RL_Dane,
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Does anyone remember ? :)
http://explodingdog.com/title/youchooseyourchoices.html

cc: @benjaminhollon @joel -- y'all might like this.

ryancoordinator, (edited )
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@RL_Dane @benjaminhollon @joel my signed copy of Amazing Rain is one of my most prized possessions. Makes me cry every time.

RL_Dane,
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benjaminhollon,
@benjaminhollon@lowkey.zone avatar

@RL_Dane @joel
I… what on earth is this? XD

RL_Dane,
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@benjaminhollon @joel

2000-2015 webcomic where the guy would draw a simple comic based on user-submitted prompts.

benjaminhollon,
@benjaminhollon@lowkey.zone avatar

@RL_Dane @joel
Hmmm okay.

Well it doesn't have a next button, only a "previous", so I guess you'd have to read it in reverse?

RL_Dane,
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@benjaminhollon @joel

I mean, the website code probably hasn't changed too much since 2000, so that implies that going back in time and adding forward links wasn't something he felt like doing ;)

benjaminhollon,
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@RL_Dane @joel
Well I've got my script downloading the entire archives now in reverse, at which point I can read it in order with imv $(ls -v | tac). ;)

RL_Dane,
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benjaminhollon,
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@RL_Dane @joel
Nah, I use the clear-cache subcommand once I'm done reading to save storage space.

That said the last 400 strips are only 31 MB, so it might be worth it just to keep it. ;)

benjaminhollon,
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@RL_Dane @joel
By the way, once it's done I'm happy to transfer it to anyone who wants it via https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole. :)

joel,
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benjaminhollon,
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@joel @RL_Dane
Well I'm halfway done downloading. Go ahead and install magic-wormhole and I'll send you a command to run once I've got it finished.

joel,
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@benjaminhollon @RL_Dane I'm on android

benjaminhollon,
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@joel @RL_Dane
Hmmm okay. Is that where you're wanting to download all of these to?

joel,
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@benjaminhollon @RL_Dane is it more than a gb?

benjaminhollon,
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@joel @RL_Dane
Nah, only 88M so far.

It just hung up on this page which is unfortunately missing an image: http://explodingdog.com/title/iwillfightyou.html

:(

Guess I'll just skip it.

RL_Dane,
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joel,
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@benjaminhollon @RL_Dane dude, that image is lost forever and I'm so sad

RL_Dane,
@RL_Dane@fosstodon.org avatar

@joel @benjaminhollon

Wayback machine, hermano!!

benjaminhollon,
@benjaminhollon@lowkey.zone avatar

@RL_Dane @joel
Alright, I downloaded it and stuck it in place of the broken image.

Interesting, it's in .gif while everything else is in .png. It might have failed a conversion at some point.

benjaminhollon,
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@RL_Dane @joel
I had one more that was like that.

benjaminhollon,
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@RL_Dane @joel
Only three years of strips to go!

benjaminhollon,
@benjaminhollon@lowkey.zone avatar

@RL_Dane will you want a copy too?

@joel

RL_Dane,
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@benjaminhollon @joel

YES! I'll take it :)

benjaminhollon,
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@RL_Dane @joel
Great!

The sad thing at the moment is that my script doesn't download the title along with the strip. You can usually tell from the filename, though.

benjaminhollon,
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@RL_Dane @joel
I would someday like to add a way to my script to download supplemental information from the sites (mostly for transcripts) so we could try this again then to get the titles too.

joel,
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@benjaminhollon @RL_Dane honestly just ask chatgpt to do this rn and it will probably work out

RL_Dane,
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@joel @benjaminhollon

Now that is evil. :P

benjaminhollon,
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@joel @RL_Dane
Nah I need to do a refactor of the config format. Right now it would be too complex to add more things.

benjaminhollon,
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@RL_Dane @joel
Alright, joel here's your code: 3-capricorn-drainage

And Mr. "back in my day", here's your command to run: wormhole receive 6-letterhead-dropper

Keep in mind the number in the filename is in reverse chronological order.

RL_Dane,
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@benjaminhollon @joel

downloading... ;)

benjaminhollon,
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@RL_Dane @joel
I think you took Joel's code. ;)

'sokay, joel you take the other one.

RL_Dane,
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@benjaminhollon @joel

Ooops, sorry, didn't know they weren't sharable

benjaminhollon,
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@RL_Dane @joel
Yeah, they're one-time for each specific transfer. It's okay, though, I made two for a reason.

benjaminhollon,
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@RL_Dane @joel
(because as soon as you finish downloading my computer stops listening for new download attempts.)

RL_Dane,
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@benjaminhollon @joel

Brofam... friends don't let friends use "%d" as the number format.
It's gotta be "%03d," otherwise it don't sort. :P

benjaminhollon,
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@RL_Dane @joel
It does if you use the -v flag on ls. That's why I suggested the command imv $(ls -v | tac) to open all these in order.

I can't 0-pad it since the script doesn't know how long the strip's gonna be before it starts downloding.

RL_Dane,
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@benjaminhollon @joel

Ah, ok. ;)

Mainly just givin' ya grief. It's easy enough to fix anyway.

benjaminhollon,
@benjaminhollon@lowkey.zone avatar

@RL_Dane @joel
Yeah, I've considered zero-padding, but using the -v flag is simple enough for me and saves complexity in the download script, so… that's what I go with. I might change that someday.

benjaminhollon,
@benjaminhollon@lowkey.zone avatar

@RL_Dane @joel
Honestly I feel like -v-style sorting should be default for pretty much everything. The typical way of sorting numbers is silly.

