Articles by st_goliath
91

The Zilog Z80 has turned 50 (goliath32.com)

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Thomas Salme (wikipedia.org)

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TrustZone Intermezzo: Broken OP-Tee Memory Isolation on i.MX 8M (sigma-star.at)

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Shouting in the Datacenter (2008) [video] (youtube.com)

1

The Long Road To Windows 95 [video] (youtube.com)

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Registries Considered Harmful (filippo.io)

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Old Computers Sucked (oldcomputerssucked.com)

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Building a Homebrew Computer Like it's 1995 [video] (youtube.com)

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Is 1995 the Last Time I Install Debian? [video] (youtube.com)

3

BasicBox: A 486 PC emulator written in Visual Basic 6 (github.com/mikechambers84)

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Pentium 4 – 5GHz overclocked (2003) [video] (youtube.com)

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Data Confidentiality via Storage Encryption on Embedded Linux Devices (sigma-star.at)

2

Giant stop killing games updates 2026 [video] (youtube.com)

3

The History of a Security Hole (os2museum.com)

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SL(1): Cure your bad habit of mistyping (github.com/mtoyoda)

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False Assurance in Formally Verified Cryptographic Libraries (iacr.org)

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Do not put code diffs into Git commit messages (mas.to)

2

Microsoft Wine Guide (winworldpc.com)

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1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash (wikipedia.org)

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AI-generated police report states Utah officer was turned into a frog (upi.com)

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PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator (picoide.com)

41

Encoding x86 Instructions (tu-chemnitz.de)

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How programs get run: ELF binaries (2015) (lwn.net)

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IPv9 (China) (wikipedia.org)

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Realtime Linux Beyond Preempt_rt: Xenomai's Dual-Kernel Approach [video] (youtube.com)

3

Steve Jobs and NeXT Part 2: The Long Road to Mac OS X [video] (youtube.com)

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A fork for the time-zone database? (2021) (lwn.net)

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Attempting to Build a Radio to Receive Pictures from Space Like It's 1994 [video] (youtube.com)

3

The end of Stop Killing Games [video] (youtube.com)

3

The First DOS Machine (2007) (dosmandrivel.blogspot.com)

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Multiple security issues in GNU Screen (openwall.com)

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Jimmy Carter Rabbit Incident (wikipedia.org)

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Llamatron (wikipedia.org)

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Multiple Vulnerabilities in U-Boot (openwall.com)

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Filesystem Vulnerabilities in Bootloaders: A Hidden Risk for Verified Boot (sigma-star.at)

2

No Such Podcast – The official NSA podcast (nsa.gov)

2

The Daniel Email Collection (haxx.se)

2

The Solitaire Encryption Algorithm (1999) (schneier.com)

2

Practice of Neurosurgery on Saturn (sciencedirect.com)

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Stacked Git (stacked-git.github.io)

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End the line: The last Sun Sparc Workstation [video] (youtube.com)

21

A Time Consuming Pitfall for 32-Bit Applications on AArch64 (sigma-star.at)

3

Does It Make Sense to Put Data Centers in Space? [video] (youtube.com)

16

The difference between undefined behavior and ill-formed C++ programs (microsoft.com)

1

Chromium Deficiency (wikipedia.org)

3

Ariane 6 launch: how to watch and what to look out for (esa.int)

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Fake Your Way Through Minis and Mainframes (The Operating Systems Handbook) (snee.com)

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Phobophobia (wikipedia.org)

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The origin story of the Windows 3D Pipes screen saver (microsoft.com)

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Pentium Pro, was it a lemon? [video] (youtube.com)

3

MyHouse.WAD – Inside Doom's Most Terrifying Mod [video] (youtube.com)

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Results of the Grand C++ Error Explosion Competition (2014) (tgceec.tumblr.com)

2

Windows: The battle for an open standard [video] (youtube.com)

37

Let's Embed a Go Program into the Linux Kernel (2023) (sigma-star.at)

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Backport of .NET 2.0 – 3.5 to Windows 9x (github.com/itsmattkc)

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Let's Make a DOS BBS in an offensively modern way [video] (youtube.com)

2

The Unix leap second mess (madore.org)

2

Thoughts on Linux CNA's Approach and the Resulting CVE Flood (sigma-star.at)

1

The history of OS/2 [video] (youtube.com)

18

Speak Friend and Enter – Do people use movie passwords? (2018) (kobikobi.wordpress.com)

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Short history of all Windows UI frameworks and libraries (irrlicht3d.org)

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Out-of-bounds read and write in the glibc's qsort() (marc.info)

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The History of X11 [video] (youtube.com)

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Feast of the Ass (wikipedia.org)

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Speak Friend and Enter – Do people use movie passwords? (2018) (kobikobi.wordpress.com)

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What is a hard error, and what makes it harder than an easy error? (microsoft.com)

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Heads up – effectively offline for now (kernel.org)

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Kernel Connection Multiplexor (kernel.org)

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uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results (github.com/iorate)

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RROS: A dual-kernel Rust RTOS and Linux based OS for satellites (github.com/bupt-os)

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RROS: A dual-kernel Rust RTOS and Linux based OS for satellites (github.com/bupt-os)

6

List of Car Crash Songs (wikipedia.org)

2

On harmful overuse of std:move (microsoft.com)

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Analyzing Packet Drops Without Tooling: Or Ftrace the Pure Way (sigma-star.at)

3

Pyongyang Racer (wikipedia.org)

2

We Need a Neural Network (2006) (thedailywtf.com)

1

Apple's first attempt at making a CPU [video] (youtube.com)

2

Lego Island Decompilation (github.com/isledecomp)

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ReiserFS Officially Declared Obsolete (phoronix.com)

3

Floppy Disc Assembly Line [video] (youtube.com)

1

The Complete, Surprising Eight Year History of Lego's Poop Piece (kotaku.com)

2

Let’s Embed a Go Program into the Linux Kernel (blog.sigma-star.at)

1

The Weight of Data (keefmck.blogspot.com)

1

Fu-Go Balloon Bomb (wikipedia.org)

2

Medjed (wikipedia.org)

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Fedora 38 LLVM vs. Team Fortress 2 (airlied.blogspot.com)

3

PC Engines apu platform EOL (pcengines.ch)

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The organ in the Cathedral of Orvieto – and tuning of reeds [video] (youtube.com)

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Show HN: A toy bootloader written in C++ (github.com/agentd)

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Show HN: A toy bootloader written in C++ (including MBR and FAT32 VBR sectors) (github.com/agentd)

1

Sparc, its not just a Sun thing [video] (youtube.com)

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Solitaire (Cipher) (wikipedia.org)

3

SCSI, USB of the 80s [video] (youtube.com)

1

The potted history of ARM [video] (youtube.com)

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CVE-2022-46176: Cargo does not check SSH host keys (seclists.org)

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Pre-defined C/C++ Compiler Macros (github.com/cpredef)

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Squashfs-tools-ng 1.2.0 is released (sourceforge.net)

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RFC 1855: Netiquette Guidelines (1995) (rfc-editor.org)

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Securely booting x86 using Heads (blog.sigma-star.at)

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Alpine Linux Persistence and Storage Summit 2022 (blog.sigma-star.at)