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josefyou know when you accidentally cat a binary file and despite your lightning-quick ctrl-c reflexes, something in it triggers that old vt100 command that tells your terminal emulator to shoot a spring-loaded boxing glove directly into your face
raffitz@jk stty sane fixes the terminal, but it doesn't fix the split lip and broken nose.
Fritz Adalis
Exec
12 Freya it/itsππΉπ π©@jk or to murder your screenreader for upwards of 20 minutes
mhoye
Parade du Grotesque πOh yeah, hence the good old UNIX saying "cat considered harmful".
0xC0DEC0DE07EA@jk why do we even still support that termcap?!
Geraint@jk It wouldn't be so bad if the boxing glove wasn't holding a hand grenade.
Rob Bos@jk I figured out years and years ago that "cat /bin/more | more" and paging through it a bit would fix the problem. "stty sane" is a better idea, so thanks for that. :P
@jk why do we still even have that feature
Les Orchard@jk yeah uh you gotta be careful what drivers you install with that termcap dogg
Gabriel Pettier@jk yeah, i use the "reset" command to unbox my face, but still, terrible. π
vv π« [follow my new artist profile!]@tshirtman there have been times when reset doesn't work, actually
@vv oh noes π¨ . I don't think that happened to me, but it might depend on the shell and terminal, i guess.
Max Cahill@jk it's law that the header or footer of any wide use format has to have the boxing glove in it
Wanja@jk Ah yes, the SGR 384 escape sequence. Never standardized, but still nonetheless quite widely implemented.
Fun fact: on the original v230 it was a confetti cannon, the boxing glove behavior was first implemented in xterm due to misread documentation and later copied by almost every software terminal emulator.
Fun fact: on the original v230 it was a confetti cannon, the boxing glove behavior was first implemented in xterm due to misread documentation and later copied by almost every software terminal emulator.
grimmware@jk Iβll take βsentences you can you say that will make everyone reset you like a vt100 compatibleβ please Alex.
Kit Rhett Aultman@jk people asked that the boxing glove character be left out, but once they let in the bell, it was only logical to keep the boxing glove.
Athena L.M.@jk Just did
cat /bin/ls and it cleared the screen, turned off carriage returns, changed the window title, moved the cursor to the middle of the line, locked it in place, and disabled echo. Genuinely I'm shocked the text was still in the same colors.@alilly i wonder what the difference in effects are between x86_64 and arm ls. theres got to be a text-color-changing binary out there
Kit Bashir@jk @kaybee335 ctrl-v ctrl-o to reset traps and fonts
derptron@jk cat /boot/vmlinuz > /dev/snd
@crazyeddie its the z that makes it so noisy
S. Lott@jk we had vt220βs. They spew bits all over the place. A smock, and shower-cap, and safety glasses were essential or you got bits and bytes on you. No one ever wire the protective gear though. Lots of ties and suits ruined.
Atapi.EXE@jk Chuck Jones / Rudolf Ising cartoon about Linux users solving problems with their machine
dimtion@jk fuzzing for the masses
John Maxwell@jk - Boxing glove? Luxury!
toastino@jk yeah, i really should unplug the spring-loaded boxing glove
J. R. DePriest 
:EA DATA. SF:@jk
And about 10,000 BEL commands.
And about 10,000 BEL commands.
BeckyThis is why ACME brand home computrix boxes never took off.
[Yaseenist] CauseOfBSOD 
@jk at least using
reset will send the command to heal that, which some modern terminal emulators actually implement
Eckes 
@jk and they canβt remove the spring for compatibility traditions
Resuna@jk You must still be using X11. In Wayland they upgraded to makali's audio-cock technology.
``Whenever a programmer thinks, "Hey, skins, what a cool idea", their computer's speakers should create some sort of cock-shaped soundwave and plunge it repeatedly through their skulls.''
Clemens@jk Recently did this in a container without ncurses installed, so reset wasn't available. π
Thomas Frans πΊπ¦
Wendy Nather
Cassandrich@jk I specifically left all of those out of my terminal emulator, but screen is happy to emulate some. π€¦
Cameron Simpson@jk at least the βresetβ command brings a little if sanity back
I gather βbatβ is a safer thing to use
Ryan Castellucci (they/them) 
@jk I think git still doesn't bother to filter terminal escape sequences... πβ
Norman Wilson@jk Unpopular answer: never use terminal programs that do any of that crap. Few of us have that level of austerity erm courage.
(moved)Galbinus Caeli π―@jk this is why you use tmux
Cyrille Pontvieux
WesMason
The Doctor@jk `echo ^V<escape>c`
Patrick "ILOVEPIE" Rhodes Martin@jk lolwut? why do you have a bash controlled boxing glove on a spring.
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ
Farooq Karimi Zadeh