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[47°09′26″S, 126°43′32″W] Not enough data -- sampling finished
@kat On the one hand, all these programs have a very long history) and the technology behind manpages is actually very powerful – you can use it to write books:

https://www.troff.org/pubs.html

I have two books from that list, for example “The UNIX programming environment”:

https://movq.de/v/c3dab75c97/upe.jpg

It’s a bit older, of course, but it looks and feels like a normal book, and it uses the same tech as manpages – which I think is really cool. 😎

It’s comparable to LaTeX (just harder/different to use) but *much* faster than LaTeX. You can also do stuff like render manpages as a PDF (man -Tpdf cp >cp.pdf) or as an HTML file (man -Thtml cp >cp.html). I think I once made slides for a talk this way.

On the other hand, traditional manpages (i.e., ones that are not written in mandoc) do not use semantic markup. They literally say, “this text is bold, that text over here is italics”, and so on.

So when you run man foo, it has no other choice but to show it in black, white, bold, underline – showing it in color would be wrong, because that’s not what the source code of that manpage says.

Colorizing them is a hack, to be honest. You’re not meant to do this. (The devs actually broke this by accident recently. They themselves aren’t really aware that people use colors.)

*If* mandoc and semantic markup was more commonly used, I think it would be easier to convince the devs to add proper customizable colors.
@kat Any time 😅
@prologic THANK YOU SO MUCH OMG!!!
@kat Here's the full config I use.
i love the feeling i get after i take my meds. i feel normal for once
having fun with omg.lol lately
@prologic haha yeah for the youtube rules i just copied the first JSON block in your screenshot (i typed it out) and it miraculously worked! yayyy
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@kat Cool! 😎 Yeah I'll add that soon™
@kat Oh sweet! I was gonna say, setting up those rules is a bit "complicated" 🤣 But I'm glad you worked it out! 👌
ok i really like XLOV. 1&Only is a great song. so vibe-y and sensual. and they released it in pride month too they Get It https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBZgirj_C2Y
YAYYY TY @prologic NOW I HAVE IMAGE & YOUTUBE EMBEDS ON MY YARN POD 🎉🎉🎉
@prologic AHA the
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entry did the trick! i originally had these rules in there, they were added by default except for the youtube rules:


imgur\.com
giphy\.com
imgs\.xkcd\.com
reactiongifs\.com
githubusercontent\.com
youtube\.com
yt.\be


also oooh the missing feature sounds very handy!
Hello @jassim 👋
There is a missing feature I've been intending to add to though, which is that _any_ link that _looks_ like a URL that _might_ be an image, for example, ends with .png or .jpg or whatever, we _should_ just render that as an image and not expect users to wrap it in Markdown image links ![](...)
@kat Ahh what do you mean by images don't embed? They definitely should! By default however all domains are blocked, so you might want to either allow some domains or just put in a .* entry to allow all/any domsins. Screenshot attached
psst i'll be at my local event for HTML day!!! i'm very excited but very nervous, i don't even know what i'll be working on! but i'll figure it out...
i wanna work on my fanlisting PHP app but i feel so blocked on it
on my yarn pod nothing really embeds (not even images) so i'm looking at the embed rules part of the mod settings and i'm like... i don't know how to do any of this 😭😭😭
@movq WHATTTTT WHY DO THEY MAKE THIS SO HARD
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@arne lol 😅
(Just for fun, SuSE Linux 6.4 from ~25 years ago: https://movq.de/v/dc62d0256c/s.png )~
@arne LOl that's hilarious 😂
@lyse @kat Colorized manpages have been a thing for a very long time:

https://movq.de/v/81219d7f7a/s.png

Problem is, hardly anybody knows this, because you configure this by … drumroll … overwriting TERMCAP entries of less in your ~/.bashrc:

