walt posted on Fri, 03 Jul 2015 16:30:42 -0700 as excerpted: > On Fri, 3 Jul 2015 15:54:43 -0700 walt > <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I went to pan's article-cache and used uudeview to extract both the >> original article and the one I posted. > > On close inspection of the cached files I see that the original article > was posted using a news client that was compiled from git repository > source code.
What was that client? Not pan, was it? Linux platform? MS? Something new, perhaps on github, or an older, traditional client, now moved to git for development? It's interesting to see git come from humble beginnings to taking over the (D)VCS landscape and becoming the generic assumed default, much like Linux itself did, pretty much everywhere but the desktop. It's what new developers still learning or just coming online are using and familiar with now, and has displaced proprietary and freedomware VCS alike. What was interesting was to watch even the Chinese government decide it couldn't great-firewall off github, as it'd bring Chinese software development to a standstill. So they resorted to trying to DDoS the repos behind the target anti-censorship apps, instead, using the great firewall to redirect to and serve up the ddos malware. That's some pretty big enemies! But the DDOS was controlled and resisted. > This suggests a multiverse of further experiments I can do to fritter > away my weekend :) =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
