in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan

@Radio Free Trumpistan

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.

in reply to Unus Nemo

@Unus Nemo
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.
in reply to Unus Nemo

@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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