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I think you can also just use telnet to see star wars: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
by graetzer 8y ago
I think you can also just use telnet to see star wars:
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
- potiuper 8y agoboth of these need seek functionality
- mraison 8y agoPRs welcome :) I guess for the curl version it's gonna be tough because you can't really interact with the stream that you receive. You should be able to do it with the telnet version, though
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- rzzzt 8y agohttps://asciinema.org/a/8 https://asciinema.org/a/8
- BossingAround 8y agoWell this was disappointing... :(
- mraison 8y agoIndeed, I came across this project while googling the idea! I figured out SSL would be a nice feature to have - surely you wouldn’t want your Star Wars ASCII stream to be tampered with, would you? ;)
- colinbartlett 8y agoTo think that anyone on the wire could manipulate the stream so that Greedo shoots first... horrifying.
- darkpuma 8y agoYou laugh but terminal emulators have been found to be exploitable in the past: http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/3P5PQRPPPO.html http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/3P5PQRPPPO.html
- _underfl0w_ 8y agoI'm very surprised to see this is still around! They must've had this up for decades.
- warent 8y agoWhen I discovered this as a youngling it totally opened my mind to the crazy possibilities of computers and the internet. Love to see it posted here after all these years!
- twtw 8y agoThis is still my goto diversion whenever I end up in an Apple Store - trying to get Star Wars going on as many computers as possible.