Here is a local service monitor for all major ISPs in Iraq: http://akonet.info

This is the usual procedure by the "freedom" government they do this every time, the only issue is this time the protestors are not carrying any flags or any political or religious figures names etc... only the Iraqi flag and burning Iranian flags,

so far it's people(sometimes people and the army) vs government... few people got killed already, there is news the Baghdad airport has fallen into the hands of the protestors, and most of the main roads are blocked and crowded with people

//UPDATE:

All cities are offline except Kurdistan up north

I wish the Iraqi people the best I hope you can either get the government to get their ass into gear or otherwise replace them. I have spoken to plenty of family members in Kurdistan and they're all wishing you all the best.

It's a sad state of affairs but I hope it works out for the better.

If so, it's a sign of good progress in Iraqi society and mindset. Such a thing wouldn't be possible just 10 years ago, it was always sort of 'us' vs 'them', these groups being ethnically and/or religiously defined.

Noone started his career with a bunch of experience, you'll get boring jobs, you'll encounter annoying bosses or clients, you'll have stress and deadlines pressure, you'll be forced to develop things that don't match "your idea" of quality, you'll probably have some imposter syndrome... these are just common parts of the industry especially for newcomers.

The best advice would be if you're not looking to go into academia then don't go for PhD, it's a waste of time you can use that time to grind through the industry and get that experience. Another important thing IMHO is that no matter how cool your field is, no matter how much you like it, if it fells under the deadlines, pressure, and stress wheel you'll not enjoy it, you'll find something else that seems more fun and you'll wish if you can do that instead!

I would say if you want maximum fun and then have fun on side-projects, open-source, or freelance on the side

I guess the US is afraid that terrorists may develop weapons using Adobe flash player xD

This is a glib take on US sanctions regardless of whether you feel US sanctions are appropriate. Sanctions are just a weapon, they're not supposed to specifically ban things that are useful to terrorists. It doesn't matter if terrorists use Adobe flash player or not. What matters is that the bans make life worse for Syrian people and their government. Clearly, it's working, because even savvy Syrian developers have to scramble to find illegal/unofficial 3rd party mirrors and VPNs to access basic downloads which, even if it "does the job", can be severely outdated. Enough of a problem that you're coming to this forum and complaining about it.

> GitHub.com may not be used for purposes prohibited under applicable export control laws, including purposes related to the development, production, or use of nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons or long range missiles or unmanned aerial vehicles.

Not only is this sentence an affront to the English language, but I hope you aren't trying to develop any drone software on GitHub...

In fact this was a drive for some of Cygnus' overseas offices: not to evade the law but to do development that could not be spoiled by accidentally exposing it to a person subject to export control laws. Stupidly, we could import that software into the States, but people there couldn't fix bugs in it, only file reports.

If you wanted to reach, you could say that anything that helps guide a vehicle to its destination is control technology, then apply that to something that flies and you're immediately under Aerospace.

https://github.com/intel-aero

Don't forget the old iTunes TOS.

I think the GUI stacks are too bloated or too hideous (electron, cpp/qt,c# and it's limitations, etc...) to work with these days so much that the cool kids (hardcore techy people) just gave up and started doing TUIs to solve their own problems directly?

I didn't think this was a big ask but I guess now that most people just use a single Gmail account the market for such things is dwindling. Here I sit with 7 accounts in Thunderbird. Maybe I'm just going to be stuck with eM Client or Outlook and using RDP to check my email. I'm willing to pay, someone please give me a decent cross platform alternative with a GUI, ideally a proper, non-electron one.

The TUI clients I've looked at all seem to suffer from some mix of:

- Poor mail notifications

- Poor multi-account support

- Single maintainer that could disappear at any time

- Archaic keybindings, or perhaps I'm just too lazy to learn them

- HTML mail is used widely now as most people use webmail and just doesn't map well to console applications

Overall when I want my mail client to "just work" I've found them to be piss poor compared to Thunderbird. Which is beginning to seem rather silly, but it's still my experience.

I don't know what to do. Maybe I should fork Mailspring, strip out the account garbage and just tolerate Electron, but that'd create a whole bunch of maintenance work I just can't take on right now.

