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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