Also the pause button seems to take the GIF back to its first frame, then resume from where I paused... either that or I need a good sleep.

We do what we must, because we can / For the good of all of us

I totally failed on the balancing part, was working on the thesis like a runaway diesel engine. I could sleep and step away from the word processor window but it kind of consumed my thoughts at all times. Towards the end stress started to spill over to the physical domain and it took about 4 months after the submission and thesis defense (no snakes fortunately) for symptoms to subside.

A very un-scientific screen grab and saving as a GIF gives me 604kB at 990×1000 pixels, but this does include color fringing at the edges of each letter and I'd be inclined to treat this as a 1 BPP image.

I bet somebody in the biz has a pipeline for running different algorithms/formats/compressions, and applying different metrics for "would these look about the same to a human on a certain screen at a certain distance."

> 1 BPP

Yeah, the different ASCII characters might be best modeled/analogized as local dithering.

AA-lib is alive and kicking (I think): https://aa-project.sourceforge.net/

An MPEG-1-based screen sharing experiment appeared here 10 years ago:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9954870

- https://phoboslab.org/log/2015/07/play-gta-v-in-your-browser...

Yup, when reading this I immediately thought of jsmpeg, which I'm fond of.

don't do it

when you wanna come

I remember a GitHub repository where someone documented problems and resolutions related to their house in the issues section.

I'm also trying to gather a personal backlog of things at home patiently waiting to be resolved, but can't even get myself through the collection phase...

GNU Stow? https://systemcrafters.net/managing-your-dotfiles/using-gnu-...

Keep the alternate sets in different subdirectories.

It's kinda amusing how much of interesting software there is beyond coreutils and GCC that came from GNU, and how little adoption it has actually seen.

At least you don't have to type the same letters while holding a thin tape over your screen to erase them!

Apple also had separate Return and Enter symbols on keyboards for a while, which also sounds like typewriter territory but their intended use was a bit different: https://creativepro.com/a-tale-of-two-enter-keys/

I have also dug around a bit to find out this one, and the earliest httpd I could get my hands on is 1.3.0 which is hosted on the Apache archive site: https://archive.apache.org/dist/httpd/

"src/modules/standard/mod_include.c" says:

  /*
   * http_include.c: Handles the server-parsed HTML documents
   * 
   * Original by Rob McCool; substantial fixups by David Robinson;
   * incorporated into the Apache module framework by rst.
   * 
   */

Rob McCool is the author of NCSA HTTPd so it seems there is direct lineage wrt. this feature between the two server implementations.