I asked ChatGPT and another AI to generate qbsh scripts and even gave it commands like CALC and PIP to incorporate. It clearly had bash in the crunchbang. When I suggested it wasn't qbsh, it apologized, removed that line and told me it was more using correct syntax and not "bash built-ins" and hallucinated qbsh commands that don't exist like GREP. It was pretty hilarious.
Close to none of this is true whatsoever. It was partly inspired by #Commodore64, but also by CP/M. And while #qbsh does support basic scripting, it is very much not BASIC compatible with any retro BASIC platform.
qbsh won't teach you to program in #BASIC by using it, even though it is #opensource and written in QBASIC, but to that end, qbsh won't teach you how to code in BASIC any more than #bash will teach you to code in C.
When I asked for example sources for qbsh scripts, it hallucinated a github repo that doesn't exist.
I do have scripting examples in the actual repo.
But ones thing's clear, the #ChatAI is not better than traditional search engines at pointing users towards resources and otherwise reliable information for my #opensource#software projects.
@Mirppc There are a few things that I use that are qb64 specific helpers, but it's definitely possible to adapt most of the qbsh code to work with Quick BASIC 4.5 and compile it for DOS.
I don't have time right now, but I definitely have thought about doing a CBASIC port of it for CP/M.
@vwbusguy Image text: What is a good use case for using qbsh on Linux?
Qbsh (Quick Basic Shell) is an interactive shell for writing and running programs in the BASIC programming language on Linux systems. Some potential use cases for qbsh include:
• Learning BASIC programming: Qbsh provides a simple environment for learning the basics of programming in BASIC. It allows writing and running small test programs interactively.
@vwbusguy (continued) • Scripting and automation: Simple BASIC scripts can be written and run using qbsh to automate tasks and system administration functions on Linux. BASIC is easy to learn and write scripts in. • Retro computing: Qbsh allows running original BASIC programs from older systems like Commodore 64, Apple Il, etc. It provides a way to experience retro computing on modern (end of image text)
@ChasMusic I read somewhere that ocr in screen readers means sight impaired people hear the text twice if you transcript it, so I switched to a more concise way of doing alt text.
@vwbusguy Hmm, hadn't heard that. If all screen readers provide an OCR function automatically, as opposed to on request, it would be an issue. But if not all have that capability, then it would be a problem to assume they do. Also, it wouldn't help people who don't use screen readers but who have images turned off, for example, to save bandwidth.
@ChasMusic@vwbusguy There’s no guarantee that a screen reader will provide OCR of text in images as a rule. They may provide it only demand, or not at all. Even if it’s available and invoked, there’s no guarantee that the OCR will be accurate or complete. (As you’ve just demonstrated, “AI” is not always accurate.) To provide a reliable transcript of text in images, you need to add it as alt or as a caption accompanying the image.
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