done better. Sometimes a simple program > > can be useful for certain jobs, such as ones involving > > shell scripting, whereas a complex program may be more >

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-06 Thread fossy
> Hi all, > > I'd like to share some small X11 utilities that I've developed and have > been using in my daily setup. The utilities are all fairly small in > size and requires only typical X libraries. > > sxcs > > > This is a simple color picker and magnifier. My issue with all other >

Re: [dev] Announcing a couple small X11 utilities

2023-07-06 Thread fossy
Whoah, that sounds really amazing! I'm glad you list SLOC and depends :) Althought there's 'xgrab' I think that grabs a RGB color code from screen, and is suckless, I remember reviewing it's source code like a year ago. I love such tools.. Is it possible to make, since you seem to be within the

Re: [dev] Suckless paint/graphic editor program

2023-07-06 Thread fossy
> On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 4:31PM Fernando wrote: > > I am looking for a graphics editor that can: > > *use color > > *can draw basic lines and shapes > > *easy to build (like suckless programs) > > As far as easy to build, I've built grafx2 ( > http://pulkomandy.tk/projects/GrafX2 ) and LodePaint

Re: [dev] Suckless paint/graphic editor program

2023-07-06 Thread fossy
Neither azpainter not mtpaint are suckless. I don't really consider GTK to be suckless (unless it is), for mtpaint And I'm looking at wc -l of all src/ mlk/ files and it's A LT of lines. I used Tux in the past.. it does SOME very limited jobs, done. not sure if it can be used for banners and

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-06 Thread Yan Doroshenko
On 7/5/23 16:53, Dave Blanchard wrote: On Wed, 5 Jul 2023 11:55:59 +0300 Sergey Matveev wrote: *** s...@plunder.tech [2023-07-04 19:37]: I use ST without any patching, and have done so for years. It is very fast and works flawlessly in my experience. All the other terminals have serious

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-06 Thread dther
So, a lot of people have weighed in on this one email. So much so that it's taken up about my screen space in replies. I've decided to jump in with my own two cents, because why not. It's a fun question to chew on. I use minimal software because I find it fun to hack software, and I find peace of

Re: [dev] Help to debug window name with special characters

2023-07-06 Thread Dr . André Desgualdo Pereira
I notice a change in xprop if I run: xdotool search --name "André Desgualdo Pereira.odt - OpenOffice Writer" set_window --name "André Desgualdo Pereira.odt - OpenOffice Writer" First, after renaming it (to exactly the same name xprop gives), the name shows just fine on dwmstatus (and also on

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-06 Thread Daniel Littlewood
I tried to respond to the original question the other day but failed to set up text mode correctly. ugh. > What would be the point of using minimalist software if > bloated and excessively complex programs completely satisfy > all my needs? I think there are a couple of reasons. Not all of them

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-06 Thread Страхиња Радић
On 23/07/04 07:06PM, Nikita Krasnov wrote: > If I had used one of the bloated programs I probably could have found a > solution in one of the menus after reading few Stack Overflow answers. But > with Neovim I'd have to first find the program that would be suitable for > what I try to achieve,

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-06 Thread Страхиња Радић
On 23/07/04 07:06PM, Nikita Krasnov wrote: > What would be the point of using minimalist software if bloated and > excessively complex programs completely satisfy all my needs? Doing all that but with much less resources (in the broadest sense) wasted. On 23/07/04 01:16PM, Dave Blanchard wrote:

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-05 Thread sol
> Isn't that lovely, needing 15 different software packages set up > and running to do what ONE well designed piece of software > should be able to do by itself? You don't use tmux? What do you use instead?

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-05 Thread sol
On Wed, Jul 5, 2023, at 11:04, Dave Blanchard wrote: > as if I was the enemy of mankind. Are you, tho?

