Notices by Sajith (sajith@toot.cafe)

@fitheach Let us blame Christopher Columbus for the mixup... or, can we?

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1966/does-indian-derive-from-columbuss-description-of-native-americans-as-una-gente-in-dios/

@jjg I found it hard to agree with that part of the book. Lanier is assigning blame on FOSS for problems created by an entirely different group of people with entirely different set of values.

Today I learned about this very handy GNU Bash feature:

cat < /dev/tcp/127.0.0.1/22

How do you check if a remote port is reachable when you do not have any of nc, telnet, wget, curl, and the such? This is how you do it!

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Redirections.html