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by JdeBP 1y ago
The https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45345514 discussion has indeed raised all of the same points.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
My terminal emulator has that mapping (because it is designed to be a workalike for kernel terminal emulators that have that mapping). It quite happily supports the other planes. There is no actual fundamental limitation here. Even with t
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It probably will not catch on, I suspect. Wiktionary lacks the word completely, it appears, not even its Hungarian flavour having it, giving an indication of how obscure it is going to be when non-native speakers try to look it up. * http
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by JdeBP 1y ago
At least Microsoft finally stopped making people think (on Windows NT, no less) that these were "DOS prompts", though, which used to be a very common misnomer. * https://jdebp.uk/FGA/a-cli-is-not-a-dos-prompt.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
On the contrary, I've quite explicitly pointed out that a console is one of several things, in contrast to the false claim that these are all just the same thing. Go back and read the FGA. A console is not even necessarily the same ab
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by JdeBP 1y ago
To expand on the other replies: There are two very different tasks here. This library would be for the task of taking a received ECMA-48 character stream and turning that into a series of actions on some sort of model of a terminal'
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by JdeBP 1y ago
You've only been within earshot of slipshod people. (-: And you are typing below a headline that calls the thing a terminal emulator, so you cannot really say that you've never encountered one referred to as such.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Please don't confuse the novices. A console is either a special kernel device or a UI subsystem; a terminal is a physical piece of kit; and a terminal emulator is an application that runs on a general purpose computer that emulates
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by JdeBP 1y ago
They are all terminal emulators . You have probably, as one who has never used the command line, never touched an actual terminal .
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by JdeBP 1y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24645050 .
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by JdeBP 1y ago
By the way, if you want a quick overview of this kind of equipment if you've never seen it before, here's (randomly picked by Bing Shopping) China Skyline's marketing blurb for a similar 64-port SMS gateway: * https:/&#
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Looking at the original press release ( https://www.secretservice.gov/newsroom/releases/2025/09/us-s... ) and the attached high-resolution photographs, there are things that probably leap out at a Hacker N
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It does seem like the sort of PR-rewrite for a press release that results in distances measured in football fields. Looking at a map, a 35 mile as-the-crow-flies (and as the cell network signal flies) radius of the U.N. Secretariat building
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Actually there is a screenshot, but it is in the libsixel repository, because the README here is just the original Xorg one unaltered. * https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel#x11-on-sixel-terminals
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by JdeBP 1y ago
I can just reiterate my prior comment: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCFXV6o7cro&lc=UgyhehHF9YBGF... (-: For M. Kimlat's own commentary and someone else's particularly insightful comment: * https:/&#
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by JdeBP 1y ago
That's interesting. Xe probably should close that issue, then. (-: Also note https://github.com/Kreijstal/libsixel , another fork that sprang up because the author vanished.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The interesting thing is that the author has been inactive for long enough that the 2021 fork by someone else has now itself lapsed into inactivity. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27447638 * https://githu
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Kostya Kimlat comes to mind.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
In case dang is watching, at least one past discussion two months ago: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44623091
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Hieroglyphics are vastly underused. 𓂫 ~ 𓃝 JdeBP𓆈localhost 𓅔 % 𓅭 pts/0
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Then the equivalent adjective that you are grasping for is 'Britanno'.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
You don't watch enough The Simpsons . (-: It's the daydream sequence from series 10 episode 7, 'Lisa Gets an "A"'.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
I'd say that of course people at Microsoft thought to do this, twenty years prior at the time of OS/2 1.0 … … except that it might have been people from IBM. OS/2 had a DosGetMessage() API function that looked up message
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by JdeBP 1y ago
… or the real thing powered on and operating may actually look bad and people would not buy it if they knew what reading it would be like in practice.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
You will find that the pigpen cipher has a 1:1 mapping between its input alphabet and its output alphabet, and that a 1:1 mapping is a necessity for full invertibility.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
I've been telling people about this since the days when there were operating systems still around that actually did swapping (16-bit OS/2, old Unix, Standard Mode DOS+Windows) rather than paging (32-bit OS/2, 386 Enhanced M
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by JdeBP 1y ago
There are some oddities in the telnet version, such as it conflating XTerm and PuTTY, and it presenting a bizarre timeout message when presented with a blank TERM environment variable. I wouldn't be surprised if it somehow thinks that
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Alarm bells always go off for me when a vendor, as here, blatantly Photoshops an idealized perfectly black, flat, and non-reflective mockup image of what would be displayed onto the picture of the real display.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
… and writing a detective story rather than a non-fiction book. The reality is that someone writing in Harper's in 2025 and using a Dorothy L. Sayers Peter Wimsey story from 1934 as a supporting source is presenting a hopelessly outd
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by JdeBP 1y ago
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27388589 It has been over 4 years and the redirect is still there. That bet would have been lost. (-:

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