@movq@www.uninformativ.de WHATTTTT WHY DO THEY MAKE THIS SO HARD
(Just for fun, SuSE Linux 6.4 from ~25 years ago:
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Colorized manpages have been a thing for a very long time:

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
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org we NEED syntax highlighting in our man pages!!!! (FWIW i think bat can do that lol)
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org 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
/short/ if it's of this useless kind. Never thought that they ever actually will improve their Atom feeds. Thank you, much appreciated!
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org perfectly fine, don’t worry about it!!! this looks really cool TY for sharing it :D
-¡Deja de estudiar y hazme caso!-
#catsoftwtxt
/short/ if it's of this useless kind. Never thought that they ever actually will improve their Atom feeds. Thank you, much appreciated!
@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz @movq@www.uninformativ.de 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.
Hahaha, I first thought of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA52uNzx7Y4
when I read @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz’s “lyrics”. ;-)
Doesn’t sound bad, I like it. The synth reminded me of some song by Beast in Black.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz 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.
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!!!)
@movq@www.uninformativ.de it’s so scary save urself
@movq@www.uninformativ.de yeah man pages are good but these days i kinda prefer tldr and especially cheat.sh
@kiwu@twtxt.net i remember when this shit came out godddd it was electric
@prologic@twtxt.net hii thank you!
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org thank you!!!
@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz its so groovy and teen beach esque!
@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz what a time to be alive
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):

🤔
Still, I’m inclined to convert my manpages to mandoc.
@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz I still haven’t tried it. 🤐 Some day, perhaps …
@kiwu@twtxt.net Hello. 😅
la di da da di da da di da da di daaaaa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeI992mvlEY
@thecanine@twtxt.net image is so real lol literally me
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org YEAH THEY ARE SOOO GOOD SINGING TOGETHER!!! it’s kind of their label (hello project)’s thing :]
@kiwu@twtxt.net somehow never got into this one, i gotta change that
been loving this
song lately
the essay ‘asymmetry, heteronomy, delegation’ is discussed on https://ratfactor.com/papers/asymmetry
Weil mir copyparty gerade ständig begegnet. Nun auch hier. Der Dateiserver für überall.
Welcome to the club, @kiwu@twtxt.net!
@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Ta, very catchy indeed! :-) Their polyphony is great.
@kingdomcome@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz 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.
Jim Walden’s NYC Mayor Campaign Car ?~L~X https://thenewleafjournal.com/b/7zL
@kiwu@twtxt.net Hi!!!!!!!!! 😆 Welxome! 🙇♀️
My website has 0 depreciated tags now and all identical IDs, were merged into a single class. This also improves, how the text on top of the page, is aligned on mobile.

@kiwu@twtxt.net hahahah it’s ok! just give it some time :)
@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz we love u too 🖤
@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz hii!!!!!!!!!
@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz ok! its kinda buggy here cuz my replys aren’t coming in!
@bender@twtxt.net I think it’s actually a new XEP proposal ( https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0084.html#proto-info ), but it’s still a bit unclear. Sorry for the late and vague response, I’m still trying to test it and see what it’s even about, didn’t yet find a server, that supports it.
EVERYONE SAY HI TO @kiwu@twtxt.net SHE’S MY LONGTIME BESTIE AND SUPER SWEET AND ALSO LOVES IDOLS LIKE ME :DDDD