Links week 08/2023

• Stop, DROP, and ROA: Effectiveness of Defenses through the lens of DROP - 10/2022, IMC Nice, France

• Fitting Everything Together - “[..] let’s popularize image-based OSes with modernized security properties built around immutability [..]”, 05/2022, Lennart Poettering

• Containers are chroot with a Marketing Budget - “[..] let’s build a container runtime using only the chroot system call. Doing so, we can learn a little about chroot, a little about container runtimes, and it will also be fun!”, 11/2022, A. G. Bell

• Time is an illusion, Unix time doubly so… - “ It all began back in 1971, when the First Edition Unix Programmer’s Manual defined Unix time as “the time since 00:00:00, 1 January 1971, measured in sixtieths of a second””, 10/2022, J. Schaumann

• The UX of LEGO Interface Panels - “Two studs wide and angled at 45°, the ubiquitous “2x2 decorated slope” is a LEGO minifigure’s interface to the world.”, 08/2020, G. Cave

(LEGO interface designs, Photo: G. Cave)

• Survey of the DNS servers in the fediverse - “The fediverse is supposed to be decentralized. But the fact that the network has a decentralized architecture does not mean that it is perfectly decentralized in practice. [..]”, 11/2022, S. Bortzmeyer

• How Ready Is DNS for an IPv6-Only World? - Streibelt/ Sattler/ Lichtblau/ Ganan/ Feldmann/ Gasser/ Fiebig, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, dataset until 01/2017

• Deploying IPv6-mostly access networks - “Dual-stack is the most common way of deploying IPv6 in access networks. A recent standard defines IPv6-mostly access networks, providing IPv4 connectivity only for legacy devices while allowing modern devices to run IPv6-only.”, 11/2022, O. Caletka, APNIC

• IPv6-only at Microsoft - 01/2017, M. Keane, APNIC

• 464XLAT Trial in einem IPv6-only Mobilfunknetz - 05/2014, J. Spanier, Vodafone

• TAYGA - Simple, no-fuss NAT64 for Linux, N. Lutchansky

• Small / Home Office network IPv6 wish list - 02/2022, C. Miller, APNIC

• Gorillas (video game) - “Gorillas, also known under the source code’s file name GORILLA.BAS, is a video game first distributed with MS-DOS 5 and published in 1991 by Microsoft.”, Wikipedia

• Developing A Game Engine with Perl - 11/2021, S. Holland

• A Brief History of Mulder and Scully’s Once-Controversial Romance - “Just make out already.”, 01/2016, J. Rosenfield, Vulture

(Don’t read the article; I just want this photo to be here. FOX/Getty Images)

• How Discord Supercharges Network Disks for Extreme Low Latency, 08/2022, G. Oakley

• Password protection for static pages - M. Brusa

• Die Local Internet Registry (LIR) “de.government” - “Die Zentrale Vergabe und Verwaltung sämtlicher IPv6-Adressen in der gesamten öffentlichen Verwaltung, öffentlicher IPv4-Adressen und öffentlicher ASNs des Bundes sowie optional der Länder und Kommunen gehört seit dem 30.09.2018 zu den Aufgaben der BDBOS.”, Bundesanstalt für den Digitalfunk BOS - Operative LIR

• Twin - “a Textmode WINdow environment, by Massimiliano Ghilardi”

(Twin)

• dvtm - dynamic virtual terminal manager

(dvtm - official screencast)

• dwm-win32 - X11 dwm(1) for Windows

(dwm-win32 - official screenshot)

• Emacs X Window Manager - “is a full-featured tiling X window manager for Emacs built on top of XELB.”

• Arkime - “(formerly Moloch) is a large scale, open source, indexed packet capture and search system.”

• WebOne - “is a HTTP 1.x proxy server that makes old web browsers and media players usable again in the Web 2.0 world.”

• Internet Edge IP SLA Deep Dive - 08/2022, D. Dib

• The Work Of Julien Rivoire - The Gaming Room, 2020

(Julien Rivoire - The Gaming Room, 2020)