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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Sat Aug 2, 2025 4:06pm PST
The X11 SECURITY extension from the 1990ies
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Sat Aug 2, 2025 4:02pm PST
Why Exercise Is a Miracle Drug
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Fri Aug 1, 2025 8:36pm PST
Ukraine rescues soldier via drone delivery of complete e-bike
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Fri Aug 1, 2025 4:13pm PST
My doorlock and my digital sovereignty
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Fri Aug 1, 2025 4:51am PST
Roundest Regular Solid
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Thurs Jul 31, 2025 10:19pm PST
Age verification doesn't need to be a privacy footgun
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Thurs Jul 31, 2025 5:21pm PST
Secure boot certificate rollover is real but probably won't hurt you
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Thurs Jul 31, 2025 2:43am PST
Oracle VirtualBox licensing tweak lies in wait for the unwary
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Wed Jul 30, 2025 11:00pm PST
Spectral laser emission from rhodamine 6g infused Indian Peafowl feathers
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Wed Jul 30, 2025 6:21pm PST
Microsoft Has a Surface Laptop 'Smurface Edition' for Smurfs Fans
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Mon Jul 28, 2025 10:30pm PST
Living with an Apple Lisa [video]
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Mon Jul 28, 2025 10:25pm PST
(Only) half of senior VCS make at least one successful deal
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Mon Jul 28, 2025 9:38pm PST
Updated age ratings in App Store Connect
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Mon Jul 28, 2025 3:39pm PST
Even megastars like Venus Williams get the health insurance blues
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Mon Jul 28, 2025 3:28pm PST
Wayland Will Never Be Ready for Every Xorg User [video]
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Sat Jul 26, 2025 5:42pm PST
Controversial 'arsenic life' paper retracted after 15 years – authors fight back
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Fri Jul 25, 2025 11:06pm PST
FoundationDB: From idea to Apple acquisition [video]
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Fri Jul 25, 2025 10:50pm PST
AI and Trust (Schneier)
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Fri Jul 25, 2025 10:47pm PST
SRAM Has No Chill: Exploiting Power Domain Separation to Steal On-Chip Secrets
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Fri Jul 25, 2025 10:30pm PST
Ouroboros Water Cooled PC
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Fri Jul 25, 2025 2:48pm PST
SuperDuper 4.0b1 update, macOS Tahoe and 6M Spotlight index files
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Thurs Jul 24, 2025 8:57pm PST
Daily steps and health outcomes in adults: a systematic review
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Thurs Jul 24, 2025 3:47pm PST
Throughput Upgrade (With Train Illustrations)
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Thurs Jul 24, 2025 4:40am PST
Getting decent error reports in Bash when you're using 'set -e'
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Wed Jul 23, 2025 4:59pm PST
Base58 versus Base85 Encoding
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Wed Jul 23, 2025 2:14am PST
Huawei's Kunpeng 920 and TaiShan v110 CPU Architecture
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Tues Jul 22, 2025 3:44pm PST
USBCing All the Things
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Tues Jul 22, 2025 3:42pm PST
Most Americans Opposed the Moon Landing
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Tues Jul 22, 2025 3:38pm PST
The Selling of AI
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Tues Jul 22, 2025 3:34pm PST
Meta, X and LinkedIn appeal unprecedented VAT claim by Italy
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Tues Jul 22, 2025 1:45pm PST
The First Microsoft Product
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Tues Jul 22, 2025 4:05am PST
Projects can't be divorced from the people involved in them
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Mon Jul 21, 2025 3:20pm PST
Covers as a way of learning music and code
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Sun Jul 20, 2025 3:51pm PST
Checklists are hard, but still a good thing
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Sat Jul 19, 2025 12:20am PST
Mr Browser – Macintosh Repository file downloader that runs directly on 68k Macs
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Fri Jul 18, 2025 7:26pm PST
Evolution Mail Users Easily Trackable Part 2
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Thurs Jul 17, 2025 11:10pm PST
Mammals Evolved into Ant Eaters 12 Times Since Dinosaur Age, Study Finds
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On the Origin of Specious
