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seuss1969on Intermediate Vim tips

If you like the idea of cursorline, take a look at this snippet I found while searching dot files: https://github.com/darnir/dotfiles/blob/eb26d9a0f3df1650df0e...

seuss1969on Tar and Curl Come to Windows

It's possible to download a static executable of the latest Wget releases for Windows.

They tend to work without any issues.

seuss1969on Password Algorithms

That is not always feasible. There are also requirements like your passwords should be different in atleast 3 places.

seuss1969on Creator of cURL wins Polhem Prize 2017

The authors of Wget are far from anonymous. Hrvoje started with the first version, but hasn't been around for a while now. However, it's not that Wget "lost" the battle with curl. They are two different applications with different use cases. Curl is predominantly a library, while wget focuses on being a small downloader application.

Only thing is, curl has far more contributors than wget. This is because of its licensing and it being a library. Not to mention the brilliant stewardship provided by Daniel.

P.S. I do often contribute to Wget and may be a little biased towards it.

seuss1969on The EU’s new roaming rules

Switzerland is not in EU, so the prices for there are not regulated.

As a result on my prepaid CallYa plan, I have insane charges when roaming here.

seuss1969on The EU’s new roaming rules

You think €51 per GB is absurd? I have a Vodafone prepaid connection from Germany. Currently traveling in Switzerland, Vodafone informed me my roaming data charges are 17ct per 50 Kb.

A little back of the envelope calculation and that puts my rate at €3.500 per GB. Now that's an absurd value!!

seuss1969on Switching to the Mutt Email Client

Mutt deals surprisingly well with HTML emails. Most newsletters and other HTML mails usually come with a plain text version as well which Mutt will preferably display. Apart from that, you can make mutt pipe the HTML Email to a console browser for rendering. It works transparently. I've been doing this for a while now

seuss1969on Switching to the Mutt Email Client

Then you should try looking at NeoMutt (www.neomutt.org). It's a pseudo fork of Mutt that has added a lot of new features.

Recently it landed full Lua scripting support as well. Guess you're not the only one that was looking for more powerful configuration within mutt.