Lazy Reading – Page 27 – DragonFly BSD Digest

Your unrelated food link of the week: Eating In Translation. This person seeks out new places, eats there, and makes notes, and has been doing it for more than a decade. The result is the most in-depth informal food guide I’ve ever seen. It’s NYC focused, but not exclusively.

2017/04/092017/04/07

Lazy Reading for 2017/04/09

A slightly UK-ish tilt this week, by accident of course.

2017/04/022017/03/30

Lazy Reading for 2017/04/02

I’m very UNIXy this week.

Have You Played… Event[0]? Sounds like a simulation of IRC.
TERRIBLE, AWFUL, NO GOOD, REALLY BAD HEAVY METAL ALBUM COVERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. (via)
The Best Metal on Bandcamp: March 2017. A palate cleanser from the last link.
Google Open Source Docs. Everyone releases their code, but not their methodology, which is arguably as important. (via)
Windows disk-loading/code-swapping. I remember this from Apple ][ days; there is no modern equivalent that I can think of.
The creator of Dwarf Fortress doesn’t really like to play games like Dwarf Fortress. (via)
Research UNIX V8, V9 and V10 made public by Alcatel-Lucent. (via)
Related: What’s the earliest UNIX (or unix-like) OS that is both easily available and can run on x86?
How to learn Unix/Linux and Lesser known but still handy Linux commands. Essentially command line tool education.
Zero Terminal. Another item for my teeny computer fetish. (via)

Your useful tip of the week: Setting the root login’s ‘full name’ to identify the machine that sent email. This makes so much sense. (via)

2017/03/262017/03/24

Lazy Reading for 2017/03/26

Old-school UNIX and games this week.

Managing an open source project. (via)
There was a Coke machine connected to the ARPANET in the 70’s. The local version of this has a Beastie on the front. (via)
Swan – GNU/Cygwin Xfce Desktop. At first glance, “XFCE for Windows” is a much more clear title. Plus the inevitable bash shell, which seems to be a good enough simulation of Unix for most people. (via)
Making Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup with 253 cooks and no head chef.
OCR typography, a more extensive subject than I expected.
Sunsetting SixXS. Time for service providers to put up.
No, I Don’t Want to Subscribe to Your Newsletter. I hate modal popups. (via)
Xfce bug: “default desktop screen causes damage to monitor” Cat problem, and not the one in /bin. (via)
Chasing the First Arcade Easter Egg. (via)
A Second Life for very old C programs. (via)

2017/03/192017/03/17

Lazy Reading for 2017/03/19

Technical details week for Lazy Reading.

Dwarf Fortress creator Tarn Adams talks about simulating the most complex magic system ever. (via)
mdp – A command-line based markdown presentation tool.
"ffscreencast is a shell wrapper for ffmpeg that allows fool-proof screen recording via the command line.” (via)
802.eleventy what? A deep dive into why Wi-Fi kind of sucks.
What it feels like to be an open-source maintainer. (via)
CIA’s vim user tips published by WikiLeaks. (via)
How Unexplored generates great roguelike dungeons.
Today in OBEY.
Windowmaker 0.95.8 released. I still like it after all this time. (via)
A game where Character Creation is the Whole Game.
Build your first PC in PC Building Simulator’s demo. Bizarre, but somehow makes sense.
Names that Make Computers Go Crazy. (via)
Discussion of analog timing sources on NANOG. Interesting precisely because it’s not Internet-visible, not directly.

Your unrelated tea link of the week: Haha, one of the world’s best tea houses is in my town. It’s Leaf Tea Bar, and Niraj is one of the nicest guys. His prices are reasonable for the quality of the tea, too.

Your related bug link of the week: Teeth of the DragonFly. (via)

2017/03/122017/03/11

Lazy Reading for 2017/03/12

I had overflow from last week, so I have a good list for you, despite being offline for days.

Your Code is Junky. I haven’t thought about FrontPage in years, and that’s on purpose. It was a trainwreck.
Raiders of the Lost OS: Reclaiming a piece of Polish IT history. I have never heard of CROOK. (via)
meaningful short names.
missing features as features
The Collapse of the UNIX Philosophy. Drinking game: drink every time the author or commenters at the source link conflate bash and UNIX, or Linux and UNIX, or assume a quirk solved in 1985 is a relevant worry today, etc. You’ll be drunk very soon.
Adobe Illustrator is 30 years old. Linking mostly for the side-by-side image of the tool palettes over the years.
USG is a firewall for your USB ports. firmware firewall – you can still have malicious software in the data portion of the USB drive. (via)
Two frequently used system calls are ~77% slower on AWS EC2. gettimeofday() – about as simple as it gets, and used constantly. (via)
selfie – compiler, emulator, and hypervisor (C and MIPS) all bundled together. (via)
Computers and art meet face-to-face.
(related comics link)

Your unrelated tea link of the day: defining what it means when you read “mug of tea” vs “cup of tea”. You’d think it was interchangeable, but the meanings diverge. (PDF, via)

2017/03/052017/03/03

Lazy Reading for 2017/03/05

A little meta, this week.

