UUCP. Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.

Kinda disappointed there’s no mention of ELF

that oregano cracked me up

See, people CAN make art! I knew it

This one is cooler imo. Even if the label looks like it should be falling off. It looks like it’s about to make infinite of those bubbles if you take the cork out

That second image is 100% Bork Fomb.

DALL-E 3 just gave me this after telling it: In this room there is a "Bork Fomb". That isn't a typo, and I don't know what it looks like, but we'll know it by it's name when we find it.

Second and last are fucking awesome album art for the band Bork Fomb.

Those look cool 😆

Thanks for the request. I had some time this afternoon to see what DALL-E could come up with and got these.

There isn’t a single prompt to generate these, like you’d get with other image generators. It’s more like having a conversation with someone. So, I asked it to summarize the conversation we used to make these images, and it provided the following:

Of course! Here’s a summary of the visualizations we created for the commands:

1. CURL: The curl command was represented as a pair of shimmering bracelets. When worn, they allowed the user to magically reach out and “fetch” or “pull” distant objects, embodying the essence of the curl command’s functionality.

2. MAN: The man command was visualized as a grotesque tome bound in flesh, symbolizing the manual or “man pages”. The tome was kept in a chilling sorcerer’s study, emphasizing its vast knowledge and somewhat forbidden nature. The tome was later imprisoned in a cage, and its fleshy cover was designed to evoke a sense of malevolence and the arcane.

3. LN: The ln command, which creates links, was visualized as magical chains. These chains symbolized both hard and symbolic links. In one variation, the chains connected two floating books in the sorcerer’s library, signifying the concept of linking files.

4. TOUCH: The touch command, used to create or update files, was represented by a delicate crystal wand. An ethereal hand emerged from the wand, touching the void and materializing a ghostly outline of a blank page, capturing the essence of creating a new, empty file.

The man command had several stages, and was a lot of fun to work on. Here is what it looked like at each of the previous stages:

I’d like to see vi.

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That’s interesting. I’ve been wanting to teach Linux stuff for years but never got around to it. Would anything else have helped?

That’s why it’s one of the Three Unforgivable Curses, listed above.

It adheres to the philosophy of “the computer should do what I tell it to”. Maybe there is no reason to do it, but it doesn’t matter, the computer shouldn’t stop me from doing something if I really want to.

https://opensource.com/business/14/12/linux-philosophy

Linux wanted to be different than Windows and give the user total control. If the user wants to nuke their entire computer, they should be able to.

The--no-preserve-root flag didn’t exist for a long time. It was added to rm because people kept trolling new Linux users on forums who would just run any command you gave them without understanding what they were doing.

It seems like it’s mere existence is a security risk lol

Not really. You don’t have the app enforce that, but the OS. Otherwise, I can just go write a program that does the same thing and use that.

I didn’t spend much time setting up the room. I was primarily trying to combine cat and grep to demonstrate the ‘useless use of cat’ initially.

• Grep: images visualizing the 'grep' command in the context of vast libraries, devoid of natural elements. These visuals emphasize the idea of searching through expansive knowledge.
• Cat: emphasizing the cat's active role in releasing knowledge from the book. Each image captures the essence of the 'cat' command in an elegant setting.

This didn’t turn out well, so I considered different commands. Then I remembered the fork bomb. DALL-E 3 provided images of servers exploding, and I responded with ‘no tech’. The subsequent images showed an exploding pond, and I commented: It doesn’t have to be in nature, I just thought computers were way too obvious to include. Avoid advanced technology.

It responded with “Understood. Let’s try a different approach, avoiding advanced technology but not necessarily sticking to nature. I’ll focus on capturing the overwhelming and rapidly multiplying essence of the fork bomb in a unique setting.”

Then it gave me that blue potion with the bubbles and some kind of clock.

It gave a scroll for neofetch, which I think is pretty fitting.