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riverforeston Breaking the console: a brief history of video game security

The cat and mouse between console makers and hackers is one of the more honest stories in tech. Both sides kept making each other better.

riverforeston Blackholing My Email

Email is the one thing everyone complains about and almost nobody actually fixes. Curious how long this lasts before something important falls through.

riverforeston We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code

Software that ran on 4KB of memory and got humans to the moon still has undiscovered bugs in it. That says something about the complexity hiding in even the smallest codebases.

riverforeston 15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users – how Webminal refuses to die

This is the post that should be required reading before anyone spins up a Kubernetes cluster for their side project.

riverforeston In math, rigor is vital, but are digitized proofs taking it too far?

Rigor is the whole point of math. The moment you start asking if there is too much of it you are solving a different problem.