Why Nothing Works Anymore. Occam’s Razor applies; most people undervalue design vs. cost. (via)
I miss Delphi
There’s more than one way to kill a Unix process
Sniffing out Unix processes using pgrep
cloudbleed hero graphics. You know what Cloudbleed is, correct? It’s hard to illustrate, is what it is.
1000 links later. The Digest is generally a links site, and my experience matches what he’s saying.
The PDP-10 group on GitHub. (via, via)
Doing Presentations. I have an employee who can’t stop reading text verbatim off his slides, facing the screen… which means I can’t stop falling asleep at about slide 20 or so. (via)
An annotated digest of the top “Hacker” “News” posts. Accurate. (via)
./code –poetry. (via)
Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces. (via)
comment free codex. Comment quantity is starting to matter even more than quality.
There’s no IPv4 ranges left to allocate, but there’s some ranges that aren’t being used by their owners, and are given back. Here’s where the remaining scraps of recovered IPv4 space are tracked. It at least delays the inevitable. (via)
Eli5: What is POSIX?
A time-proven zsh prompt.
About the Newton MessagePad 2xxx ROM card. (via)

Your unrelated tea link of the week: In Sri Lanka’s Tea Paradise, A Social Enterprise Is Brewing. I actually heard about the quality of the tea (very good) before I heard about the way the company was formed. Consider where your next tea purchase comes from, in light of this.

2017/02/262017/02/23

Lazy Reading for 2017/02/26

Another diverse link week, hooray!

Stupid Hackathon 2017 – results under Project. (via)
using yubikeys everywhere
Mistakes You Apparently Just Have to Make Yourself. I have seen all of these happen. (via)
Getting started with vim. (via)
The many faces of grep. grep, egrep, fgrep.
Finding the Lost Vikings – Reversing a Virtual Machine. (via)
Unix OS archaeology – Soviet UNIX clone DEMOS pt.2. (via)
SHAttered. Every vulnerability has to have a cool name and website now. (via)
I found the best anagram in English, Moore’s law beats a better algorithm, and Miscellaneous notes on anagram scoring, a series on anagrams that goes into glorious depth.
Puzzle Zapper Blog, from the previous link.
PuTTY 0.68 has been released, useful everywhere. (via and via)

Your unrelated item of the week: How Wegmans inspired the most rabid fanbase in the grocery world. I live in the town where Wegmans started. “Grocery fanbase” is a relative thing, but: yes, they are that good.

2017/02/192017/02/17

Lazy Reading for 2017/02/19

It’s Lazy Reading Science week!

RC40 card cipher
mplayer ktracing “In my ongoing quest to find the most inefficient software that still appears to work…”
How New York City Gets Its Electricity. Smart meters have been possible for years… Electricity companies are just not interested. (via)
Posix Has Become Outdated. Note that I don’t necessarily agree. (PDF, via)
Computer Science Professor Stages a Play to Teach his Family Perl 6. (via)
Why Wang went wrong.
swayvm, a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager, for Wayland. (via)
I LOVE PROGRAMMING, the sticker. (via)
Laws of the Universe: Perlin Noise.
Undefined Behavior != Unsafe Programming.
A new version of Producing Open Source Software is out. (via)
JS/UIX, “an UN*X-like OS for standard web-browsers”. (via)
newspaper subscription experiment
How I got three errors into one line of code and followup.
Same author and related: Automatically checking for syntax errors with Git’s pre-commit hook
Pipelining your laundry, and the ensuing silliness

Your unrelated link of the day: Assault Trombone. Even if this was lethal, I couldn’t take it seriously. (via)

2017/02/122017/02/10

Lazy Reading for 2017/02/12

It’s all twofer links this week.

