> There's always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet, and the only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they DO NOT KNOW ABOUT IT!

A large portion of your submissions and comments are anti-trans. Pronouns and names are not "preferred".

That is your ideological position and you are of course welcome to hold it.

Everybody deserves the respect of being called by their preferred name. Even children know this. If your name is Pat, and somebody insists on calling you Frank instead, they are just an asshole.

This has nothing to do with ideology. It's just basic politeness.

Both legal name and chosen alias are used in the article to describe each person as they are introduced to the reader. That should be sufficient.

Transphobia is widespread. I guess I know which websites and individuals to block, anyway.

AI generated images/video pass verification...

I'm not going to dig it up for you, but this is in line with what I've read and observed. I set this to 20 packets on my personal site.

This is really cool - I've been experimenting with terminal escape sequences recently, and they go deep. Thanks for sharing! Get in touch (email in profile) if you'd like to collaborate.

Thanks! It's all open source (including the tokenizer/parser), so feel free come collaborate on GitHub.

I've actually have a pretty good experience with gemini-2.5-pro doing this, but I was focused primarily on role-play and collaborative story telling. Definitely some issues, but I enjoyed it.

Move fast and irradiate things.

It's a WIP, but some of the code is on github:

https://github.com/ryancdotorg/ansi-player-rs

https://github.com/ryancdotorg/ansiani

I haven't posted the SSH part yet, but that is planned along with a writeup.

What's the TERM variable for the default macOS terminal? I want to try to detect non-working terminals.

TERM=xterm-256color

TERM_PROGRAM=Apple_Terminal

It didn't get much attention when I posted it earlier this week, but I made an SSH movie player:

ssh ansi.rya.nc

(currently shows Sneakers, complete with subtitles)

Usually I get really annoyed with people who hijack a thread to post their own thing, but ok, yea, this is pretty amazing. The quality is superb.

I do also love itter.sh

I was about to say 'please do not hijack the thread' but read your comment and ssh'ed into it. This is amazing.

Agree. His Show HN post deserves the upvotes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43916333

HOLY FUCK, WOW. Can we have a call?

Just mplayer -vo caca myvideo.mp4

It's _way_ higher quality than that.

drop me an email

It looks completely garbled on my end

It needs a terminal with 24 bit color support, and at least 80x24. In particular, gnu screen doesn't work.

here's a screenshot with a terminal that works with it https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attach...

Any way to add sound?