Conservative activists and sexual misconduct. Name a more iconic duo.

I never played Descent itself, but I played a shitty clone on one of those “1000 Games on 10 CD-ROMs” packs back in the day.

After learning about the source material, I always wanted to go try it but haven’t taken the time.

They wouldn’t see what sites you give the tokens to — unless those sites choose to phone home, for some reason.

• You log in to the government site
• You ask for a token to prove your age/gender/whatever
• You copy the token
• You go to the age/gender-restricted site
• You provide the token
• The restricted site asks the government site how to verify any arbitrary token (but doesn’t mention your specific token)
• The restricted site verifies the token

So like, when do we get a government-run service to issue zero-knowledge proofs about us so companies have no reason to store stuff like this in the first place?

I made some critical posts about it several months ago. It was exhausting. So I stopped. Haven’t changed my position though.

Our monetization offer within premium games makes the player experience more fun by allowing them to personalize their avatars or progress more quickly, however this is always optional.

If it’s more fun to progress more quickly, that should be the default.

The doctor said Trump had a minor problem.

Which is exactly what the Epstein list said, too.

Antitrust is the right approach. (As opposed to copyright.) I hope Google gets decimated.

I often want to know the status code of a curl request, but I don’t want that extra information to mess with the response body that it prints to stdout.

What to do?

Render an image instead, of course!

curlcat takes the same params as curl, but it uses iTerm2’s imgcat tool to draw an “HTTP Cat” of the status code.

It even sends the image to stderr instead of stdout, so you can still pipe curlcat to jq or something.

#!/usr/bin/env zsh

stdoutfile=$( mktemp )
curl -sw "\n%{http_code}" $@ > $stdoutfile
exitcode=$?

if [[ $exitcode == 0 ]]; then
  statuscode=$( cat $stdoutfile | tail -1 )

  if [[ ! -f $HOME/.httpcat$statuscode ]]; then
    curl -so $HOME/.httpcat$statuscode https://http.cat/$statuscode
  fi

  imgcat $HOME/.httpcat$statuscode 1>&2
fi

cat $stdoutfile | ghead -n -1

exit $exitcode

Note: This is macOS-specific, as written, but as long as your terminal supports images, you should be able to adapt it just fine.