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jortr0non Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup

agree

jortr0non History of Alice and Bob (2017)

Obligatory link to MC++ song "Alice and Bob" from the 2005 album Algorhythms:

https://youtu.be/NHrugBhQfvA?si=fSwl_dupZe5VPzhf&t=407

jortr0non Why GNU su does not support the `wheel' group (2002)

Here's an video of RMS talking about the period referenced in that man page regarding the introduction of passwords on user accounts:

https://youtu.be/k0RYQVkQmWU?t=235

jortr0non Textual Paint – MS Paint in your terminal

For me it brings memory of DOS applications TheDraw and ACiD Draw from the 90's BBS era. Magical times.

jortr0non Circumventing Deep Packet Inspection with Socat and Rot13

You'r right, the rot13 command is a shell wrapper around: ` exec /usr/bin/caesar 13 "$@" ` Forcing the key to be 13. You can obviously invoke /usr/bin/caesar with any of the 25 keys.

jortr0non Circumventing Deep Packet Inspection with Socat and Rot13

The use of rot13 was just an amusement in this case given its vintage. Replacing rot13 with any other simple stdin/stdout transcoder should be simple to do via the socat invocation, eg base64, a sed replace command, gzip/gunzip, even an actual symmetric encryption protocol like AES, etc.