This is almost all link overflow from last week – and next week’s edition is almost complete.  There’s a lot to read lately!

• drill if you can, dig if you have to, nslookup if you must.  (also via)
• Free-Net history.  I grew up with Buffalo Free Net.
• Xerox Alto zero-day: cracking disk password protection on a 45 year old system.  (via)
• An 8-tube module from a 1954 IBM mainframe examined: it’s a key debouncer.  (via)
• Open source modular synth software lets you create 70s & 80s electronic music.  (via)
• The year we wanted the internet to be smaller.  (via)
• A Brief History of sed.  (via)
• Legends of the Ancient Web.  (via)
• 100 Outstanding Pieces of Audio for 2017.  (via)
• Here at the End of All Things, fantasy maps.  (via, via)
• Survival Research Laboratories: Inconsiderate fantasies of negative acceleration.  For SRL, whatever their machinery looks like it could do, it does.  Those aren’t movie props.  (via)
• RISC-V, getting more attention lately.  Not vulnerable to Meltdown/Spectre and open.  Here’s hardware.  Don’t know if any BSDs run on any of them – but I haven’t looked.  (via a number of places)
• THE tinySAURUS GENERATOR.  (via)
• Tea if by sea, cha if by land.  (via)