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-05 Thread Miles Rout
On 6 July 2023 3:04:47 am NZST, Dave Blanchard wrote: >On Thu, 06 Jul 2023 00:01:43 +1200 >Miles Rout wrote: > >> There is a page on the website advertising all the many patches available to >> improve st and dwm. >> Few if any other software projects provide that these days, and are >>

Re: [dev] Help to debug window name with special characters

2023-07-05 Thread Dr . André Desgualdo Pereira
Thank you so much NKR! The full output of xprop is the following: WM_LOCALE_NAME(STRING) = "en_US.UTF-8" WM_ICON_NAME(STRING) = "André Desgualdo Pereira.odt - OpenOffice Writer" WM_NAME(STRING) = "André Desgualdo Pereira.odt - OpenOffice Writer" WM_STATE(WM_STATE): window state:

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-05 Thread Teodoro Santoni
2023-07-05 17:04 GMT+02:00, Dave Blanchard : > Actually few if any other software projects NEED to be patched to provide > basic ass functionality, like you know, SCROLLBACK BUFFERS IN A TERMINAL. These are not "any other software projects".

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-05 Thread LM
On Tue, Jul 4, 2023 at 8:16 PM wrote: > I use ST without any patching, and have done so for years. It is very fast > and > works flawlessly in my experience. All the other terminals have serious > issues. In general, I agree with that statement. Most of the terminals are based on vte and

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-05 Thread Sagar Acharya
I've worked most of the things out. Almost there. This is not for them. This is for you, the server host. 700,000 people, I will be very glad with such a market size. It is so true that people don't give a rat's ass about their privacy! 1 step at a time. Let us form the critical mass now that

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-05 Thread Nikita Krasnov
> Joking aside, this case you're referring to, the opening post is a troll > post in my books, just because one of the reasons for a fork was "spaces > vs tabs". > > On the other hand, you're a troll in my books too; so I'll stop feeding you. Well, everyone is a troll in your book it seems.

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-05 Thread Santtu Lakkala
On 4.7.2023 21.16, Dave Blanchard wrote: People on this email list tend to go to an extreme in favoring simplicity above all else, which is why they release dumpster fires like the ST terminal emulator for example which has absolutely no features at all, is riddled with bugs and compatibility

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-05 Thread Mattias Andrée
On Wed, 5 Jul 2023 10:04:47 -0500 Dave Blanchard wrote: > On Thu, 06 Jul 2023 00:01:43 +1200 > Miles Rout wrote: > > > There is a page on the website advertising all the many patches available > > to improve st and dwm. > > Few if any other software projects provide that these days, and are

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-05 Thread Mattias Andrée
On Wed, 5 Jul 2023 10:19:36 -0500 Dave Blanchard wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jul 2023 10:23:57 +0200 (CEST) > Sagar Acharya wrote: > > > That is exactly what I'm trying to achieve. Capital is whatI lack. Soon I > > will be releasing Libre-Ads, a random non-targeted ads system specially for > >

Re: [dev] Help to debug window name with special characters

2023-07-05 Thread Nikita Krasnov
Some window name are incomplete on dwm status (screenshot attached). The name is "cut" after the first special character (for example: if a window name is "André Desgualdo Pereira" it will show only "Andr"). Everyone knows that special characters are bloat, duh. Your system must use only use

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-05 Thread Nikita Krasnov
Oh, what a shitshow did I just start with that thread... -- Nikita

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-05 Thread Sebastian LaVine
On Wed Jul 5, 2023 at 11:19 AM EDT, Dave Blanchard wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jul 2023 10:23:57 +0200 (CEST) > Sagar Acharya wrote: > > > That is exactly what I'm trying to achieve. Capital is whatI lack. Soon I > > will be releasing Libre-Ads, a random non-targeted ads system specially for > > Freedom

