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If you happen to use something like direnv, I like use toilet Projectname -f future --gay It gives me great pleasure to have a project banner this way, every

by 2mol 6y ago

If you happen to use something like direnv, I like use toilet Projectname -f future --gay It gives me great pleasure to have a project banner this way, every time I cd into the project directory.

Jaruzel 6y ago
Looking at the website, I can see it's not been updated in several years, so maybe the use of 'gay' as a filter can be forgiven, but I think I'd prefer that filter to be called 'rainbow' or something. Edit: the links to the git repository are down as well.
- carlhjerpe 6y ago
  I doubt the author asks for forgiveness, it's a switch for enabling happy colors and nothing more. If they choose to call it gay, HBTQ, pride, happy, mdma, techno, acid or happy is very much up to them to do without being judged.
- mustardo 6y ago
  google define: gay * "light-hearted and carefree." * "brightly coloured; showy."
  - dmos62 6y ago
    Point being, gay meant happy/lighthearted way before it started to also mean homosexual: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/gay https://www.thefreedictionary.com/gay Etymology excerpt: [Middle English gai, lighthearted, brightly colored, from Old French, possibly of Germanic origin.]
    - Fnoord 6y ago
      In high school I learned gai in French means cheerful. The joy some 13 year olds had with that word. Incidentally, the developer of the tool, Sam Hocevar, is French. For me the colours are by default in Solarized Dark, which skews the 16 colors into, well, in this case French flag colours. To test this, consider $ msgcat --color=test
- ramblerman 6y ago
  What’s to forgive exactly?
- BuildTheRobots 6y ago
  If the word "gay" was being used as a pejorative then I'd fully agree with you. When I was at school it was _the_ insult to use, and in the context of an adjective meant that things were lame, pathetic and bad. It was used everywhere and constantly, and as someone who identified as LGBT every time I heard it in passing I'd panic slightly and my heart would skip a beat. This is the exact opposite though. The `--gay` flag is the best option; it's the most colourful, flashy and fun. I _want_ more people to use the term in a positive context because every time it happens, the pejorative context looses more power and anything that stops these sorts of words being weaponised is a good thing. And as other commenters have already said, it gets defined in dictionaries as "light-hearted and carefree" or "brightly coloured; showy.", both of which descriptions fit the use case perfectly.
  - Cullinet 6y ago
    Google for "what a gay day" and, if you are entertained by such stories, read all about Larry Grayson, the prime time game show host in my childhood and the most incredibly awesome man who slogged his way into showbiz through two decades of gruelling nearly empty houses in Yorkshire miners / working men's clubs where he, among other acts, put on full drag. I don't believe that the present time is actually more open and safe for different folk. When I grew up nobody but nobody would dare to speak of anyone's sexuality let alone make a point of it and assaulting up a homosexual man would land you on hospital when the neighbours reacted in horror at the effective attack on the man's mother (I confess to typing on gay men living with their mothers but I didn't know one exception until moving to London in the late 80s. Mining towns in Yorkshire were probably the safest place to be gay ever. You wouldn't be "out" only because nobody's private lives were on display. The untold horror of the Thatcher breaking of the National Union of Miners is the fractures through communities unravelled the most intricate social support web and exposed the most vulnerable people to possibly the most heightened emotional communal period in post war England. The miner's union was also a huge contributor to the widows most likely to have their gay sons looking after them and the collapse in union finances forced many ill prepared and not still young gay men to seek better economic possibility. Sending ca 40 yr old highly protected parochial gay men who would do anything for their mums or the mere idea of their mothers, into late 80s cities in search of suitable work, was just the most terrible consequence.
- kamiheku 6y ago
  > [...] I think I'd prefer that filter to be called 'rainbow' or something. That is, in fact, exactly what the author did. https://github.com/cacalabs/toilet/commit/be1054fefd6cda23ca1aa911ef520f7540a16910 https://github.com/cacalabs/toilet/commit/be1054fefd6cda23ca...
  - Jaruzel 6y ago
    Aha cool, I couldn't find a working link on the website to the git, as I DID want to check before bringing it up.
TeMPOraL 6y ago
Oooh, direnv, never heard of that. It's like directory-local variables in Emacs, only for the shell!
- m463 6y ago
  directory-local variables in emacs? thank you! I will look at that.
- xfer 6y ago
  nix + direnv -> https://github.com/target/lorri https://github.com/target/lorri .

by 2mol 6y ago

If you happen to use something like direnv, I like use toilet Projectname -f future --gay It gives me great pleasure to have a project banner this way, every time I cd into the project directory.

