Generating Mazes
I’ve been reading about mazes and how to generate them. The type of mazes I’ll be talking about are 2D grids of connected cells. They’re perfect mazes (i.e. there is exactly one unique path between any two cells aka a uniform spanning tree). I’ll refer to the connections between cells as edges. An edge can […]
Show HN: Ruroco – like port knocking, but better
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Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era Announced for 2025
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era brings the turn-based strategy franchise back just in time for its 30th anniversary. Releasing on PC in Steam Early Access in the first half of 2025, Olden Era is set before the events of the first game, and will take players back to the world of Enroth and […]
A Symbol for the Fediverse ⁂
fediverse symbol ⁂ Click to copy We propose the symbol ⁂ to represent the fediverse. Paste it anywhere ⁂ is a typographical character, not an icon that needs to be inserted as an image. Unique-looking, but standardised. This means it’s very easy to copy-paste around! Its design style also automatically adapts to the font used […]
The journey of an internet packet: Exploring networks with traceroute
We often take for granted that when we try to connect to a server, the connection will work. But that is not always the case. Sometimes there is something broken with the network that prevents us from reaching the destination. But how can we know where the problem is? I often found myself using ping […]
Government report proves that we need to liberate the Postcode Address File
There is nothing more exciting than getting hold of a bunch of documents with “CONFIDENTIAL” stamped across them. It turns out that back in 2016, the British government attempted to reconstruct the Ship of Theseus. Or if you prefer, it attempted to reconstruct Trigger’s Broom. The problem it faced was that a few years prior, […]
Confessions of a Theoretical Physicist
Explore I remember the day when, at the age of 7, I realized that I wanted to figure out how reality worked. My mother and father had just taken us shopping at a market in Calcutta. On the way back home, we passed through a dimly lit arcade where a sidewalk bookseller was displaying his […]
EPUBCheck – The official conformance checker for ePub publications
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Modern Wardriving
Let’s start by defining the word Wardriving: it is the search for WIFI wireless networks from a vehicle equipped with a computer. This would be the classic definition. I define modern wardriving as the search for WIFI networks, Bluetooth devices and GSM towers independently whether we are in any type of vehicle (plane, boat, bicycle, […]
Hacker Purity Test (1989)
Hacker Purity Test From NutWorks, the former Bitnet humour group Submitted-by: [email protected] (Claudio Nieder, Uster, Switzerland) Preface: 06.16.89 This test was conceived and written by Felix Lee, John Hayes and Angela Thomas at the end of the spring semester, 1989. It has gone through many revisions prior to this initial release, and will undoubtedly go […]