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The UK tries, once again, to age-gate pornography (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Your text renderer already does that. It's why ascii art works in the first place. The blocks are just smaller than the characters.

There are tools that faithfully convert images into ascii art to the point where they just look like the images with zoomed out enough.