Re: [dev] Help to debug window name with special characters

2023-07-05 Thread NRK
On Wed, Jul 05, 2023 at 08:11:39AM -0300, Dr. André Desgualdo Pereira wrote: > Also xprop show the window name correctly, but wmctrl shows "N/A". You might want to share the full output of xprop. Otherwise just sharing the `*_NAME` properties is fine too: `xprop | grep _NAME` Since you said it

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-05 Thread Dave Blanchard
On Wed, 5 Jul 2023 10:23:57 +0200 (CEST) Sagar Acharya wrote: > That is exactly what I'm trying to achieve. Capital is whatI lack. Soon I > will be releasing Libre-Ads, a random non-targeted ads system specially for > Freedom respecting people. > > So self-hosters can self sustain and they

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-05 Thread Dave Blanchard
On Thu, 06 Jul 2023 00:01:43 +1200 Miles Rout wrote: > There is a page on the website advertising all the many patches available to > improve st and dwm. > Few if any other software projects provide that these days, and are offended > by forks. Actually few if any other software projects

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-05 Thread Dave Blanchard
On Wed, 5 Jul 2023 11:56:58 +0300 Sergey Matveev wrote: > >I did manage to open you article, although I had to use a VPN. For some > >reason website doesn't load without it. Greetings from Russia! > > It is available only through IPv6. I use https://ipv6.ip4market.ru/ > tunnel broker here to

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-05 Thread Dave Blanchard
On Wed, 5 Jul 2023 11:55:59 +0300 Sergey Matveev wrote: > *** s...@plunder.tech [2023-07-04 19:37]: > >I use ST without any patching, and have done so for years. It is very fast > >and > >works flawlessly in my experience. All the other terminals have serious > >issues. > > Agreed! I use st

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-05 Thread Santtu Lakkala
On 5.7.2023 11.01, Nikita Krasnov wrote:> Where do *you* draw the line when it comes to what software to use? There's no reason to draw any lines, just use what works for you. Personally I prefer simple software for multitude reasons: - they start up faster than my attention span runs out -

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-05 Thread Miles Rout
On 5 July 2023 6:16:34 am NZST, Dave Blanchard wrote: >People on this email list tend to go to an extreme in favoring simplicity >above all else, which is why they release dumpster fires like the ST terminal >emulator for example which has absolutely no features at all, is riddled with >bugs

[dev] Help to debug window name with special characters

2023-07-05 Thread Dr . André Desgualdo Pereira
I would really appreciate some help on debugging a problem on displaying certain windows names. Some window name are incomplete on dwm status (screenshot attached). The name is "cut" after the first special character (for example: if a window name is "André Desgualdo Pereira" it will show only

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-05 Thread Pontus Stenetorp
On Wed 05 Jul 2023, Nikita Krasnov wrote: > > > > I'm on this mailing list to stay in the loop on updates and patches to > > software I use. Not present evangelical arguments to someone who doesn't > > know what to believe in. > > [P]lus, it's not like it's too busy here anyways. Would you

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-05 Thread Sergey Matveev
*** Nikita Krasnov [2023-07-05 10:47]: >> Thanking you Sagar Acharya https://humaaraartha.in > >I did manage to open you article, although I had to use a VPN. For some >reason website doesn't load without it. Greetings from Russia! It is available only through IPv6. I use

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-05 Thread Sergey Matveev
*** s...@plunder.tech [2023-07-04 19:37]: >I use ST without any patching, and have done so for years. It is very fast and >works flawlessly in my experience. All the other terminals have serious >issues. Agreed! I use st for more than 10 years already and completely do not understand what are

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-05 Thread Nikita Krasnov
But at the end of the day, I'm not really interested in trying to forcefully "convert" you (or anyone else) since I believe that people should be able to do what they want with their computers. As if I'm against it. Convert me as much as you'd like to~ But in all seriousness though. I'll try

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-05 Thread Nikita Krasnov
One of the key problems I find today is that of separating bots from humans. If we fail to do so, bots can be innumerable speaking from a vast IPv6 space. All attempts to correct such attack will fail! Once we take a whitelisting approach, that of fixing IPv6 addresses and moving forward with

