Tony Finch's link log

Here are some links to interesting web pages which I have encountered. This list is gatewayed to Twitter, Dreamwidth, and LiveJournal. My main blog where I post longer pieces is also on Dreamwidth.

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• 2013-06-30: Alice Kober: Unsung heroine who helped decode Linear B.
• 2013-06-30: Delightful puzzles.
• 2013-06-30: Entrepreneurs get better with age.
• 2013-06-30: Apple does not care about your living room.
• 2013-06-30: undupfs: deduplicating layered filesystem.
• 2013-06-30: A eulogy for AltaVista.
• 2013-06-30: Some typography cheat sheets.
• 2013-06-29: A quick review of Google's QUIC.
• 2013-06-29: Google making the Web faster with new transport protocol that reduces round trips.
• 2013-06-29: The scariest library.
• 2013-06-29: c++filt: demangle C++/Java symbols.
• 2013-06-29: G-Cloud: how to win government IT procurement contracts.
• 2013-06-29: Encryption has foiled wiretaps for first time ever, feds say.
• 2013-06-29: Anatomy of a two-compiler bug.
• 2013-06-29: FBI tracking device teardown.
• 2013-06-29: The Stephen Lawrence 'smear' proves that we cannot trust the state to snoop.
• 2013-06-29: Vi Hart on twelve tone music. (YouTube)
• 2013-06-29: The origin of "tweet".
• 2013-06-29: Clojure core.async CSP channels.
• 2013-06-28: A surprising JavaScript memory leak.
• 2013-06-28: First passenger trains start using the new Hitchin flyover.
• 2013-06-28: The changing shape of cinema: a history of aspect ratio.
• 2013-06-28: sed.js: a JavaScript implementation of Unix sed running on node.js.
• 2013-06-28: Snooper's charter has practically zero chance of becoming law, say senior MPs.
• 2013-06-28: Memories of Stasi color Germans' view of U.S. surveillance programs.
• 2013-06-28: AT&T helped the FBI calculate guilt by association.
• 2013-06-28: How to botch TLS forward secrecy.
• 2013-06-28: Useless box with surprises. (YouTube)
• 2013-06-27: Biblical marriage.
• 2013-06-27: Speeding up "counting objects" with bitmap data in Git.
• 2013-06-27: Using bitmaps to accelerate fetch and clone in JGit.
• 2013-06-27: Scaling up JGit.
• 2013-06-26: Everything Jesus said against gay marriage.
• 2013-06-26: How Texas Republicans will crush the Wendy Davis SB5 abortion filibuster.
• 2013-06-26: American legislators are restricted in how they may defend civil liberties against the secret state.
• 2013-06-26: Can Apple read your iMessages?
• 2013-06-26: Perfect forward secrecy and SSL: Intercepted today, decrypted tomorrow.
• 2013-06-26: Why do computers stop and what can be done about it? (1985)
• 2013-06-26: Wendy Davis Texas senate abortion filibuster ends in chaotic dispute over midnight vote.
• 2013-06-26: Marrakech treaty for the blind signed despite efforts of copyright lobby.
• 2013-06-25: Privatising the courts: if anyone needs advice, it's the judiciary.
• 2013-06-25: Why the IRS is targeting open source software groups.
• 2013-06-25: Anglo-Saxon spies: German national security is at stake.
• 2013-06-25: ECHR requires Serbian intelligence agency to reveal electronic snooping data.
• 2013-06-25: Oh, Canada: America's friendly northern neighbor has become a rogue, reckless petrostate.
• 2013-06-25: Proposed Histon Road traffic improvements.
• 2013-06-25: More entries for the computer contradictionary.
• 2013-06-25: Setting up perfect forward secrecy for nginx or stud.
• 2013-06-25: Typhoid Mary.
• 2013-06-25: NixOps: deploy NixOS machines in a cloud.
• 2013-06-25: America's shameful human rights record.
• 2013-06-24: A patent on ad-funded content was upheld in a US court.
