[TriLUG] Linux From Scratch

[William Sutton via TriLUG]

That said, anyone who has read nontechnical discussion forums should be 
able to agree that they have a higher than normal noise-to-signal ratio. 
And I once saw reddit referred to as "the grease trap of the internet."

William Sutton

On Tue, 4 Mar 2025, via TriLUG wrote:

>
> On 04/03/2025 15:22, Cristóbal Palmer wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 4, 2025, at 14:02, via TriLUG wrote:
>>> Speaking of signal-to-noise ratio, here's a little bash script
>> 
>> I write for two reasons. The first is to iterate on your script to make it 
> more cross-platform, and the second is to share an example URL that 
> highlights (for me) the biggest flaw in the approach.
> >
>> ....[SNIP]....
> >
>> cmp at oof ~ % ./textsig.sh https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/
>> html bytes:   588455
>> text bytes:     4589
>> Signal ratio for https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/
>>   .00779838730234257504
>
> Oh it was by no means anything scientific, much more tongue-in-cheek. :) 
> That script is a very, very blunt instrument.
> It just compares the plain text to the HTML, so stuff like HTML tags and 
> script and css etc all get considered 'noise'.
>
> I was just having some fun right there ;)
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