< HTTP/2 301
    < server: nginx
    < date: Sat, 05 Jul 2025 13:36:11 GMT
    < content-type: text/html
    < content-length: 162
    < location: https://www.mozilla.org/
    < strict-transport-security: max-age=60; includeSubDomains
    < x-backend-server: TS
    < cache-control: max-age=3600
    < via: 1.1 google
    < alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-29=":443"; ma=2592000

< x-clacks-overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett

There are also browser extensions, which show when a website broadcasts the "X-Clacks-Overhead" - header.

It took two very specific bits from the Discworld lore (the Clacks overhead and GNU) and made it in a general ritual of mourning. But not every techie is a Discworld fan, and the obscurity of the name would draw more attention to the Discworld lore than to the people being mourned.

The idea of sending a header to remember a tech person is a great one, but I think the name should be something neutral, or something that has some relation to the person and not a random fantasy reference.

(Reminds me a bit how the Berlin Pirate Party used to have a "Pony Time" paragraph in its charter, that members could use to request joint My Little Pony watching sessions on congresses. [1]

Seemed like a good idea at that time as Bronies were a new thing and there was a lot of overlap with Pirate Party members. But seems pretty cringeful looking back from today, and also a tad disrespectful towards those who tried to do real political work within that party. Disclaimer: Only got to know about that from the outside, so if their own stance on that is different, I take it back)

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=joyV8SqeN6k

I need more time and motivation to make a full network though.

I figured this was one of the best ways to do it. That way I'm letting people that were significant to me live on forever, one random HTTP response header at a time.

  $ curl https://xeiaso.net --head | grep clacks
  x-clacks-overhead: GNU Satoru Iwata

Perhaps something like IPv6's Hop-by-Hop Options can be used to pass names with every packet?

Or, even better, we can use LoRa repeaters for something close to the actual clacks network.

Surely named "Clacks" because of the clacking sound the system makes.

Amusingly, that's not true. The only cookie they send is Google Analytics, which has zero value to the user. The site works fine with it blocked.