Thursday·26·March·2020
Pictures in pure HTML with chafa and aha //at 05:55 //by abe
I recently stumbled upon chafa, a tool to display pictures, especially color pictures on your ANSI text terminal, e.g. inside an xterm.
And I occasionally use aha, the Ansi HTML Adapter to convert a colorful terminal content into HTML to show off terminal screenshots without the requirement of a picture — so that it also works in e.g. text browsers or for blinds.
Combining chafa and aha: Examples
A moment ago I had the thought what would happen if I feed the output
of chafa into aha and expected nothing
really usable. But I was surprised by the quality of the outcome.
looks like this after chafa -w 9 -c full -s 160x50 DSCN4692.jpg
| aha -n:
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Checking the Look in Text Browsers
It even looks not that bad in elinks — as far as I know the only text browser which supports CSS and styles:
In Lynx and Links 2, the text composing the image is displayed only in black and white, but you at least can recognise the edges in the picture:
Same Functionality in One Tool?
I knew there was a tool which did this in one step. Seems to have been png2html.
Tried to play around with it, too, but neither really understood how to use it (seems to require a text file for the characters to be used — why?) nor did I really got it working. It always ran until I aborted it and it never filled the target file with any content.
Additionally, png2html insists on one character per pixel, requiring to first properly resize the image before converting to HTML.
The Keyboard in the Pictures
Oh, and btw., the displayed keyboard is my Zlant. The Zlant is a 40% uniform staggered mechanical keyboard. Currently, only Zlant PCBs are available at 1UP Keyboards (USA), i.e. no complete kits.
It is shown with the SA
Vilebloom key cap set, currently available at MechSupply (UK).
Tagged as: 1UPKeyboards, 40% Keyboard, aha, chafa, CSS, elinks, Graphics, HTML, Keyboard, Links2, Lynx, Mechanical Keyboard, MechSupply, png2html, SA Vilebloom, Text Browser, Text Mode, xterm, Zlant
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Thursday·27·October·2011
The World without a sage web browser? — or — Why Firefox sucks //at 22:57 //by abe
Although I read our Debian’s Joey’s blog posting about not being able to produce Mozilla security updates for Debian, only now, after reading about other Debian’s Joey’s try to fix a security hole in Debian’s Mozilla Firefox, I see how asshole-like the Mozilla Foundation’s security policy looks to Linux (and maybe other operating system’s) distributions, who favour stableness over feature richness.
As many know (or at least were forced to know ;-) I don’t like Firefox, because in spite of all the plugins it can’t cope with all the useful features of Galeon 1.2.x or Opera. That’s the UI point of view.
But from the political (correctness) point of view, we have to ask ourself: What sage browser does the open source world still have?
- Mozilla does not provide security patches, so Firefox, Mozilla (RIP), Epiphany and Galeon are no more acceptable for distribution use.
- Konqueror has planed to drop KHTML in favor of Mozillas Gecko. So see above.
- Dillo’s rendering engine is fast but not really state of the art. Same counts for glinks (aka “links -g”).
- Lynx, links and w3m somehow don’t count since the distributions (and sometimes, me too ;-) primarily need a graphical web browser.
But back to usaility: I heard from quite a few people — even open source people — evaluating or even already using Opera as an alternative, because there is no sage open source web browser, even if you don’t count Mozillas security policy. And I can understand them. If Galeon wouldn’t exist, I probably would be a convinced Opera on Debian user myself, although Opera is closed source. But I and many more can’t live without a working and sage web browser.
The only thing, I don’t like with Opera is that this company seems to
be (or at least was a few years ago) very chaotic and uncoordinated.