- Email notifications just work. I get a bell on my terminal when a new email comes and my desktop environment (i3m) shows a highlighted xterm and a highlighted workspace so that I know that I have a new message.

- Excellent multi-account support. I have 4 email accounts and I can seamlessly move messages between them.

- It had a single maintainer who disappeared, someone else took over who disappeared, and now there is a new maintainer.

- The keybindings are relatively simple (n for next and p for previous) but the arrow keys and mouse also work.

- You can view html emails using w3m or lynx or whatever.

It supports standard features such as choosing your own editor to compose emails (default is nano, which is a successor of pico, which was the editor used by pine), filtering a message to a program (for example, to git apply patch), filter a message before sending, multiple ways to display threading, and so on. It has working support for signing and encrypting messages, decent support of reply templates. It has really really good documentation available in a context sensitive manner.

I sometimes feel that alpine/pine doesn't get as much love as other TUI email clients.

I looked at this video about mutt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jMInHnpNfQ which made me think about making a switch.

However can we really do better than Mutt. Mutt typically had issues with multiple accounts and moving emails between the two. I have been migrating away from Google and this is a handy ability (which thunderbird has). I was quite excited by Drew Devault's aerc client https://drewdevault.com/2019/06/03/Announcing-aerc-0.1.0.htm... so maybe that or meli might be the solution for me.

Really there are only 3 requirements for me:

* Be able to use Vim for editing (one of my major gripes in Thunderbird

* Be able to use markdown, ideally something like pandoc, in thunderbird I use Markdown Here https://markdown-here.com but that requires you to edit in rich text mode and then convert to markdown. This is really annoying because you end up with <br> and <p> in the wrong places and have to always convert back to "Body Text".

* Be able to sync my contacts from CardDav. I could not go back to having a non-centralized address book. Ideally such a client would benefit from https://www.etesync.com/ as well

* Calendars I don't think need to strictly be in a mail client. What's the usecase for that? MacOSX has Mail.app and iCal.app separate. Is this a hangover from the Outlook/Google design. https://www.calcurse.org looks pretty healthy, though they say their CalDav support is experimental.

* PGP support, WKD, OPENPGPKEY, AutoCrypt etc. Enigmail does a lot of things right.

Just remember its there when you are ready for it ;)

As far as multi-account goes, though, it’s relatively easy to setup in mutt, using something like isync and mu for archiving and searching.

When everything on your phone and desktop is constantly seeking your attention it's nice to have some apps working for you.

Ideally I want Android-style reply in the notification level stuff.

I did have an issue in early 2019 where parsing of contact names somehow got messed up, causing outgoing messages to not get sent. After a few productive days of sending emails I found twelve in my outbox that hadn't actually sent! I got scared and went back to Thunderbird after that, but I keep Geary installed and launch it from time to time to sync my mail.

Time for someone to write an Electron-based update to the venerable "biff"[1] program.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biff_(Unix)

Have you tried Postbox? It's cross-platform Mac/Windows, native non-Electron (actually forked from Thunderbird long ago), supports multiple accounts, lots of keyboard shortcuts & paid non-subscription product developed by a company. I've been using it ever since Eudora died, it's the closest I've found to that Eudora power user workflow. It's a GUI app though, not a terminal app.

https://postbox-inc.com/

Now I just forward my IMAP accounts to gmail. This is horrible for many reasons (don't lecture me, I know), but I haven't been able to find a good solution and messing about with email is time-consuming.

I may just consolidate on Fastmail when my current IMAP provider subscription needs renewing. From a brief test a while back their web client seems to be on a par with gmail.

I do really wish I could find a better email client though, but Thunderbird is "good enough" for now. I don't get a warm fuzzy feeling using it, but I also don't rage at it not working constantly.

  -- crontab -e
  -- 0 * * * * /usr/local/bin/imapfilter

  function main ()

      -- See 'man imapfilter_config' for an explanation of
      -- imapfilter options and functions.

