[GTALUG] Re: Curling This Website Was a Mistake, but you *should* do it anyway (+ Ghost TTY)

William Park via Talk wrote on 2026-03-12 14:51:

$ curl -NL hotdogstand.lol $ reset

My terminal (Konsole on CachyOS) doesn't return to original state.  I had to terminate.

Yup. There's a lot going on in those ANSI codes, it's fascinating. I picked them apart line by line (after converting to lines because it's a single string). Apparently one can map all 16 main colours to #ff0000?!? Still not 100% sure what happens, but am intrigued and impressed.