I'm back!
Trying to get used to social networking sites again.
Hey! :D
Any interesting news around?
In my case, I have some news to share:
I just received news through GNU Social that some "free software activist" is making a jump further than the FSF volunteers can do on evaluating whether some system distribution is free/libre or not.
I've contacted thefalco and victorhck (on GNU Social) about this issue since they seem to be near said "free software activist". Said "free software activist" seems to carry the phrase "free software" everywhere around his personal blog. Still, he has choosen to announce it in his blog naturally for the general and misinformed public to see, download and probably get a surprese afterwards. Said system distribution is based on his beloved OpenSUSE (which is non-free, by de way).
What puzzles me is that, I remember seeing him being temporarely banned from free/libre software-related IRC channels on
chat.freenode.netdue to his and his mates' coordinated floods in which they complain about freenode's dependency on CloudFlare's non-free JavaScript(for its website, of course). I do agree that this is an issue to care about (and some of us are indeed concerned about it. See the LibrePlanet action page on this issue and freenode's GitHub issue about it), but I personally don't see him as a free/libre software activist (the same can be said about some other people from Spain-or-related-places that claim to be free/libre software activists).During my college tests, I took the time to create an e-mail attachment scanner written in GNU bash and GNU sed. It scans for a list of MIME/content types inside the e-mails you pass through pipes to it, and then tells you whether it has found something, and prints what was found in the order of appearance, and also tries to tell you how to contact the person who sent that email.
With this script ready, I also took the time to make an automated email sender that takes the response received from the previous script and uses user-supplied templates that can have GNU bash commands insider or also variables). I made it in such a way that the user can specify a different template for each list of MIME/content types he wants to scan for. After reading the templates (and expanding currency symbols (
$) according to GNU bash syntax) it sends the resulting message to a user-supplied software (supposedly: an SMTP email client) that will use it as body of the message.I also made this last script accept directories to watch for email files for (recursively!) continuously until the user presses Ctrl + C or terminates the script. This allows GNOME Evolution users to simply write a two line script that will be used by
/bin/sh(not always GNU bash) to make a temporary file inside user-supplied directory, and make GNOME Evolution pipe the message to that temporary file through pipeing it to the two-line script.I plan on submiting both AMBER (the email MIME/content type scanner) and AMBER Mailer for inclusion on GNU Savannah some day.
Seems to me like those two long points, especially the second one, deserve a titled post of their own =)
Indeed... :D
As a correction: The name thefalco is actually thefaico.