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X-Clacks-Overhead
- superkuh 4y agoNot that it matters, especially in a just for fun context, but X- prefixes in http headers are currently depreciated (but will probably last forever). https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6648 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6648
- layer8 4y agoYou mean deprecated. It also only applies to the creation of new parameters, not to existing ones.
- blep_ 4y agoEhh. IMO there's still a place for them in extensions that it would make no sense to standardize - this is one example (I hope nobody attaches any behavior to this); a more common one is application-specific headers that aren't generic enough to ever have meaning outside of interop with that one application.
- zzo38computer 4y agoI agree; this is what I thought too, when I learned that "X-" is deprecated, I still thought, that "X-" should still be used (in HTTP, email, Usenet, some file formats, etc) if it has no reason to be standardized. (I have seen other made-up headers in HTTP and Usenet and email, in many cases where there is no reason to be standardized, but a few cases where standardization may be useful, maybe)
- hprotagonist 4y agoMan's not dead while his name's still spoken.
- mikl 4y agoI guess we should all be glad that the Internet was not designed by Pratchett. If it was possible to send infinitely repeating messages like he describes, the whole Internet would soon be completely bogged down with useless overhead packages filled with spam and ads. At least the fanboys who implement this nonsense header on their servers are only wasting the bandwidth of themselves and their visitors.
- graveltongue 4y ago
- iamevn 4y agoDamn, do you really have to be like that about a clever little tribute to a beloved author?
- trenec 4y agoHe would have had the beginnings of dementia at the time of writing the book, please cut him some slack.
- Villodre 4y agoWhat a mean and unnecessary thing to say :-(
- alternatetwo 4y agoAll those ... 50 bytes or whatever it is, yes. If you want to pick a fight about bandwidth waste, start with spam, not this.
- c22 4y agohttps://github.com/yarrick/pingfs https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
- oarsinsync 4y ago> the whole Internet would soon be completely bogged down with useless overhead packages filled with spam and ads I’d love to be on your internet where this isn’t already a reality
- scubbo 4y agoAlways present in any project I build. See http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/ http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/ for drop-in implementations. GNU Terry Pratchett.
- aarestad 4y agoI understand that the “GNU” is a series of commands and not an acronym, but is there any sort of connection with FSF GNU? Or is it just an interesting coincidence?
- cmeacham98 4y agoIt's possibkle Pratchett meant it as an intentional reference to the other GNU, but if it was he never told anyone.
- Symbiote 4y agoHe obviously meant it, all his books are full of references like this. The Annotated Pratchett File is a longrunning effort to document these references, though I'm not sure if it is really being maintained any more -- the Going Postal page is empty. https://www.lspace.org/books/apf/ https://www.lspace.org/books/apf/
- blep_ 4y agoI’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Terry Pratchett, is in fact, GNU Terry Pratchett, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Terry Pratchett.
- gpderetta 4y agosurely it must be GNU/Terry_Pratchett.
- Majestic121 4y agoI think it's too specific an acronym to be a coincidence, and if you read "Going Postal", it's a pretty clear love letter to the hacker culture, so in my mind officially recognized or not, the connection with FSF is there
- zzo38computer 4y agoI have seen "X-Clacks-Overhead" also in message headers on Usenet.
- dspillett 4y agoIIRC it appeared there first, though not by long as is spread PDQ.
- Pseudomanifold 4y agoI use this on several of my sites as well. None of them get any significant amount of traffic, so I figured it would be okay to add more names to the list, as a small token of keeping their memory alive. Browsing the web with the Clacks Overhead extension for Chrome (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clacks-overhead-gnu-terry/lnndfmobdoobjfcalkmfojmanbeoegab?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clacks-overhead-gn...), I'm always surprised by which sites enable this extension. My latest find is arXiv.org! If you go to any abstract page, such as https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0310077v2 https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0310077v2 (picked that one at random for its humour), the header will be sent.
- mikro2nd 4y agoI was a little baffled by the (legally void, and thus pointless) cookie notice on the site -- a site that clearly does not need cookies in order to "operate correctly". It clearly states that they use Google and other 3rd parties who set cookies, and that these are "necessary for the site to operate correctly" which appears to me to be a nonsense, since it's just a static text page. Tracking cookies are certainly not "necessary".
- tux2bsd 4y agoAll of those are thanks to the EU. Totally pointless garbage that further train "Click OK" behaviour (after decades of Microsoft's existing conditioning) and enable malicious parties to take advantage of that behaviour.
- tmp2343EU 4y agoThanks to EU we are aware that plain text website is tracking us. ...What for?
- throwaway_xyeet 4y agoThis one actually goes against GDPR since it has no "reject all" button on it.
- tux2bsd 4y agoThat's what it was called, I couldn't recall when I commented.
- pwdisswordfish9 4y agoYes, blame the EU. It's never the greedy websites that are at fault.
- CRConrad 4y agoBullshit. There is absolutely nothing in the GDPR that prevents web sites from not using tracking (or other) cookies.
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- MrGilbert 4y agoI really loved it the first time I read about it. So I added it to my private page for every (close) relative that is already and dearly missed. <3
- Mizza 4y agoI sometimes wonder what would have happened to the Roman empire if they had invented clacks towers. Did any ancient civilizations invent them, or is it just an ancient technology invented by Terry Pratchett?
- theandrewbailey 4y agoNot ancient, but optical telegraph systems were a thing. > The most widely used system was invented in 1792 in France by Claude Chappe, and was popular in the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_telegraph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_telegraph