Here you go - enjoy!

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I have mutt set up to open HTML attchments in Qupzilla upon request. Beyond that, it's fast and wonderful, giving me the text of the email and stripping out bullshit.

Will there be enough text left in the body of the email for a text-based client to even work anymore? Not that I'm worried about it - I suspect the same people who will use AMP to send email are the ones I wouldn't want to read anyway.

I wonder where Jon Katz is today....

Happy Birthday, /.!

Will Lubuntu finally switch over to LXQt? It's been ages since they announced this, and I'm curious to see if it's better than Debian's version of LXQt...

I'd be willing to bet that most security-conscious Firefox users turn off telemetry (as I did), which would skew the numbers. Chances are that they hit this milestone earlier than now.

Yeah, it was a bitch to install, but I enjoyed OS/2 at the time, and had Win3.11, OS/2, DOS 6.2 and Linux (I want to say it was Yggdrasil) all booting from OS/2's boot manager on the same 40 GB hard drive. I had no room for actual applications, but i had a great time tinkering with the OS'es! My first foray onto the World Wide Web was via OS/2's WebExplorer 1.0. I loved their NR/2 Newsreader with it's MDI UI - I keep thinking I'm going to build something similar in PyQT, but never quite get around to it. Anyway, IBM seemed to drop OS/2 support hard - no updates to WebExplorer, no new device drivers, and barely any bug fixes. Even people who were otherwise enjoying the OS had to move on pretty much out of necessity. I think i may even still have my copy of Petzold's OS/2 PM Programming kicking around. Good times.

RSS is dying because sites don't like it. People use it as a shortcut to see whether anything on their list of favorite blogs is worth navigating to the site to read. If not, then they won't visit the site, taking page hits (and ad revenue) from the site. I love RSS, but it seems like sites are dropping support for it left and right.

Certain crated languages enjoy at least a limited amount of usage outside of their original contexts, with two obvious examples being Klingon and Tolkien's family of elvish languages. Do your foresee any of the languages you've created thus far being used outside of their respective TV series?

I'd be more impressed if he was offering the same benefit to his employees.

I bought a cheap Kindle Fire HD ($189) on sale a little over a year ago, and paid extra ($15) to get rid of the ads. I use it to mostly to surf the web, which I do from a sideloaded copy of Firefox. As for ebooks: I buy directly from O'Reilly's website. O'Reilly's books are DRM-free and available in many formats, including the Kindle's preferred .mobi format, and in O'Reilly's case I'd rather the money go straight to the publisher without the middleman. I'll grab a freebie title from Amazon now and then when they're offered. Otherwise, I buy digital music from Amazon occasionally, but having their branded tablet hasn't changed my buying habits at all. For me, they just subsidized my tablet back when 10" tablets were all $400 and up.

I remember Awful Green Things From Outer Space fondly. If I remember correctly, it originally appeared in an early edition of Dragon magazine and later as a TSR boxed set (which I bought). We found the awful green things almost always won unless the crew player found a great weapon (e.g., ray gun) early on in the game.

While cleaning out my closet a few weeks ago, I came across a stack of Metagaming micro games. I played these with friends from high school over thirty years ago, and we really loved them (they actually got more playtime in our gaming group than some of the larger Avalon Hill titles of the time). While the well-known Ogre and GEV were in there, I still have some old lesser known titles like WarpWar, Invasion of the Air Eaters, Sticks and Stones, and Holy War.

Have you considered re-releasing some of the better titles from the old Metagaming catalog?

You can read about it in detail in Bruce Sterling's excellent The Hacker Crackdown. The book is literary freeware, and does a great job explaining how the Steve Jackson Games raid happened and what the fallout of it was.

Between Unity and Mir, it's considered cool to Bash Ubuntu these days, but even their most stalwart detractors have to admit they raised the bar for desktop Linux from the first day of their release. There's a reason it's become both a popular distro and a popular base for derivatives.

Thank you, Ubuntu, and Happy Birthday.