Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Tux is the official Linux kernel mascot mainly because he embodies Linus: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/tux-a-brief-history-of-the-linux-mascot/

Xenia is an increasingly popular mascot mainly because she embodies the larger community's diversity & the transitions & transformations it enabled: http://xenia-linux-site.glitch.me/ #Linux30

#OTD 30 years ago, 17 September 1991, the open source #Linux kernel was released. #linux30 #linux2021 #computing #tech #history

BTW, #Xenia is the better mascot.

Xenia info: https://xenia-linux-site.glitch.me/

Image source (birdsite): https://twitter.com/Flying_Hyena/status/1385990310141075458

#!/bin/sh

# Follow the provided short URL and show each location redirect in the
# chain. Usage: follow http://short.url/12345

HOP=$1
while [ -n "$HOP" ]
do
printf "%s\n" "$HOP"
HOP=$( curl -Is "$HOP" | dos2unix | sed -n 's/^[Ll]ocation: //p' )
done

The page text itself is remarkable only for its size: 151 bytes.
A whole Web page just *barely* too big for birdsite's original limit.

curl -I www\.w3\.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/Link.html | grep -i last-modified
# pretty interesting last-modified header

My Palm IIIx is 22 years old, and it's still going!

@JulieSqveakaroo I usually bubble sort my pasta for about 10 minutes before heap sorting it.

Do not study science-oriented programming languages while drowsy. I just misread "specification" as "spaghettification."

BitTorrent made its debut 20 years and three days ago. https://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-turns-20-the-file-sharing-revolution-revisited-210702/

I'm so lazy tonight, I'm eating supper straight out of the pan I baked it in.

Note to self: When moving a shellscript's command line/getopts processing into an initialization function (say, 'setoptions'), remember to call it as 'setoptions "$@"' or you'll spend an hour troubleshooting why variables are empty.