Re: [9front] proposal: raze fortunes

[nepeta@canaglie.net]

nepeta@canaglie.net wrote:
> qwx@sciops.net wrote:
> > On Thu Jul 25 04:49:16 +0200 2024, khm@sciops.net wrote:
> > > Our fortunes file is too big, most of it is boring, some of it (the
> > > parts that predate 9front) include bad things like joking about sex &
> > > abuse (there's a line that basically repurposes an old joke to accuse
> > > Jim McKie of sheepfucking, for instance), other parts of it (both pre-
> > > and post-9front) contain hitler jokes that once were edgy and now are
> > > stark reminders of an existential threat to modern society, and a lot of
> > > quotes from an ircnet which is ostensibly no-logging and can't bring
> > > receipts for people being quoted as being ok with being quoted.
> > > 
> > > In addition, a LOT of stuff isn't even formatted correctly (lines are
> > > hard-wrapped at a specific line length) with the result that the
> > > fortunes file as it sits *doesn't even work with fortune(1)*.
> > > 
> > > I started by deleting all the detritus from the Before 9front Days and
> > > then went through and deleted anything that didn't meet my arbitrarily
> > > high bar for comedy and/or poignancy.  
> > > 
> > > The remaining few things that DID meet my bar, but were quotes from
> > > ircnets, I removed anyway, because no logging!
> > > 
> > > Anyway, here's my proposed replacement for /sys/games/lib/fortunes
> > > 
> > > xoxo
> > > khm
> > 
> > Thank you for doing this, though this reduces the line count from 5265
> > to 16.  I'd suggest doing the same with /lib/troll and merging it and
> > perhaps quotes from the 'who' page, unless that is also deemed
> > questionable.  We could also add a /lib/ngate or others and possibly
> > have fortunes(1) use multiple files.  Just some suggestions, not sure
> > what would be best or even desirable.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > qwx
> 
> /lib/n-gate would be cool. i already have a big collection of n-gate
> quotes for fortune-mod, i could try turning it
> into a plan9 fortune file, if anyone else likes the idea
> 
> i also think it would be nice to have a way of easily running fortune(1)
> at the beginning of a rio terminal window.
> maybe a $home/lib/rcrc file or something like that?
> someone mentioned on irc that you could do this by modifying
> /rc/bin/rcmain, but i don't know if that might somehow
> break something
> 
> népéta

i created a n-gate fortune proof of concept:
http://okturing.com/src/20431/body
some of the quotes are quite long.
not sure if that would cause a problem.

népéta