genact

# genact - a nonsense activity generator

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**Pretend to be busy or waiting for your computer when you should actually be doing real work!** Impress people with your insane multitasking skills. Just open a few instances of `genact` and watch the show. `genact` has multiple scenes that pretend to be doing something exciting or useful when in reality nothing is happening at all.

![](gifs/cc.gif)
![](gifs/memdump.gif)
![](gifs/cargo.gif)

## Modules

- `ansible`
- `bootlog`
- `botnet`
- `bruteforce`
- `cargo`
- `cc`
- `composer`
- `cryptomining`
- `docker_build`
- `docker_image_rm`
- `download`
- `julia`
- `kernel_compile`
- `memdump`
- `mkinitcpio`
- `rkhunter`
- `simcity`
- `terraform`
- `uv`
- `weblog`
- `wpt`

## Installation

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You don't have to install anything! For your convenience, prebuilt binaries for Linux, OSX and Windows are provided [here](https://github.com/svenstaro/genact/releases) that should run without any dependencies. **Additionally, there is a web version at https://svenstaro.github.io/genact/**

It's compatible with FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, Windows, and most modern web browsers that support WebAssembly.

**On FreeBSD**: You don't have to do anything special here. Just run

    pkg install genact
    genact

**On Linux**: Download `genact-linux` from [the releases page](https://github.com/svenstaro/genact/releases) and run

    chmod +x genact-linux
    ./genact-linux

**On macOS**: Download `genact-osx` from [the releases page](https://github.com/svenstaro/genact/releases) and run

    chmod +x genact-osx
    ./genact-osx

A homebrew package is also available. To install it this way, run

    brew install genact

On macOS, you can also install via MacPorts:

    sudo port install genact

**On Windows**: Download `genact-win.exe` from [the releases page](https://github.com/svenstaro/genact/releases) and double click it.

It is also available on Scoop:

    scoop install genact

**With Cargo**: If you have a somewhat recent version of Rust and Cargo installed, you can run

    cargo install genact
    genact

**With gah**: If you are using [gah](https://github.com/marverix/gah), y