RL_Dane,
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@benjaminhollon @joel

Wait...

``
IMV(1) IMV(1)

NAME
imv - Image viewer for X11 and Wayland

DESCRIPTION
imv is an image viewer for X11 and Wayland, aimed at users of tiling
window managers. It supports a wide variety of image file formats,
including...

SYNOPSIS
imv [options] [paths...]

OPTIONS
-h
Show help message and quit.

-v
Show version and quit.

RL_Dane,
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@benjaminhollon @joel

oh, ls -v

sorry

RL_Dane,
@RL_Dane@fosstodon.org avatar

@benjaminhollon @joel

The problem is that only Linux and FreeBSD have ls -v :/

There's always sort -n, maybe

benjaminhollon,
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@RL_Dane @joel
Aw, that's too bad.

benjaminhollon,
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@RL_Dane @joel
Ha, yes. :)

benjaminhollon,
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@RL_Dane @joel
imv will display them in whatever order they're passed, so it's all about having a proper command to pass them instead of just using the * wildcard which sorts in the wrong order.

RL_Dane,
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@benjaminhollon @joel

What if I wrote you a bash script to fix the order? ;)

benjaminhollon,
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@RL_Dane @joel
You're welcome to, but it doesn't matter to me. ;)

brouhaha,
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@RL_Dane @benjaminhollon @joel
Or even "%3d", if it's a lexocographical sort in ASCII, UTF-8, etc.

joel,
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joel,
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@benjaminhollon @RL_Dane transfer rejected :c

benjaminhollon,
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@joel @RL_Dane
Oop yeah I see that too…

benjaminhollon,
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@joel @RL_Dane
Try 9-gadgetry-backward

RL_Dane,
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@benjaminhollon @joel

Ok, hang on...

just kidding. XD

benjaminhollon,
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@joel @RL_Dane
Hmm happened again. My best guess is your client's doing some kind of authentication wrong.

joel,
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@benjaminhollon @RL_Dane yes I am using Wormhole William let me try the other one

joel,
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@benjaminhollon @RL_Dane there are two clients on f-droid and the lightweight one seems to be outdated or smth

benjaminhollon,
@benjaminhollon@lowkey.zone avatar

@joel @RL_Dane

9-microscope-algol

joel,
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joel,
@joel@fosstodon.org avatar

@benjaminhollon @RL_Dane what are your relays and stuff

benjaminhollon,
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@joel @RL_Dane
Just the default. I didn't to any special setup.

joel,
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@benjaminhollon @RL_Dane well I'll have to wait until I get home, or use something sensible like

https://wormhole.app

Or https://send.vis.ee

benjaminhollon,
@benjaminhollon@lowkey.zone avatar

@joel @RL_Dane
WEll let me know when you're at a computer with a working client and I'll send you a new code.

joel,
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@benjaminhollon @RL_Dane I'm willing to install random stuff for your sake and when I ask you to use a website you don't even consider my request, whyyyyy :blobcatsadlife:

joel,
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@benjaminhollon @RL_Dane besides wormhole.app uses webtorrent so it's effectively almost as instant anyway

joel,
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benjaminhollon,
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@joel @RL_Dane
Oh is that what you were asking.

https://wormhole.app/1X5N8#1mW58JeDIU95uVKu-xzO6g

There you go.

joel,
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@benjaminhollon @RL_Dane "these files are unavailable, the host closed before finishing the upload" :ablobcatcry: :ablobcatcry: :ablobcatcry:

benjaminhollon,
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@joel @RL_Dane
Wait why did it give me the link then???

benjaminhollon,
@benjaminhollon@lowkey.zone avatar

@joel @RL_Dane
Ohhh it lets you start downloading before it finishes. Here you go: https://wormhole.app/NPNlk#aDimJ-eoNqCtMwPZjHLD7Q

joel,
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@benjaminhollon @RL_Dane very neat right?

benjaminhollon,
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@joel @RL_Dane
I mean… not as neat as normal wormhole is. It connects two devices directly together for a direct transfer, to my understanding, similar to how tailscale does.

joel,
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benjaminhollon,
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@joel @RL_Dane
Spoken like someone who doesn't want a copy after all. ;)

joel,
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RL_Dane,
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@benjaminhollon @joel

Wormhole is at the ready ;)

benjaminhollon,
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@joel @RL_Dane
It's probably available on archive.org… I could try and find it.

joel,
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@benjaminhollon @RL_Dane I think theres a client

benjaminhollon,
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@joel @RL_Dane
Yeah, I think so too.

brianb,
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@RL_Dane @benjaminhollon @joel that site was one of my absolute favorites for a long, long time.

joel,
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@brianb @RL_Dane @benjaminhollon it does have some charm to it

RL_Dane, (edited )
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@joel @brianb @benjaminhollon

I really loved the boxy red robots that you'd see occasionally in the comics.

I remember around 2011 I was messing around with making stuff with clay and I made a robotic shape with very glossy red clay, but I couldn't remember exactly why that image was in my head.

I was thinking it was the red "bad robot" from the JJ Abrams shows, but it was actually the exploding dog robots in the back of my head.

RL_Dane,
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joel,
@joel@fosstodon.org avatar

@RL_Dane @benjaminhollon i am not old enough for this

RL_Dane,
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@joel @benjaminhollon

You mean you're not old enough to remember it?

Did you look at it? It's not gross or anything, despite the name.

joel,
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@RL_Dane @benjaminhollon I mean that it is an old comic, nothing more xD, It was funny tho

benjaminhollon,
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@joel @RL_Dane
You're older than me, so… XD

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