Giles Orr via Talk wrote on 2026-03-13 09:23:
I haven't watched the video - yet. His videos are pretty good ... but I get annoyed by media telling me by their title "you're stupid." I avoided using the Dummies' Guides and Idiot's Guides for the same reason.
Interesting comparison. He mentioned it once in a video / stream, and I forget why he named it that, mostly as a joke but IIRC it boiled down to "naming stuff is hard". Indeed, the Laws of Computers™ states the hardest things are: 1 naming things 2 cache invalidation 3 off-by-one errors 0 asynchronous programming
Most of us aren't stupid - we know we lack knowledge and we're trying to learn. Your catchy name is insulting, and also implies you have an ego the size of a planet.
Fortunately, he does not treat viewers as stupid, doesn't exhibit a large ego, and helps us learn a lot, so I'm willing to just call it "YSAP" and give benefit of the doubt here.
But maybe "ranTTy" would be a good terminal name ... Or `runtty` (which of course is smaller than the rest of the littyr).
Uh-oh, I'm afraid you'll summon He Who Shall Rant About Nonsense.
YSAP when `curl`ed looks great. But isn't he messing with and deliberately subverting the intended purpose of `curl`? What if you were curling the page to try to determine what was going on with the HTML - which is the normal(ish) reason people `curl` web pages?
He is messing with traditional uses of `curl`, but he's free to do as he wishes with his site. To debug it, I guess use the webdev tools in a browser or view source? "Because I can" is a valid reason to do something cool that doesn't hurt anything.
`curl -L hotdogstand.lol` does mess up `kitty` ... but `reset` also clears the changes properly. So that's good. Here's all the terminals I have currently installed on my system and their `reset` results:
Term Reset alacritty FAIL gnome-terminal FAIL kitty SUCCESS konsole FAIL lxterm FAIL lxterminal FAIL uxterm FAIL xterm FAIL
Interesting.
Indeed - thank you for testing all those! That's really helpful! I'll consider raising a bug report. Still don't understand why I can `echo -e "${purple}This is purple" but after that everything goes back to ketchup & mustard colours. Something deep is going on with palettes that I don't understand. Thanks again Giles, very useful info!