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WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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Post by joshbaptiste »

leetrout wrote: post #109
joshbaptiste wrote: post #94

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Familiarity and low resources needed .. I can use a $5/year natted VPS and program (via Git/Vim), run scripts, surf the web (links), chat on IRC (Weechat) and continue my Tmux/Screen workflow on basically any *nix machine with at least ~16MB memory.

How beneficial is surfing the web in 2019 with links? I was just using it yesterday on a raspberry pi zero and couldn’t download go from the very minimal golang.org site. I couldn’t imagine trying to use it day to day.

indeed.. I don't do much more then the casual searching on DuckDuckGo and viewing Wikipedia articles and StackOverflow errors.

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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Post by andrewbinstock »

Does it run on Windows? I can't tell if the lack of Windows binaries is because the author didn't compile it/test it for the platform or because for some reason it won't run there.

For a desktop project, supporting the OS of 60+% of desktops would seem a boon to adoption (putting aside the politics and all).

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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Post by senorprogrammer »

andrewbinstock wrote: post #122

Does it run on Windows? I can't tell if the lack of Windows binaries is because the author didn't compile it/test it for the platform or because for some reason it won't run there. For a desktop project, supporting the OS of 60+% of desktops would seem a boon to adoption (putting aside the politics and all).

Windows support is being tracked in issue #103 on GitHub. People have had success building from source. Automated Windows builds currently fail for reasons unknown.

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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Post by reaperducer »

FreeHugs wrote: post #120
reaperducer wrote: post #91

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There's a detailed screenshot but I can't zoom to see the detail because the website designer has gone the extra mile to make it non-zoomable. Why do people do this? And why do they disable native scrolling? Apple spent hundreds of man hours to get scrolling just right in iOS, why override the OS? You can't even scroll the page if it has a code block on it.

On most desktop browsers you should be able to right-click the image and display it in a new tab which then lets you zoom any way you want. On Android there is a setting to always enable zoom.

That doesn't help me with scrolling the page in any way.

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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Post by edoo »

weinzierl wrote: post #114
cptnapalm wrote: post #68

I've been wanting something sort of like this for my login screen. Little box for the login, of course and a whole bunch of scary-to-everyone-but-me looking output, like hollywood ( https://github.com/dustinkirkland/hollywood ). +1 if I could use the terminal emulator of my choice so cool-retro-term ( https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term ) could make it look like the screen is about to melt.

The login screen is ultimately just a regular process. I haven't tried it but there is nothing against starting cool retro term and hollywood inside of it. The most difficult part is probably to make it display on the framebuffer. For the login itself you could then just reuse the decades old login binary that provides the login prompt you see in text mode terminals, if you like. Shouldn't be too hard.

Your login screen could be a 3d game where you have to solve a puzzle to access the password prompt.

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Post by m_mueller »

shay_ker wrote: post #116
inetknght wrote: post #110

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-> download 1000 files using curl, then validate their checksum, then build stuff -> take an almost-CSV report generated by one piece of software, remove a bunch of extra garbage at the top to turn it into an actual CSV file, then send the CSV file to data analysis pipeline. -> join two CSV files selecting columns 2,3 from one file and 4,5 from the other file, keyed on column 1 from both files. like excel but for CSV…

Many of these actions seem like something you'd just never do in GUI though? Except maybe some of the CSV stuff.

See, there is a reason don't do this in a GUI. For a short while it looked like Apple's Automator would get there. Maybe Microsoft can crack this in a couple of years if they go nuts with python as a GUI scripting language with native OLE support.

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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Post by hnarn »

cmg wrote: post #115
Exuma wrote: post #106

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Someone please install this and try it and take a screenshot. I just want to see it but don't want to do it myself haha

Here you are. This is the standard config file with Euro time removed and fewer US timezones represented. I've blocked out my IP info. The terminal size in cool-retro-term is around 30x140-ish. https://imgur.com/yb0G39m

Did you anonymize the entire image? Because the text is not supposed to look like that (i.e. unreadable).

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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Post by inetknght »

shay_ker wrote: post #116
inetknght wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

-> download 1000 files using curl, then validate their checksum, then build stuff -> take an almost-CSV report generated by one piece of software, remove a bunch of extra garbage at the top to turn it into an actual CSV file, then send the CSV file to data analysis pipeline. -> join two CSV files selecting columns 2,3 from one file and 4,5 from the other file, keyed on column 1 from both files. like excel but for CSV…

Many of these actions seem like something you'd just never do in GUI though? Except maybe some of the CSV stuff.

All of these actions are things which can be done in a GUI, just definitely not at the scale mentioned... certainly not at the scale mentioned and in a time-efficient manner

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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Post by godelski »

buckminster wrote: post #24

There's a detailed screenshot but I can't zoom to see the detail because the website designer has gone the extra mile to make it non-zoomable. Why do people do this?

On Firefox (desktop and Android) I can zoom no problem. On desktop I have to view image first though others just the background zooms, on mobile it works exactly as expected.
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