Thought this was a joke but turns out it is a serious joke of a library for rendering ASCII art.

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[–] 18 points 1 week ago (1 child)

Last release 5 years ago? Are they constipated?

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    lmao, you have no right calling me out like this. I have a family.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 week ago

    I once tried to stream a video through ssh and ended up with it being rendered through libcaca πŸ’©

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago

    A page on subtitles asks the real questions. What is ASS? And what makes ASS different? Inquiring minds need to know!

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    In the beginning we had aalib for rendering ASCII-art, which allowed saving GIMP images as ASCII art and playing movies in a text console with MPlayer. Then libcaca added colour support. And caca means poo in Latin languages like Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian or French, so...

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    Now pipe it into toilet

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    There are little easter eggs everywhere.

    I found one when using -v for verbose debug and manpages said use -vv or -vvv for more detailed output. So I figured what happens if i do -vvvv. The CLI response was "my, you are a curious fellow".

    Lol.

    It could have been the samba tools, I forget which thing I was needing to view detailed info about.

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