This is great. Small, trivial suggestion: the gif that loops in the README should pause on the screen w/ the output for a few seconds longer - it disappears (restarts) too quickly to take in all of the output.

  > the gif that loops in the README should pause on the screen

Honestly, I think a screenshot is better than a gif. That last frame says everything you need.

Thanks everyone for the feedback on the GIF! I though it looked good but when I went back to see it from a user's POV, it was really miserable, haha. I've already switched it to a static image, appreaciate everyone's input and suggestions.

I would also argue it shouldn't be a gif. It's nice that it shows the command is fast I guess but it's one command that's still visible in the final frame. Not as bandwidth efficient and agreed I can't read it all in time

You can make that problem irrelevant with the much, much simpler solution of not animating it at all. Stay paused on the output 100% of the time!

The gif is adding no value. I already know what typing text into a terminal looks like.

https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs is a really good utility for automatically making these gifs.

I'm a big fan of svg-term myself: https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli

Hm, very interesting! This only converts asciinema recordings, though, right? It doesn't automatically record anything?

If you have asciinema already installed then you can invoke it through svg-term like this!

  svg-term --command 'cowsay hey there'

But that has the aforementioned issues about not pausing enough, so I usually just record with asciinema first and then invoke svg-term.

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.

Not everyone wants to use a form on their website?

You and I certainly do, but a ton of people prefer calling on the phone.

In Brazil, multiple companies are offering a call and WhatsApp, both through automated messages with menus and in the end escalate to humans.

Seconding this. If you're into it, it's pretty awe-inspiring to see open water all the way to the horizon, 360°.

This same experience on an ice sheet is equally surreal and fascinating.

If you think that’s the same experience I’m guessing you haven’t done it. Unfortunately my ocean voyage (from Okinawa to California) was when I was too young to remember much.

I see this claim posted a lot, and not a single person has ever provided evidence of it happening with any TV brand I've ever heard of.

I don't have firsthand knowledge of TVs doing this, but other consumer devices with WiFi most definitely do this. If you don't control the software driving the TV, and the TV has WiFi hardware, I would assume it's at the very least in the cards.

It's rationalized by the vendors as a service to the customer. The mobile app needs to be able to configure the device via the cloud, so increasing the ability for said device to reach cloud by whatever means necessary is a customer benefit.

I've never seen evidence of a mainstream consumer device doing this either. Got some examples I can look at?

Is Amazon Sidewalk still a thing?

It most certainly is. It's not wifi, but it's definitely a thing. It lives down in the 900MHz world where things tend to be slower, but also travel further.

And of course: If it exists, it can be used.

That said, I haven't seen any evidence that suggests that televisions and streaming boxes are using it.

I’d kinda forgotten about it until someone mentioned open WiFi, and this seems like a use case tailor made for it. If not already, it looks like a near certainty to me.

I also think it is inevitable.

But remember, too: Whispernet.

Available as a one-time extra-cost feature on the first Kindle back in '07, Whispernet provided a bit of slow Internet access over cellular networks -- without additional payments or contracts or computers.

And really, Whispernet was great in that role.

But the world of data is shaped a lot differently these days. Data is a lot more-available and much less-expensive than it was back then, ~18 years ago -- and codecs have improved by leaps-and-bounds in terms of data efficiency.

Radios are also less expensive and more-capable compared to what they were in '07.

This will be sold as a feature: "Now with Amazon Whispernet, your new Amazon Fire TV will let you stream as much ad-supported TV as you want! For free! No home Internet connection or bulky antenna required! Say no to monthly bills and wanky-janky setups, and say yes to Amazon Fire TV!"

The future will be advertising. (Always has been, but always will be, too.)

If you're in SF we should have that conversation over a beer.

If you are paranoid about this, most TV wifi hardware is simple enough to physically disconnect.

Someone needs to sell replicas (forgive the pun) of these.

This is super cool (and the kind of comment that I love reading on HN!), thanks for sharing.

Those vacuums are stronger than people realize.

Please just use text for that. PR descriptions on GitHub sufficiently support formatting.

Text isn't good for things like "tighten up the spacing in this dialog".

Of course not. Perhaps you misread the comment I was replying to?

Quoting from it:

> I will take a screenshot of a new type in my IDE and put a red box around it.