On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 7:04 PM Bill Page <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 at 23:48, Qian Yun <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hello everyone on fricas-devel: > > > > You may have noticed that Waldek has not posted on fricas-devel > > for a while now. He has replied to GitHub issues in the mean > > time however. > > > > So I asked him privately via email, and he replied that he can't > > reply/receive to fricas-devel, because Google wants cell number. > > > > This seems extremely odd to me. Perhaps there is just some confusion > on how to use Google Groups. I never (well, almost never) use Google > Groups directly. All postings on the FriCAS group are sent to me by > simple email (such as this one) and my replies (such as this one) are > sent to the FriCAS group as an email. I have used the FriCAS group > this way since the beginning. So I am seriously confused if someone > claims "Google wants cell number". I never gave Google my cell number. > So far as I know this isn't even necessary if you actually have a > gmail account. Rather, it is perhaps an option in this case if you > want to use 2-factor authentication.
One absolutey does not need a cell phone (or a special hardware token) for 2FA. You can use a very fine console program called "pass" and its "otp" extension. It uses gpg to encypt your keys. You an also use git to share your enrypted keys accross different machines. E.g. on Debian one would install package pass-extension-otp for this. > > And with his permission, I'm asking community members for opinions > > that which tool share we use instead. > > > > Although of course I want Waldek to participate in the FriCAS group > but it seems strange to me if Waldek is the only user experiencing > this problem. Perhaps it can be resolved just by accessing the group > in a different way, i.e. by email. > > > To quote Waldek's opinion: > > > > > ATM I am not sure what is better. One possiblity is to > > > set up our own mail server. I could do this on the > > > same machine as wiki. Of course we could use GitHub > > > mail. However, it is not clear what folks on the list > > > want. For me old plain e-mail is preferable and also > > > I would like sensible publicaly visible archive. > > > > Personally I prefer GitHub. Waldek replies with: > > > > > Well, GitHub web interface mangles code which is IMO serious problem. > > > That is why I wrote "sensible publicaly visible archive", AFAICS > > > GitHub does not qualify as "sensible" here. > > > > But I think GitHub uses markdown, and ```` code block should solve it. > > > > GitHub would be fine with me if this is really necessary. But I think > it is also very common to use GitHub with the 2-factor authentication > option (at least I do) in which case a cell phone will usually also be > involved. No, no need for a phone for 2FA, see above. HTH Dima > > > So, members of fricas community, let your opinions be heard, > > and hopefully a satisfying decision will be made based on that. > > > > Thank you for your effort to resolve the problem! > > > - Best, > > - Qian > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/25f37615-32ea-1ca5-5204-83a81ee3e0b2%40gmail.com. > > You can notice above the postscript that Google Groups adds when > sending group postings by email. I never use the link to "view this > discussion on the web". > > Regards, > Bill Page. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/CAC6x94RPA%2BB9ML_SWCt6gtyDrw0HAi0rnEp-fVqTbkhrj1QaZg%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/CAAWYfq3yoh%2BLd3sBUN0R_42HLS1AzCdM_fQ6pHeWui4RMfQa-Q%40mail.gmail.com.
