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Algorand: A Better Distributed Ledger, with Silvio Micali
Found on http://www.pfarrell.com/Sun Jun 19 22:57:11 2022 - permalink -- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_nQE_HAGlmM
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Knowledge/Quick_Review_of_RPi_Zero_2_W.md at master · ThomasKaiser/Knowledge · GitHub
Interesting review of the Raspberry π 2 W, found via a link on Jamie Zawinsky's blogMon May 30 11:51:32 2022 - permalink -
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/12/advanced-linux-sound-architecture/#comment-195132
See also the https://ownyourbits.com/2019/02/02/whats-wrong-with-the-raspberry-pi/- https://github.com/ThomasKaiser/Knowledge/blob/master/articles/Quick_Review_of_RPi_Zero_2_W.md
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The Communicative Value of Using Git Well – Math ∩ Programming
Blog article describing the author's way of using git and some comparison to mercurial.Thu Mar 17 10:42:41 2022 - permalink -
Mentions John Wigley's book https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/- https://jeremykun.com/2020/01/14/the-communicative-value-of-using-git-well/
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Spencer Usenix 1992 paper [TUHS]
The paperTue Mar 1 16:15:39 2022 - permalink -
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/sa92/spencer.pdf
sounds like it is worth reading.- https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2022-March/025504.html
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The Tall Tower | Project Hieroglyph
The tower project began when Neal Stephenson started asking a simple question: how tall can we build something? As he started working with structural engineer Keith Hjelmstad, it turned out that this question has some surprising answers. To learn more about the project or get involved, check out the https://hieroglyph.asu.edu/?gpages=tower-project.Thu Feb 24 18:48:05 2022 - permalink -
Found via https://100r.co/site/uxn.html- https://hieroglyph.asu.edu/project/the-tall-tower/
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Plan 9 Desktop Guide
Thu Dec 30 00:22:11 2021 - permalink -- https://pspodcasting.net/dan/blog/2019/plan9_desktop.html
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9front on an SDF VPS
Instructions for installing 9front on an SDF VPS. Found on https://9p.sdf.org/Sun Oct 17 20:19:46 2021 - permalink -- https://wiki.sdf.org/doku.php?id=vps_-_9front
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Phil's PDP10 Miscellany Page
Lots of information about pdp-10, operating systems and other computers from the same age.Thu Oct 14 10:59:41 2021 - permalink -- http://www.regressive.org/phil/pdp10/
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A few comments on ‘age’ – Neil Madden
Critical review of some of the design choices made in the cryptographic tool 'age'.Tue Oct 12 18:09:43 2021 - permalink -
There are other interesting articles, such as the three-part series
https://neilmadden.blog/2018/11/14/public-key-authenticated-encryption-and-why-you-want-it-part-i/
https://neilmadden.blog/2018/11/26/public-key-authenticated-encryption-and-why-you-want-it-part-ii/
https://neilmadden.blog/2018/12/14/public-key-authenticated-encryption-and-why-you-want-it-part-iii/
and
https://neilmadden.blog/2016/09/13/critical-thinking-for-software-engineers- https://neilmadden.blog/2019/12/30/a-few-comments-on-age/
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(Almost) text-only websites
This is a directory of websites that primarily stick with simple, marked up, hyperlinked text.Mon Aug 30 10:42:37 2021 - permalink -
There is a movement, sometimes called "small web" for simpler web sites. This includes alternative protocols such as Gopher and Gemini.
I need to come up with a suitable tag, since I have bookmarked a number of such sites. See also "tilde" for a related wish for simplicity. I will use indieweb for now.- https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html
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THE DECSYSTEM-20 AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (1977-1988)
A nontechnical reminiscence written in 1988 (on the occasion of unplugging Columbia University's last DECSYSTEM-20) for a Digital Press book that was to commemorate DEC's 36-bit machines with a series of articles, but was never published.Sun Aug 1 18:42:55 2021 - permalink -- http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/dec20.html
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PDP-11 C stack operation - Computer History Wiki
Detailed description of the stack layout, use of R5 as frame pointer by the (V6) Unix C compiler on the pdp-11.Tue Jun 29 17:36:50 2021 - permalink -- https://gunkies.org/wiki/PDP-11_C_stack_operation
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The Multics MACLISP Compiler
Mon Jun 28 01:10:37 2021 - permalink -- https://multicians.org/lcp.html
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The Open-Source Software bubble that is and the blogging bubble that was – Baldur Bjarnason
Thoughts about the unsustainability of FOSS.Tue Jun 22 14:52:40 2021 - permalink -- https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2021/the-oss-bubble-and-the-blogging-bubble/
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Computer Keyboards
These pages are primarily concerned with keyboard layouts, that is, the arrangement of keys on a computer keyboard, and it looks at them from a historical viewpoint, going back to the keyboards found on some quite early computers.Thu Jun 10 13:23:23 2021 - permalink -- http://www.quadibloc.com/comp/kybint.htm
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XKB Configuration Guide
This document describes how to configure Xorg XKB from a user's point of view. It covers basic configuration syntax and gives also a few examples.Sat May 22 21:14:11 2021 - permalink -
See also the "X Keyboard Configuration Database" https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig and
"Custom Keyboard in Linux/X11" http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/Blog/custom-keyboard-in-linuxx11 on Daniel Paul O'Donnell's blog.- https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/xorg-docs/input/XKB-Config.html
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AEZ is an authenticated-encryption (AE) scheme optimized for ease of correct use (“AE made EZ”).
Found on https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2021-April/036859.htmlTue Apr 13 13:28:03 2021 - permalink -
"The really important thing is the theory paper, https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/aez/rae.pdf, which is brilliant and anyone who wants to look at block cipher theory should read and understand it."- https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/aez/index.html
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Style Guide for online hypertext
This document was written in the early days of the web (1992), defining such terms as "webmaster", the "www.xxx.com" convention, and a few basic points which are just as valid today. It has not been updated to discuss recent developments in HTML., and is out of date in many places, except for the addition of a few new pages, with given dates.Thu Mar 4 21:33:52 2021 - permalink -- https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/Overview.html
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An Emacs package development handbook. Built with Emacs, by Emacs package developers, for Emacs package developers.
At first glance, it looks like a list of available/recommended packages ordered by purpose.Fri Feb 26 11:53:57 2021 - permalink -- https://github.com/alphapapa/emacs-package-dev-handbook#xml--html
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History of development and key concepts of Orthodox Editors
The paper by Melinda Varian sounds interesting.Mon Feb 22 13:20:36 2021 - permalink -
Here is the quote from her very interesting paper ( I strongly recommend to read at least the beginning of this 73 pages paper -- it provides new insights into how two most interesting operating system Unix and VM/CMS were influenced by Corbato's CTTS and MIT Multix project)
As of 2021-03, the link http://pucc.princeton.edu/~melinda/ is stale, but I found the paper (167 pages)
VM AND THE VM COMMUNITY: Past, Present, and Future by Melinda Varian, April, 1991
on http://www.leeandmelindavarian.com/Melinda/neuvm.pdf- http://www.softpanorama.org/Articles/orthodox_editors.shtml