• 2013-06-24: Apple's Lightning connector authentication check 'permanently' cracked.
• 2013-06-24: The other Snowden drama: a desire to prosecute journalists.
• 2013-06-24: rss2imap.
• 2013-06-24: Accuweather 25 day long-rage forecast inaccuracy.
• 2013-06-24: Facebook's shadow profiles include personal data of people without Facebook accounts.
• 2013-06-24: Hidden OS X features, tips and tricks.
• 2013-06-24: AudioSerial: JavaScript code to use headphone socket as send-only serial port.
• 2013-06-24: The physics of traffic jams.
• 2013-06-24: Perfect forward secrecy can block the NSA from retrospectively snooping TLS traffic, but no one uses it.
• 2013-06-24: Why Skype is no longer p2p with e2e crypto.
• 2013-06-23: Frontend development bookmarks.
• 2013-06-23: Apart from The Guardian the British press stays silent about mass surveillance.
• 2013-06-23: Why to build your HTTP APIs around linking.
• 2013-06-23: Building LLVM using Shake.
• 2013-06-23: The infinitely profitable program.
• 2013-06-22: The strange case of Barrett Brown.
• 2013-06-22: The mathematics and statistics of Monopoly.
• 2013-06-22: The HoTT book: Homotopy Type Theory.
• 2013-06-22: Two dozen mathematicians wrote a 600 page book in less than 6 months using GitHub.
• 2013-06-22: GCHQ's Master the Internet project. (2009)
• 2013-06-22: IPMI passwords are easy to crack remotely.
• 2013-06-20: A line of sages have to guess the colours of their hats, or get beheaded.
• 2013-06-20: How not to handle a critical security vulnerability.
• 2013-06-20: Derivatives are weapons of slow economic destruction.
• 2013-06-20: A model for when disclosure helps security: what is different about computer and network security?
• 2013-06-20: An introduction to nginx.
• 2013-06-19: Puppet YAML+Ruby remote code execution vulnerability.
• 2013-06-19: IO-Lite: a unified I/O buffering and caching system.
• 2013-06-19: MegaPipe: a new programming interface for scalable network I/O.
• 2013-06-19: Line comments versus line splicing in programming languages.
• 2013-06-19: People who believe lack of exercise (rather than overeating) causes obesity tend to be fatter.
• 2013-06-19: Pipelined FPGA Mandelbrot generator.
• 2013-06-19: Java garbage collection distilled.
• 2013-06-19: Memory barriers: a hardware view for software hackers.
• 2013-06-19: How FPGAs work, and why you'll buy one.
• 2013-06-19: Discussion about Exchange 2013 recipient verification breakage on the Postfix list.
• 2013-06-19: Recipient filtering broken in Exchange 2013.
• 2013-06-19: Is the rape porn cultural harm argument another rape myth?
• 2013-06-18: LCPP – a Lua C pre-processor.
• 2013-06-18: The Porter stemming algorithm: then and now.
• 2013-06-18: The whistleblower's guide to secretly tipping off the press in a "turnkey totalitarian" state.
• 2013-06-18: Supreme Court of the US mostly abolishes the right to remain silent.
• 2013-06-18: Nominet brings back "direct.uk" proposal for unrestricted second-level .uk domains.
• 2013-06-18: Ultimate tic-tac-toe.
• 2013-06-18: Want to file a motion in the FISA court? First you have to find them.
• 2013-06-18: If those services don't trust me enough to give me an RSS feed, why should I trust them with my data?
• 2013-06-17: An old mystery solved: 1940s project C-43 and public key encryption.
• 2013-06-17: Old age: the diminished thing.
• 2013-06-17: Advanced bash scripting guide.
• 2013-06-17: There are almost no films about women.
• 2013-06-17: Big multiple sclerosis breakthrough.
• 2013-06-17: The real enemy of privacy is the MEPs selling our rights to the direct marketing lobby.
• 2013-06-17: Throwing children in prison turns out to be a really bad idea.
• 2013-06-17: Simple linear-time suffix array construction.
