Thanks, this is the explanation I was looking for.

Also, lua is the same, packages are either written in c or pure lua.

I was thinking of making a simple SSG (Static Site Generator), and I wanted to make it in lua.
some other cli tools, like scraping scripts as well.

I’m a big fan of what it is, but I’d love if there was something unique people could come here for, I’m describing it terribly though.

It would be nice to hear about it in other places.

hetzner is a very popular cloud hosting provider.

Ah, I’m the one who misread, sorry.

Yeah, compiling things from scratch is the norm for lua packages, making them really only work on linux.

Sorry if it was unclear, I constantly get cryptic gcc errors using luarocks a package manager for lua. Its years behind pip.

Pip does fail sometimes, but its not half as bad as luarocks.

The instructions don’t work half the time.

Lua runs everywhere (almost), but I cannot install a uuid library on windows.

Compared to luarocks, pip is amazing.

Lack of windows support for most luarocks modules has stopped me from writing a lot of stuff in lua.

its

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so,

Its no thanks because you are making sure you are giving them no thanks.

I think piping something into aplay works, but I used a different command. I’ll share it if I find it.

https://youtu.be/GtQpThwWQtQ

Embedding Youtube videos like that doesn’t work, it has to be the raw video/image file.

@threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works , you should add this to the list.

@originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com, would !ServerNonsense@moist.catsweat.com count as a support/meta community?

A while ago I found a command which would let you pipe anything (binary, text etc) into sound.

/usr/bin/ls sounded nice, /dev/random sounded like static.

I read this, but it could be wrong

Printer ink is now the most expensive fluid that a civilian can purchase without a special permit. It’s colored water that costs $10k/gallon, which means that you print out your grocery lists with liquid that costs more than the semen of a Kentucky Derby-winning stallion.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/ursula-franklin/