Tag: technology
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Avoid rewriting a legacy system from scratch, by strangling it
Nicholas Carlo describes the situation where people have risky, hard-to-refactor code and reimplement the entire system instead. Now those people have two problems.
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Pay Up, Or We'll Make Google Ban Your Ads
Brian Krebs writes about a new trend of Web extortion, based on threatening to get a victim's website's ads demonetised by pretending to be the victim and attempting to exploit them.
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Difference Between VR and AR
Dan's sister challenges him to define the difference between AR and VR, and Dan realises that he can't.
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Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open
Robert Heaton reverse-engineers what data his Wacom tablet is stealing from him, and Dan expresses a growing concern about surveillance capitalism.
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Spoiled by the Web
Tyler Sticka relates the time that Apple made him rebuild and resubmit his app because it was 3 years old. And no other reason.
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Fox (Household NAS)
Dan builds Fox, a NAS and application server for his household, and shoots a timelapse video of the construction.
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Evolving Computer Words: "Hacker"
Of all evolving computer words, "hacker" is perhaps the most-loaded and controversial. Dan explores how it's changed and whether it can ever return to its original meaning.
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Evolving Computer Words: "GIF"
People think of GIFs as animations for the Web, but that's only a fraction of their story.
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Evolving Computer Words: "Broadband"
Dan continues to examine words whose popular meaning have diverged from their technical definition; today, he looks at "broadband".
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Evolving Computer Words: "Virus"
Of all the computer words that have diverged from their original meaning, "virus" has perhaps diverged the furthest. Dan explains how, and why it matters.
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My hardware engineering is a little rusty, @ComputerHistory, but wouldn't signals propogate along this copper cable at "only" somewhere between 0.64c and 0.95c, not 1c as you claim?
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Dan instructs a 5 year-old in diagnosing and replacing a blown PSU in her mother's computer.
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In the remote chance that @Facebook's #LibraCoin takes off, I suggest that the appropriate slang term for the currency shall be zucks. As in: "I'll bet you a hundred zucks that this new #cryptocurrency will be barely more-successful than Dogecoin, and far less-cute."
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remysharp comments on "Bringing back the Web of 1990"
A MetaFilter comment I somehow missed in which Remy Sharp acknowledges my debugging of the CERN hackathon to reimplement WorldWideWeb. Squee!
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Enigma, the Bombe, and Typex
How to guides
How to encrypt/decrypt with Enigma
We'll start with a step-by-step guide to decrypting a known message. You can see the result of these steps in CyberChef here. Let's say that our message is as follows:
XTSYN WAEUG EZALY NRQIM AMLZX MFUOD AWXLY LZCUZ QOQBQ JLCPK NDDRW F
And that we've been told …