Eu tenho uma coleção de bookmarks aguardando leitura aqui no meu firefox. Hoje resolvi passar alguns (de vez em quando eu começo a ler alguns deles) e achei um artigo bem interessante:
Linux for Theatre Makers: Embodiment and *nix modus operandi
Alguns trechos que chamaram minha atenção:
My central thread in this text is the Linux computer operating system(OS) and more specifically the use of the command-line interface within this OS and its relationship to embodiment.
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When I first discovered the power to delete the file in my OpenBSD terminal that the OSX finder could not trash I felt was no longer a prisoner inside my machine, only possessing knowledge of a GUI, I was formerly stuck in a holding pattern. Using *nix you keep moving all the time, discovering always new executable codes sensitive to commands.
In the shell I find a marvelous mess of constellations, nebulae, interstellar gaps, awesome gullies, that provokes in me an indescribable sense of vertigo, as if I am hanging from earth upside down on the brink of infinite space, with terrestrial gravity still holding me by the heels but about to release me any moment. An example is /dev/null - a special *nix file where you pipe your unwanted data flow through this output. When I first experienced viewing data disappearing into this file, I immediately had an epiphany about the black hole and how the theory of the event horizon might function in an every day context.
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