      -- Some config examples:
      -- https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter/blob/master/samples/config.lua
      -- https://gist.github.com/dylanwh/408810
      -- http://www.npcglib.org/~stathis/blog/2012/07/09/linux-task-sorting-mail-with-imapfilter/

      -- General Options
      options.timeout = 120
      options.subscribe = true

      -- Accounts
      {%- for v in ACCOUNTS | from_json %}
      local {{ v.serverName }} = IMAP {
          server = '{{ v.server }}',
          username = '{{ v.username }}',
          password = '{{ v.password }}',
          ssl = '{{ v.ssl }}'
      }

      {%- endfor %}

      -- GMAIL
      -- Gmail behaves differently to normal imap. With a normal imap acccount
      -- you can simply use move_messages(). Google stores both inbox
      -- and sent email in the "[Gmail]/All Mail" folder. An email sent to yourself
      -- from the same email address exists as a single email and is visible in
      -- the Inbox and Sent box. If you delete the inbox mail then the sent mail
      -- is also deleted. Thus it is only safe to delete mail once both the Inbox
      -- and Sent box is copied.

      -- Only go ahead and copy inbox/sent/spam from gmail if I have received
      -- some Inbox email.
      if (gmail['Inbox']:check_status() > 0) then
          inbox_mail = gmail["Inbox"]:select_all()
          inbox_copy_success = inbox_mail:copy_messages({{ PRIMARY }}['Gmail Inbox'])

          sent_mail = gmail['[Gmail]/Sent Mail']:select_all()
          sent_copy_success = sent_mail:copy_messages({{ PRIMARY }}['Gmail Sent'])

          spam_mail = gmail["[Gmail]/Spam"]:select_all()
          spam_mail:move_messages({{ PRIMARY }}['Gmail Spam'])

          -- Only clear the All Mail folder if we were successful in moving
          -- our Inbox and Sent mail. Note: move_messages is supposed to return
          -- booleans for copying the messages and then marking them as deleted.
          -- For some reason the mark for deletion return value is 'nil'.
          -- This may need to be [Gmail]/Bin or [Gmail]/Trash check your account!
          if (inbox_copy_success and sent_copy_success) then
              print('Safe to delete both inbox and sent')
              move_inbox = inbox_mail:move_messages(gmail['[Gmail]/Trash'])
              move_sent = sent_mail:move_messages(gmail['[Gmail]/Trash'])

              if (move_inbox and move_sent) then
                  print('Emptying bin');
                  bin_mail = gmail['[Gmail]/Trash']:select_all()
                  bin_mail:delete_messages()
              end
          end
      end

      {%- if SECONDARY != '' %}
      -- {{ SECONDARY }}
      -- Only go ahead and copy inbox/sent/spam from {{ SECONDARY }} if I have received
      -- some Inbox email.
      if ({{ SECONDARY }}['Inbox']:check_status() > 0) then
          inbox_results = {{ SECONDARY }}['Inbox']:select_all()
          inbox_results:move_messages({{ PRIMARY }}['{{ SECONDARY }} Inbox'])

          sent_results = {{ SECONDARY }}['Sent']:select_all()
          sent_results:move_messages({{ PRIMARY }}['{{ SECONDARY }} Sent'])

          spam_results = {{ SECONDARY }}['Junk']:select_all()
          spam_results:move_messages({{ PRIMARY }}['{{ SECONDARY }} Spam'])
      end
      {%- endif %}
  end

  main()

You don't technically need a server.

It's a very simple, single binary that runs on a cron job with no dependency other than lua. I do it on a VPS instance that I have, but there's no reason why you couldn't run it locally.

* Notifications can be configured to do pretty much whatever you want (by invoking a command when new mail arrives)

* Multi-account support works well (currently have it hooked up to my personal and work accounts simultaneously)

* Developed by a community

* The visual component of HTML mail is irrelevant 99% of the time. A reasonable textual interpretation can be generated by piping the message through `w3m --dump`, a process which can happen automatically inside mutt when viewing those messages with no action required on your part. If you absolutely must see the formatted message with images and such, this is only a keystroke away.

There's a lot of initial configuration to do, granted, but you only need to do it once. Then you stick your mutt directory up on github or similar, and never need to do it again. Setting up a new or different machine is a clone away.

