Yeah, Gmail has a feature where it'll retrieve emails from another server, using either POP3 or IMAP (assuming the other server supports that)
It's under Settings -> Accounts and Import -> Check email from other accounts
Once retrieved, you can then set up filters for it as normal, including forwarding
One limitation is that there's no way to set how often it'll check — it'll check as often as it sees fit. That can be an issue for confirmation emails, which sometimes expire quite quickly.
For clarification, I was asking about setting #GMail up so that if I sent e-mails from one account to the GMail account, they'd be forwarded with the GMail account as the From and Reply-to fields.
When you realize that #carbain didn't "just happen" and that it was the result of years of propaganda, lobbying, and other form of influence by the auto industry. >:(
when i was a kid, you could build a simple game or application by dragging and dropping a few UI controls, and gluing them together with a few dozen lines of BASIC or Pascal or HyperTalk. it might take 15 minutes, at most, to get your little character walking around on the screen. this is how we ended up with a lot of hilariously good and cheap shareware you could share on BBSes in the 90s.
for the past year i've been quietly working on building a software thingie that doesn't exist anymore. i've been building a software toolkit that's kinda like Visual Basic and HyperCard and Borland Delphi, designed for making tile-based 2d games.
i've been using it to build my own little goofy games, and improving on the drag'n'drop IDE as i figuring things out. it's not done yet, and has a long ways to go before it's ready for other people to start making their own little applications and games. think PICO-8 or ZZT if they had grown up on a steady diet of Windows 3.1 and GeoWorks Ensemble instead.
i'm really, really bad about polishing turds to infinity and never releasing them. to break that habit, i've built a mini-website for the IDE/Shareware Creation Kit. it's called Exigy, named like a bad 80s metal hair band or richard garriott game.
i'll be posting weekly blog/devlog updates there, so i don't irritate anyone with them on this account. there is an rss feed button at the top right if you hate my demonic php and css.
The RSS links back to tomodashi.journal.. Is that intentional?
Another small uninvited hint: if you add a <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" tag in the header, apps like the parrot can auto-discover it.
@notthatdelta once i get some of the more difficult stuff figured out - saving and loading! - it'll be ready to at least goof around with. turning it into something production-ready might be a long wait 😆
it's weird that in the 21st century we don't have anything like Visual Basic 6 where you could make a fully functioning GUI Windows app in no time. There's just nothing that's as easy to use these days... in a way it feels like we're going backwards
@smallsco the UI toolkit are still indeed awful 😆 mercifully, that's also true for unity and every other engine i've worked with. no one seems to want robust windowing/ui element systems.
i completely rolled my own based on what i thought looked and felt good. most of the ui elements (windows, text boxes, buttons, tilemap renderers, etc) are all drag and drop from the ui element panel onto a window. all elements self-render within a window, based on their z-indices. the worst - by far - was writing all of the mouse handling code.
it's entirely written in lua, with zero libraries. as of this week, i'm testing out a script called Binser for serialization - so i may have to rely upon someone else's code for saving/loading, but that's going to be the only one. writing byte-level data management code is above my paygrade 😅
whoa, this is so cool! I've toyed with a similar idea in the past too. A kind of retro styled desktop environment coded with modern tooling. If I ever make something of it, it will end up at http://www.neoclassic.systems/
omg yes. i'm still sad they moved from multiwindow-ness of Delphi 1-7 to a single-window integrated solution in RAD Studio, it was very nice, sleek and, well, minimalistic and customisable, unlike the "post-Delphi" IDE monstrocities 😒
@smallsco cool! imgui is indeed a nice library - i've seen it ported to pretty much every engine. i never liked imgui's structure myself - writing new controls and customizing existing ones was too big of a hill for me to climb. exigy's controls are all OOP based, and insanely simple to create and modify. that being said, making it all work together took 80% of my time 😆
i too thought about using external libraries and just dreaded the prospect of future incompatibilities. it would have driven me insane to tell users "you have to be running love2d v. 12.0.2 and don't forget to download library X and Y and Z or it won't work!" i'm glad i wasn't far off from what you went through.
i really wanted to use human-readable storage like json, but it looks like it's not quite amenable to really complex table structures, and sadly some of my data isn't super clean :\ i'm an OOP programmer at heart, and data-driven design just isn't my idea of fun.
once i get this serialization thing half-working, and people can save/load/export projects, i think it'll be ready to put out a pre-alpha
Yeah, reloaded a few times, it seems very flaky - I seem to get Internal Server Error (ie. HTTP 500) about half the time on a given request, so something's probably in the server's error log about it.
Before Windows became a fact of life for most computer users, a scrappy upstart named GeoWorks tried taking Microsoft on. It failed, but it gave us AOL.
"Violence is never the answer: there are other, more appropriate ways of addressing your grievances."
Okay, name one.
Name one non-violent action an individual who has been denied necessary care can actually take which will actually get the folks who profit over the suffering of millions to stop doing it.
Every winter, #MotherNature ❄️ reveals how much we over-designed our streets for cars. But if we look carefully, she also inspires us to create healthier and more equitable streets for all!
