Re: Ants (was Re: CRAP Poll 77C Part III Subsection 2 Paragraph 19: Them Thar Words At The Bottom Of The Screen)

On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 06:26:10 -0000 (UTC), vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 00:10:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:
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Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 18:26 this Tuesday (GMT):

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, 28 Oct 2024 23:55:38 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

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candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
wrote:
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https://www.reddit.com/r/antkeeping/comments/mka4ya/

what_is_the_cutest_ant/

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Faces only a mother-ant could love. Although some do look
tasty.

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Am I cute and tasty to you?

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i dunno, have u ever shown urself

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Look at my ASCII art in my signature? :P

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Ohh, that's you?

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just put urself on your xface like i do :>

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xface?

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Sayeth the Wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Face):

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   An X-Face is a small bitmap (48 × 48 pixels, black and white) image
   which is added to a Usenet posting or e-mail message, typically
   showing a picture of the author's face. The image data is included
   in the posting as encoded text, and attached with an 'X-Face'
   header.

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   While many programs support X-Face, most of them are free software
   and based on Unix or its variations, such as KMail or Sylpheed.

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I've never heard of it myself. I've never used an NNTP client that
supported it; my ancient version of Agent certainly doesn't. And I'm
happy about that; Usenet is text. Binary shit like that doesn't
belong. I mean, what's next, bold text and colors? That way leads to
chaos and madness, I tell you! ;-)

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Interesting. It reminds me of web sites' favicon.ico which is popular.
I never knew this X-Face existed. Did anyone even use it? I just know
people use ASCII arts like mine. :P Obviously, they need a fixed width
font like Courier, Monospace, etc. to see it formatted correctly.

 
 
I use xface! mostly because ascii is hard :D

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I use X-Face: headers, and have been known to use Face: headers,
too.
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Pan supports them, so I see those from others like
candycanearter07. 
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They take up just a few lines in the article header.

Apparently NewsTap --an NNTP client for Apple IOS-- supports it too.

Me, I'm stickin' with ASCII. It's a slippery slope otherwise --today
X-Face, tomorrow Emojis!-- and I'm not willing to risk that ;-P