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

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.