Lars Ingebrigtsen

Great, detailed explanation of the "weird formatting": https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2026/02/02/whats-up-with-all-those-equals… (I knew it was "quoted printable" as soon as I saw it but there's a lot more to it).

The article notes that this browser was originally written by Lars Ingebrigtsen, probably best known for Gnus. Lars is still hacking away on emacs regularly, you can see his blog posts about his work here: https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/category/emacs/

I know for a fact that if the Emacs developers weren't doing a bang up job, which they are, then I would immediately allocate some of my time to help. Development is going great IMHO. However, the bug count is steadily increasing. Any time invested into emacs is well spent. https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/05/03/emacs-bug-trends/

I didn't know this person before: https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/category/emacs/ A banking CTO who contributes a lot in emacs. I really like the image editing he did. Thank you for posting this. Made my day.

how-to guide on building and then contributing to Emacs: https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2014/11/13/welcome-new-emacs-developers/

Looks like since this was posted, the page author has closed another 10% of open emacs bugs: https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2022/01/20/13x10/

Last update is https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2022/08/19/19x10/

I saw recently twitter complaint about emacs bug filed almost 15 years ago finally getting a wontfix responce(bug was about undo history loss or something). And then they write articles about their new and shiny bug closing process[1]. [1] https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2021/08/14/10x10/

The authentication/federation problem is what killed the public nntp use even among the non-Outlook users; But it was Outlook that had killed it among corporate and professional users. Those are two independent issues. Gmane[0][1] did bidirectional nntp to mailing-list in 2002; But there's a mismatch, both technical and cultural, with these gateways. Also, in an internal system, the IT department has to be willing to support them, and they weren't in my cases. It's now water under the bridge. NNTP is essentially dead except for legally questionable video distribution. [0] https://news.gmane.io/ [1] https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2020/01/06/whatever-happened-to-news-gman…

I think you're talking about this article https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2019/02/14/adventures-in-netflix/

This one? https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2019/02/14/adventures-in-netflix/

I think this is the one you need. Interesting, thanks for the suggestion to search for it! https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2019/02/14/adventures-in-netflix/

Seems he's not interested in cash donations: https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2020/01/15/news-gmane-org-is-now-news-gma…

The previous article this one links to explains why: https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2020/01/06/whatever-happened-to-news-gman…

Specifically this linked article https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2020/01/06/whatever-happened-to-news-gman…

The 'Y' is mentioned in this blog post: https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/09/06/gmane-alive/

There are a bunch of reviews of the netflix movies on that blog, just look at https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/category/netflix/

> Gmane used to paper over this issue, but Gmane’s availability over the last few years has been spotty, to say the least (it is down as I write this). The Gmane web interface is not just down but shut down for good: https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/comment-page-… So this issue won't get better without Debian doing something themselves.

There has been an update in the comments thread: https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/comment-page-…

Jason Scott from the Internet Archive commented on Lars' blog post, offering to maintain the archive up at the same domain gmane.org https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/comment-page-… This is undoubtedly good news, and prove once more what fundamental role the Archive has on the internet. I personally hope they will not only keep the content up, but will continue Lars' work on actively running Gmane. The Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and lives out of donations. https://archive.org/about/

Here is the blog post https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2013/07/26/monetising/

> Lights candles to summon Jason Scott to ingest it into the Internet Archive And he has responded. https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/comment-page-…

Same author also wrote a nice, short intro on how to get started with Emacs bug hunting: https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2014/11/13/welcome-new-emacs-developers/

> As it happens, I'm the kind of masochist who uses Sublime Text without any plugins for most of my programming, so I find value in letting people stick to their familiar workflow, even if some might see that workflow as somewhere between 'grossly inferior' and 'literally unusable'. I definitely think there are upsides to not tweaking your text editor config endlessly, so I understand your point :) What I meant with "vim/emacs" is mostly that sometimes you really want to automate a text editing task, and then it's really convenient to have a programmable text editor. It's also very much a case of [0]. > I'm a bit curious, how well do these tools handle HTML email? In my case, I use mu4e in emacs to read my mail. Very basic HTML works by default via emacs's native HTML renderer (see, e.g., [1] for old screenshots). That's my preferred solution because I like the keyboard consistency (it's just an emacs buffer) and because there is a command to view the email in an external browser if needed, but it is also possible to render HTML email accurately in emacs by embedding a webkit widget [2]. As for writing, you can write in Org mode format (emacs markdown, if you will) and it gets converted to HTML on send. [0] https://www.xkcd.com/974/ [1] https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2015/02/10/eww-now-with-fonts/ [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/l60p6a/howto_mu4e_and_reading_…

> As another anecdote, I personally posted a huge list of AWK one-liners 20 years ago to Usenet (comp.lang.awk) and I can't even retrieve that message. That's just pure ASCII text (probably less than 2k) and even the Google Groups (dejanews acquisition) archives don't have it. This is actually another in a long list of known search bugs on Google Groups: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/apps/kej8-gpVvSU Broken search has been a constant problem since Google acquired Deja: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/google-a-search-company-has… Google broke the Deja archive after acquiring them in 2001 and it has never worked properly since that time. The UI and the search sucks. The archives are still there though. I wish Google would release the archives to the public and set up a non-profit to manage them. Compare this to Gmane, essentially a one-man project, where the community stepped up to bring it back on the web after only a couple of months: https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/09/06/gmane-alive/