(And I really wonder, how they are able to produce such impressive
software.) But that’s another story…
Tagged as: Debian, FAIL, Firefox, Galeon, Lynx, Mozilla, Open Source, Opera, Other Blogs, RIP, Security, UI
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Monday·18·September·2006
Goodbye Woody, Welcome Sarge (Penultimate Part) //at 16:17 //by abe
Since security support for Woody ceased recently, and with Kazehakase I’ve found a reasonable successor in Sarge for Galeon 1.2.x, I’ve dist-upgraded my 10 years old Pentium I ThinkPad bijou to Sarge this weekend. Even the XFree86 4, which made so much hassles in Woody by not regcognising nor configuring the graphics card correctly, worked fine from scratch. Well, at least after installing xfonts-base and xfonts-75dpi — the -transcoded versions somehow gave only the error message “default font ‘fixed’ not found”.
So goodbye Galeon, goodbye GNU Emacs 20, goodbye XFree86 3.3. I hope, I won’t miss you. Only my desktop gsa at home still runs Woody, but will be dist-upgraded soon, too.
What though still stayed on my laptop from Woody is Siag Office, since there is no adequate replacement for such a nice office suite with such a low resource footprint.
But it has also an impact on the talks I hold. I held all talks with a patched version of lynx (e.g. with LSS support) as presentation tool on that laptop because initially I didn’t get X running on that box. What started as a makeshift became my hallmark…
But I didn’t manage to get Sarge’s lynx patched so that it gives me the same output as my old version did. So either I would have to reoptimise the layout of my talks for a new lynx version or just start with something new.
Madduck recently showed me python-docutils, which he uses for presentations. Maybe I’ll use that although I have a severe aversion against Python. So it may also be that I’ll stick with WML, but get some new ideas from python-docutils how to use HTML for presentations.
Update: Found out that the interesting part of his presentation
technic wasn’t python-docutils but S5: A Simple Standards-Based
Slide Show System which in entirely written in XHTML, CSS and
JavaScript. S5 is really cool stuff, one of the first cases of useful
use of JavaScript, and will surely be used for my next presentation
— with Debian Sarge and Kazehakase on a Pentium I ThinkPad. ;-)
Tagged as: bijou, CSS, Debian, dist-upgrade, Emacs, Galeon, gsa, JavaShit, Kazehakase, Lynx, Madduck, Pentium I, Python, python-docutils, S5, Sarge, Siag Office, Talk, ThinkPad, Website Meta Language, Woody, X
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Tuesday·11·July·2006
LUGS-Mitglied //at 09:49 //by abe
Sodele, meinen Mitgliedsbeitrag habe ich am 1. Januar gezahlt, beantragt habe ich’s am 2. Januar (bei Venty von meinem ThinkPad bijou aus mit Lynx), offiziell bin ich’s seit 9. Januar, wissen tue ich’s seit gestern und seit grade eben kann man das auch auf den Webseiten der LUGS nachlesen: Ich bin jetzt nicht nur Mitglied der LUGV und der DaLUG sondern auch Mitglied der LUGS. :-)
Now Playing: Mike Oldfield — Tubular Bells
Tagged as: bijou, DaLUG, Linux, LUGS, LUGV, Lynx, Now Playing, Symlink, Ventilator
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Thursday·02·March·2006
Shell Efficiency Talk at DaLUG today //at 02:29 //by abe
I just uploaded the slides for my shell efficiency talk at the Darmstadt Linux User Group (DaLUG) today at 18:30 CEST at the Technical University of Darmstadt. (The talk will be held in German.)
I will also hold a workshop about the same subject on the 29th of
October 2005 at Linux-Info-Tag Dresden. (Will also be held in German.)
Tagged as: ash, bash, DaLUG, Darmstadt, ksh, Linux, Lynx, Shell, Talk, tcsh, Text Mode, zsh
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Wikipedia at your fingertips //at 02:07 //by abe
Via nion’s blog I got notice of two other blog entries of two people of whom each wrote a shell script to display Wikipedia articles as plain text in a pager.
While the first one called wiki2 queries Google and fetches then the first Wikipedia hit there, the second one (funnily just called wiki) queries Wikipedia directly, supports different Wikipedia languages and has a lot of other nice features.
