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I'd already been pondering the paperclip-machine universe that could be created by a Twitter bot that just pipes tweets to bash and posts the output. Now it co

I'd already been pondering the paperclip-machine universe that could be created by a Twitter bot that just pipes tweets to bash and posts the output. Now it could just trawl Twitter for addresses at https://textdb.dev https://textdb.dev, and throw the contents through bash, post the result back to textdb, and tweet a new link... :]

bontaq 6y ago
That's a neat idea too, I love hearing all these new ways to use a simple bit of data.
lou1306 6y ago
I'm pretty sure you could build a Turing machine with textdb as tape and a Twitter bot as the tape head.