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The curious case of the switch statement / fuzzy notepad edit / delete

The history of "switch" in Algol/BCPL languages. Ignores pattern-matching in functional languages, so the inclusion of Rust here is a bit incongruous.

to c language-design retrocomputing switch ... 4 days ago

Mark Fickett | Art Stuff | Dice Roller edit / delete

"An automatic system for rolling a polyhedral die and taking photos of the rolls; extracting the image of just the die from those images; clustering the images of the die by which face is shown; and analyzing the results."

to dice games random rpg statistics vision ... on 19 September

Hacking Team: a zero-day market case study edit / delete

"This article documents Hacking Team's third-party acquisition of zero-day (0day) vulnerabilities and exploits. The recent compromise of Hacking Team's email archive offers one of the first public case studies of the market for 0days."

to economics exploit security ... on 15 September

diffoscope: in-depth comparison of files, archives, and directories edit / delete

"diffoscope will try to get to the bottom of what makes files or directories different. It will recursively unpack archives of many kinds and transform various binary formats into more human readable form to compare them."

to diff reverse-engineering software ... on 15 September

Noel Chiappa's Home Page edit / delete

I came here from one of the retrocomputing lists (PDP-11 panels), but the section on Japanese woodblock art is really interesting.

to art digital japan pdp11 retrocomputing ukiyoe woodblock ... on 15 September

USB Product IDs - Openmoko edit / delete

"As the openmoko products have been discontinued, Openmoko Inc. is opening up the use of its Vendor ID for use by the Free and Open Source software and hardware communities. This means you can simply register your devices and will get an allocation of a Product ID for free."

to open-hardware usb ... on 15 September

BBC Computer Pages - Home edit / delete

"I am putting on these pages a few miscellaneous items that might interest those people who still like to play with BBC Computers. Most of what is here concerns the BBC Master 512"

to acorn bbc drdos gem master pc retrocomputing ... on 15 September

RangeVoting.org - Center for Range Voting - front page edit / delete

Nice overview of range voting systems. This came up during a discussion about governance in open source projects as a simpler alternative to the kind of approach Debian use.

to election politics voting ... on 15 September

Peter Gutmann's Home Page edit / delete

"My research interests cover the design and analysis of security systems and security usability, including the application of concepts from cognitive psychology to understanding how users interact with security systems, and whatever else happens to catch my interest." Denizen of a variety of security/crypto mailing lists; lots of interesting stuff to read.

to crypto security systems usability usable-security ... on 15 September

WireGuard: fast, modern, secure VPN tunnel edit / delete

VPN protocol based on Noise and straightforward public/private key mappings -- I rather like this design.

to crypto networking noise security vpn ... on 15 September