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NAME
skelington [havxhc]{%^%%%},dffqq0&&&@“&” -jcndnknn
haha, this is a cool program i came up with on an acid trip in zimbabwe in 2014. it all started when i was charged by a wild GNU, which gave me a distaste for the acronym. anyway, that’s how i met richard stallman! he was shortly trampled to death thereafter, and i saw his “skelington” haha. and wow, the tool has really grown over time. let me document every single itty bitty tiny flag that 1 person on the fringe has ever used and never talk about the 99% usecase.

FLAGS
-a Wow, this one does it all really. Well except when you use it with -c, then it functions kinda like -d. be sure to put this flag last! there’s a data integrity bug otherwise (you risk rm -rf) good luck!

-b boy is this flag handy dandy, it adds bytesize slice info to the output buffer!

-c cake - this outputs CAKE in allcaps (mixedCase if you use -m), but the ordering is not consistent unless used with -o

-d delete

-o order things, including flags! flags are ordered last.

-m (not implemented yet) munge data (inject random data) so that tou can fuzztest your output, very useful for developing. fuzztest reads from /proc/fuzzy/boi and injects 1 datum of horseshit per bitwise integer! that way you can quantize your garbage instead of just shoveling it down ur throat (put down the cheetos)

-M this is actually supposed to be -m but for historical reasons it’s -M. anyways, it stands for “murder” - you figure out the rest

AUTHOR
Written by me, jes ( @j3s) and nobody else, copyright 2025, i love god, juice, and jeans! sheesh

REPORTING BUGS
just don’t please, i barely have enough time to live as it is

EXAMPLES
fuck examples! this is a “man”page, not an “example”page. if you want examples, go ask reddit neckbeards, or catgirl hackers on discord. actually, nevermind reddit.

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my friends & i created a podcast called “torment nexus” where we talk shit on the tech world. enjoy, if you must. :blobby_kitty: tormentnexus.gay/@tormentnexus

@h Or just as a good way to sidestep packaging related issues and make things easier in general

@h Maybe this particular YouTuber just decided to make their thumbnail as troll as possible to attract attention 👻

I don't know. If the audience is full of people who only know how to use Docker, it makes sense to me to do a video for those people what would you do if you had a Docker container but you needed to deploy it to a Linux server that does not or cannot have Docker.

(I haven't watched the video so I have no idea what it is)

Honestly, I think Docker is pretty good as a way to... as like a gateway drug to get more people running Linux servers.

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I wonder if they would still use jimbo wales' picture and name in wikipedia fundraising drives if more people knew he was also the guy who created wikia/fandom.com

@rcktslc it will be a direct alternative when someone makes a fork with a search that works

(By works I means doesn't require the exact thing you are searching for to have been manually added first by the person searching)

@h Is that a bad thing? It used to be you had to know all this stuff just to access the internet. Now you need to know less and less to publish to the internet (in the own-the-printing-press sense)

@cadey really cool! I made my own one of these too, originally it was used as antispam for forms (origanally i had called it a captcha) but I started using it to protect against indexer bots too, in a different context.

git.sequentialread.com/forest/

Here's a demo: picopublish.sequentialread.com

Also, about the JS requirement. I haven't "upstreamed" this into the pow-bot-deterrent package yet but when I ran into spam issues with the capsul.org login page, I had to do something for js-free users (or just people who have webworkers disabled n stuff).

Eventually I settled on just asking them to send an email to a specific address. Then there's a separate process which stays connected to the mailbox over IMAP and waits for messages. Then when it gets one it returns a blocking http call, so the user can log in right away.

The code is a mess cuz I made it in a hurry but:

git.cyberia.club/cyberia/capsu

git.cyberia.club/cyberia/smtpd

Just saw this and wanted to share my experience w/ this kinda thing, its v. cool, I really don't like google captcha / cloudflare

@firewally hey long time no see.

what's your reg policy for twincities.photo? I heard some ppl say they might interested in trying pixelfed

How to fix your utility company's broken billing portal using the web browser developer tools

@sigmasternchen because they were designed to work like C packages, which were designed in an era when a 5mb hard drive was $1000 😢

@aaron lol, nice, one time I tried to do this on our git server by returning 4mb of text at ~10 bytes per second... It was all fun and games until it started mistaking human users for bots 😔

Sounds like you've solved that by letting the bots out themselves and trap themselves by navigating too deeply into a nonsense area that's separate from the actual site...?

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tried to restore an ipod and it wasn’t appearing at all on a modern mac so i had to try the old macbook. my backlight is busted but im thinking so different rn

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PSA: if you're on a mega-instance like mastodon.social and want to move to a better instance but you don't want to leave your history behind, I will personally help you run my SQL script that loads your account export into a gotosocial database

https://git.sr.ht/~technomancy/masto-gear-solid

@hisaac what's your take on this?

j3s.sh/thought/write-posix-she

Basically "shell is great, but if you love shell, stick to the POSIX spec and a lot of problems that make shell scripting not great will go away"

But also "only use shell for things that its good at. For everything else, there's python3 and its stdlib (or whatever else floats your boat)"

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