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 # defcon_chan
 
-small terminal utility to fetch the current DEFCON level in your terminal
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+small utility to fetch the current DEFCON level in your terminal
+
+features:
+- caching the last known level
+- 8-color ANSI terminals supported
+- pretty cute output
+- quite fast, you can probably slap it in your .bashrc
+- written in C
+
+requirements: ```libcurl```
+
+compiling(w/ GCC): ```gcc main.c -o defcon -lcurl```
+
+running: ```./defcon```