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@Unus Nemo
Nice! ...but that reminds me of a bot I love but haven't seen in a while, and that's the ANSI Art bot. Actually there are more of those, quite possibly ASCII art too. You just reminded me of how much I miss those.
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Unus Nemo
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On all my systems, even my server, I use a common MOTD scheme. I use figlet for the banners and cowsay for the dragon and fortune for the text and a Perl oneliner to capitalize the user name in the banner.

Tail of my .bash_profile configuration file:

# Custom Greeting MOTD
figlet "Hello $(whoami | perl -e 'print ucfirst(<>);')" | lolcat -b
fortune -a | cowsay -f dragon | lolcat -b

note: lolcat will use -b on some versions and -t on others. Use lolcat --help to see which is applicable to your version.

When I login in to either my server or my workstation if the MOTD strikes me at that moment as interesting I share it here 😉.


I could likely make a Bot that could reproduce this though that is a project for later 😉.

note: My Bash Configuration setup.

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Radio Free Trumpistan
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Well, you've hit on something else I like about Friendica in particular and that its editors handle BBCode. It would be nice if text formatting on Friendica would successfully translate to Mastodon and Diaspora, but it doesn't (Diaspora uses Markup). Somebody somewhere would do well to adapt ActivityPub to effect that intertranslation.
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Unus Nemo
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The problem is that all CSS is stripped when it arrives at most non-friendica nodes. This would not be a hard fix though the concern is they want a common interface for their users. The only way to ensure that is to eliminate all formatting and display it by local defaults.

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Unus Nemo
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Take that as speculation. I still have a lot to learn about Activity Pub & DFRN. What would make sense to me was if the un-transpiled bbcode was transfered. Though I am pretty sure it is the html.

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love that. Is that your own instance’s terminal?
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Unus Nemo
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@Samuel Lison

Yes. so to speak. It is produced by my ssh login to my instance. I have the same scheme setup on my local machine as well.

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@Unus Nemo
I am delighted to discover that this instance is working in time for 9 O'Clock Hashtag Games! Now if only rapid interaction was possible. Still, good show!
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@Unus Nemo
...and now I must make a point to add that tonight's activities with HashtagGames was a delight on your site. I guess if you've read my entries, you also are more familiar with my technical background. I've been online ever since there was an online to be on, but as far as coding goes, I simply haven't kept up with the times because it's all like one huge tech firehose at this point.
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