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|    Benny Pedersen to Maurice Kinal    |
|    All or nothing :)    |
|    25 Aug 24 22:05:36    |
      MSGID: 2:230/0 66cbaaf7       TZUTC: 0000       REPLY: 1:153/7001 66cb8c64       CHRS: LATIN-1 2       TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 17-02-17       Hello Maurice!              25 Aug 2024 19:56, Maurice Kinal wrote to Benny Pedersen:               BP>> using nano, but i don't try 8bit yet, hehe        MK> Your CHRS kludge claims you are using 8bit.              +1              i miss my amiga :=)               BP>> nano is supporting idn and utf8, but utf7 would imho be what it        BP>> should be for fidonet software,        MK> I disagree. utf8 should be the default.              we can agree to disagree hehe :)               BP>> there is no hope any fidonet software will do native html at all               MK> Why?              if html was used as html without utf8, or crap like quoted printelble on top       of html or even utf8 it would be perfect, but as all in microdollers no one       care at all               MK> All that will accomplish is bloating text messages with html              disagree                MK> tags that people like me will filter out.              did i say css ? :=)               MK> You can count on that. I         MK> am still using pure text (utf8) in email.              i still say amiga won't help you with that statement               MK> I absolutely hate html         MK> email.              me2, especsily when done on maillists, people at ignorants there, try convence       gmail users to turn html of ?               MK> If you meant to say using httpd to display msgs then it has long been         MK> a done deal although I have yet to see anyone get proper displays         MK> working in a textual enviroment such as a 4K display. I have been         MK> toying with this idea since viewing a mp4 farmed out to mpv from my         MK> links text browser on a 4K monitor deploying the linux terminal.              video is not really html is it ?               MK> mpv         MK> can do this using libdrm for graphical output, with no need for a gui.               just like as link -g giffile.gif is ment to test vga monitors ? :=)               MK> Also I can split the 4k linux terminal into 4 terminals that are very         MK> close to looking like the 80x24 terminals from way back when that was         MK> the standard size of a purely textual display.              it would have saved energy in in 1970 and forward if that existed at that       time, today i have asus åpn50 with less energy consumes then a old quad       pentium ii :)              yes i still have the quad pentium ii, hehe, 4 cpu do the max on 1536 bogomips,       so equal as a rasberry pie with 1000 times less energi consumes, hmm               MK> Over the course of         MK> almost 40 years, I have never seen anything better, although the         MK> Matrox G200 was outstanding in it's time. Things got better I am         MK> happy to report.              i had a G200 aswell, lost if it was pci or isa, it would imho be fast like a       pentium pro raid card in my quard core pentium ii, silly ibm hardware design               BP>> all well ?               MK> Little Mikey's Brain lost it's 16 penguin host machine last week.         MK> Good thing I had a quad core backup ready to pick up the task. Up to         MK> date too, software-wise. This standardized fidonet msg tells the         MK> tale.              i plan on upgrade from pn50 to pn53 :)              but i am just not have the money yet, pn53 is more energy saving then pn50               MK> Life is good,        MK> Maurice               MK> o- -o o- -o        MK> /) (\ /) (\        MK> ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^                     hehe powersave mode ? :=)               MK> ... Cyning sceal on healle beagas d|ªlan.        MK> A king in the hall should deal out rings.        MK> -+- GNU bash, version 5.2.32(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)        MK> + Origin: Little Mikey's Brain - Ladysmith BC, Canada (1:153/7001)                      Regards Benny              ... too late to die young :)              --- Msged/LNX 6.1.2 (Linux/6.10.6-gentoo-dist (x86_64))        * Origin: gopher://fido.junc.eu/ (2:230/0)       SEEN-BY: 18/200 90/1 103/705 105/81 106/201 124/5016 129/305 153/757       SEEN-BY: 153/7715 154/10 30 201/0 203/0 124 412 218/700 221/0 1 6       SEEN-BY: 226/30 227/114 229/110 111 114 206 300 317 400 426 428 470       SEEN-BY: 229/550 616 664 700 230/0 240/1120 5832 266/512 280/464 5003       SEEN-BY: 282/1038 291/111 292/854 8125 301/1 310/31 320/219 322/757       SEEN-BY: 341/66 234 342/200 396/45 423/120 460/58 256 1124 5858 467/888       SEEN-BY: 633/280 712/848 770/1 5020/400 545 5054/30 5075/35       PATH: 230/0 203/0 280/464 460/58 229/426           |
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