Lazy Reading for 2018/01/14 – DragonFly BSD Digest

Lazy Reading for 2018/01/14 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)

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