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Godzilla’s Family Vlog Review – Episode ??

Just because there hasn’t BEEN an episode of Godzilla Huntley’s IRL (the “Family Vlog”) in a long while doesn’t mean that I can’t do a review of one, right?

Right? See Godzilla’s channel (to complain about the lack of a new vlog yet).

Music: Starkey, by Koona, used under a Creative Commons license.

With special thanks to Doreen Huntley for the idea that turned into this video.

Also available on YouTube.

Why GNU grep is fast

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I am the original author of GNU grep.  I am also a FreeBSD user,
although I live on -stable (and older) and rarely pay attention
to -current.

However, while searching the -current mailing list for an unrelated
reason, I stumbled across some flamage regarding BSD grep vs GNU grep
performance.  You may have noticed that discussion too...

History of the browser user-agent string

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In the beginning there was NCSA Mosaic, and Mosaic called itself NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1), and Mosaic displayed pictures along with text, and there was much rejoicing…

Have you ever wondered why every major web browser identifies itself as “Mozilla”? Wonder no longer…

NISTs new password rules what you need to know

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It’s no secret. We’re really bad at passwords. Nevertheless, they aren’t going away any time soon.

With so many websites and online applications requiring us to create accounts and think up passwords in a hurry, it’s no wonder so many of us struggle to follow the advice of so-called password security experts.

Stereotypical hacker in a hoodie, from the article.

At the same time, the computing power available for password cracking just gets bigger and bigger.

OK, so I started with the bad news, but this cloud does have a silver lining…