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Modern Unix derivatives have this really bad idea called ioctl. It’s a function which performs arbitrary operations on a file descriptor. It is essentially the kitchen sink of modern Unix derivatives, particularly Linux, in which they act almost like a secon…

Finalist #1 of the Book Review Contest

One of the many, many worries that hover around the minds of new parents is the possibility of "crib death", Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. SIDS has been an unexplained problem for a very long time, long enough to where it was probably the improvem…

Over on YouTube Double A Labs has posted a new video demonstrating how to use an RTL-SDR and Android device to receive broadcast FM stations, and to decode any associated RDS data.  In the video Double A uses the SDR Touch Android app and the Advanced RDS…

Long-time readers of the ‘crawl might remember that I’ve never had much patience for the AI’s Just Wanna Live trope. I put my bootprint on it in my very first novel— “Expert defense witnesses, including a smart gel online from Rutgers, testified that neur…

Code » Exactly one of the following statements is true. In Tetris, you can always get at least one line before losing. In Tetris, a sufficiently evil AI can always force you to lose without getting a single line, by providing bad pieces. Which one? Prove it. T…