export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\e[38;5;3m' # Bold
 export LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\e[0m' # End Bold
export LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\e[4;38;5;6m' # Underline
 export LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\e[0m' # End Underline
export GROFF_NO_SGR=1 # Needed since groff 1.23=
how do i serve cunt like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prR9miCSDlg
XLOV are a really cool k-pop group. i just adore the concept of "gender is a fuck and we are going to do whatever we want" like that's ballsy and epic and the members 100% sell it
@lyse we NEED syntax highlighting in our man pages!!!! (FWIW i think bat can do that lol)
@lyse BLUE DA BA DI BA DI DAAAA hahah iconic!!! ladida is suchhh a good song i was so obsessed with it when it came out in 2020
@lyse perfectly fine, don't worry about it!!! this looks really cool TY for sharing it :D
-¡Deja de estudiar y hazme caso!-
/https://baldo.cat/media/photos/IMG_5283.jpeg) #catsoftwtxt
Vibe code is legacy code
https://blog.val.town/vibe-code
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"You can fork it and fork yourself" 😂
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Our $100M Series B
https://oxide.computer/blog/our-100m-series-b
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Fast
https://www.catherinejue.com/fast
USA USA USA
@kat @movq Sorry, I neither finished it nor in time. :-( That's as good as it's gonna get for the moment: https://git.isobeef.org/lyse/gelbariab/-/tree/master/rss-proxys?ref_type=heads

The README should hopefully provide a crude introduction. The example configuration file is documented fairly well, I believe (but maybe not). You probably still have to consult and maybe also modify the source code to fit your needs.

Let me know if you run into issues, have questions, wishes etc.
Oscar-Winning 'No Other Land' Awdah Hathaleen Killed by Israeli Settler
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2025-07-29/awdah-hathaleen-killed-no-other-land-palestinian-activist-israeli-settler
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Hahaha, I first thought of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA52uNzx7Y4 when I read @kat's "lyrics". ;-)

Doesn't sound bad, I like it. The synth reminded me of some song by Beast in Black.
@movq @kat I also wondered for a very long time why nobody improved the man experience in the terminal. I'd love to see links and more colors.
Cada tiro, cada melro:

"Anteprojeto passa a determinar que o trabalho flexível, para pais com filhos com menos de 12 anos, terá em conta trabalho prestado “habitualmente” aos fins de semana ou feriados. Alteração contraria decisão do Supremo."

https://www.jornaldenegocios.pt/economia/emprego/lei-laboral/detalhe/governo-quer-impedir-que-pais-recusem-trabalho-ao-fim-de-semana

#ptpol #trabalho
@kat anyway here's me!
i signed up for omg.lol and i'm really liking it. such a cozy and fun little community with a suite of fun web things. i wish the financial barrier to entry was a bit lower though (maybe like $5 for a few months on it or something) just so i could recommend it to my broke friends more, but i totally get why it's priced the way it is (solo dev!!!)
@kiwu hell yes!!!
@movq it's so scary save urself
@movq yeah man pages are good but these days i kinda prefer tldr and especially cheat.sh
@kiwu i remember when this shit came out godddd it was electric
Speaking of manpages:

“Man pages are great, man readers are the problem”

https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2025/04/09/man-pages-are-great-man-readers-are-the-problem/
mandoc is nicer to read/write than the `man` macro package and, most importantly, it’s *semantic markup*.

HTML output is a bit broken in GNU groff, though (OpenBSD on the left, GNU on the right):

https://movq.de/v/f1898e648f/s.png

🤔

Still, I’m inclined to convert my manpages to mandoc.
@kat I still haven’t tried it. 🤐 Some day, perhaps …
@kiwu Hello. 😅
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la di da da di da da di da da di daaaaa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeI992mvlEY
guys. nixOS is the devil
@thecanine image is so real lol literally me
@lyse YEAH THEY ARE SOOO GOOD SINGING TOGETHER!!! it's kind of their label (hello project)'s thing :]
@kiwu somehow never got into this one, i gotta change that
#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 30 The first tomato of the year
Seems like, that "God Bless the USA" phrase has gotten hijacked by people who don't seem to know what national sovereignty is. Is their boy Trump aware of the existence of other nations ?
Weil mir copyparty gerade ständig begegnet. Nun auch hier. Der Dateiserver für überall.
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God Bless USA
Why is it that I hate packing so badly? I gotta have to brace myself up to start that now.

