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> hacker circles didn't always have this 'progressive' luddite mentality Richard Stallman has his email printed out on paper for him to read, and he only conne
by LPisGood 11mo ago
> hacker circles didn't always have this 'progressive' luddite mentality
Richard Stallman has his email printed out on paper for him to read, and he only connects to the internet by using wget to fetch web pages and then has them printed off.
- ihaveajob 11mo agoYou're probably thinking about Donald Knuth, not Stallman. https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html
- jdiff 11mo agoStallman does similar, just without the printing step, and he checks his email entirely within emacs. https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html