Stories by JdeBP

'I happened to be sitting next to Bill Joy at UCB when he wrote the first "yes"'

A critical look at OpenBSD's installer

Unscii – a bitmapped Unicode font for blocky graphics

Lighthouses of the United Kingdom

Looking Out for Number One

Voyager Telecommunications (JPL Descanso, 2002) [pdf]

Hier(7): drop list of /usr/include subdirectories

Argos Catalogue Kettle Pages, 1976/1985 (2017)

All IP addresses are equal? “Dot-zero” addresses are less equal (2013)

Debian 12 (Jesse Smith, DistroWatch)

TV or Not TV (Electronics Today International, April 1986)

Iran’s ‘suicide drones’ are being developed at British universities

Moderators do not (and never did) rely blindly on automatic GPT detector tools

Terminals are ridiculously insecure (1989)

Din 1450, recommended for barrier-free reading

Yash 2.54

Sauce – Standard Architecture for Universal Comment Extensions

Microsoft's Rich Signature (Undocumented)

Twitter to Allow Only Blue Subscribers to Use Worst Form of Authentication

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