Eagle Scouts stand up to the Boy Scouts of America, “Now due to the recent decision by the National Council to uphold its policy on banning gays from participating or volunteering in Scouts, I can no longer support the Boy Scouts of America. I am returning my Eagle Scout rank and Order of the Arrow Ordeal sash.”
Automatic Quantification of Cache Side-Channels (PDF) in AES and RSA, by Boris Köpf, Laurent Mauborgne, and Martín Ochoa. Exciting results.
The HP-35, “A market research study, however, warned that the device would be too expensive and there was simply no market. That didn’t matter to Hewlett. He decided he wanted one and said ‘We’re going to go ahead anyway.’”
Flexible and Economical UTF-8 Decoder, nice.
λ-Calculus: Then & Now, slides by Dana S. Scott.
Wanna Raspberry?, “initial NetBSD support was just committed […], and the Raspberry Pi can boot into multiuser now. […] USB and Ethernet are planned to be supported next.”
Blandroid is an Android ROM based off of AOSP that aims to be as stable as possible.
Es ist nicht okay, Facebook zu nutzen, Boris Kraut: “Jeder der FB nutzt ist Teil des Problems. Ihr seid das Problem.”
DIY Happy Hacking Keyboard alike, from Sun Type 6 USB keyboard and a jigsaw.