The many faces of DOOM’s afterlife. A good example of what open source can do for the lifetime of a software project. (via)
The forgotten joys of turtling in strategy games. (also via)
Perl6 One Liners. (via)
How Unix erases things when you type a backspace while entering text. (via)
Whatever happened to Winamp? Arguably one of the better programs ever put together. (via)
Shut Up & Sit Down, tabletop board/card gaming reviews. There’s far more out there than I ever realized. (via I’m not sure at this point, sorry.)
A pragmatic decision on GNU Emacs versus Vim for programming. (via)
The TTY demystified. (via)
THE GRAY-1, A HOMEBREW CPU EXCLUSIVELY COMPOSED OF MEMORY (also via)
The BD Software C Compiler (BDS C). From 1979. (via)
Minesweeper: Advanced Tactics. (also via)
How piracy can accidentally encourage IPv6 adoption.
Dwarf Fortress and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Interface.
Free Online Courses at openculture. Get past the page ads, and there’s got to be something in that very long list that interests you. (lost source, sorry)
Cards Against Silicon Valley. The description of the game is more fun than the game, but then again maybe so is what it’s parodying. (via)
Vim’s 25th anniversary and the release of Vim 8. (via)

Your unrelated entertainment activities of the day: Places to Telnet. (indirectly via)

2017/02/052017/02/03

Lazy Reading for 2017/02/05

You weren’t planning to do anything else today, right? Find some headphones.

The future of iOS is 64-bit only: Apple to stop support of 32-bit apps. Following a trend. (via)
Four Column ASCII. (via)
From the previous link source’s comments: “The Evolution of Character Codes, 1874-1968“, a PDF from this repo.
A Quick Look at the SoftIron OverDrive 1000. Multiprocessor ARM is starting to show up in non-Pi shapes.
How computer terms came from physical parts of the Mark I. Neat pictures, too! I know I’ve seen the moth one before. (via)
How Linux got to be Linux: Test driving 1993-2003 distros. Someone do this with BSD flavors. (via)
Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Molecular Tschunk Spheres. Sounds mathematical, but actually related to Chaos Communication Congress and food. Read the ‘small scale hack’ at the end. (also via)
Printer Security. (via)
Electrocuted CERN weasel joins McFlurry hedgehog at dead animal exhibit. (via)
From free software to liberal software.
Classic NES Series Anti-Emulation Measures. (via)
CoVim – Collaborative Editing for Vim. (via)
The Enviable Pedigree of UNIX® and POSIX®. (via)
Dial-A-Grue
Level Up Your Game: The Untapped Potential of Roguelikes. (thanks, Brandon Gooch)

Your unrelated link of the week: Bandcamp Daily. Curated daily presentations about a band or type of music, where the enthusiasm for any given esoteric sonic whatsit oozes through the writing and samples are there to back it up. Of course I would like it. Recent highlights from just the past few days: a history of doom metal; Kid Koala’s new album, and whatever this is.

2017/01/292017/01/27

Lazy Reading for 2017/01/29

Not as many reading links as usual this week, but lots of BSD news yesterday. It ebbs and it flows.

OpenSSH Keys: A Walkthrough (via)
Incompatible Timesharing System on Github! I always thought of it as Unix’s original competitor. (via)
Sleep Mode: The Art of the Screensaver
Editing wars at London Bridge Street. I don’t know why I enjoy syntax language discussion so much, but I do. (via)
Cheap Truth, an archive of Bruce Sterling’s sci-fi reviews from the last century. A good way to find yourself some new reading. (via)

Your unrelated comic of the week: “Your comment here“. Also “presentation“.

2017/01/222017/01/20

Lazy Reading for 2017/01/22

Thinkpieces, this week.

The Magic Arrow: A talk about the SIP2 protocol and the purpose of REST.
Testing LLVM
git apply --palimpsest=3 --rewind-sprocket
25 useful web developer tools. Not clickbait as you’d expect.
FAP80, A retro computer without the retro baggage. (via)
Modern propaganda is distraction, not argument. (PDF, via)
Ransomware takes a nasty turn
Lock-Free Bugs
Related: The compendium of database ransomware. A scientific approach to measuring a disaster.
“…the open source developer tools market is one of the worst markets one could possibly end up in…” RethinkDB post-mortem. (via)
Maintainers Don’t Scale. Applies to far more than the Linux kernel. (via)
Introduction to Precision Farming. I have seen this up close, so to speak, as there’s a company that does this around the corner from my workplace.

Your tea link of the week: Scary photo of an Indian tea plantation

2017/01/152017/01/13

Lazy Reading for 2017/01/15

“Old consumer computers” is this week’s accidental theme.

