zdw
Tues Aug 31, 2010 2:12pm PST
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about
I'm a consultant, sysadmin, and programmer. I enjoy writing docs, troubleshooting, and working with interesting problems and people.

Hacker News is an online game you can play where your score is up in the top right corner and there's a leaderboard, and you get points by posting stuff and making comments people like.

I haven't had this much fun since Progress Quest!

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Thurs Feb 20, 2025 10:57pm PST
Geoblocking the UK with Debian and Nginx
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Thurs Feb 20, 2025 3:20pm PST
How to Backdoor Large Language Models: inject "backdoors" into code it writes
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Wed Feb 19, 2025 2:19am PST
Nvidia's 50-series cards drop support for PhysX, impacting older games
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Tues Feb 18, 2025 10:30pm PST
The Buenos Aires Constant
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Tues Feb 18, 2025 6:22pm PST
Juniper Networks Routers API Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
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Tues Feb 18, 2025 2:38am PST
Mostly Public Domain Image Search
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Mon Feb 17, 2025 10:03pm PST
Mt32-pi developer quits due to community harassment
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Mon Feb 17, 2025 7:02pm PST
Bill Gates Is Playing Both Sides of the Climate Crisis
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Sun Feb 16, 2025 10:35pm PST
A New Oral Culture
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Sun Feb 16, 2025 10:33pm PST
A Graphene Biosensor Could Monitor Blood Pressure and More
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Sun Feb 16, 2025 3:21am PST
What will happen if you do an entire woodworking project using a VR headset? [video]
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Sat Feb 15, 2025 3:31am PST
The 20 year old PSP can now connect to WPA2 WiFi Networks
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Sat Feb 15, 2025 3:19am PST
A holistic perspective on intellectual property, part 1
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Thurs Feb 13, 2025 11:22pm PST
Bloat
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Thurs Feb 13, 2025 10:29pm PST
Nokia 3310 to USB-C charging mod [video]
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Thurs Feb 13, 2025 4:18pm PST
How you should respond to authentication failures isn't universal
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Thurs Feb 13, 2025 3:34pm PST
Explaining my fast 6502 code generator (2023)
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Thurs Feb 13, 2025 3:23pm PST
Genesis and Sega CD – Audio Filtering
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Wed Feb 12, 2025 9:29pm PST
Security Teams Fail
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Wed Feb 12, 2025 4:24am PST
DOGE Is Hacking America
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Wed Feb 12, 2025 4:03am PST
Is Ops a Bullshit Job?
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Tues Feb 11, 2025 10:07pm PST
Getting rid of the penny introduces a new problem: nickels
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Mon Feb 10, 2025 10:34pm PST
Editing Video the Good Ol' Way
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Mon Feb 10, 2025 10:23pm PST
PeerAuth: Authenticate People with TOTP
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Sun Feb 9, 2025 11:54pm PST
Residential Networking over Telephone
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Sun Feb 9, 2025 2:01am PST
Xbar: Put the output from any script/program in your macOS menu bar
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Sun Feb 9, 2025 2:00am PST
Automating the cleaning of macOS-specific ( ._ and .DS_Store) files on Eject
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Sat Feb 8, 2025 10:01pm PST
How Safari search engine extensions work
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Sat Feb 8, 2025 3:03pm PST
A tale of several distros joining forces for a common goal: reproducible builds [video]
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Sat Feb 8, 2025 3:01pm PST
No-Libc Zig Now Outperforms Glibc Zig
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Sat Feb 8, 2025 2:50pm PST
A Brief History of ColorSync
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Sat Feb 8, 2025 4:04am PST
The Coolest Amiga Setup
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Fri Feb 7, 2025 11:45pm PST
Making Software Fun
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Fri Feb 7, 2025 10:34pm PST
Token Ring Networking [video]
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Fri Feb 7, 2025 2:49pm PST
Nintendo patent explains Switch 2 Joy-Cons' "mouse operation" mode
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Fri Feb 7, 2025 2:49pm PST
Comments on Shared Unix Hosting vs. the Cloud
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Fri Feb 7, 2025 2:47pm PST
14 Years of Systemd
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Thurs Feb 6, 2025 3:16pm PST
Adding cooking oil to asphalt to create self-healing roads
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Wed Feb 5, 2025 3:46pm PST
The practical (Unix) problems with .cache and its friends
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Wed Feb 5, 2025 3:38pm PST
OpenWISP: Multi-device fleet management for OpenWrt routers
