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)