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-05 Thread Nikita Krasnov
I have analysed this a while ago, so I would point you to this nice article by me. https://humaaraartha.in/sagar/trusting_no_one.html Thanking you Sagar Acharya https://humaaraartha.in I did manage to open you article, although I had to use a VPN. For some reason website doesn't load without

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-05 Thread Nikita Krasnov
If you don't care then why are you here? Please don't take this personally. Controversy is really not the thing I was trying to achieve. I'm on this mailing list to stay in the loop on updates and patches to software I use. Not present evangelical arguments to someone who doesn't know what

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-05 Thread NRK
On Tue, Jul 04, 2023 at 07:06:12PM +0300, Nikita Krasnov wrote: > What would be the point of using minimalist software if bloated and > excessively complex programs completely satisfy all my needs? I ask this question the other way around, "Why would I use a bloated complex program when a simple

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-05 Thread Sagar Acharya
Well, firstly I suggest using disroot instead of gmail. That is a good start. One of the key problems I find today is that of separating bots from humans. If we fail to do so, bots can be innumerable speaking from a vast IPv6 space. All attempts to correct such attack will fail! Once we take

Re: [dev] Announcing a couple small X11 utilities

2023-07-04 Thread NRK
On Tue, Jul 04, 2023 at 04:37:23PM -0400, Sebastian LaVine wrote: > I'm curious, what inspired you to write this instead of using xwd? Never really knew that it existed :) Going by the manpage, it seems to do a bit more than I'd like, but overall it doesn't seem too bad. - NRK

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-04 Thread Dave Blanchard
On Tue, 04 Jul 2023 19:37:14 -0400 s...@plunder.tech wrote: > > which is why they release dumpster fires like the ST terminal emulator for > > example > > which has absolutely no features at all, is riddled with bugs and > > compatibility > > problems, and requires extensive patching to add in

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-04 Thread sol
> which is why they release dumpster fires like the ST terminal emulator for > example > which has absolutely no features at all, is riddled with bugs and > compatibility > problems, and requires extensive patching to add in any useful features. I use ST without any patching, and have done so

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-04 Thread Mick Phillips
If you don't care then why are you here? I'm on this mailing list to stay in the loop on updates and patches to software I use. Not present evangelical arguments to someone who doesn't know what to believe in. Use the software, or don't. No one is holding a gun to your head.

Re: [dev] Announcing a couple small X11 utilities

2023-07-04 Thread Sebastian LaVine
Cool stuff! On Tue Jul 4, 2023 at 9:51 AM EDT, NRK wrote: > ... > > sxot > > > This one is a *very minimal* screenshot tool. I wrote this when I > realized that other cli screenshot tools (scrot, maim) do way too much. > > sxot on the other hand is meant to follow the unix philosophy - it >

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-04 Thread Hiltjo Posthuma
On Tue, Jul 04, 2023 at 01:16:34PM -0500, Dave Blanchard wrote: > I take a practical approach. I use simple programs when they do the job well, > and more complex programs when they get the job done better. Sometimes a > simple program can be useful for certain jobs, such as ones involving shell

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-04 Thread Nikita Krasnov
I take a practical approach. I use simple programs when they do the job well, and more complex programs when they get the job done better. Sometimes a simple program can be useful for certain jobs, such as ones involving shell scripting, whereas a complex program may be more useful for example

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-04 Thread Sagar Acharya
I have analysed this a while ago, so I would point you to this nice article by me. https://humaaraartha.in/sagar/trusting_no_one.html Thanking you Sagar Acharya https://humaaraartha.in 4 Jul 2023, 21:36 by nikita.nikita.kras...@gmail.com: > Just bear with me on this one, this is not a bait

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-04 Thread Dave Blanchard
I take a practical approach. I use simple programs when they do the job well, and more complex programs when they get the job done better. Sometimes a simple program can be useful for certain jobs, such as ones involving shell scripting, whereas a complex program may be more useful for example

Re: [dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-04 Thread Hiltjo Posthuma
On Tue, Jul 04, 2023 at 07:06:12PM +0300, Nikita Krasnov wrote: > Just bear with me on this one, this is not a bait or a troll, I promise. I > genuinely fell very confused. > > What would be the point of using minimalist software if bloated and > excessively complex programs completely satisfy

[dev] Minimalist software. Should I care?