The outlook is poor, rain all the way until maybe the last day of summer camp. Definitely bringing my gummies, they are well needed, the weather report announces several days with up to 14 liters per square meter.
Welcome to the club, @kiwu!
@kat Ta, very catchy indeed! :-) Their polyphony is great.
I just emerged from a really long, really tiring cruch. I am alive!
@kingdomcome Yeah, it's all about simplicity. That's what got me hooked. In its original form without the extensions, you can even read the raw feed and it doesn't feel all that bad.
M8.7 Earthquake in Western Pacific, Tsunami Warning Issued
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000qw60/executive
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@kiwu Hi!!!!!!!!! 😆 Welxome! 🙇‍♀️
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Study Mode
https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-study-mode/
So 429: Too Many Requests on my GitHub hosted images, breaking my tutorials etc... *Not good!*

July will be gone and my escape to Codeberg.org has not even started (I have to finish my PhD...)
Trump needs tariffs for preparing war.
15 % tariffs on goods from Europe. People in USA nomore can buy cars and machines from Germany. USA will suck.
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@kiwu LETS GOOOOOOOOO BANGER
@kiwu hahahah it's ok! just give it some time :)
EVERYONE SAY HI TO @kiwu SHE'S MY LONGTIME BESTIE AND SUPER SWEET AND ALSO LOVES IDOLS LIKE ME :DDDD
i love my friends :'))))
@kiwu HIIIIIIIIIIIII
@ HI KIWU YOUR PROFILE'S A BIT BUGGED ON OUR END BUT IT'S OK IT'LL FIX ITSELF
first post 🖤
In 1996, they came up with the X11 “SECURITY” extension:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4w548u/what_is_up_with_the_x11_security_extension/

This is what could have (eventually) solved the security issues that we’re currently seeing with X11. Those issues are cited as one of the reasons for switching to Wayland.

That extension never took off. The person on reddit wonders why – I think it’s simple: Containers and sandboxes weren’t a thing in 1996. It hardly mattered if X11 was “insecure”. If you could run an X11 client, you probably already had access to the machine and could just do all kinds of other nasty things.

*Today*, sandboxing is a thing. *Today*, this matters.

I’ve heard so many times that “X11 is beyond fixable, it’s hopeless.” I don’t believe that. I believe that these problems are solveable with X11 and some devs have said “yeah, we could have kept working on it”. It’s that people don’t *want* to do it:

> Why not extend the X server?
>
> Because for the first time we have a realistic chance of not having to do that.

https://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html

I’m not in a position to judge the devs. Maybe the X.Org code really is so bad that you want to run away, screaming in horror. I don’t know.

But all this was a choice. I don’t buy the argument that we never would have gotten rid of things like core fonts.

All the toolkits and programs had to be ported to Wayland. A huge, still unfinished effort. If that was an acceptable thing to do, then it would have been acceptable to make an “X12” that keeps all the good things about X11, remains compatible where feasible, eliminates the problems, and requires some clients to be adjusted. (You could have still made “X11X12” like “XWayland” for actual legacy programs.)
[47°09′11″S, 126°43′59″W] Bad satellite signal -- switching to analog communication
@lyse check out their song zenbu kakete go!! it's very sleek and smooth and just so vibe-y!!! also this live performance has an EPIC intro featuring ichika (violin girl) plus one of the members beatboxing and two girls (including my all time favorite idol, dambara ruru!) on vocals! it's so good
This is your friendly reminder that you could be making #PaperObjects with #Python and #py5, you know?

https://github.com/villares/Paper-objects-with-Processing-and-Python/

(Mind you that GitHub images are mostly failing to load here today for some unknown reason)

If you like this, support my work:
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=5B4MZ78C9J724
https://liberapay.com/Villares
https://wise.com/pay/me/alexandrev562
#Processing #CreativeCoding
@kingdomcome I REPLIED TO THIS AND NOW IT'S NOT SHOWING WTFFFF anyway what i said was that i have some fun stuff in the daily note template already like ASCII weather forecast from wttr AND a jenny holzer quote from fortune!!! i should add more fun stuff!!!
@kingdomcome it's been chill!
Twtxt as a network is so neat. Sucks it isn't more widely adopted ): I feel like it'd be way easier to host than say, mastodon or GTS. & would require WAYYYY less resources. Not a diss on GTS, I love GTS <3, just saying _because_ it's text files, I assume the minimum amount of ram needed to host any of the twtxt server software is very low.

I could be super wrong though lol. Idk shit about anything ^^"
@kat I BELIEVE IN U!!! Making it fun helps! Maybe like put images in the docs so it's cuter to look at! I did that, but with physical journaling. Except instead of pics it was receipts & leaves & dried flowers lol
Howdy twtxt! How's ur morning going?