Viva Amiga, the trailer. (via)
NANOG 69 is happening in early February.
A New Year, a New Round of pop3 Gropers from China
Every time we lift a pallet from the shipping room, the server times out. The Hacker News thread has some good stories, too. (via)
Hidden Voice Commands, where the computer understands but the humans do not. (via)
Using Unix commands to profile your users
When the little hand is on the two, and the big hand…
Read “The Tao of tmux” prerelease for free online (via)
RIPEStat, nicely summarized information about a given network. (via)
LISA16 slides and video (that’s the Large Scale System Administration conference) are available. (via)
Donsol, technically a roguelike. (via)
Portal for Apple ][. (via)

Your unrelated video of the week: Turbo Encabulator. There’s more like that out there, like the Rockwell Retro Encabulator.

2017/01/082017/01/07

Lazy Reading for 2017/01/08

I hope you have lots of time to read today.

SpaceVim – Like Spacemacs, but for Vim. A Vim … distribution? (via)
Mid-century modern electronics. (via)
Open Source Won. So, Now What? (via)
A Historical Geography of RPG Playing
2016 year-end link clearance. Going down the rabbit hole of links to links.
Data formats of Rogue One (via)
Architects on Death Star design. A bit clickbaity, I know. (also via)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, looking just at user interfaces. (via)
Great Talks and Presentations at 33C3 (I think via)
Truffle Hog, a clever search-for-accidentally-committed-keys script. (via)
Hacker News, like any news aggregate, has now reached the astroturfing / advertising point. (related)
Goodbye to GNU Libreboot (via)
Irssi 1.0.0 Released And here’s the XKCD cartoon to match. (via)
fortran.io, a FORTRAN web framework. (via)
A Tourist’s Guide to the LLVM Source Code
Story behind malloc(0) standardization (via)
python 3k17. Perl’s is the only scripting language I know that successfully navigated major version changes – for compatibility, at least.
zz: a smart and efficient directory changer
Internet of Shit and CES. Of note: 42tea, where you need a smartphone to do what only maybe needs a timer and thermometer.
chmod 777. Not sure if real.
The many lives of Packard Bell. I hated these.

2017/01/012016/12/29

Lazy Reading for 2017/01/01

I almost scheduled this for 2016/01/01.

All the talks from Systems We Love. I linked to one of these presentations in another week, but here’s all of them. (via)
The little book about OS development. (via)
Getting the Amiga 500 Online. (via)
Awesome window manager framework version 4.0 changes. I know there’s a few users out there. (via)
Virtual reality interfaces. I think they are all hypothetical, but I like them. The source link has a nice summary set of images.
The case of the four unlabeled toggle buttons. In general when someone sees a button, they must click on it.
Coding Standards Horror Story. Not the usual coding horror story. (via)
Virtuapin Mini, virtual pinball in an actual cabinet. Found via the actual Coding Horror site which has nice internal pictures and more details on available software.
Anydice.com. Sum probabilities for different dice combinations. (via)
How Your Cup of Tea Explains the Universe. (via)

2016/12/252016/12/23

Lazy Reading for 2016/12/25

Merry Christmas! I piled up as many links as I could in the theory that many readers have the spare time for it today/tomorrow/next few days.

“So somebody is throwing HTML at your sshd. What to do?“
Because of weird traffic, I found this reference to an early occurrence of the Internet of Crap Things. The weird traffic is possibly another Mirai variant. Or Snapchat.
Punched Cards: A Brief Tutorial (2002) (via)
The Hi-Bit Era. (via)
Working on ENIAC: Rethinking Innovation Myths with Author Thomas Haigh. Video. (via)
Talk extract: Submarine cable systems 101 for AWS partners. Video. (via)
3D-printed Curta Calculator. One of the best mechanical calculators. (via)
Taking Back the DNS. “Most new domain names are malicious.” From 2010, but unfortunately still relevant. (via)
Anecdote generator: Dwarf Fortress’s agents already sparking fun tales
Terminal Madness (A 1980 Documentary About Personal Computers). Video. (via)
Gitlabs going post-cloud with Metal
Colossal Genius: Tutte, Flowers, and a Bad Imitation of Turing (via)
v7x86 UNIX. (via)
exfiltration via request timing, exfiltration via receive timing
An Alarm Designer on How to Annoy People in the Most Effective Ways (via)
17 Unix tricks for a happy 2017. Assumes bash but don’t hold that against it.
Superintelligence (via)

Your unrelated game link of the week: Lode Runner. The whole thing in HTML5 as far as I can tell. (via)

Your unrelated video of the week: AAAAAAAAAAAA