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Reading this blog post made my day :)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

If you want to read thos as a manpage, the command is

curl -sL -H "Accept: text/roff" https://jamesg.blog/2024/02/29/linux-manual-pages/ > post.page && man ./post.page
[–] RegalPotoo 10 points 8 months ago

This is neat. I've played about with the idea of doing something similar, but embedding the result in a minimal Linux image built for some esoteric CPU and emulating it in the browser using something like JSLinux

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

I love it 🐧

[–] mvirts 2 points 8 months ago

🎉 man, this is awesome

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

love seeing passion projects made seemingly just for the hell of it