I’m not planning a holiday gift guide this year, though they are fun to do.  You can always check previous ones; I try to link to stores rather than individual items.

• Six Ways to Level Up Your nmap Game.  (via)
• Controlling the Spice, Part 3: Westwood’s Dune.  The first real RTS.
• Choosing error codes based on a really nice #definedoesn’t necessarily lead to a readable message to the user.
• Xformer 10: The Atari 800 emulator has gotten a huge update.  That’s a big monitor.  A really really big monitor.
• HTTPS in the real world.  (via via)
• Wget is not welcome here any more (sort of).  I was bit recently by wget in a different way; currently using httrack for the same task based on advice from EFNet #dragonflybsd.
• Fun tip #2: Display trailing spaces using ed and Fun tip #3: Split a line using ed.
• Classic computer images for sale though it looks like only a C64 and Spectrum image are available.
• Kubernetes being hijacked worldwide.
• You Can’t Opt Out of the Patent System. That’s Why Patent Pandas Was Created!
• Announcing Yggdrasil Network v0.3.  I am not sure of the use, but I am interested by the implementation.  (via)