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Re:MapSCII – The Whole World in Your Console by enriquto on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @06:44AM (#27048313)
It's great, but what's novel about that? I've seen similar stuff since more than 20 years ago. This particular repository is maybe 6 years old?
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Re:MapSCII – The Whole World in Your Console by unixhero on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @07:57AM (#27048787)
Imagine using it for a real time drill down of global traffic, news, incidents, attacks, trades, visits, current events.
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Re:MapSCII – The Whole World in Your Console by enriquto on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @08:01AM (#27048815)
You mean, like using the terminal-based elinks browser to read news sites? ;)
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Re:MapSCII – The Whole World in Your Console by unixhero on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @08:05AM (#27048838)
I was thinking about using this as a library to have a map capability to visualize events in a larger application.
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