While Linux distributions, such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora, have grown to dominate the open-source ecosystem, BSD-based systems like FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD have remained the preferred choice ...

Researchers have discovered a new way to hack AI assistants that uses a surprisingly old-school method: ASCII art. It turns out that chat-based large language models such as GPT-4 get so ...

Also: The best Linux laptops The name Debian was a portmanteau of Murdock's then-girlfriend's name, Debra, and his own first name. And each release -- which, today, has reached Debian 12 ...

That doesn’t mean we don’t get our share of just-for-funsies projects, of course, which certainly describes this online 3D ASCII art generator. But wait — maybe that’s not quite right.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, clever PC users knew how to watch Star Wars in ASCII on Windows XP. Twenty years on, this trick has been all but forgotten, but we can confirm that it ...

When done, you can now run the wslfetch command to print out an ASCII Debian logo along with some basic information, as shown below. Unlike Neofetch, WSLFetch only displays information about the ...

Roguelike games have grown in popularity over the 40 years the genre has existed, even though they implement ideas that might seem anathema to popular gaming: extreme randomness, ASCII graphics ...

Text adventure games like Zork naturally did well on the early IBM PC, but many other titles went beyond mere descriptive text, choosing to depict illustrations using only ASCII characters.

Section of Ingrid (Textfiles) Though it is still around today, ASCII art reached the zenith ... Here's how it works in practice, GIF'd: But this is the kid stuff. There were ornamental borders ...

I’ve always admired ASCII graphics, mainly due to my predilection towards retro gaming and large pixels in general. Just as a game like Portal twists your ideas of space and makes you think ...