Subj : ain't worth a plugged martian nickle
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Nick Boel
Date : Mon Aug 17 2026 05:34 pm

Hey Maurice!

On Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:17:46 , you wrote:

 > I think you woke them up.

I doubt that. Nano has been in constant development (version 9.2 currently) 
since your description below..

 > I haven't checked lately but wasn't it sponsored by the U of Washington?
 > If I am not mistaken they were using it as the default editor for
 > alpine, formerly pine, which was an email client thingy they came up
 > with way back when, except the editor was called pico.  nano was the
 > replacement for that for reasons that escape me.  I recall using pine
 > back in my solaris daze.  That was a long, long time ago in a land far,
 > far away.

 > What employees?  I doubt there are any real human employees ... or at
 > least anymore.  Elon took a chainsaw to them from what I've heard.

There are still plenty of "programmers" employed everywhere, however.. in order 
to make them produce as a much faster rate, they are basically being forced to 
use AI. Will they some day be called "AI auditors" since they're not the ones 
actually writing the code?

Regards,
Nick

.... Sarcasm: because beating people up is illegal.
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