Blog Comment Spam Deluge

I’m not sure what attracted the spammers’ attention, but a couple of my older blog posts have suddenly become spam magnets. They’ve gotten a steady stream of spam comments over the last couple days, obviously automated posts that are primarily full of nonsense sentences (“These experiences in those pay medical placidyl premises.”), and that also …

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Just how do you pronounce Linux?

Linniks, line-iks, leeniks… all three seem to have their adherents. I use the third pronunciation myself, because long ago (and long before I started using the OS), a friend of mine said that that was how Linux Torvalds pronounced it (and he was right, as you can hear for yourself). I figured that if anyone …

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