• Hey, Nmap 6 is out.  It’s one of those always-useful tools, similar to wireshark.
• Biculturalism, a fair assessment.  (via)  The generalizations are a little extreme (1 Unix-based author who Got Religion, vs. a diffused Windows developer stereotype) but still has value.
• A Git Horror Story.  (via)  Not a true story, but useful for describing how git commits can be GPG-signed.
• A recent Google Doodle, a playable Moog synthesizer, done for Bob Moog’s birthday.  The Moog Music site has instructions.  I happened to notice they’re using FreeBSD as the server – cool!  Maybe it’s just the hosting org?  Anyway, I link to it because Bob Moog’s cousin was for a while my father’s employer.
• “Google is transitive, whereas Facebook is reflexive.”  (via)  This sums up the practical difference between Google and Facebook rather well.
• I did not know this existed: OpenBSD Network Shell.  (via)  Interface like a Cisco-ish router, internals are OpenBSD.
• There’s been recent news articles about how programmers over 35 tend to not get hired.  Here’s one of the reasons: younger programmers discount the value of their own time.  Anything where all the benefits (cheaper labor, more products) accrue to the company, and all the costs go to the employee (time lost, extra work) is not a good idea in the long run.
• “Now I’ve met the other DragonFly BSD user, too.”  That’s two more than I expected for any given project, really.
• Undeadly.org has an extensive interview/article about OpenSMTPd.  It’s OpenBSD’s implementation of a SMTP daemon, which is something I haven’t heard much about before.  Compare with DragonFly’s much-smaller-in-scope dma.
• Van Jacobsen Saved the Internet.  Or just fixed a timing bug.  Depends on whether you listen to Wired or to him.  The interesting part is that he had to build the tools to troubleshoot the problem.
• Here’s something I don’t think anyone’s noticed yet: Microsoft is responsible for half of Google’s DMCA notices last month.  My employer recently was audited by Microsoft (technically by Accenture contractors for Microsoft) for license compliance.  My Dell sales representative, when I asked him for a list of what Microsoft-licensed OEM devices we had bought, said many of his customers were asking for the same thing.  He joked that Microsoft was trying to improve its profitability numbers for the quarter.  Given that they are trying to push to Windows 8, that might just be true, and they are trying to enforce their way to it, not sell their way to it.

Your unrelated link of the week: MAD GOD, the film.

It’s funny that I’m reporting a short-term break in bleeding-edge operating system code as any sort of surprise.  It shows something about how stable DragonFly-master is most of the time.

• The March of Progress.  (via)
• My Third Attempt at Vim.  Follow the link to pathogen, if you haven’t heard of it.
• From the same article, Destroy All Software screencasts.  They look interesting, though I’ve found the web has eradicated my ability to watch videos over a minute in length, unless they contain squeaking guinea pigs or running bunnies.
• How Pixar Almost Lost Toy Story 2 to a Bad Backup.  (via)  You can nitpick details (rm * isn’t recursive) but it’s funny in a nearly catastrophic disaster kind of way.  Also, now is a good time to check your backups.
• Here’s a video trailer for that WIZZYWIG comic I mentioned in a previous Lazy Reading.
• This post about ROFLCon 3 makes a good point: Much of what we expect to do on the Internet, from installing your own operating system to captioning pictures of kittens, requires a computer.  Increased phone and tablet use kills that, cause it’s not convenient.   As the article notes by way of Chris Poole, things like Facebook are friend-based, not interest-based.  Think about that for a bit.  It’s important to me because that’s exactly what this site is – interest-based, rather than a social app.
• The truth about system bottlenecks.

Your unrelated link of the week: Captain Forever.  A game. Mentioned most recently on Verge, but read Rock, Paper, Shotgun for context.

Note that this is basic work, so features like multi-master and deduplication are not present yet, and it’s still work in progress, so don’t try HAMMER2 unless you like losing data.  Watch the branch for changes, though.

(I’m going with “HAMMER2″ for the name.)

(Not sure if I got that 3517 one correct…)