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Re: WTF: A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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The documentation seems insufficient. I can’t figure out how to switch between panes, e.g., to modify the todo list. Once it’s selected, I expect to be able to use it, but without knowing how, it is unusable.

Tab key to move between selectable panes. Forward-slash (/) on any selectable pane to open the help.

Note that not all panes are selectable and quite possibly not all selectable panes have help (they should but...)

Re: WTF: A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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I maintain my own set of modern internet acronyms for it. Speaking of which, I need to merge a pull request for that.

There was a super helpful Internet jargon list maintained by one of the 3-letter federal agencies, obtained through an FOIA request I believe... I used to refer to it whenever I needed to decipher confusing twitter conversations.

Are you talking about the Jargon File by any chance.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/index.html

Re: WTF: A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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There was a super helpful Internet jargon list maintained by one of the 3-letter federal agencies, obtained through an FOIA request I believe... I used to refer to it whenever I needed to decipher confusing twitter conversations.

Are you talking about the Jargon File by any chance. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/index.html

The Jargon File is maintained by esr, which is 3 letters, but I don't think he's a federal agency. ;-)

Re: WTF: A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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post #62

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I maintain my own set of modern internet acronyms for it. Speaking of which, I need to merge a pull request for that.

There was a super helpful Internet jargon list maintained by one of the 3-letter federal agencies, obtained through an FOIA request I believe... I used to refer to it whenever I needed to decipher confusing twitter conversations.

This one?

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nze74k/the-fbi-bu...

Re: WTF: A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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post #94
post #93

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Are you talking about the Jargon File by any chance. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/index.html

The Jargon File is maintained by esr, which is 3 letters, but I don't think he's a federal agency. ;-)

We can neither confirm nor deny that he's a federal agency.

Re: WTF: A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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I use TMUX to essentially create what this person has made. It's much more versatile than a GUI for me because I can kill any "widget" and reopen it with altered command line parameters. It's an incredibly useful and productive way to work. And if I realize that I want data that isn't present, I can just split a TMUX pane (or start a new TMUX window) and display it there.

There was a point where it was that simple to run GUI widgets on a desktop, too. The likes of xman and xclock were just that, programs that one could just run and stop.

Such things are not dead! I still use one for my clock (buici-clock) and another to show battery life (xbattbar).

Re: WTF: A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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post #95

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There was a super helpful Internet jargon list maintained by one of the 3-letter federal agencies, obtained through an FOIA request I believe... I used to refer to it whenever I needed to decipher confusing twitter conversations.

This one? https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nze74k/the-fbi-bu...

I would love to merge that into Arch's wtf, but it is just a collection of scanned images. No text.

Re: WTF: A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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This one? https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nze74k/the-fbi-bu...

I would love to merge that into Arch's wtf, but it is just a collection of scanned images. No text.

https://archive.org/stream/FBIGuideToInternetSlang/Internet%... has OCR-ed text, but the quality is poor.

https://github.com/matthewspencer/twitter-shorthand has transcription of the first 22 pages.

Re: WTF: A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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You can write your own modules, you'll just need to fork the repo and write them in Go. There's no DSL for it. Good idea about the config. I'll create a feature issue for it.

Go uses less CPU and is less crashy, both of which are nice in a dashboard. It also seems like more generic modules may handle the use cases you'd want a DSL for. For instance, there's already a text module; if a similar module can listen to a FIFO or even listen on a socket, you can just throw whatever you need into it from any language that can write to a filehandle. If it can handle ANSI escapes, most commands tha…

Both very interesting ideas indeed.
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