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		KGIII on Oct 11, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated? An alias into my terminal emulator gives me weather, scrapes some news feeds, collects my public IP address, updates a couple of things, and adds stuff like the IP address, along with date and time, to a text file. Silly things like that. It no longer gives me a random quote using cowsay. I figured I was too old for that and it was time for me to grow up.

tarboreus on Oct 11, 2017 [–]

Plus, you probably internalized all that cowsay wisdom.

KGIII on Oct 11, 2017 | [–]

I did have it piping jokes to me, but they weren't very funny.

Hmm... I should make the cow tell me the weather.

toomuchtodo on Oct 11, 2017 | | [–]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KHc9k5s5yU

KGIII on Oct 11, 2017 | | [–]

Yeah, that one amused me. It's almost worth getting an Alexa for that.

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