Re: [9fans] I prefer cropping images in Plan 9

2018-07-24 Thread hiro
Steve, p9sk1 blares your DES-encrypted secrets into the open. If you want to understand more I suggest reading the 9front man page authsrv(6). This is why dp9ik has been built.

Re: [9fans] I prefer cropping images in Plan 9

2018-07-23 Thread Steve Simon
Intriguing. how is p9sk1 completely unsafe? I didn't believe the key exchange contained enough cleartext to make it realisticly breakable, however I may be fooling myself. I am not saying it cannot be improved upon, but I didn't think it was insecure. -Steve [sent from my

Re: [9fans] I prefer cropping images in Plan 9

2018-07-23 Thread hiro
on ubuntu all updates i get are only security updates. i like that arrangement (though those updates are often low quality so they unintentionally break stuff sometimes). but this has nothing to do with plan9 from bell labs, which still hasn't updated to dp9ik. p9sk1 is completely unsafe.

Re: [9fans] I prefer cropping images in Plan 9

2018-07-22 Thread Lucio De Re
On 7/21/18, Ryan Gonzalez wrote: > > To be fair, if you're using a command line, you might as well be using > ImageMagick (not criticizing your points or anything, just playing devil's > advocate). > Without ever looking under he bonnet, I got the impression that IM is the single utility that is

Re: [9fans] I prefer cropping images in Plan 9

2018-07-22 Thread Ethan A. Gardener
On Sat, Jul 21, 2018, at 4:20 PM, Ryan Gonzalez wrote: > On July 21, 2018 8:21:10 AM "Ethan A. Gardener" wrote: > > > I just had to crop a bunch of images in the Gimp, and recalled how much I > > prefer doing it in Plan 9; it's so much less frustrating. In the Gimp, it's > > either a matter of

Re: [9fans] I prefer cropping images in Plan 9

2018-07-22 Thread Ethan A. Gardener
On Sat, Jul 21, 2018, at 5:17 PM, hiro wrote: > > do this, I think one thing that could maybe be interesting would be for the > > files to potentially contain rich data, not just plain text? Kind of like > > TempleOS or systemd's journal does. > > Rich data? You mean like... images? > Ha ha! :)

Re: [9fans] I prefer cropping images in Plan 9

2018-07-22 Thread Ethan A. Gardener
On Sat, Jul 21, 2018, at 4:20 PM, Ryan Gonzalez wrote: > > While I'm replying here, might as well point out that, if you're going to > do this, I think one thing that could maybe be interesting would be for the > files to potentially contain rich data, not just plain text? Kind of like >

Re: [9fans] I prefer cropping images in Plan 9

2018-07-21 Thread hiro
> do this, I think one thing that could maybe be interesting would be for the > files to potentially contain rich data, not just plain text? Kind of like > TempleOS or systemd's journal does. Rich data? You mean like... images?

Re: [9fans] I prefer cropping images in Plan 9

2018-07-21 Thread Ryan Gonzalez
On July 21, 2018 8:21:10 AM "Ethan A. Gardener" wrote: I just had to crop a bunch of images in the Gimp, and recalled how much I prefer doing it in Plan 9; it's so much less frustrating. In the Gimp, it's either a matter of estimating numbers (for a quick, casual job on visual media), or

[9fans] I prefer cropping images in Plan 9

2018-07-21 Thread Ethan A. Gardener
I just had to crop a bunch of images in the Gimp, and recalled how much I prefer doing it in Plan 9; it's so much less frustrating. In the Gimp, it's either a matter of estimating numbers (for a quick, casual job on visual media), or select, copy, paste into new window. In the latter case, when