You can learn the initial keybinds in a couple hours (it's a lot simpler than vim), and I think you'll be blown away once you get proficient at it.

This may be a bit extreme, but after many years, I think all GUI mail clients suck. Email is primarily a textual medium at the end of the day.

That, and Mutt's the only thing I can think of where the expected features of a mail client work with reliability. Putting up with Thunderbird's speed/stability or Outlook's stability/searching isn't something we should have to do in 2019.

I think I will do that.

> Notifications can be configured to do pretty much whatever you want (by invoking a command when new mail arrives)

My understanding was that was pretty trivial to have going using notify-send and aplay

https://neomutt.org/feature/new-mail

> Multi-account support works well (currently have it hooked up to my personal and work accounts simultaneously)

Admittedly when I looked at it was pre neomutt days, I seem to remember there being a special sidebar patch that upstream refused to use.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPiQuWbF57M Mutt Wizard Published on Apr 25, 2019

In that video he demonstrates a loose script that he's developed https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/mutt-wizard, it might be a good way for me to dip my feet in it and learn about all the components.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvc-pHjbhdE he did a video on calcurse too..

Sorry for the gaudy 4chan-style meme stuff. That's not my thing either but the videos are very succinct and he seems to be a good speaker.

> Developed by a community

Yes, this important to me and more likely to make me help out.

> The visual component of HTML mail is irrelevant 99% of the time. A reasonable textual interpretation can be generated by piping the message through `w3m --dump`, a process which can happen automatically inside mutt when viewing those messages with no action required on your part. If you absolutely must see the formatted message with images and such, this is only a keystroke away.

Very true, most of the email i receive is plain text, sometimes its not, but with minimal formatting. Theoretically it should be possible to view these HTML emails in Firefox should it not?

> There's a lot of initial configuration to do, granted, but you only need to do it once. Then you stick your mutt directory up on github or similar, and never need to do it again. Setting up a new or different machine is a clone away.

This.... the main reason I like plaintext configs.

https://github.com/mailpile/Mailpile

This can be easily fixed. Try using Evolution for a while and you never complain about search issues with Thunderbird. In fact, you will praise Thunderbird for its search features. If still something is lacking, install recoll on your system to find stuff.

I would pay for an email client too.

and I'm right there with you about being willing to pay. Thunderbird is what I use, but I'm always asking myself if there's a better way.

Another massive benefit is that I can seamlessly use all of the same tools over an SSH/Mosh connection. X11 forwarding over SSH has never practically worked for me (it's too laggy and Australian internet makes doing it between networks basically impossible).

i now carry a tiny laptop (gpd pocket) where i have all my important stuff, including ssh keys to servers. i use any other available device as a workstation with a browser, and use ssh/mosh to access my tiny laptop to do the important work and access servers through that.

What is the keyboard like to type on and how fast can you type? Where did you purchase it?

i got the first model of that series during their crowdfunding campaign. (it's their second product that they released 2 years ago) the keyboard on that was a bit wobbly, occasionally a key would not work (most annoying when typing a password), but for the most part it is usable.

the newer model is supposed to have a better keyboard, as i think the keyboard was what most people complained about.

it has plenty of diskspace and ram, to be practically usable, and if you got the right charger then you can hook up an external monitor and keyboard when at home or in the office, and have it portable otherwise. (and it really fits into my pant pockets)

That is worrying that keys would stop working. I'd definitely be interested in a cheaper model with an ARM processor primarily for remote development on the go.

but that's the first model. current models are supposed to have much better keyboards

The infrared mouse works OK (I'd prefer the thinkpoint-esque knob of the original GPD Pocket), but you can also attach a Apple Magic Trackpad 2 on it. These work very well if you run a new Linux kernel and patch up some software such as Xinput.

I run Kali Linux on it (its part of my pentest equipment; don't use it for e-mail and such [1]). Slapped an Apple logo on it for the fun of it.

Can I recommend the device? Well yes and no.

Its an OK build quality, and if you apply thermal pads and some copper you can easily run the machine without the fan on all the cores. It does get a bit more hot on the bottom then.

