Just some light Sunday afternoon entertainment: Printing from NetBSD on the dotmatrix printer by dumping data to /dev/ulpt0. The netbook doesn’t have a parallel port, so this must be done over USB. NetBSD.escp was created by a little custom ESC/P converter written in C. 🥳

https://movq.de/v/14b09c47a5/print-small.mp4

Video description:

Video begins with a view of the netbook’s screen: 3 windows are open, one of them showing the typical NetBSD logo to print, the other one shows the commands I ran in preparation:

magick /usr/X11R7/include/X11/pixmaps/NetBSD.xpm -depth 8 -alpha set /tmp/NetBSD.pam
./pam2escp /tmp/NetBSD.pam /tmp/NetBSD.escp

The other terminal shows a root shell with this command:

cat /tmp/NetBSD.escp >/dev/ulpt0

I hit Enter, the printer starts printing.

Camera pans to show the printer, an Oki ML 3390. Continuous paper. Once finished, I manually feed the paper a little bit to better show the result.

(If you turn up the volume enough, you can hear “Leaving” by “Chill Carrier” from 2008.)

Belated #Caturday memory: That time that Bonnie Prince Shadow declared himself king of the maneki-neko in an attempt to overthrow Emperor Maximilian I.

He gave up on the insurrection when he realized that waving was all they could do.

It is such a nice feeling that Mu is such a capable little language 😅 And I decided to write code code in Mu by hand 🤚 haha 🤣 and start solving Project Euler problems, like Problem 8 which works out to be a nice elegant solution in Mu:

#!/usr/bin/env mu

// Largest Product in a Series

import "fp"
import "sys"

fn usage() {
  print("Usage: cat |", args()[0], "<n>")
}

fn products(xs) {
  return fp.reduce(xs, 1, fn(x, y) {
    if y == nil {
      return x
    }
    return x * y
  })
}

fn main() {
  if len(args()) < 2 {
    usage()
    exit(1)
  }

  s := must(sys.read_all(0))
  if len(s) == 0 {
    usage()
    exit(1)
  }

  n := must(int(args()[1]))
  r := fp.max(fp.map(fp.sliding(fp.map(s, int), n), products))
  print(r)
}

main()

For this special International #Caturday, here’s some pics of Emperor Maximilian I posing on his cat tree. #cats

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com lol! “Yeah, it was me. What you gonna do about it? Hm? Hm?” Cats. Typical arrogant cats. 😂

For this week’s #Caturday, I have an image that requires a bit of backstory…

Shortly after Emperor Maximilian I retained us as his caretakers (over 8 years ago), we would often return home from our travels to find a handful of pairs of socks scattered around the floor, typically taken from our son’s sock drawer (which was usually overflowing and therefore often left slightly open). We weren’t sure if it was Max (as he was not the only cat in the house) until the day we came home to find this:

@david@daiwei.me Thanks, and affirmative. The cats are Bowie, Bugsy, Emperor Maximilian (Max), and Shadow. The dogs are the Princesses, Astrid and Peaches.

‘Tis a zoo, sometimes.

@david@daiwei.me @GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com Thanks.

The cats don’t actually care much (since they’re cats), but Princess Peaches is prone to bouts of extreme jealously, and has been giving me the side-eye for sharing pictures of the cats rather than her.

I say the world needs both more princesses and more Peaches! 😄

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com wow, look who the cat dragged in! 😂 I was thinking about you just yesterday, when testing the twtxt.app, and seeing your avatar photo broken. And today, here you are! Nice to “see” you mate!

Nice cat 😅

For today’s (belated) #caturday, here’s a recent pic of our chunky-buddy Bowie in his house at the bottom of the cat tree in the kitchen.

Enjoy!

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com … does your cat wear a bow tie?

All these twtxt cats appearing meanwhile the twtxt blackbird has been absent 🤔

#catsoftwtxt

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@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Those are some really nice shots. I mean, the cat and also the shots themselves. Which cam is that? (Don’t tell me it’s an iPhone, that’d be boring. 😂)

-¡Nadie me quiere dar mimos!-
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¡Hoy cumplo 2 añitos!
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Cat-ólico
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-¿Qué viene quién y cuándo?-
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Are you a cat?

Solo tú y yo, por siempre
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On GPL-1s for Obese House Cats ?~L~X https://thenewleafjournal.com/b/Dpz

#catsoftwtxt

CatGPT
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#catsoftwtxt

cat /etc/mokou/yarnd.conf
exec=/usr/pkg/sbin/daemonize -c/var/db/yarnd -u www -p /var/run/yarnd.pid /usr/pkg/sbin/chpst -e /usr/local/etc/yarnd /usr/local/sbin/yarnd -b 127.0.0.1:[classified information]

I know this might seem a bit overengineered, but the previous command until now had the secrets exposed on the process list

@prologic@twtxt.net @aelaraji@aelaraji.com https://http.cat/status/402

First Dates: Baldo. 2 años. «Ronronea conmigo durante toda la noche.»
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Diferencia entre gato poralizado y no polarizado
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Assis ou debout : https://www.flexispot.fr/cat/bureau-assis-debout

-Yo no estoy en peligro, Skyler. Yo soy el peligro. Un sanguinario depredador se abalanza sobre un lindo minino, ¿y tú crees que ese soy yo? No. ¡Yo soy el que salta!-
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Soñando que vence a Scar
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-¿Y… sueles acurrucarte mucho por aquí?-
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Disfraz de Halloween 🎃 : ojos flotantes
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¡Feliz Halloween 🎃 🧛!
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What do you call a pile of cats?

Color negro brillante e irresistible.
#catsoftwtxt

• ¿Te gusta el nuevo pienso? Es bajo en calorías. -
  #catsoftwtxt

It was raining cats and dogs for a few minutes, I almost couldn’t see the houses down in the valley anymore. Pretty sick. :-)

@bender@twtxt.net Haha, yeah, we’re also better off rolling dice sometimes. I usually don’t mind liquid sunshine either. But I have to be prepared for it. As a matter of prudence, I brought my rain jacket along. In the end, I was wet from the inside as well, though. The breathability of this plastic bag isn’t as good as they always claim it to be. Especially in summer.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I couldn’t agree more! :-)

-Es mi juguete y no quiero compartirlo.-
#catsoftwtxt

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thanks, glad you like it, but sadly I’m not sure, if there’s still a way, for this particular project, to continue.

Reducing 38 pixels (previous smallest) to 27, inside of a 7x7 square canvas, is a result I’m really happy with. Now it seems I can only shave off single pixels and get a lot worse looking results - to the point it doesn’t even look like my mascot, to me.

There doesn’t seem to be a hard cap for drawing tiny dogs. It’s possible to arrange 5 pixels, in a way someone recognizes them, as some kind of a dog. The record for cats, is currently a single orange pixel: https://youtu.be/gzeK8NKuzmg

The only way to beat that, is either a monitor, with just a single red diode lit, inside one of its pixels, or an image file that’s broken and empty, on purpose.

Evitando que mi humano trabaje para darme mimitos.
#catsoftwtxt

Soy el detective Baldo. Aún recuerdo cuando esa gatita salvaje entró en mi caja contoneando su cola. Le habían robado el cascabel de oro. Acepté el caso sin dudarlo, quería meter los bigotes en ese caso. Olía a pescado podrido.
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