• 2013-06-16: UK intercepted most Irish international comms traffic 1990-1997.
• 2013-06-16: roffit: convert man pages to HTML.
• 2013-06-16: Archive on 4: Very British Dystopias.
• 2013-06-16: On coalitions, courts, and the future after legal aid.
• 2013-06-16: Leading programmers remember the impact of Kernighan and Ritchie: The C Programming Language.
• 2013-06-16: The BBC's factual television is an insult to the nation.
• 2013-06-16: The low-transaction-fee argument for Bitcoin is silly.
• 2013-06-15: Why Boston and Skegness could be UKIP's Brighton Pavillion.
• 2013-06-15: Bank of America lied to homeowners seeking remortgages and rewarded employees for foreclosing.
• 2013-06-15: Secret to Prism success: Even bigger data seizure.
• 2013-06-15: Not just spies: councils want your communications data too.
• 2013-06-15: Melvyn Bragg on William Tyndale: his genius matched that of Shakespeare.
• 2013-06-15: You do have the right to record council meetings.
• 2013-06-15: Landmark US Patent Office ruling strikes abstract software patent.
• 2013-06-15: Apple laptop charging vibration effect: "earth finger". (Informative comments.)
• 2013-06-15: Ancient Roman concrete lasts 40 times longer than modern Portland cement.
• 2013-06-15: The influence of spies has become too much. It's time politicians said no.
• 2013-06-15: "Hardware eventually fails. Software eventually works."
• 2013-06-15: On the legal importance of viewing genes as code.
• 2013-06-14: Lawsuit claims "Happy Birthday" is not in copyright, and Warner owes hundreds of millions in improperly collected royalties.
• 2013-06-14: Secret Courts: 8 nightmare scenarios now possible in Britain.
• 2013-06-14: Spamalot reigns: data protection and Ireland's EU presidency.
• 2013-06-14: Insubordination and the surveillance state.
• 2013-06-13: Planning a computer system: Project Stretch. (1962)
• 2013-06-13: Main Core: US government database of 8 million Americans who are supposedly threats to national security.
• 2013-06-13: NSA has massive database of American phone calls. (2006)
• 2013-06-13: Hopscotch hashing.
• 2013-06-13: Two years of Cambridge Noir.
• 2013-06-12: HHVM and the repurposed JIT phenomenon.
• 2013-06-12: Thomas Drake on being an NSA whistleblower.
• 2013-06-12: gitdown: moderate commit activity based on blood alcohol content.
• 2013-06-12: America's price-gouging cable companies are latter-day robber barons.
• 2013-06-12: Bike helmets and the law: Canadian legislation had minimal effect on serious head injuries.
• 2013-06-12: McBits: fast constant-time code-based cryptography.
• 2013-06-12: Attackers using chargen for UDP reflection/amplification attacks.
• 2013-06-12: IBM jargon and general computing dictionary.
• 2013-06-12: Banks rig foreign exchange benchmark rates.
• 2013-06-12: PRISM explains the wider lobbying issues surrounding EU data protection reform.
• 2013-06-12: Disagree with an Atos decision? Then starve, says DWP.
• 2013-06-12: Politics and Iain Banks.
• 2013-06-11: Public WiFi is mostly crappy and user-hostile.
• 2013-06-11: The PRISM details matter: if it works like the UK communications data bill, it is apparently no big deal.
• 2013-06-11: Opera desktop mail client.
• 2013-06-11: Family courts risk 'collapse' as surge in custody cases follows legal aid cuts.
• 2013-06-11: The value of a hacked email account.
• 2013-06-11: The Case for compressed caching in virtual memory systems.
• 2013-06-11: Has the US become the type of nation from which you have to seek asylum?
• 2013-06-11: Expect more intrusive surveillance now that PRISM is public.
• 2013-06-11: Why didn't tech company leaders blow the whistle?
• 2013-06-10: libottery: drop-in fast secure replacement for your RNG.
• 2013-06-10: The end is nigh for OpenVMS.
