Devuan.org Now Points To 'Pwned' Page With Gopher URLs (devuan.org) 119
"DEVUAN.ORG HAS BEEN PWNED" reads a new message at the home page for Devuan (a fork of Debian without systemd) -- which re-redirects to a new page named pwned.html, reports Slashdot reader DevNull127:
In all capital letters, its carefully-indented message (complete with an ascii-art logo) now informs visitors that "the web sucks -- JavaScript sucks -- browsers suck." Posting the URLs to several gopher sites, it adds that "Gopher is the way -- gopher is the future."
"Kiss port 80 goodbye. Join the revolution on port 70."
The attackers identify themselves as "Green Hat Hackers," a term generally understood to mean ambitious newbie hackers who want to improve their skills. "Stop the madness," continues their message, which appeared just hours before the first day of April.
"Get yourself a gopher client."
"Kiss port 80 goodbye. Join the revolution on port 70."
The attackers identify themselves as "Green Hat Hackers," a term generally understood to mean ambitious newbie hackers who want to improve their skills. "Stop the madness," continues their message, which appeared just hours before the first day of April.
"Get yourself a gopher client."
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only when booted with systemd to wayland
Hahaha (Score:3, Insightful)
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You'd want sacc to view it -- forg breaks ASCII-art, and OverbiteNX requires non-packaged Onyx, thus is beyond my current amount of shit to give. OverbiteFF used to be good, but is no more.
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The gopher links didn't work in Lynx which surprised me. They aren't even clickable even if you have OverbiteNX installed, I had to copy the link to a new tab.
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Correction: google is never your friend.
They're ... (Score:2, Insightful)
... not wrong, y'know?
"The web sucks -- JavaScript sucks -- browsers suck"
I agree.
April Fools is now two days long... (Score:2, Insightful)
It just keeps getting worse!
$#@& April fools off, forever (Score:2, Insightful)
I'd have no problem with news editors deliberately posting that shit to get written warnings. It's a god damn scourge on the internet.
Looks like I'm getting some extra work done today.
Time to close the browser for near 48 hours (time zones drag this garbage out longer)
Re:$#@& April fools off, forever (Score:4, Interesting)
Gopher rules!! (Score:1)
Assuming this is a joke one hell of an irresponsible way to go about implementing it.
Redirects are being applied to all of their subdomains not just main website and all resources are being unconditionally blanket redirected. Even requests for things that are not HTML documents.
The site also advertises quad A records but IPv6 access is being blocked.
Just like most other holidays, feature creep. (Score:3)
Black Friday is really no more as retailers play leap frog to beat the others, about one day earlier each year.
Now April Fools day is on March 31st.....
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Now April Fools day is on March 31st.....
Posted by Fly Swatter ( 30498 ) on Monday April 01, 2019 @07:44AM
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Posted by Anonymous Coward on 04:14 PM March 31st, 2019
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Looking for gopher client (Score:1)
Checked altavista. Seems to take foeva!
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I could send you the last one I've actually used, but sadly it's for Windows 3.1 .
Prime numbers (Score:3)
Interesting clue they are!
Looking for good gopher client (Score:5, Funny)
Where can I find a good gopher client to joint the revolution? I'm looking for one that is free with lots of ads so I feel comfortable.
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You could probably find some source code for old clients but I doubt many would compile under modern day Linux.
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Where indeed can you get gopher today...
root@darkstar:~# apt-get install gopher
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gopher
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 38 not upgraded.
Need to get 89.5 kB of archives.
After this operation, 275 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://mirror.atlantic.net/ubu... [atlantic.net] bionic/universe amd64 gopher amd64 3.0.16 [89.5 kB]
Fetched 89.5 kB in 1s (105 k
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"After this operation, 275 kB of additional disk space will be used."
Talk about software bloat.........
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Where can I find a good gopher client to joint the revolution?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Gopher_clients [wikipedia.org]
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Where can I find a good gopher client to joint the revolution?
On Debian and Devuan: apt-get install gopher
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Just wait a while for systemd-gopher to be included in the next release. Unfortunately you won't find it in the Devuan repo.
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Lynx can do gopher, though the gopher links on the devuan page aren't clickable in Lynx. You can, however, hit "G" and type the gopher link in.
You kids and your new-fangled gopher... (Score:3)
If you're not dialing into a BBS at 300 baud to download library files after posting a few stupid forum posts just to get enough credits for that likely fake copy of The Anarchist's Cookbook then I don't know what you're doing.
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110 baud is almost exclusively for an upper case only ASR-33 terminal. Even back when I first BBSed, with a DecWriter paper printing terminal I bought at a thrift store, it was at 300 baud. I suppose we could wrangle up a 55 baud Teletype too, if necessary. But the reality is, except in the early electro-mechanical era, it was always 300 baud or greater.
SystemD (Score:2)
I know it has been quite a long time since I've used a Linux distro without SystemD... But was that REALLY what it looked like!? It has been what... five? maybe ten! decades since I switched to SystemD, my memory isn't the best since those dark green times!
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No, this is an April Fools
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WOOSH! https://xkcd.com/1627/ [xkcd.com]
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NetBSD definitely should not be considered a serious distribution. Which really is part of the point.
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Re:Bad idea to link to compromised website? (Score:4, Informative)
I just looked at the source for the page. It's static HTML with the ASCII art defacement poster enclosed in [pre] tags. There isn't any code there with which one could conceivably conduct an attack.
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While efforts may have been made by the editor at the time of publication to verify a lack of attempted attacks by that website, there is no guarantee that it would remain safe and plenty of reason to assume that it might not.
While efforts may have been made by the editor at the time of publication to verify a lack of attempted attacks by that website, there is no guarantee that it would remain safe and plenty of reason to assume that it might not.
o_O
are you serious? maybe have a look at the calendar? :-D
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The problem with gopher (Score:2)
All roads eventually lead you back to Minnesota. But at least the women there are strong, the men good looking, and the children above average.
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That awkward moment.... (Score:5, Insightful)
systemd is a lot like gopher (Score:2)
slow to respond and hard to debug.
April 1? (Score:2)
It's April 1 somewhere.
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Just install "libpam-elogind-compat" from experimental in buster/sid and you get almost the entire Debian distro without systemd.
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Yeah, but it's that "almost" that is often the problem.
Usually that's the bit you need for your own activities.
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Just like Stephen Spielbergo!
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