The holiday break for most people at the end of the year translated to a lot more material showing up now. We all benefit!
The Year Megaplatforms Ruled The Internet. Online companies aren’t ‘disruptive’ any more; they are the establishment. That didn’t take long. Is it a cycle? I hope so. (via)
Intel XDK. Should be cross-platform enough to work on DragonFly, I bet. (via)
On Hacking MicroSD Cards. Bunnie Huang from 30C3, so it’s in-depth. “In reality, all flash memory is riddled with defects — without exception.” The microcontroller on the cards is exploitable. (via)
Speaking of 30c3, the recordings are up. (via same place)
Bignum Bakeoff contest recap, from 2001. 512B to return the largest number possible. (via)
Owlbears, Rust Monsters, and Bulettes, oh my! The origin of some of the AD&D Monster Manual monsters. (via)
The Postmodernity of Big Data. I don’t know about the text, but I like the punchcard images.
You are going to be using IPv6, whether you are ready or not. (via, with good discussion)
End Paper Maps. This is ephemera that shan’t survive the Internet, I suppose – but I always did enjoy it. (via)
Understanding the Galaga No-Fire Cheat. I would have loved to do this as a child, but surviving 15 minutes in a coin-op video was nearly impossible, barring (for me) one strange exception. (via)
Creative usernames and Spotify account hijacking. (also via)
Remember, The Cloud means that even if companies last, their services may not – even if there’s no other service to replace it. (via)
Eventually, will every program have its own internal upgrading and management code? It seems like it.
New Year’s Resolutions for Sysadmins. Some of these resolutions look forward, some look backward.