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Dijkstracula posted:https://cr.yp.to/djb.html seconding this. and in this vein: cryptopals.com is great for teaching the fundamentals of cryptography by walking you through breaking various algorithms and implementations. it's super fun and also vital to be an actually-good security engineer. despite that, most security engineers' eyes will glaze over as soon as you talk about this stuff, and they will think you're brilliant.
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Great contributions people, I've added it all to the dir, thanks!
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https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/index.htm everything you would ever want to know about shoe lacing and shoe tying.
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Mahatma Goonsay posted:https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/index.htm everything you would ever want to know about shoe lacing and shoe tying. lol this is like a fever dream. incredible.
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Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection - the author of PuTTY has written a puzzle game library and they are surprisingly fun. "This page contains a collection of small computer programs which implement one-player puzzle games. All of them run natively on Unix (GTK) and on Windows. They can also be played on the web, as Java or Javascript applets. I wrote this collection because I thought there should be more small desktop toys available: little games you can pop up in a window and play for two or three minutes while you take a break from whatever else you were doing. net was always my personal favourite
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Mahatma Goonsay posted:https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/index.htm everything you would ever want to know about shoe lacing and shoe tying. I ran across this website when I was looking for ways of keeping my hockey skates tight. Actually really useful
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YES and also nethack.alt.org, which runs a multi-user server and high score list (and accompanying bones file), adds in some nice quality of life patches, allows spectating, etc. it's fun!
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HELLOMYNAMEIS___ posted:the sidetalking.com site is still up
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RF line of site calculator: https://www.scadacore.com/tools/rf-path/rf-line-of-sight/ you can tell it where antennas are gonna be, of what height, and it figures out if there's line of sight between the two. useful for telling if you're gonna be able to hit a repeater from a certain place, what kind of mast you'd need, etc
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Achmed Jones posted:YES and also nethack.alt.org, which runs a multi-user server and high score list (and accompanying bones file), adds in some nice quality of life patches, allows spectating, etc. it's fun! I play on NAO! My strategy is to pollute the mines with dangerous bones files One time somebody joined my game as a spectator and then chewed me out over mail scrolls for being a startscummer piece of poo poo. This did not change my behavior. NAO rules and it's a great way to kill time while you're waiting for something to compile. Poopernickel fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Oct 11, 2023 |
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infernal machines posted:in other news: whole earth archive
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the holotypic occlupanid research group https://www.horg.com/
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this is awesome but it's also weirdly hosed up that some things are just transmitting from somewhere to somebody and nobody knows what they are!!! quote:Hi, this noise has recently appeared on top band, 160m and I wondered if anyone has any idea of it's origin. Speculation is that it is over the horizon radar coming from France. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated since it is destroying a UK net that has been running on 1933 for many years.
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Dijkstracula posted:this is awesome but it's also weirdly hosed up that some things are just transmitting from somewhere to somebody and nobody knows what they are!!! nobody meaning people outside of the gubbermint at least
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Dijkstracula posted:this is awesome but it's also weirdly hosed up that some things are just transmitting from somewhere to somebody and nobody knows what they are!!! russia's air defense systems just blasting enormous amounts of RF across the globe and "accidentally" bouncing it off the ionosphere is one of my favourite RF ghosts yeah, no worries man, just blasting BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRNT. *beat* BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRNT. *beat* BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRNT. constantly so hard dudes with 100 year old radios in iowa can hear it
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the over the horizon radars are annoying but man back in the 80s, the 'russian woodpecker' was so prevalent and loud that they literally started redesigning ham radios around it. the "noise blanker" on any radio from 75-on is a circuit designed to ignore/null out periodic pulsed interference, exactly like the kind the OTH radars poo poo out
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Jonny 290 posted:the over the horizon radars are annoying but man back in the 80s, the 'russian woodpecker' was so prevalent and loud that they literally started redesigning ham radios around it. the "noise blanker" on any radio from 75-on is a circuit designed to ignore/null out periodic pulsed interference, exactly like the kind the OTH radars poo poo out can u use a ham radio to listen to satellites? isnt that how that guy recorded the first sputnik?
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Jonny post the moonbounce SSTV edit: wait, no, i guess we should all try to stay on topic and not treat this thread like we normally do, like that handsome devil rotor asked us to. I feel ashamed that I forgot that we were supposed to treat this thread differently. Somebody fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Oct 20, 2023 |
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fart simpson posted:can u use a ham radio to listen to satellites? isnt that how that guy recorded the first sputnik? that's exactly right, hams tracked sputnik I and specifically measured its doppler shift from enough locations that they all got together and collated data and were able to figure out its orbit before the US government did Sagebrush posted:Jonny post the moonbounce SSTV a live web 1.0 page of slow scan tv pages, to circle it back tight https://www.worldsstv.com/
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Dijkstracula posted:this is awesome but it's also weirdly hosed up that some things are just transmitting from somewhere to somebody and nobody knows what they are!!! and then there's numbers stations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station
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http://www.sanandreasfault.org/ i just discovered this site after the evening's earthquake and i think it's awesome, reminds me of the old web days. i'm surfing the information superhighway
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DELETE CASCADE posted:http://www.sanandreasfault.org/ i just discovered this site after the evening's earthquake and i think it's awesome, reminds me of the old web days. i'm surfing the information superhighway oh hell yea edit: lmao wow was not ready for silly 'THE BIG ONE' with edvard munch painting to take me to photos of dozens of dead bodies 
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https://exrx.net/ Every exercise under the sun
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Dijkstracula posted:if ever I was to redo mine, I would remind myself that a web site can just be a bunch of files
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i use jekyll for my site, but as a ruby thing it breaks and requires janitoring every thirty seconds. so i am highly disincentivized from making new posts etc. it's a dead simple site, so migrating it to some other static site generator (including a dumb shell script) wouldn't be hard, but it's also greater than zero effort. which is too much.
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keyboard switch reviews, including force curves: https://www.theremingoat.com/
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Omniglot is still around and looks just like it did in 2004: https://omniglot.com/
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So I just randomly found this site full of 90s copypasta thats barely changed since 1998 https://www.netscrap.com/netscrap.cfm Curiously it doesn’t look like it’s had any activity in decades except a very recent post in “messages” about 10x engineers.
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Golfshrine Online - for all your computer golf game needs
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Eli Bendersky's blog has been going for 20 years now https://eli.thegreenplace.net/archives/all Haven't read it in quite a while since I don't program these days but he's got a series on concurrent servers in C I enjoyed back in the day https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2017/concurrent-servers-part-1-introduction/
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What's That Bug is a web site for helping to identify bugs. You can browse of course but you can also take a picture of your bug, alive or smashed on your windscreen etc., and they will probably identify it for you. You send it to them with an email and the photos as attachments.
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Leperflesh posted:What's That Bug is a web site for helping to identify bugs. You can browse of course but you can also take a picture of your bug, alive or smashed on your windscreen etc., and they will probably identify it for you. You send it to them with an email and the photos as attachments. lmao at the 'nasty emails from readers' section. i remember when so many more sites had sections like that
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small thing and not web 1.0 but useful when you need need to find the right curve to animate something: https://easings.net/ you can click on each one to see the implementation and how it looks in action for scaling, movement, and transparency also this owns:
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