Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

LB: A game importer/translator called Fruitbat Factory had their discord server hijacked, and the hijackers used it to push malware to members who didn't know about the hijack yet.

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!

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/