Jaruzel 6y ago

Looking at the website, I can see it's not been updated in several years, so maybe the use of 'gay' as a filter can be forgiven, but I think I'd prefer that filter to be called 'rainbow' or something. Edit: the links to the git repository are down as well.

carlhjerpe 6y ago
I doubt the author asks for forgiveness, it's a switch for enabling happy colors and nothing more. If they choose to call it gay, HBTQ, pride, happy, mdma, techno, acid or happy is very much up to them to do without being judged.
mustardo 6y ago
google define: gay * "light-hearted and carefree." * "brightly coloured; showy."
- dmos62 6y ago
  Point being, gay meant happy/lighthearted way before it started to also mean homosexual: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/gay https://www.thefreedictionary.com/gay Etymology excerpt: [Middle English gai, lighthearted, brightly colored, from Old French, possibly of Germanic origin.]
  - Fnoord 6y ago
    In high school I learned gai in French means cheerful. The joy some 13 year olds had with that word. Incidentally, the developer of the tool, Sam Hocevar, is French. For me the colours are by default in Solarized Dark, which skews the 16 colors into, well, in this case French flag colours. To test this, consider $ msgcat --color=test
ramblerman 6y ago
What’s to forgive exactly?
BuildTheRobots 6y ago
If the word "gay" was being used as a pejorative then I'd fully agree with you. When I was at school it was _the_ insult to use, and in the context of an adjective meant that things were lame, pathetic and bad. It was used everywhere and constantly, and as someone who identified as LGBT every time I heard it in passing I'd panic slightly and my heart would skip a beat. This is the exact opposite though. The `--gay` flag is the best option; it's the most colourful, flashy and fun. I _want_ more people to use the term in a positive context because every time it happens, the pejorative context looses more power and anything that stops these sorts of words being weaponised is a good thing. And as other commenters have already said, it gets defined in dictionaries as "light-hearted and carefree" or "brightly coloured; showy.", both of which descriptions fit the use case perfectly.
- Cullinet 6y ago
  Google for "what a gay day" and, if you are entertained by such stories, read all about Larry Grayson, the prime time game show host in my childhood and the most incredibly awesome man who slogged his way into showbiz through two decades of gruelling nearly empty houses in Yorkshire miners / working men's clubs where he, among other acts, put on full drag. I don't believe that the present time is actually more open and safe for different folk. When I grew up nobody but nobody would dare to speak of anyone's sexuality let alone make a point of it and assaulting up a homosexual man would land you on hospital when the neighbours reacted in horror at the effective attack on the man's mother (I confess to typing on gay men living with their mothers but I didn't know one exception until moving to London in the late 80s. Mining towns in Yorkshire were probably the safest place to be gay ever. You wouldn't be "out" only because nobody's private lives were on display. The untold horror of the Thatcher breaking of the National Union of Miners is the fractures through communities unravelled the most intricate social support web and exposed the most vulnerable people to possibly the most heightened emotional communal period in post war England. The miner's union was also a huge contributor to the widows most likely to have their gay sons looking after them and the collapse in union finances forced many ill prepared and not still young gay men to seek better economic possibility. Sending ca 40 yr old highly protected parochial gay men who would do anything for their mums or the mere idea of their mothers, into late 80s cities in search of suitable work, was just the most terrible consequence.
kamiheku 6y ago
> [...] I think I'd prefer that filter to be called 'rainbow' or something. That is, in fact, exactly what the author did. https://github.com/cacalabs/toilet/commit/be1054fefd6cda23ca1aa911ef520f7540a16910 https://github.com/cacalabs/toilet/commit/be1054fefd6cda23ca...
- Jaruzel 6y ago
  Aha cool, I couldn't find a working link on the website to the git, as I DID want to check before bringing it up.

TeMPOraL 6y ago

Oooh, direnv, never heard of that. It's like directory-local variables in Emacs, only for the shell!

m463 6y ago
directory-local variables in emacs? thank you! I will look at that.
xfer 6y ago
nix + direnv -> https://github.com/target/lorri https://github.com/target/lorri .