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I can't access the invitation to the church of the subgenius in the README.txt's anymore. What's going on?

• gcr 10y ago
  Would you mind expanding upon this a little? I feel like there's a wonderful nugget of history here just waiting to be rediscovered by the broader hacker news community. Sounds like it could make a good story?
  • gnoway 10y ago
    I don't know what parent is talking about w/ README files. But Slackware Linux (slack... get it?) includes a link to the church in their install.end file. They started scrambling it in a recent release.
    • colejohnson66 10y ago
      Not much of a scramble if it's just ROT13... [0]: https://slackbuilds.org/mirror/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/ap/install.end https://slackbuilds.org/mirror/slackware/slackware-current/s...
      • chris_wot 10y ago
        Hence the "sub" in subgenius.
      • AdieuToLogic 10y ago
        For extra security, I like to employ "double ROT13" encryption... (ducks) :-)
        • Qwertious 10y ago
          It occurred to me recently that if you were accused of breaking someone's rot13 'encryption', you could claim double-encryption to dodge the charge. Assuming they aren't thrown out of court for calling rot13 "encryption", of course.
  • Sanddancer 10y ago
    To add to the other posters, Slackware also included other Subgenius recruiting material in the source tree in /ap/gonzo. They stopped doing so for slackware 8.1, sadly. A link to the last version's material http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/slackware/slackware-8.0/source/ap/gonzo/ http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/slackware/slackware-8.0/sou...
    • tanderson92 10y ago
      They used to put a Dobbshead on the CDs, way back in the day. I remember my dad's Slackware CDs had the photos on them; I always thought they looked like Mr. Cleaver, naturally, since I watched that show as a kid.
• MrBra 10y ago
  So, what this is all about?