(original link was down, so I web-archived); there are some really good articles in here; at least going through the provided synopses is sure to be worthwhile

zuven:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/mario/

this one watchpoint on a memory location that never gets modified except once causes the code to run so slowly it’s fucking impossible to reproduce the bug I’m trying to fix

aaaaaaaa all my backtraces end up deep inside dlsym

Compare ‘Mu’ in the Jargon File with a more thorough introduction to the koan of Zhaozhou’s Dog.

I’m calling bull.

hackedy:

whoa neat

yo, go vote for this or follow it or whatever, it’d be super cool

♫releasing software♫ ♪ ♫

cannedlinks:

h/t @onepaperperday

[the compiler-technology analogue of Moore’s law]

turns out valgrind is an actual norse mythological thing

ffcode:

29c3: Not my department (Jacob ‘ioerror’ Appelbaum) [Keynote] (by kkkwwwaaakkk)

The beginning is a bit of setup but this talk is very important.

mainframed767:

Using SHODAN i’ve been able to find lots of mainframes out there on the ‘net’.

…

and now I’m finally ready to share it all with you

all you need to do is head on over to the imgur gallery

p cool but here’s a tip: you should convert images to .tiff before uploading to imgur so that they get posted as .pngs instead of jpegs

The “MZ” in the header of DOS/PE executables refers to Mark Zbikowski, one of the authors of MS-DOS.