If you use TrueCrypt / tcplay, dm-crypt, or /dev/crypto on DragonFly, Michael Neumann wants to know.
Cleared half my tabs and none of my inbox… I think I’ll get started on next week’s Lazy Reading right now.
- Every Single Noise In The World. (via)
- Domain Naming. (also via)
- A Guide to Commodore PETs. I love the shape.
- Frequently asked questions about signal handling in C.
- Half-Life on the Digital Antiquarian.
- LinkedIn to Hell. (via)
- At Dawn We Ate Sugar Smacks: Wargaming Newbies Tackle the Monster of Monsters. A horrifying person writing a funny essay. (via)
- UFO50. (via)
- Anime Mechanics. (via)
- Starting with Classic Traveller.
- Smartphone Runs Home Server.
- Ridding my home network of IP addresses. Personal complaint: Github gists: better than social media for public documents, but not much. (via)
Terminal thoughts this week.
- Century-Scale Storage. “The RAMAC data is thermodynamically stable for longer than the expected lifetime of the universe,” (via)
- “Rules” that terminal programs follow. (via)
- Text-based tools I’m using on my FreeBSD laptop.
- Related: chawan, a TUI-based web browser. (via)
- Sort of related empty musing: could Ladybird have a text mode?
- Resurrection, Journal of the Computer Conservation Society. Yay a flowchart! (also via)
- The “simple” 38 step journey to getting an RFC.
- TRMNL, a sorta-standalone e-ink display. (via)
- Anti-Schmutz Phone Port Plug. I use a needle which is probably a bad idea.
- RFC 35140: The Do-Not-Stab flag in the HTTP Header. (via)
I could use a recommendation for a good, cheap registrar to use for domain names; I use gandi and the price has been creeping up. Any suggestions?
- Next NYCBUG: QEMU Virtualization on BSDs, Jim Brown, 2025-01-08. QEMU is far more influential than I expected.
- For The Love of God, Make Your Own Website. (via)
- The Most Iconic Electronic Music Sample of Every Year (1990-2023).
- A physical save button.
- Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System (1978) vs Spanner (2012). (via)
- SCCS roach motel. A pretty exhaustive description of SCCS and the weave format.
- Creating a Typeface: Humanist Computer.
- Public domain works done for NASA. (via previous)
- The Biggest Shell Programs in the World. You want to look and also look away. (via)
Unofficial theme: synthesizers!
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- How to Build a Chess Engine and Fail. (via)
- cablesoft. Finally, a ‘computers are bad’ story where I experienced (some of) the history described.
- Jon Makes Beats. Seeing synthesizers and samplers in use. (via)
- More synthesizer stuff: the Orchid. (via)
- Even more: Music Thing Modular Workshop System. (via)
- Using (only) a Linux terminal for my personal computing in 2024.
- more tales of the unscreenshotable.
- AI-powered Self Service Checkouts.
- Why pipes sometimes get “stuck”: buffering. (via)
- Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web. (via)
- Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground. Tabletop RPG history. (via)
- A Margaret Hamilton’s worth of printed code. (via)
- What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen. (also via)
Your video experience of the week: Hundreds of Beavers. This was played in a theater in my town months ago and I missed it. I should have gone to see it on the big screen, but here it is on YouTube. (via)
No theme but some new-to-me topics.
- Great Impractical Ideas in Computer Science: PowerPoint Programming. (via)
- The Monstrome. A Monster Manual.
- FriendlyStack Reminder, a hardware implementation of Post-It Notes.
- Tetris Forever, a game and a documentary at the same time. (via)
- Like pizza, the first version of Tetris you encounter is probably the one you will consider the best. It’s the old Mac version for me.
- SPAG: Society for the Promotion of Adventure Games. Back issues. (via)
- Starbattle. A sort of inverted Minesweeper.
- Beckn Protocol. (via)
- The Usenet Feed Size exploded to 475TB. Continuous Usenet traffic would burn out server disks every month, years ago when I worked for Road Runner – and that is when traffic was measured in GB.(via)