Notices by Alex Schroeder 🐝 (kensanata@octodon.social), page 40

I need to turn up the volume on my headphones because there is a strategic board meeting at the company. I hate the noise. I want my future workplace to be a library. Everybody shut up, no questions asked.

@pet84rik I think your best bet woul be to use X O to save the mail into a file and then look at it using command line tools and see whether you can decrypt it?

@pet84rik Debugging it, I see mm-possibly-verify-or-decrypt > mml2015-decrypt > mml2015-epg-decrypt and there it fails somewhere, without a decent error message, unfortunately. You can switch to the buffer " *mm*" (starts with a space!) and look at the message. There, run M-x epa-mail-decrypt and you will see a better message: epa-decrypt-region: GPG error: "Decryption failed", "No secret key: XXX; No secret key: XXX".

@pet84rik This is how it looks to me when I decrypt the mail from an account where I don't have the right secret key.

@pet84rik What happens when you hit RET on the encrypted part?

@webinista Gaaaaaaah.

@JordiGH This list of gothic names has Amanda,Amice/Amicia, Constance, Felicia, Amabilia. http://themiddleages.net/people/names.html

@pet84rik Oh, cool.

@webinista Yeah. There's the question of database protection. What a mess. https://www.bitlaw.com/copyright/database.html

@ckeen Or going even more into the gory details: https://www.geobasis-bb.de/verm_bb/pdf/100s69-70.pdf

@ckeen I agree with regards to characters. But I just use a list of names. Any personality, plot, description, or whatever else they might contain, does not enter the list. I guess I could even make a search and perhaps I might discover that all the names were names in history (maybe not for the elves but for all the others). I'm trying to think about cases involving the copying of phone books. I faintly remember pagination being essential, back then?

@sajith Well, at least I'm not alone. 🙄

What's the accepted wisdom on the copyright status of name lists, e.g. the list of all the hobbit names in the Lord of the Rings? I'd say: not protected?

@pet84rik hahaha

@pet84rik And what's your explanation? Electromagnetic fields?

@maiyannah I will open this laptop and check when I have some time on my hands.