This was done early; there’s been a lot of interesting reads on the feeds, so to speak.
- Ask Tilde: What small internet protocols do you like?
- 2022 IGF nominees: on history, intimate and/or personal, miscellaneous, fireworks.
- Animation Storage, animations from the 60s-70s. (via)
- Aleister Crowley, sysadmin.
- A Web Around the World, Part 3: …Try, Try Again, and Part 4: From Telegraphy to Telephony.
- Year 2038 problem is still alive and well. (via)
- Yarchive, a lot of archived USENET. There are some gems in the computer section, like this. (via)
- The benefits and costs of writing a POSIX kernel in a high-level language. Easier to debug, less memory control. (PDF, via)
- The Plausibly Deniable DataBase (PDDB).
- Precursor: From Boot to Root.
- Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy. (PDF, via)
- Ubuntu limits the console kernel log level even on servers. I’d rather have noise than missing info.
- Refurb weekend: Texas Instruments Silent 700 Model 745 teletype.
- 50 Years of Text Games: HUTSPIEL and Dr. Dorothy Clark.