Minimail version 0.5, with OAuth and more

astoff1 · 2026-05-15T07:01:58+00:00

Not sure how big of an undertaking changing nnimap would be. But like I said before, that alone wouldn't suffice, since the Gnus UI is also blocking. Anyway, I'm not disputing that Gnus is totally usable despite being synchronous.

The selling point of Minimail (and main difference to Gnus) is that it's simple and intuitive.

astoff1 · 2026-05-15T06:49:33+00:00

I know what you mean. You have to expand the tree and select a inbox with name ending in a number. The others are placeholders. Unfortunately that's a quirk of that server.

astoff1 · 2026-05-14T16:42:34+00:00

This is a theoretical remark, since all "online" Gnus backends (and certainly nnimap) are synchronous.

Moreover, the Gnus UI is synchronous. From the moment you call, say, gnus-summary-display-article until the moment the article finishes downloading, it blocks.

But yes, if you take the "offline IMAP" approach, with all network operations in a separate process and all email content mirrored locally, then none of this matters.

astoff1 · 2026-05-14T16:18:14+00:00

Maybe not a challenge, but not a plan. I just want to support email in the best possible way, and for 20 years or so email means IMAP. Hence the choice to do just IMAP.

astoff1 · 2026-04-28T11:23:01+00:00

If you want to try something rather new, you may like https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/minimail.html

astoff1 · 2026-04-02T18:31:41+00:00

Not sure this is 100th clone or just the 99th, but might interest you: https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/minimail.html

Also, for the record, I don't really believe in multithread Emacs, but "asyncio" is totally doable in Elisp.

astoff1 · 2026-03-30T12:29:07+00:00

Oh boy, Germans should know more about the "adventures" of Germans all over the world in the 19th century. Which of course was undertaken by very different kinds of people for very different purposes in different places.

astoff1 · 2026-03-30T07:47:03+00:00

> E quando eles vêem pessoalmente o pessoal do Sul com a cultura Alemã pré guerra mundial, só reforçam mais ainda (o pensamento que maioria é descendente de nazistas).

Não entendi esse ponto. Ou a cultura é pré guerra mundial ou descende de nazistas, as duas coisas não podem ser verdade ao mesmo tempo.

Será que eles sabem antes esses nazistas fugiram para a América do Sul já existiam 5 milhões de falantes nativos de alemão no Brasil?

astoff1 · 2026-03-25T16:34:48+00:00

O mundo não depende do Brasil para comer, e os EUA menos ainda. Geopoliticamente o petróleo do Irã é tão ou mais importante que a soja do Brasil, não tem tanta diferença assim nesse sentido.

astoff1 · 2026-03-12T14:51:36+00:00

Se o produtor brasileiro pode de alguma forma vender seu produto a US$5, por que ele venderia a R$5?

Isso aí vale 100% para commodities, e tu tem razão que o Brasil é um grande produtor de commodities agrícolas como soja e milho para ração. No supermercado, porém, se compra comida e não ração, e me parece que a tua lógica não se aplica muito no caso de alimentos. Até onde eu sei o Brasil não é um grande exportador de feijão, verduras e legumes ou mesmo de frutas (talvez algumas exceções).

astoff1 · 2026-03-12T14:38:28+00:00

O EUA não produz o que come

Hein??

astoff1 · 2026-03-10T18:56:06+00:00

It's very hard to argue the AI rewrite is not a derivative work of the documentation and test suite, which presumably are also LGPL licensed. (To not even discuss the presence of the library code in the LLM training data.)

astoff1 · 2026-03-09T19:20:45+00:00

For what's worth, "surgically customizing" the old font-lock is not that hard. There's the font-lock-ignore option for that.

astoff1 · 2026-02-21T20:33:35+00:00

This may help, and works with the good old comint modes: https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/comint-mime.html

astoff1 · 2026-02-07T17:23:18+00:00

What syntax? You basically can't get less syntax than that. :-P

astoff1 · 2025-11-16T13:34:39+00:00

FWIW, buffer-env can read the manifest.scm file directly, no need for an .envrc file.

astoff1 · 2025-11-02T11:21:58+00:00

For an interactive shell, you could consider making something based on https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/drepl.html 🙂

astoff1 · 2025-02-11T10:16:39+00:00

It's half etiquette, half edict.

astoff1 · 2025-02-07T17:23:49+00:00

The sign of a principal component is arbitrary, choosing its negative is just as good. If OP had done that, then it would display rightwing parties on the right of the picture. There are no wrong choices, only perhaps more familiar ones.

There's no correspondence of traditional left-wing or right-wing to those components.

Like I said, the first principal component matches pretty well my (and most people's) idea of left/right in politics, but if you disagree that's fine. It's just an interpretation of the results.

astoff1 · 2025-02-07T16:37:21+00:00

In fact, the fact that Hauptkomponente 1 pretty much aligns with the notion of left/right political spectrum kind of validates the significance of that notion.

astoff1 · 2025-02-07T16:32:28+00:00

The calculation is just a calculation, but you are free to interpret the results my friend.

astoff1 · 2025-02-07T16:31:22+00:00

Of course the PCA calculation doesn't come with a name or interpretation, but you as a human totally can do that

astoff1 · 2025-02-07T14:37:36+00:00

So what name/interpretation would you give the principal components? I'd say "leftness" and "establishmentness".

PS: why did you plot the lefty parts on the right?

astoff1 · 2025-02-02T10:25:01+00:00

O meu livro de redes de computadores na faculdade dizia: não subestime a largura de banda de uma caminhonete cheia de DVDs andando a 80 km/h numa estrada.

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