• 2013-06-10: Snowden/Greenwald contact delayed by weeks owing to difficulty of using PGP.
• 2013-06-10: Ken MacLeod on Iain Banks: A science fiction star first and foremost.
• 2013-06-10: Counter-cryptanalysis exploits unavoidable anomalies to detect and block cryptanalytic attacks.
• 2013-06-10: Daniel Ellsberg says Edward Snowden is saving us from the United Stasi of America.
• 2013-06-10: PRISM: The real concern is that governments may not be breaking any law at all.
• 2013-06-10: As Bradley Manning's trial begins, the press predictably misses the point.
• 2013-06-10: These are the mobile phones and tablet computers that will give you the fastest Internet speeds.
• 2013-06-10: Viviane Reding dismantles UK's arguments against effective data protection.
• 2013-06-10: The omniscient states: seven decades of shared intelligence.
• 2013-06-10: University admission happens far to late to fix school inequality.
• 2013-06-10: Safety triangle / misogyny triangle.
• 2013-06-10: A few notes on the Culture.
• 2013-06-10: There is more to anticompetitive patent licensing than trolls.
• 2013-06-10: Some links about Iain Banks.
• 2013-06-10: Council of the EU releases compromise draft the proposed data protection regulations.
• 2013-06-10: LobbyPlag: which MEPs support less data privacy and more spam.
• 2013-06-09: How the US turned three pacifists into violent terrorists.
• 2013-06-09: Security against compelled disclosure.
• 2013-06-09: Greene King accused of cultural vandalism after scrapping more than 200 traditional pub signs.
• 2013-06-09: Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data.
• 2013-06-09: The sealed bottle garden still thriving after 40 years without fresh air or water.
• 2013-06-09: Shortcat: keyboard productivity app for Mac OS X.
• 2013-06-09: Seeing ultraviolet after cataract surgery with Crystalens.
• 2013-06-08: The ABC trial: a 1970s prosecution for revealing UK spying activity.
• 2013-06-08: UK government censors PRISM news with a D-notice.
• 2013-06-08: Public documents contradict government claim that mass surveillance foiled terror plot.
• 2013-06-08: A lesson from history for those who strive to bring intelligence agencies to account.
• 2013-06-07: All the infrastructure a tyrant would need.
• 2013-06-07: Anonymous just leaked a trove of NSA documents. (See also UKUSA / Five Eyes.)
• 2013-06-07: On whistleblowers and government threats of investigation.
• 2013-06-07: Was the Communications Data Bill just a cover for Prism Data?
• 2013-06-07: Melton: A static memory leak detector for C programs.
• 2013-06-07: Lawfully Good vs Lawfully Evil.
• 2013-06-07: Anyone (with a PhD in physics) can design a nuclear bomb.
• 2013-06-07: Kismet: WiFi sniffing software.
• 2013-06-07: inSSIDer: WiFi monitoring software.
• 2013-06-07: Senators knew the NSA's universal snooping has been going on since 2007.
• 2013-06-07: Value of the cloud: CPU performance.
• 2013-06-07: Metadata matters: spying on comms records harms civil liberties and the free press.
• 2013-06-07: US NSA is mining data from 9 leading Internet firms.
• 2013-06-07: EU council of ministers proposes to gut data protection regulations, to please direct marketing lobby.
• 2013-06-06: Universal Credit: government closer to recognising failure of world's largest agile development project.
• 2013-06-06: Top US patent judge pens anti-troll op-ed in the New York Times.
• 2013-06-06: Best practices for designing a pragmatic RESTful API.
• 2013-06-06: CamelCase is less readable than under_score.
• 2013-06-06: CamelCase is more readable than under_score.
• 2013-06-06: The NSA is spying on millions of Americans.
• 2013-06-06: Bureaucratic needs assessments and the debate over IP address conservation.
• 2013-06-06: Calling for an end to the war on drugs.
• 2013-06-06: What would British politics look like with small parties and proportional representation?
• 2013-06-06: Affordable quality: comparing childcare in the UK and Europe.
