Daily - interesting linkshttps://roland.iwasno.net/links/Daily shared linksen-enhttps://roland.iwasno.net/links/ interesting links - Friday 29, August 2025https://roland.iwasno.net/links/?do=daily&day=20250829https://roland.iwasno.net/links/?do=daily&day=20250829Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0200 From Transistors to Turing Machines Fri Aug 29 07:25:26 2025 - computer science plan9
https://marc.info/?l=9fans&m=175537619931842&w=2

Sounds interesting.

]]> interesting links - Thursday 28, August 2025https://roland.iwasno.net/links/?do=daily&day=20250828https://roland.iwasno.net/links/?do=daily&day=20250828Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0200 Schulbuchverbesserungen Thu Aug 28 13:49:25 2025 - mathematics german
https://www.math.uni-bonn.de/people/karcher/Schulbuchverbesserungen.html

From MP

Stromausfall in Spanien: Was weiß man über die beobachteten weiträumigen Oszillationen im Netz?

Thu Aug 28 13:45:30 2025 - science physics TODO
https://sciencemediacenter.de/angebote/stromausfall-in-spanien-was-weiss-man-ueber-die-beobachteten-weitraeumigen-oszillationen-im-netz-25085

5. Mai 2025, from Hannes

Man with esophageal cancer reveals first sign he noticed

Thu Aug 28 13:37:02 2025 - health for:aman
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1484586263713038&id=100064850344103



Common Hormones and how they work

Thu Aug 28 13:31:46 2025 - science health for:aman
https://m.facebook.com/groups/295023985976263/posts/1128648842613769/



]]> interesting links - Wednesday 13, August 2025https://roland.iwasno.net/links/?do=daily&day=20250813https://roland.iwasno.net/links/?do=daily&day=20250813Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0200 Louise Penny’s Chief Inspector Gamache Series Wed Aug 13 09:14:44 2025 - book reading for:aman
https://www.gamacheseries.com/

Background material, quotes, comments

]]> interesting links - Tuesday 12, August 2025https://roland.iwasno.net/links/?do=daily&day=20250812https://roland.iwasno.net/links/?do=daily&day=20250812Tue, 12 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0200 Borg Documentation — Borg - Deduplicating Archiver 1.4.1 documentation Tue Aug 12 20:06:43 2025 - backup software tool Python
https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html

BorgBackup (short: Borg) is a deduplicating backup program. Optionally, it supports compression and authenticated encryption.

The main goal of Borg is to provide an efficient and secure way to backup data. The data deduplication technique used makes Borg suitable for daily backups since only changes are stored. The authenticated encryption technique makes it suitable for backups to not fully trusted targets.

Urbit is a new OS and peer-to-peer network that’s simple by design, built to last forever, and 100% owned by its users.

Tue Aug 12 09:01:49 2025 - operating-system Lisp TODO minimalism utopic-computing
https://urbit.org/overview

Found via Jeffrey Kegler's blog https://jeffreykegler.github.io/Ocean-of-Awareness-blog/
Sounds a bit utopian, but reminds me of https://100r.co/site/uxn.html and https://spritely.institute/. I need a tag, perhaps utopic-computing?

]]> interesting links - Saturday 09, August 2025https://roland.iwasno.net/links/?do=daily&day=20250809https://roland.iwasno.net/links/?do=daily&day=20250809Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0200 /e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled”, mobile ecosystem Sat Aug 9 17:36:09 2025 - FOSS operating-system Android TODO
https://e.foundation/e-os/



]]> interesting links - Friday 08, August 2025https://roland.iwasno.net/links/?do=daily&day=20250808https://roland.iwasno.net/links/?do=daily&day=20250808Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0200 Parsing: a timeline -- V3.1 Fri Aug 8 16:57:06 2025 - computer history algorithm blog
https://jeffreykegler.github.io/personal/timeline_v3#footnote-42-ref

A history of parsing techniques. Bob McClure's TMG (see https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2014-September/006765.html) is not mentioned.
See also the author's blog https://jeffreykegler.github.io/Ocean-of-Awareness-blog/

Float Exposed

Fri Aug 8 12:57:20 2025 - on-line tool floating-point pi π
https://float.exposed/0x400921fb54442d0f

On-line tool to show the representation of floating point numbers. Found on Philp Kaluđerčić's page https://wwwcip.cs.fau.de/~oj14ozun/links.html

Philip Kaluđerčić's home page

Fri Aug 8 12:45:07 2025 - SDF FOSS blog software design emacs
https://sdf.org/~pkal/

Interesting web site, for both design and content.
See also his link collection https://wwwcip.cs.fau.de/~oj14ozun/links.html

Export Google Authenticator secret OTP-keys · GitHub

Fri Aug 8 11:13:16 2025 - OTP security Android
https://gist.github.com/mapster/4b8b9f8f6b92cc1ca58ae5506e0508f7

Explanation and JavaScript code to translate secret OTP keys from Google Authenticator to a format useful for Yubikey.
https://alexbakker.me/post/parsing-google-auth-export-qr-code.html has some details about the format. Alex Bakker has written https://github.com/beemdevelopment/Aegis, an {T,H}OTP authenticator app for Android.

'Re: [9fans] parm server: user interaction' - MARC

Fri Aug 8 10:46:57 2025 - computer history operating-system pdp-10
https://marc.info/?l=9fans&m=175464100923546&w=2

Explanation of TOPS-20's COMND% JSYS (Jump to SYStem, essentially system call) command completion mechanism.

Keepass2Android Review

Fri Aug 8 08:49:02 2025 - security Android cryptography
https://proprivacy.com/password-manager/review/keepass2android

"Keepass2Android (K2A) is an open souse [sic] port of the excellent KeePass password manager for Windows to the Android platform."
I just read on https://github.com/android-password-store/Android-Password-Store/discussions/3260 that the password store application has been archived, i.e. development has stopped.

Automatic Identification System (AIS) using GNU Radio

Fri Aug 8 08:47:03 2025 - AIS GNU radio software
https://www.funwithelectronics.com/?id=9

Mentioned on the Wikipedia page about AIS.

]]> interesting links - Saturday 02, August 2025https://roland.iwasno.net/links/?do=daily&day=20250802https://roland.iwasno.net/links/?do=daily&day=20250802Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0200 Curate your own newspaper with RSS Sat Aug 2 00:44:19 2025 - reading web RSS
https://www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-rss/

Found via Jamie Zawinsky's blog https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/07/you-should-be-using-rss/

]]> interesting links - Wednesday 30, July 2025https://roland.iwasno.net/links/?do=daily&day=20250730https://roland.iwasno.net/links/?do=daily&day=20250730Wed, 30 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0200 A guide to alt keyboard layouts (why, how, which one?) Wed Jul 30 22:45:33 2025 - keyboard tool
https://getreuer.info/posts/keyboards/alt-layouts/index.html

Mentioned on the MoHP forum https://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-23817-post-207443.html#pid207443
See also https://getreuer.info/posts/keyboards/faqs/index.html

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