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< Aliases are hard, perhaps impossible, on the modern Web

The only place online I feel truly free of identity hysteria is write/read accessed in this Lua script:

#! /usr/bin/env lua
if arg[1] then
  local handle = io.popen('mktemp')
  local file = handle:read()
  handle:close()
  os.execute('echo "classifieds" >' .. file)
  os.execute('echo "REPLACE" >>' .. file)
  os.execute('vic ' .. file)
  os.execute('echo "." >>' .. file)
  io.write('=== Post? (Ctrl-d == NO) ')
  local answer = io.stdin:read('*l')
  if answer then
    print('=== Posting...')
    local command = 'nc nightfall.city 1915 <' .. file
    print('=== ' .. command)
    os.execute(command)
  else
    print()
  end
  io.write('=== Delete ' .. file .. ' ? (Ctrl-d == NO) ')
  answer = io.stdin:read('*l')
  if answer then
    os.execute('rm ' .. file)
    print('=== Deleted ' .. file)
  else
    print('\n=== Kept ' .. file)
  end
else
  os.execute('elinks https://portal.mozz.us/nex/nightfall.city/classifieds/')
end

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~shoebx wrote (thread):

I take the slip of paper containing the script, putting it in my pocket.

This sounds really interesting, thanks a lot, I didn't know about that part of the city. I can see some really nice uses out of it :D