Dear Chelsea Manning, birthday messages from Edward Snowden, Terry Gilliam and more.

First Time, Poul-Henning Kamp is writing a ntpd replacement.

mdocml version 1.13.2 was released, now providing man(1) and many other new features.

PicoHTTPParser is a tiny, primitive, fast HTTP request/response parser. Unlike most parsers, it is stateless and does not allocate memory by itself.

Without continued maintenance, few of our structures will be able to hold up after 50 years without maintenance, recommended reading.

A Crossword Puzzle worth $2000, “Does there exist a nondiscrete T1 binary comonoid?”

Würfel-Adventskalender

DOSBOX in a browser!

2-bit full adder using just thirty six 555 timers

Keurig 2.0 Genuine K-Cup Spoofing Vulnerability

Bob Dylan Plays Concert for One Insanely Lucky Superfan

“Last Christmas” pitched to 36min (YouTube)

Lucy in the Sky – As SLow aS Possible (YouTube, 2:04:33). Timelapsed to 4:17..

UN expert calls for prosecution of CIA officers and other US Government officials

Panel Faults C.I.A. Over Brutality and Deceit in Terrorism Interrogations

The POODLE bites again, Adam Langley: “everything less than TLS 1.2 with an AEAD cipher suite is cryptographically broken.”

Geo Carncross: How to program computers (YouTube). Uses K/kOS.

Password Hashing Competition, “Finalists have been announced on December 8, 2014 and are (in alphabetical order): Argon, battcrypt, Catena, Lyra2, Makwa, Parallel, POMELO, Pufferfish, yescrypt.”

Linux Kernel Tinification aims to make the kernel much smaller, to enable ridiculously small embedded applications and other fun uses.

Plan 9 from Bell Labs, whole history in Git.

expr + test = xp, sounds like a good tool.

Bibliographien erstellen mit biblatex, sehr gute und ausführliche Einführung.

We Didn’t Start the Fire, ordered by Wikipedia article popularity.

Dinosaur’s Pen, old computers & ancient tech. Lovely stuff.

Extrapolated Art

Fish Parts

Mishandling twist attacks, djb on Microsoft-proposed curves.

QEMU Advent Calendar 2014, an amazing QEMU disk image every day!

24 days of Rust

24 Days of GHC Extensions

American fuzzy lop is a security-oriented fuzzer that employs a novel type of compile-time instrumentation and genetic algorithms to automatically discover clean, interesting test cases that trigger new internal states in the targeted binary. I nominate it most influential tool of the year.

Z3, a Verilog implementation of the Infocom Z-Machine V3. With BIOS and benchmarks. Verified in hardware.

Bitrig 1.0 has been released, with a cool list of features.

wmutils’ core is a set of tools for X windows manipulation. No WM required!

tab, a modern text processing language similar to awk in spirit.

LambdaLite, a functional, relational database in about 250 lines of Common Lisp.

Dürer’s polyhedron: 5 theories that explain Melencolia’s crazy cube

World’s Simplest Electric Train (YouTube).

Live DDOS map