The FOSS community have generally grown a kind of tacit acceptance of proprietary computer games. Everyone loves them, so nobody wants to make too much of a fuss, but I think we have good reasons to treat them differently. Computer games do not - by default - require environment interaction. They can (mostly) operate …

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I never had the money for serious gaming, and perhaps it did me well; I've focussed on other things. But when the pandemic hit, I decided that this was exactly the time to start playing again, so I bought Tomb Raider from 2013. Having not played anything much since Metal Gear Solid 3, I was blown away. The seamless way …

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Games are a great way to learn bash. mapscii.me is an interactive terminal map. Install telnet. telnet mapscii.me Over the Wire teaches bash with small challenging you can do over ssh.

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You can play with a board games database from boardgamegeek.com. Download the Database 1mkdir board_games 2cd board_games 3curl -Lo bg.zip 'https://www.kaggle.com/api/v1/datasets/download/threnjen/board-games-database-from-boardgamegeek' 4unzip bg.zip The header line shows fields with a bunch of colons, which will …

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Download the Database Download the csv data, and separate the ipv4 data from the ipv6. 1curl -Lo ips.zip 'https://www.kaggle.com/api/v1/datasets/download/ipinfo/ipinfo-country-asn' 2unzip -p ips.zip country_asn.csv | csv2rec | recsel -e "start_ip ~ '.'" > ipv4.rec 3unzip -p ips.zip country_asn.csv | csv2rec | recsel …

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