Since the idea and especially the second script definitely belongs to the group of programs you never thought about, but, when you found it, you knew, you missed it until now, I decided to use it as the first program, I want to package for the Debian project to be included in the next release which will be called Etch.
Because of “wiki” being a quite ambigous name, I plan to name the package wikipedia2text.
Tagged as: Hacks, Lynx, Open Source, Other Blogs, Shell, Text Mode, Wikipedia
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Bei manchem Spam ist man froh, daß SpamAssassin ihn nicht erwischt… //at 01:38 //by abe
Mir ist zwar noch nicht klar, warum der SpamAssassin diesen Spam nicht erwischt hat, aber ich bin froh drüber. Denn diese automatisierte Übersetzung ist zum totlachen:
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:17:30 +0000
Subject: LifeProfit Inc.
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_44,DNS_FROM_RFCI_DSN,
HTML_MESSAGE,MIME_BOUND_NEXTPART,MIME_HTML_NO_CHARSET,NO_REAL_NAME
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LifeProfit Inc. kann Ihnen helfen, Ihre Traume zu zwingen, sich, bekommend
das monatliche Gehalt, das das Internet einwirkt, zu verwirklichen.
Um mit LifeProfit Inc. zu arbeiten, brauchen:
? Ein B?rger Deutschlands zu sein
? das Vorhandensein der Rechnung in der Bank
? die Vereinigung des Computers zum Internet
? ist ein wenig es Ihre freie Zeit
Wie es arbeitet:
Arbeitend f?r uns wie die Bezahlung, Die den Manager bearbeitet, werden Sie
Teil Aus der neuen Tendenz im weltumfassenden Banksystem. Die Pflichten Die
Lage ist einfach, und das Einkommen hangt nur von Ihren Bem?hungen ab.
Sie Sollen - die Zahlungen der Sendung zwischen unseren Kunden, die Ihr
Interesse von jeder Operation bekommen, machen.
Hauptsachlich werden es 5 %, mit jeder Sendung, die Ihr Interesse z?chten
wird. Unsere Kunden bekommen 1000 EURO zu 20000.
www.lifeprofit.com
LifeProfit Inc. sorgt sich um Ihr Bl?hen. Machen Sie Ihr Leben besser
zusammen mit der LifeProfit Inc.!
Und daß Postbank und Deutsche Bank jetzt zur Deutschen Postbank fusioniert haben, weiß ich auch erst seit dieser netten Mail:
From support@deutsche-bank.de Tue Sep 20 21:53:14 2005
From: PostBank <support@deutsche-bank.de>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:45:19 -0400
Subject: PostBank online banking
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616
X-Spam-Level: ****
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FORGED_OUTLOOK_TAGS,HTML_MESSAGE,MIME_HTML_ONLY,RATWARE_RCVD_PF
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Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
In Verbindung damit, daß wir in unserem Land in eine schwierige
Situation mit online - Banking geraten sind, wurde uns empfohlen, alle
online - Konten von unserer Bank zu kontrollieren, um die
"Tageskonten" festzustellen, die von den Betrügern dazu benutzt
werden, das gestohlene Geld zu waschen. Demzufolge bitten wir unsere
Kunden inständig, das Formular einer Kontobestätigung, das sich auf
unserer offiziellen Web-Seite befindet, auszufüllen.
Jene Konten, die bis zum 27.08.05 auf diesem Formular nicht angegeben
werden, werden bis zur Feststellung der Bedingungen ihrer Eröffnung
und Benutzung blockiert. Diese Revision betrifft sowohl die
Privatkunden, als auch die Firmenkunden.
Wir bitten um Verzeihung für die Unannehmlichkeiten, die wir Ihnen
bereitet haben, wir hoffen auf Ihre Hilfe und gegenseitiges
Verständnis.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Sicherheitsabteilung,
Postbank.de
© 2005 Deutsche Postbank AG
References
Visible links
Hidden links:
1. http://postbanking.net/
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Klasse, nicht?
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