This week’s Lazy Reading started as overflow from last week.

• Cron checker.  Cron commands to English.  (via)
• Unboxing the Magnus supercomputer.  Aw, Crays don’t look as cool as they used to.  (via)
• OpenVMS gets a new lease on life.  (via)  Also, there are public OpenVMS installations like deathrow (via) and pub1 (via).
• Unix: Controlling privileged access.
• Unix: Top networking commands and what they tell you.
• runit instead of systemd, on Void Linux.  A ray of hope.  (via)
• The future of iced coffee.  Why can’t someone put the same treatment into tea?  (via)
• What ORMS have taught me: just learn SQL.  (via)
• Docker security with SELinux.  Containerization, which is all the rage these days, does not enforce the same security wall as with a virtual machine – containers can ‘leak’ to their parent operating system.  I’m not sure enough people realize this.  (via)
• A very tiny, monospace, bitmap font.  Check the screenshot of it being used on a 320×200 screen.  (via)
• lowRISC.  Open source System on a Chip.
• The Worst API Ever Made.  I can’t judge if that’s really so, but it’s always fun to watch trainwrecks.  (via)
• My history with Forth & stack machines.  Forth is a crazy language, in a good way.  (via)
• Lawless Legends, an Apple][ FRPG – in development.  (via)
• A Mac IIci

Your unrelated comics link of the week: Quantum & Pixel.  Another Boulet comic, this time exploring 2D physics.