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Tues Feb 4, 2025 7:19am PST
Why This Bicycle Needs Two Chains [video]
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Tues Feb 4, 2025 7:17am PST
What's the Deal with Magnetic Fields?
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Mon Feb 3, 2025 10:01pm PST
"A computer can never be held accountable"
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Mon Feb 3, 2025 9:59pm PST
Summarizing our recommendations for software documentation
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Mon Feb 3, 2025 4:36am PST
How the Atari ST Almost Had Real Unix
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Mon Feb 3, 2025 12:15am PST
Build systems and their effects on versioning and API changes
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Sat Feb 1, 2025 10:37pm PST
Lost Technology 1985 VHS / Betamax Kiosk [video]
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Sat Feb 1, 2025 3:21am PST
Hell is overconfident developers writing encryption code
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Fri Jan 31, 2025 10:32pm PST
Why do War Thunder players leak classified information? [video]
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Fri Jan 31, 2025 10:22pm PST
Chainsaw [video]
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Fri Jan 31, 2025 10:16pm PST
Trying (and Failing) to Design My Own Book Cover
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Fri Jan 31, 2025 4:53pm PST
Apple files emergency motion to become defendant in US vs. Google [pdf]
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Thurs Jan 30, 2025 11:12pm PST
The PETG adhesive test [video]
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Thurs Jan 30, 2025 4:47pm PST
What's Up with the Scary Tags on Children's Jammies?
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Tues Jan 28, 2025 8:27pm PST
PicoROM: An RP2040-based ROM emulator
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Mon Jan 27, 2025 9:56pm PST
Saving One Screen at a Time
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Sun Jan 26, 2025 4:00pm PST
Proper decoupling capacitor practices, and why you should leave 100nF behind
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Sat Jan 25, 2025 10:48pm PST
Poisoning AI with ".аss" subtitles [video]
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Sat Jan 25, 2025 3:48pm PST
40 Year History of the Marine Aquarium Screensaver [video]
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Fri Jan 24, 2025 10:39pm PST
Dshot motor control for Raspberry Pi 5 using RP1 coprocessor and piolib
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Fri Jan 24, 2025 3:55pm PST
What Those Spikes on Semi-Truck Wheels Do
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Fri Jan 24, 2025 2:08pm PST
Open Source echo sounder / depth sounder / SONAR for bathymetry and research
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Fri Jan 24, 2025 5:21am PST
New electrical code could doom most common EV charging
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Thurs Jan 23, 2025 11:55pm PST
A QR code that sends you to a different destination – lenticular and adversarial
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Thurs Jan 23, 2025 6:32pm PST
Algorithmic ranking is unfairly maligned
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Thurs Jan 23, 2025 4:45pm PST
Sc2kfix: A Bugfix DLL for SimCity 2000 Special Edition
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Thurs Jan 23, 2025 4:23pm PST
Kent Beck Reflects on his book: Tidy First? [video]
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Thurs Jan 23, 2025 4:19pm PST
Geforce 50xx Linux drivers not available at launch
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Wed Jan 22, 2025 6:04pm PST
The Most Mario Colors
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Wed Jan 22, 2025 6:01pm PST
Technical Credit
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Wed Jan 22, 2025 6:01pm PST
Life lessons from the first half-century of my career
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Wed Jan 22, 2025 5:59pm PST
A Heavenly Host
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Wed Jan 22, 2025 4:51pm PST
AI Will Write Complex Laws
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Wed Jan 22, 2025 4:50pm PST
M4 Pro full on: when CPU and GPU draw over 50 W, and Low Power mode changes that
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Wed Jan 22, 2025 4:08pm PST
Minimal 64x4 Home Computer
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Wed Jan 22, 2025 4:51am PST
macOS Sequoia 15.3 and iOS 18.3 Enable Apple Intelligence Automatically
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Tues Jan 21, 2025 5:27pm PST
VT320 Fonts, Extracted and Converted to TTF
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Tues Jan 21, 2025 5:09pm PST
Video Timelapses with FFmpeg
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Tues Jan 21, 2025 5:04pm PST
Too Many People Don't Value the Time of Security Researchers
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Tues Jan 21, 2025 4:58pm PST
Martha Goddard transformed forensics by inventing the rape kit
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Tues Jan 21, 2025 4:37am PST
The (potential) complexity of good runqueue latency measurement in Linux
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Tues Jan 21, 2025 2:32am PST
Modulathe v1: Modular metal lathe made of CNC and 3D-printed parts
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