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Thurs Jul 17, 2025 4:01pm PST
New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes
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Wed Jul 16, 2025 9:16pm PST
Vulnerability in End-of-Train and Head-of-Train Remote Linking Protocol
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Wed Jul 16, 2025 2:51pm PST
People want someone to be responsible for software that fails
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Wed Jul 16, 2025 2:50pm PST
Emulator Bugs: Zenki – Tenchi Meidou
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Tues Jul 15, 2025 3:05pm PST
CoCo1 composite video
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Tues Jul 15, 2025 1:36pm PST
OpenZFS Bug Ported to C
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Tues Jul 15, 2025 1:30pm PST
Chip4Mac68000 – A Chip8 emulator for the original Macintosh
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Mon Jul 14, 2025 12:11am PST
Outside: A multi-purpose weather client for your terminal
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Sun Jul 13, 2025 3:41pm PST
A quick look at unprivileged sandboxing
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Sun Jul 13, 2025 12:03am PST
Constrained languages are easier to optimize
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Sat Jul 12, 2025 5:08pm PST
Documenting what you're willing to support (and not)
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Sat Jul 12, 2025 3:11pm PST
"high level" languages are easier to optimize
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Sat Jul 12, 2025 4:18am PST
Predicting Competitive Pokémon VGC Leads Using Latent Semantic Analysis
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Fri Jul 11, 2025 10:24pm PST
Measuring power network frequency using junk you have in your closet
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Fri Jul 11, 2025 4:04pm PST
Japan Stationery of the Year
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Fri Jul 11, 2025 12:21am PST
Axon’s Draft One is designed to defy transparency
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Thurs Jul 10, 2025 5:31am PST
(Maybe) understanding how to use systemd-socket-proxyd
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Thurs Jul 10, 2025 1:02am PST
Thoughts on Motivation and My 40-Year Career
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Wed Jul 9, 2025 9:24pm PST
Memory-Level Parallelism: Apple M2 vs. Apple M4
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Wed Jul 9, 2025 8:51pm PST
AMD Transient Scheduler Attacks
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Wed Jul 9, 2025 8:45pm PST
QRS: Epsilon Wrangling
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Wed Jul 9, 2025 3:48pm PST
I still care about the code
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Wed Jul 9, 2025 3:40pm PST
Monorail: Pioneering $999 PCs from 1996
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Wed Jul 9, 2025 2:40pm PST
Tree Borrows
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Wed Jul 9, 2025 1:26pm PST
Jurisdiction Is Nearly Irrelevant to the Security of Encrypted Messaging Apps
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Wed Jul 9, 2025 1:05pm PST
Turbo Knitting Machine 5 Minute...ish Beanie
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Wed Jul 9, 2025 3:04am PST
Infinite Mac Construction Set
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Tues Jul 8, 2025 9:51pm PST
Stop Training Your Competitor's AI
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Tues Jul 8, 2025 4:05pm PST
Rotating Eyeballs
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Mon Jul 7, 2025 9:29pm PST
The Wet History of Media in the Bathroom
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Mon Jul 7, 2025 6:13pm PST
Yamlfmt: An extensible command line tool or library to format YAML files
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Mon Jul 7, 2025 6:09pm PST
Induction lamps: fluorescent lighting's final form [video]
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Mon Jul 7, 2025 5:46pm PST
The Future of Forums Is Lies, I Guess
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Mon Jul 7, 2025 5:11pm PST
Checklists Are the Thief of Joy
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Mon Jul 7, 2025 4:38am PST
3I/ATLAS
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Secret Cellular Phone Numbers
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Sun Jul 6, 2025 10:27pm PST
Intel's Lion Cove P-Core and Gaming Workloads
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Sun Jul 6, 2025 10:26pm PST
A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs
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Sun Jul 6, 2025 8:47pm PST
Prototyping Circuit Boards in the New Tariff Environment and Saving $$
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Sun Jul 6, 2025 3:05pm PST
Apple in China, Ripoff in Amazon
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