2023-07-04 Thread Nikita Krasnov
Just bear with me on this one, this is not a bait or a troll, I promise. I genuinely fell very confused. What would be the point of using minimalist software if bloated and excessively complex programs completely satisfy all my needs? I am not the kind of person that works directly with

Re: [dev] Announcing a couple small X11 utilities

2023-07-04 Thread Hiltjo Posthuma
On Tue, Jul 04, 2023 at 07:51:59PM +0600, NRK wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to share some small X11 utilities that I've developed and have > been using in my daily setup. The utilities are all fairly small in > size and requires only typical X libraries. > > sxcs > > > This is a simple

[dev] Announcing a couple small X11 utilities

2023-07-04 Thread NRK
Hi all, I'd like to share some small X11 utilities that I've developed and have been using in my daily setup. The utilities are all fairly small in size and requires only typical X libraries. sxcs This is a simple color picker and magnifier. My issue with all other existing minimal color

Re: [dev] Am I doing this right?

2023-07-04 Thread LM
On Sun, Jul 2, 2023 at 6:37 PM Nikita Krasnov wrote: > While we're on it. Are there any good Android email clients > that you can recommend? I've yet to find an app that allows > you to send emails in plain text, let alone with line > hard-wrapping :( Haven't really tested out email clients on

Re: [dev] Suckless paint/graphic editor program

2023-07-03 Thread LM
On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 4:31 PM Fernando wrote: > I am looking for a graphics editor that can: > *use color > *can draw basic lines and shapes > *easy to build (like suckless programs) As far as easy to build, I've built grafx2 ( http://pulkomandy.tk/projects/GrafX2 ) and LodePaint (

Re: [dev] Suckless paint/graphic editor program

2023-07-03 Thread Dave Blanchard
On Mon, 03 Jul 2023 15:30:40 -0500 Fernando wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying to create some simple logos for webpages with a graphic > editor program. In the past, I have used paint from plan9fromuserspace > but it's quite limited in features (colors, drawing shapes). > > I am looking for a

[dev] Suckless paint/graphic editor program

2023-07-03 Thread Fernando
Hello all, I am trying to create some simple logos for webpages with a graphic editor program. In the past, I have used paint from plan9fromuserspace but it's quite limited in features (colors, drawing shapes). I am looking for a graphics editor that can: *use color *can draw basic lines and

Re: [dev] Am I doing this right?

2023-07-03 Thread Dave Blanchard
> BTW, I suggest avoiding Android in the first place, for multiple reasons. > Not to put too fine a point on it, but Android, and the "smart" phones that it runs on, are controlled by Google--which is a creation of U.S. intelligence. Dave (for better or worse, a U.S. citizen)

Re: [dev] Am I doing this right?

2023-07-02 Thread Dave Blanchard
On Mon, 3 Jul 2023 01:28:03 +0300 Nikita Krasnov wrote: > Thx! :D It is the first time I actually feel _clean_ when > using email. I don't know how much is it because of using > plain text or about actually talking to someone, but it's > the first time I feel like I'm using email as it was >

Re: [dev] Am I doing this right?

2023-07-02 Thread marteg
Hi! While we're on it. Are there any good Android email clients that you can recommend? I've yet to find an app that allows you to send emails in plain text, let alone with line hard-wrapping :( Here [0] is a list of clients recommended for plaintext. It also includes instructions on how to

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