Show HN: A gayer “lolcat” (CLI text colourizer)

owouwuowo wrote: post #5

buboard wrote: post #4

Thats a kinda insensitive stereotype

I certainly do not mean to cause offense to LGBT people, in fact I am one of them! I don't see how having a CLI tool that prints our flags insensitive tho.

not all gays subscribe to being flamboyant/colourful

Re: Show HN: A gayer “lolcat” (CLI text colourizer)

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Post by ksaj » Wed, Jul 01, 2020, 10:10 PM UTC

buboard wrote: post #4

Thats a kinda insensitive stereotype

There are some stereotypes that are considered funny by both; those the joke is about, and everyone else. A look at the crowd at any Pride parade suggests rainbow colours on everything is pretty much universally humourous.

Everyone hates hatred. But this particular stereotype has rather a positive, celebratory air to it.

Re: Show HN: A gayer “lolcat” (CLI text colourizer)

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Post by ksaj » Wed, Jul 01, 2020, 10:24 PM UTC

I have a feature request - something to keep foreground from being the same colour as the background. Otherwise there is a lot of unreadable text.

It's actually a useful utility for your Pride Month dashboard: cal |gay -c24

Re: Show HN: A gayer “lolcat” (CLI text colourizer)

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Post by owouwuowo » Wed, Jul 01, 2020, 11:04 PM UTC

ksaj wrote: post #9

I have a feature request - something to keep foreground from being the same colour as the background. Otherwise there is a lot of unreadable text. It's actually a useful utility for your Pride Month dashboard: cal |gay -c24

thats actually a hardish problem to solve.

I originally had a feature like that, but I just couldn't figure out what background colours to use.

For example the asexual flag here https://ladygeekgirl.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/asexual-fla...

Its black, grey, white, and dark purple, I just don't know what kind of background colour would actually make text more legible.

I could do different background colours for each gradient, but thats probably even ugiler.

Do you have any suggestions?