• 2013-06-06: Amazon S3 failure in July 2008 due to single bit corruption. Checksum all the things!
• 2013-06-06: Game theory of IPv6.
• 2013-06-05: Pink/Blue.
• 2013-06-05: Microsoft asks for feedback on the standards conformance of Outlook and Exchange.
• 2013-06-05: Guile and delimited continuations.
• 2013-06-05: Japan's radiation disaster toll: none dead, none sick.
• 2013-06-05: The bright side of dark silicon.
• 2013-06-05: Tetris printer algorithm.
• 2013-06-05: The network is reliable?
• 2013-06-04: Cameron eyes 'non legislative options' to extend domestic spying powers.
• 2013-06-04: Prosecute the patent trolls!
• 2013-06-04: A "child pornographer", according to the police.
• 2013-06-04: The risks of Microsoft Exchange features that use Oracle Outside In.
• 2013-06-04: 45 ways to communicate two quantities.
• 2013-06-04: Brompton stunts. (YouTube)
• 2013-06-04: Huge registrar shake-up coming to .biz and .info.
• 2013-06-04: A look at the Crossrail tunnels under Oxford Street.
• 2013-06-04: Elsevier-style bulk licences the answer to taming patent trolls?!
• 2013-06-04: Call-by-push-value: a model for the lambda calculus that subsumes call-by-name and call-by-value.
• 2013-06-03: On "geek" versus "nerd".
• 2013-06-03: First intercontinental 100 Gbps link for research and education.
• 2013-06-03: Reinventing the wheel: Loopwheels: bike wheels with built-in suspension.
• 2013-06-03: Reinventing the train: Ideas coming down the track.
• 2013-06-03: How curly braces got included in ASCII.
• 2013-06-03: Think the Greens are the party of the middle-class? Think again.
• 2013-06-03: Possible ban on factory food in French restaurants.
• 2013-06-03: O, BIND, BIND, wherefore art thou BIND? Results of fingerprinting all Internet DNS servers.
• 2013-06-03: What can't you do with a criminal conviction?
• 2013-06-03: LangSec: safely dealing with magical text.
• 2013-06-03: A unified theory of garbage collection.
• 2013-06-03: Removing garbage collection from the Rust language.
• 2013-06-03: Civil legal aid reforms in the UK: what will this mean for you?
• 2013-06-03: The reaction to Eric Weinstein's lecture at Oxford on the geometric prospects for unification.
• 2013-06-03: Istanbul's demonstrators celebrate victory in Istiklal and Taksim Square.
• 2013-06-03: Sustainable fishing success story, but why do we have to trawl for the facts about Britain and the EU?
• 2013-06-03: Max Headroom and the strange world of pseudo-CGI.
• 2013-06-03: Hexagonal grids.
• 2013-06-03: Apple, betrayed by its own patent law firm.
• 2013-06-02: Five ugly lessons hiding in every superhero movie.
• 2013-06-02: More background on the violence in Isranbul.
• 2013-06-02: Teardown and exploration of Apple's Magsafe connector.
• 2013-06-02: Researcher decodes prairie dog language and discovers they've been talking about us. (video)
• 2013-06-02: Michael Douglas says cunnilingus gives you cancer – but is he right?
• 2013-06-02: What mobile internet filtering tells us about porn blocks.
• 2013-06-02: What is happenning in Istanbul.
• 2013-06-02: Examining the IWF's claim that 1.5 million adults have stumbled across child porn online.
• 2013-06-02: The real Cuban missile crisis.
• 2013-06-02: Vinegar could save 73,000 women a year from cancer.
• 2013-06-02: H.264 patent pools kill web video competitors.
• 2013-06-02: The algebra of algebraic data types.
• 2013-06-02: Funny computer books?
• 2013-06-01: Clay programming language.
• 2013-06-01: Google/Motorola prototype authentication tokens: pill passwords and electronic tattoos.
• 2013-06-01: Haskell apply ($) vs F#'s pipe forward operator (|>).