* Jacob Head <gopher@jacob-head.com> [190402 13:50]: > Dear all, > > In case anyone else hasn’t seen it, Devuan replaced its homepage with > the following yesterday: > > <https://www.devuan.org/pwned.html> > > “THE WEB SUCKS -- JAVASCRIPT SUCKS -- BROWSERS SUCK > GOPHER IS THE WAY -- GOPHER IS THE FUTURE“ > > There’s some discussion here, some of which is curiously po-faced: > > <https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/04/01/1048230> > > although I wonder how many people have a gopher client installed since I > can’t see anyone spotting that they failed to replicate their html in > plain text: > > <gopher://devuan.org/1/pwned.htm> > > It’s not the first time I’ve seen this joke. A few years ago a computing > society at my university did something similar, although I think their > version had two advantages by: a) not suggesting that their servers had > been compromised (!); and b) actually setting up some gopher pages and > displaying them through an gopher->http proxy. To be fair, the gopher page is still there... -- May you be peaceful, may you live in safety, may you be free from suffering, and may you live with ease.
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