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tinmop

• Introduction
• Peculiar Features
• Dependency
  • Programs
  • Lisp Libraries
  • Foreign (C language) library
• Install
• Usage
• BUGS
• Translations
• License
• Privacy
• Contributing
• FAQ
• NO WARRANTY

Introduction

Tinmop is an opinionated client for Mastodon (or Pleroma using the mastodon API). It offer a distraction free terminal interface.

The name is a recursive acronym: "Tinmop Is Not Mutt or Pine". The older of us can remember that, in turn, Pine is an acronym as well: "Pine Is Not Elm" and, finally, Elm means (according to Wikipedia): "Electronic Mail".

Peculiar Features

• tree structure of messages;
• subscriptions of hashtag;
• encrypted direct message (but see /cage/tinmop/src/commit/e40cfc8c2d53b4deddbd54c0f89fb5d2b2bb7139/FAQ);
• no mentions notification, no knowlege of when or who favourited your status;
• No blocking or muting, the client can be configured to ignore a list of accounts.

Dependency

Programs

• for running the program:

  • SBCL compiler;
  • xdg-open;
  • your favourite editor (default: nano).

• to install the package, including running the script to install lisp libraries (quick_quicklisp.sh):

  • GNU AWK (Gawk);
  • BASH shell.

Lisp Libraries

• alexandria;
• cl-ppcre;
• tooter;
• croatoan;
• osicat;
• cl-spark;
• access;
• sqlite;
• sxql;
• sxql-composer;
• marshal;
• bordeaux-threads;
• log4cl;
• local-time;
• cl-colors2;
• cl-i18n;
• clunit2;
• esrap;
• ieee-floats;
• parse-number;
• cl-html5-parser;
• unix-opts;
• crypto-shortcuts;
• drakma.

Foreign (C language) library

• libssl

Install

1. optional step needed only if you have not already the configure script, you will need autotools for that.

   $ autoreconf -fiv

2. run configure and resolve the missing dependencies (if any)

   $ ./configure

3. the script quick-quicklisp.sh will download and install the library manager and the library on your home dir.

   $ ./quick_quicklisp.sh

   This step is optional if you have already installed quicklisp, in this case just load the dependencies using the client installed on your computer.

4. clone in $HOME/quicklisp/local-projects/ the latest version of tooter, a library to access mastodon API.

   This step is temporary as this version will get into quicklisp eventually.

   $ cd $HOME/quicklisp/local-projects/
   $ git clone https://github.com/Shinmera/tooter.git

5. build the executable:

   $ make

6. install on your system:

   $ make install

7. run the software!

   $ tinmop

Usage

See the command line options:

 $ tinmop -h

To get instruction about configuration:

 $ man tinmop

BUGS

Please file bug reports on the notabug repository.

Translations

Only Italian translation is regularly updated.

License

This program is released under GNU General Public license version 3 or later (see COPYING file).

The program use data and code from other sources, please see LICENSES.org for credits.

Although any efforts has been put to make the list of credits exhaustive, errors are always possible. Please send correction to cage-dev at twistfold dot it.

Privacy

This software does collect nothing from its users in places different from their local computer.

But launching quick_quicklisp.sh will contact https://www.quicklisp.org/, check the quicklisp sources for details.

Contributing

Any help is appreciated. If you intend to contribute please point your browser to the issue tracker or file a pull request.

But, please take a minute to read the file /cage/tinmop/src/commit/e40cfc8c2d53b4deddbd54c0f89fb5d2b2bb7139/CONTRIBUTING.org

FAQ

• are the encrypted messages secure? No. First only a symmetric encryption scheme is implemented (so there is a problem of secure key exchanging). Moreover i am not a crypto expert and probably i made something wrong. Note that i am not claiming that the algorithm (AES256) or the implementation of such encrypting algorithm is flawed but that, likely, is flawed the code i wrote to use the crypto library in this software. So, please do not consider the encrypted message secure at all.

NO WARRANTY

tinmop: an humble mastodon client Copyright (C) 2020 cage

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.