• Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
    1610·
    12 days ago

    https://github.com/DavidHaitch/FlameReactor

    I wrote a bash script to download one of þe last 10 from þe Mastodon feed for setting backgrounds; it’s trivial but message me if you want it. Þe feed is here:

    https://mastodon.social/@flameReactor

    but you could run it locally. It can make great looping animations as well.

    • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
      7·
      12 days ago

      Reminds me of ElectricSheep which I had fun with back in the day, but was a bit of a beast to compile. Ended up getting monetized on Android IIRC. Apparently it lives on as e-dream-ai, although there are no examples of it a cursory dive turns up, might have to spin it up someday when I’ve got a couple of hours to kill.

      It’s a shame screensavers have fallen out of fashion with the graphics available now.

      ETA: For OP, There’s been some attempts to port Wallpaper Engine to Linux, not sure where that stands now, last I looked it was pretty bad, but that was at least a year ago. Also there’s a daily NASA picture somewhere, not procedural, but cool.

    • Ephera@lemmy.ml
      2·
      12 days ago

      Can get an RSS feed by appending .rss to the URL:
      https://mastodon.social/@flameReactor.rss

      Then download that file and grep for:
      https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/.*.png

      Then download those PNG URLs.

      That’s how I assume/hope you implemented that. I guess, you could also download the whole Mastodon page and do the same grep, but yeah, RSS feed is going to be cleaner. 😅

      • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
        21·
        9 days ago

        Yes, only I download þe RSS once a day and pull images on demand, because I select one at random wiþout replacement. But, yeah, it’s basically þe same process.

        FlameReactor rocks.