Its a bit expensive now, I'd say, compared to say the current Raspberry Pi 4 plus a powerbank plus a monitor. Its just 2018 price and hardware. Perhaps look at the successor(s) such as the black version or perhaps the Max?

Worst part is they screwed me over cause there's a clear spot on the top right due to attachment of the (touch)screen and in certain light / colors it is rather apparent. CS said they couldn't notice the issue. No warranty was provided. And even then I read about some people had to pay import tax once more receiving their (repaired/new) device but they want you to send the device without value (which means you could lose the whole thing if it gets lost). Typically Chinese.

[1] You could argue you shouldn't use such Chinese hardware for pentest purposes which is a fair point.

[1] https://www.brow.sh/

Sadly this obsessive search for the ultimate workflow becomes a goal unto itself, leading to a life-long unsuccessful and unsatisfying search that is doomed to fail.

Meanwhile, in the real world GUIs have long superseded any text-based UIs, speciality tasks aside. E-mail is not a special task...

I would love to see a language agnostic UI stack that can run across platforms, to an extent Electron is "language agnostic" since you write the UI in whatever language you want, you just then compile it to JS (and eventually WebAssembly).

Doesn't look that bad?

If I can use any language with the awesome Qt tooling I am set. They seem to be working on making Python such a citizen in the official Qt languages stack but its taking forever and is only 1 single language.

Maybe they need to do what Godot did. Implement a bridging programming language that bridges any native language to their engine. With Godot I can write code in Rust, D, probably Nim and so on and all due to GDNative their bridging language to ensure you can use what you are comfortable using.

The storage consumed is reasonable in terms of modern sizes storage.

Purely from the perspective of the end user I'm not sure I understand what the difficulty is.

The user doesn't care if the app is gtk 2 or 17. From the user's perspective they click install and an icon appears and their free hard drive space goes down a tiny amount.

Immediate advantages, at least for me:

- a possibility to use proportional fonts, it's more pleasant for me and increases content density

- borders and other decorations could be smaller, increasing density

- smooth scrolling could be implemented, which is nice

- it could better integrate with desktop environment

Possible and very much desired extensions:

- basic image and video support

- possibility to use different font sizes

It would still be limited to a coarse grid, but that's what makes development easy.

I never looked beyond superficial it's possible or easy enough to do. I also don't have much experience, beyond basics with ncurses.

Why I like it? Well, if you're a Emacs user and you can get everything to work with Emacs-esque keybinds that's great. Same with vi(m) keybinds. With Mutt, its a matter of setting EDITOR right and you can compose your e-mails with vi(m) (yes, you could set EDITOR to something more nefarious ;). You don't get to make such choices with a GUI e-mail client.

Do you consider Xaw scrollbars a feature? They feel totally inconvenient to use with their weird "the position you click at is the amount to scroll and the button to use is the direction to scroll" behavior. The only way i use such a scrollbar myself is with middle clicking since that is the only way i find them usable.

I hate to use Thunderbird because of the UI/UX and some missing features and I miss the seamless integration into the OS (click on a date in a mail to create an appointment in your calendar*) but it's the only good working mail client out there I know.

Mailspring/Nylas has a really nice interface but as another user wrote it wants to steal your credentials and I don't like that.

Electron is okay as long as it helps providing a better UX, for me that is one of the most important features besides stability & security.

As a calendar app "MineTime" is the best I've seen out there so far and sometimes I wish I'd have a bunch of apps like these for a great "FOSS Desktop Experience".

@author: Great work - hope you create something like mutt and alpine that can enrich the ideas in the world of TUI mail clients.

But I noticed with an old thinkpad (x220) that I can reduce overall resource consumption and prolong battery life just by switching everything I can to a more terminal-centered workflow.

Ranger consumes less than dolphin, I use NMTUI because i3wm doesn't have a clickable task bar item for configuring WiFi (at least in my setup) and VIM/NVIM consume less than VSCode, IntelliJ, Atom or other editors.

Clearly there is a difference when you compare an electron app to some other running in the JVM or natively but in the end I have the feeling that terminal apps run better and faster.

