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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?

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?

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.

Not much of a scramble if it's just ROT13...

[0]: https://slackbuilds.org/mirror/slackware/slackware-current/s...

Hence the "sub" in subgenius.

For extra security, I like to employ "double ROT13" encryption...

(ducks)

:-)

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.

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/sou...

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.

So, what this is all about?

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