Category: Lazy Reading

Some of this is overflow from last week.

• “I don’t like computers.”  Same reasons here, too.  (via)
• Cheap IOT Threatens The Internet.  ‘Cheap’ is almost the entire idea behind the Internet of Things.
• IoT Goes Nuclear: Creating a ZigBee Chain Reaction.  A light worm.  (via)
• 54 years old, COBOL gets Wheelchair, a web framework.  (via)
• inks.  From Ted Unangst, an OpenBSD developer, though not necessarily BSD-specific.  (via)
• Coloring your world with LS_COLORS.
• The Possibly Russian Fingerprints on the Shadow Brokers’ Trick or Treat Package.  Peter N. M. Hansteen, but not BSD-related.
• Aztec for the Apple ][ was my first desktop video game.
• Windows file system compression had to be dumbed down.
• The Lost Civilization of Dial-Up Bulletin Board Systems.
• TERM=aaa60 Mk.2.
• When Your Screen Breaks (In The Himalayas)  (via)
• production ready
• LiveCode, a modern version of Hypercard.  It is available as open source, though I haven’t seen if it runs on any BSD.  (via)

There’s got to be something surprising and/or useful for you in this week’s links; they are gloriously eclectic.

• This list is for discussions related to managing voice networks, both traditional and IP.  (via)
• “These videos are not real; they are hallucinated by a generative video model.”  (via)
• Ask HN: Is Bash for Windows good enough to replace a Linux/Mac terminal?  It bugs me that people sometimes don’t care about what’s under their shell.  Microsoft is counting on that.
• A Quick Look at the Attack on Dyn.  RIPE is a good authority for something like this, I daresay.  (via)
• Stuff a recurrent neural network full of old sci-fi stories, attach it to a text editor, start sentences, and let the neural network finish them for you.  It is a real thing.  (via)
• Early History of Unix: Unix Is Born and the Introduction of Pipes.  (via)
• Lawrence Public Library Modular Synthesizer, a performance.  (via).
• They Live and the secret history of the Mozilla logo.
• CFP: SIGCIS meeting @ CHM, March 18-19, 2017.
• How to find all of an ISP’s ASNs.  (via)
• History of Mechanical Keyboards.  (via)
• C64-808.

Your unrelated browser game of the week: Epitaph.  (via)

I finished this waaaay early.

• Things About Vim I Wish I Knew Earlier.  (via)
• What is the oldest (retro) machine that you still use in production?
• Social Media’s Dial-Up Ancestor: The Bulletin Board System.  (via)
• The Ruins of Dead Social Networks. (also via)
• GUIdebook.  (via)
• Today in Applied Demonology.
• Warren Ellis sums up the Internet of Things – appropriate given what happened to Dyn.
• Interactive fiction from Adam Cadre and Emily Short.  (via)
• Awesome Falsehoods.  (via)
• Ten Modern Software Over-Engineering Mistakes.  (also via)
• Found this license plate in Dortmund (Germany) yesterday.  (via)
• The Soviet InterNyet.  How Not to Network a Nation excerpts.  (via)

Your unrelated link of the week: Take On Me, shittyfluted.  Similar to sweding, and I’m so sorry.

Enjoy!  I am going to have irregular network access over the next week, so this may be the only post for several days.

• The Eternal Mainframe.  (via)
• Compilation and Hyperthreading.
• Systemd Rolls Out Its Own Mount Tool.  (via)
• Removing the PowerShell curl alias?  (via)
• Whatever Happened to Wordstar?  (via)
• Fedora 25 To Run Wayland By Default.  (via)
• 80’s motion graphics.  So very eighties.
• Sitting Up: A brief history of chairs.  (via)
• More, less, and a story of typical Unix fossilization.  (via)
• The Amiga Boing Ball Explained.  (via)
• THE GIF IS DEAD. LONG LIVE THE GIF.  (via)
• The IBM System/360: the first modular, general-purpose computer.  (via)
• The Enterprise Media Distribution Platform At The End Of This Book.  I really like what happened there.  (via)
• Network operating system for a Linux-like file server.  “Hey, I’ll write my own operating system” – a common reflex.
• The Internet of Poorly Working Things.  This is sort of what the OpenBSD project has been about for a long time.  The story links to important stuff, which led me to this little genius trick.

It’s a nerdy Lazy Reading today.  Well, nerdier than usual, I think.

• Favorite Networking Links? Help a TA!  Multiple good links there.
• UNIX Helps Put Out Fires.
• How to Write a History of Writing Software.  (via)
• Canonical’s Snap: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.  PC-BSD already did similar packaging – and stopped.  (via)
• Acorn and Amstrad.  (via)
• Dudley Buck’s Forgotten Cryotron Computer.  (via)
• Unix for Poets.  (PDF, via)
• Remembering Roger Faulkner, UNIX Legend.  (via)
• The Megaprocessor.  That’s the biggest CPU ever I seen.  (also via)
• Biohacking for Newbies: All You Ever Wanted to Know About Getting an NFC Chip Implant.
• bug.n.  For those who like wmii, i3, Xmonad, and so on, but are stuck on Windows.
• Surprising reasons to use a syntax-coloring editor.

Half of this was done while trapped in day 3 of a 3-day planning and training meeting at work.

• Start multi-tasking with your virtual reality headset.  (via)
• My condolences, you’re now the maintainer of a popular open source project.  (via)
• The quick and simple editor for cron schedule expressions.  (via)
• Here is why Emacs uses Meta key.  (via)
• CP/M development environment setup.  (via)
• Rm -rf / in Windows Subsystem for Linux reveals sharp set of teeth.  Well, duh.  (via)
• How an Archive of the Internet Could Change History.  (via)
• Building your own ISP hardware.
• verifying copies – find, xargs, du, ls, md5sum, and diff, oh my!  (via)
• The Moral Economy of Tech.  “Machine learning is like money laundering for bias.”  (via many places)
• Xerox Alto Restoration Part 2: Firing up the monitor.  (via)
• “My God, it’s full of yaks!!”  (via)
• Oh My God(s): Dwarf Fortress’s Creation Myths & Magic.
• Cryptographic Storage Cheat Sheet.  (via)
• Related to last week: Tea Pi.  (via)
• Tiny Unix Tools for Windows.  (via)
• The Chronicles of George.  (via I lost it, sorry)
• BREXIT(3).

Your unrelated video link of the week: Annecy International Animated Film Festival 2016.  Scroll down for the videos, embedded and linked.