Another very important thing in my opinion is the possibility to use these apps via SSH which is still my preferred way to remotely use computers (no VNC, RDP, teamviewer etc.).

I, for one, cannot get enough of this. Faced with the choice of a performant and full-featured GUI and a slightly slower and worse TUI, I get to chose the text interface 100% of the time. It is so much more convenient!

Terminal-based interfaces predate GUIs and have never really stopped being popular among a specific crowd. Perhaps they are gaining more traction now because of all the warts that current popular GUI frameworks have, but it is by no means a new development that is suddenly happening.

Not touching a mouse is a big plus. It may not bother you now but it probably will in a few years.

I guess you could argue that with the recent-ish rise of new CLI-friendly languages and frameworks like Go, Rust and Node that the people are reinventing the wheel in terms of terminal based tooling. However there has always been a strong undercurrent of people favouring the terminal for most types of work (myself included).

Unfortunately, it's going to sell just because it's the big old facebook, your non-techy friend probably don't know the difference between crypto and food stamps all they know it's points for money, one is a boring piece of paper and the other is cool futuristic out of the matrix Bitcoin like super numbers

I wonder how this is different, besides the whole "blockchain" bit, because otherwise it's just a rehashed idea with makeup on it.

I’m sure things vary drastically between Israel, Iran and UAE.

Why not? Do they not have work visas like America does?

I mean considering how many undocumented people make it to America from the middle east I can't imagine it would be too hard to get into Israel.

I'm a visual learner myself, I would watch a little video on x2 speed or go directly to a code snippet and move on, yes it's bad and I've got my ass bitten by this few times in my early days, so I forced my self to read the API references, the docs, and/or source code at least around what I need to use in my code and it's getting better with time.

Don't be upset and don't try to force it, he's/she's a junior, advice/push them to read the API references or the source code, keep sending them the raw info they will adapt, just don't hate the fact that they are "visual learners"

0. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ase.1777

I really hate the "throw a research paper at them" approach we are talking about a human... a preference of watching vs reading if someone is not comfortable with reading you don't hate/force them.

I'm a 5th-grade dropout... I'm not used to reading large books I get bored after 10 min and I won't learn shit if I'm bored, even videos are boring for me that's why I use x2 speed.

It's not a black and white subject there is dyslexia, ADD, ADHD, and a huge list...

But if you're learning a new framework or a whole new concept a video of someone doing the work will give a better/faster general idea of what's going on

Use timestamp with tz, drop Unix timestamps and use ISO8601 DateTime format across the application ezpz never look back

When you store something as timestamptz, postgres converts it to UTC and "loses" the timezone part.

The only difference between timestamptz and timestamp is that when postgres is returning the timestamptz to you, it converts it back to your local time zone defined by SET TIME ZONE (and not the time zone it was originally stored in)

So basically if you store a timestamptz, you cannot convert it back to the local time, as the local time is never even stored.

I personally had to add a second `timezone` column to my table to store the timezone of the date.

E.g., when you do store the timezone separately, use `timestamp without time zone`: `time AT TIME ZONE timezone` [1] only does the right thing (i.e., interpreting `time` as relative to `timezone`, and producing an absolute time corresponding to it) if `time` is `without time zone`. (If `time` is `with time zone`, it produces the local time corresponding to the absolute time `time`, which is mathematically exactly the opposite of what you want.)

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-datetime.h...

Unfortunately the poor naming is a big faux pas.

I really really expected timestamp with time zone to store the time zone.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/datatype-datetime.html

"For timestamp with time zone, the internally stored value is always in UTC (Universal Coordinated Time, traditionally known as Greenwich Mean Time, GMT). An input value that has an explicit time zone specified is converted to UTC using the appropriate offset for that time zone. If no time zone is stated in the input string, then it is assumed to be in the time zone indicated by the system's timezone parameter, and is converted to UTC using the offset for the timezone zone."

'timestamp with timezone' is kind of a gotcha. i guess it combines two things into one type that are logically one type but it also might mislead someone into believing the type is something else.

For calendaring or other applications where time zone’s shifting offsets can cause issues you need to store the UTC time along with the timezone and then do the conversion on read.