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Show HN: Random wiki image as wallpaper
- cpeterso 15y agoI've used Wikipedia's Random articles as a source of randomness for some test scripts: wwwrand() { nice curl --compressed --location --raw --verbose https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Special:Random https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Special:Rando... 2>&1 | shasum --algorithm 512 | base64 --wrap=0 | tr -cd "a-zA-Z0-9" | dd bs="$1" count=1 2>/dev/null ; echo ; } $ wwwrand 8 ZjBkNjRm Hashing the Google News home page is good, too. :)