genact - a nonsense activity generator

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.

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

You don't have to install anything! For your convenience, prebuilt binaries for Linux, OSX and Windows are provided here 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 and run

chmod +x genact-linux
./genact-linux

On macOS: Download genact-osx from the releases page 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 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, you can run

gah install genact

Running

To see a list of all available options, you can run

./genact -h

or

cargo run -- -h

or (on Docker)

docker run -it --rm svenstaro/genact -h

Usage

A nonsense activity generator

Usage: genact [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -l, --list-modules                               List available modules
  -m, --modules <MODULES>                          Run only these modules [possible values: 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]
  -s, --speed-factor <SPEED_FACTOR>                Global speed factor [default: 1]
  -i, --instant-print-lines <INSTANT_PRINT_LINES>  Instantly print this many lines [default: 0]
      --exit-after-time <EXIT_AFTER_TIME>          Exit after running for this long (format example: 2h10min)
      --exit-after-modules <EXIT_AFTER_MODULES>    Exit after running this many modules
      --print-completions <shell>                  Generate completion file for a shell [possible values: bash, elvish, fish, powershell, zsh]
      --print-manpage                              Generate man page
  -h, --help                                       Print help
  -V, --version                                    Print version

Web usage

In the web version, you can run specific modules by providing them as ?module parameters like this: https://svenstaro.github.io/genact?module=cc&module=memdump

You can also provide a ?speed-factor like this: https://svenstaro.github.io/genact?speed-factor=5

Building

You should have a recent version of rust and cargo installed.

Then, just clone it like usual and cargo run to get output:

git clone https://github.com/svenstaro/genact.git
cd genact
cargo run --release

Releasing

This is mostly a note for me on how to release this thing:

• Make sure CHANGELOG.md is up to date.
• cargo release <version>
• cargo release --execute <version>
• Releases will automatically be deployed by GitHub Actions.
• Update Arch package.