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alecsargent lemmy.zip alecsargent@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-08-13
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Thought this was a joke but turns out it is a serious joke of a library for rendering ASCII art.

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Skullgrid lemmy.world Skullgrid@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-29
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Tetsuo jlai.lu Tetsuo@jlai.lu
Joined: 2023-07-02
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I once tried to stream a video through ssh and ended up with it being rendered through libcaca 💩

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Gyroplast pawb.social Gyroplast@pawb.social
Joined: 2024-06-22
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A page on subtitles asks the real questions. What is ASS? And what makes ASS different?
Inquiring minds need to know!

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chuso fedia.io chuso@fedia.io
Joined: 2024-11-13
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In the beginning we had aalib for rendering ASCII-art, which allowed saving GIMP images as ASCII art and playing movies in a text console with MPlayer.
Then libcaca added colour support. And caca means poo in Latin languages like Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian or French, so...

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TwilightKiddy scribe.disroot.org TwilightKiddy@scribe.disroot.org
Joined: 2026-07-27
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https://mpv.io/manual/master/#video-output-drivers-caca

caca

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Note

This driver is a joke.

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alecsargent lemmy.zip alecsargent@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-08-13
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lmao, you have no right calling me out like this. I have a family.

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alecsargent lemmy.zip alecsargent@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-08-13
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In the beginning we had aalib for rendering ASCII-art, which allowed saving GIMP images as ASCII art and playing movies in a text console with MPlayer. Then libcaca added colour support. And caca means poo in Latin languages like Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian or French, so...

And caca means poo in Latin languages like Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian or French, so…

I speak Spanish, which made me open it expecting some kind of joke.

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Spice Hoarder lemmy.zip spicehoarder@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-29
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Last release 5 years ago? Are they constipated?

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alecsargent lemmy.zip alecsargent@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-08-13
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Last release 5 years ago? Are they constipated?

they need liblaxative

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