📍- Philadelphia🇺🇸, S 4th & Monroe St. (📸 by @quantum_mystic | Animation by @otucis)
Harley's current strategy of "milk our existing customers for all they're worth" as opposed to their previous strategy of "get more people into our brand" really feels like a sign of the times in a more general sense. :/ #motorcycle
I originally thought I'd just use the stock pads until they were worn down, but they stopped just badly enough to convince me to put in Kool-Stop salmon pads. (It wasn't scary, but I wanted more confidence in my stopping.)
Always remember to sand your brake pads a little prior to installation. 👍
Today in tk's #seabikes adventures: descending from Phinney Ridge without a functioning front brake. 😱 (The bike has TRP Hylex hydraulic disc brakes. I took it to my LBS after and they said that it looks like the caliper might've sprung a leak and has been contaminating the rotor. I've had the brakes for several years now, so I'm not too bothered.)
Today in tk's #seabikes adventures: descending from Phinney Ridge without a functioning front brake. 😱
(The bike has TRP Hylex hydraulic disc brakes. I took it to my LBS after and they said that it looks like the caliper might've sprung a leak and has been contaminating the rotor. I've had the brakes for several years now, so I'm not too bothered.)
Yes, cantis. I like them. 🤷 They work well when set up correctly: straddle as low as you can get them to start, then raise little by little if you prefer. Having a lower cable hanger will additionally reduce system flex and improve stopping.
Even those dreaded Tektro "Oryx" 992A calipers. You need the straddle super low, but they work great that way. (That does also mean that they have limited tire clearance!)
(Oh, and this isn't a "rim versus disc" debate starter. If anything, it would be a "cantis suck" debate. :P )
@enobacon U Brakes are once again resurrected as “braze on centerpulls”. I have some on my old Centurion ProTour. Love the Tektro CR720 cantis, sadly discontinued it appears. Luckily I have a backstock.
Created this after reading conversation in comments below some tech article somewhere. Someone mentioned "surfing the #internet sewer" and I really liked that phrase.
"Research from cities with established cycling infrastructure—like Copenhagen and Amsterdam—shows that increasing cycling actually reduces car traffic, easing congestion for everyone."
I'm always dumbfounded when people say this as if it's a surprise. What did they expect to happen when alternatives to single-passenger automobiles, the sole cause of traffic congestion & gridlock, are made accessible? Transit too, whom many rely on even when it hasn't been made reliable.
TIL about the Republic of Winston, a county that, during the American Civil War, attempted to secede from the state of Alabama. Their thinking was, " if a state could secede from the Union, then a county could secede from the state."
Today in tk's #seabikes adventures: descending from Phinney Ridge without a functioning front brake. 😱
(The bike has TRP Hylex hydraulic disc brakes. I took it to my LBS after and they said that it looks like the caliper might've sprung a leak and has been contaminating the rotor. I've had the brakes for several years now, so I'm not too bothered.)
To be fair, bikes are utterly useless for going more than a few miles. Unless you're a fitness supergod.
Also ebikes are a lot more expensive than regular ones and not everyone has the energy for a regular pedal bike (*raises paw*).
But ebikes and escooters are great for getting around town!
So it makes sense to have little personal transportation things like (e)bikes/escooters for in-town and then cars for intercity. Maybe there could be big parking garages on the edge of town, either free (paid for by taxes) or monthly-rate, and just that's where your car lives when you're not using it.
Man, we've got NOTHING within 3 miles and we live in a city... we'd be going like 10 miles to our preferred grocery store. It's outside of our escooter's round trip battery range. (On an ebike we could get more range with pedal assist I bet, but ebikes are like $2000.) The train really helps.
Though a car also lets you go outside your local bubble.
Of course, intercity rail and stuff would help fill that gap, but I bet it would be EXPENSIVE and also good luck getting rail built to every small town in the US (that seems to be a thing in Europe though, so it might be feasible physically, just not politically).
@Thomas Bensler Infrastructure sharing works wonderfully in Taiwan. Many streets here have neither bicycle lanes nor sidewalks. Drivers are more or less considerate of other road users. So do the many scooter riders. Usually, when cars or scooters overtake other road users from behind, the safety distance to the overtaken road user is often more than 20 cm. It hardly ever happens that a rearview mirror causes injuries.
And more and more newly planned and built roads even have footpaths and cycle paths. Which are actually not allowed to be parked on.
Well and then, should the cars are getting less, there will be no more need for dedicated food paths and bicycle lanes.
Here in #Ottawa we have many separate bike paths all over the city, but we also have a lot on on-road dedicated bike lanes. Of course you can also bike directly on the roads as well.
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in reply to Neil E. Hodges • • •Not sure what you are asking here
Gmail can monitor and import mail on a pop3 server, I don't know about automatically forwarding mail, though
#GMail
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in reply to Neil E. Hodges • • •@FiddleSix
Yeah, Gmail has a feature where it'll retrieve emails from another server, using either POP3 or IMAP (assuming the other server supports that)
It's under Settings -> Accounts and Import -> Check email from other accounts
Once retrieved, you can then set up filters for it as normal, including forwarding
One limitation is that there's no way to set how often it'll check — it'll check as often as it sees fit. That can be an issue for confirmation emails, which sometimes expire quite quickly.
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in reply to Neil E. Hodges • • •the better question is will your other email forward certain emails to your Gmail.
And the answer is usually yes, using filter rules.
Who is the other provider?
Neil E. Hodges
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