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Zuse Computer Museum Forced to Close

Posted by vitplister on Sunday September 13, 2026 @12:47PM
from the i-programmer.info dept.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/82-heritage/19142-zuse-computer-museum-forced-to-close.html

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Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled

Posted by vitplister on Monday July 20, 2026 @06:48AM
from the xenaproject.wordpress.com dept.

https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/human-mathematicians-are-being-outcounterexampled/

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Library of Congress Storage Architecture Meeting 2026

Posted by vitplister on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @11:54AM
from the blog.dshr.org dept.

https://blog.dshr.org/2026/06/library-of-congress-storage.html

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Dave Farber has died

Posted by vitplister on Sunday February 08, 2026 @06:38AM
from the lists.nanog.org dept.

https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/TSNPJVFH4DKLINIKSMRIIVNHDG5XKJCM/

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The Untold Story of the Nintendo Entertainment System [video]

Posted by vitplister on Friday December 26, 2025 @02:58AM
from the youtube.com dept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJvpRGibFhg

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Backing Up Spotify

Posted by vitplister on Saturday December 20, 2025 @01:28PM
from the annas-archive.li dept.

https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

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Unix V4 tape from University of Utah (raw)

Posted by vitplister on Friday December 19, 2025 @05:30PM
from the archive.org dept.

https://archive.org/details/utah_unix_v4_raw

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Windows 95 application compatibility patched broken programs

Posted by vitplister on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @10:37AM
from the devblogs.microsoft.com dept.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251111-00/?p=111781

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Creative Technology

Posted by vitplister on Sunday September 07, 2025 @06:33AM
from the abortretry.fail dept.

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-story-of-creative-technology

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Bruteforcing Pwgen Passwords

Posted by vitplister on Saturday August 30, 2025 @05:42AM
from the blog.sesse.net dept.

https://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2025-08-30-10-56_bruteforcing_pwgen_passwords.html

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Virtual Boy at 30: The legacy of Nintendo's biggest console flop

Posted by vitplister on Sunday August 24, 2025 @12:20PM
from the polygon.com dept.

https://www.polygon.com/nintendo-virtual-boy-30th-anniversary/

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Another Crack in the Chain of Trust: Uncovering (Yet Another) Secure Boot Bypass

Posted by vitplister on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @03:55PM
from the binarly.io dept.

https://www.binarly.io/blog/another-crack-in-the-chain-of-trust

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Lossless data compression by large models

Posted by vitplister on Saturday June 07, 2025 @09:09AM
from the arxiv.org dept.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.07723

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Re:How encryption for Cinema Movies works on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @03:21PM (#43775734)

Maybe someone with more knowledge could comment on what happened here: https://wikileaks.org/sony/docs/05/docs/Digital%20Cinema/Dig...

Famicom Expansion Audio

Posted by vitplister on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @11:57PM
from the jsgroth.dev dept.

https://jsgroth.dev/blog/posts/famicom-expansion-audio/

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/bin/sh: the biggest Unix security loophole (1984) [pdf]

Posted by vitplister on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @06:46PM
from the tuhs.org dept.

https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/TechReports/Bell_Labs/ReedsShellHoles.pdf

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A Retrospective on the Source Code Control System [pdf]

Posted by vitplister on Monday January 06, 2025 @11:13PM
from the mrochkind.com dept.

https://www.mrochkind.com/mrochkind/docs/SCCSretro2.pdf

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RFC 9559: Matroska Media Container Format Specification

Posted by vitplister on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @09:52PM
from the datatracker.ietf.org dept.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9559/

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Attacking Connection Tracking Frameworks as Used by Virtual Private Networks

Posted by vitplister on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @01:13PM
from the petsymposium.org dept.

https://petsymposium.org/popets/2024/popets-2024-0070.php

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Library of Congress Recommended Formats Statement

Posted by vitplister on Thursday July 11, 2024 @03:13PM
from the loc.gov dept.

https://www.loc.gov/preservation/resources/rfs/format-pref-summary.html

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Some thoughts on real open source Artificial Intelligence

Posted by vitplister on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @02:17PM
from the ainali.com dept.

https://ainali.com/2024/some-thoughts-on-real-open-source-artificial-intelligence/

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Did Turing prove the undecidability of the halting problem?

Posted by vitplister on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @12:40AM
from the arxiv.org dept.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.00680

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Re:Postzegelcode on Sunday June 30, 2024 @04:28PM (#40840113)

This is available in Sweden as well https://kopfrakt.postnord.se/service/digitalt-frimarke

Microsoft leak of PlayReady developer / Warbird libs

Posted by vitplister on Friday June 21, 2024 @09:42AM
from the seclists.org dept.

https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jun/7

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If forking is bad, how about buffering?

Posted by vitplister on Monday May 13, 2024 @11:01AM
from the tuhs.org dept.

https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2024-May/029780.html

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Sudon't

Posted by vitplister on Thursday May 02, 2024 @07:24PM
from the dotat.at dept.

https://dotat.at/@/2024-05-02-sudo.html

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Dumping Parallel NAND with Glasgow

Posted by vitplister on Sunday April 14, 2024 @07:57PM
from the colinoflynn.com dept.

https://colinoflynn.com/2024/04/dumping-parallel-nand-with-glasgow/

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The Evolution of the Super Nintendo Motherboard

Posted by vitplister on Monday April 08, 2024 @12:25AM
from the fabiensanglard.net dept.

https://fabiensanglard.net/snes_mobos/index.html

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Interval Parsing Grammars for File Format Parsing (2023) [pdf]

Posted by vitplister on Saturday March 23, 2024 @04:13PM
from the dl.acm.org dept.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3591264

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The 360's are searching for a new home

Posted by vitplister on Saturday March 16, 2024 @01:57PM
from the ibm360.co.uk dept.

https://www.ibm360.co.uk/?p=911

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