ChiBUG will be meeting today at 6:30PM CST via Zoom. Go, even if you aren’t near.
Lazy Reading for 2021/04/11
Some looks backward to prior links, but in a good way.
- Beatportal’s Definitive Guide to Techno. (via)
- Which reminds me of eternal favorite Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music.
- Your E-Mail Validation Logic is Wrong. There’s a whole chapter about this in the most in-depth regex book I ever read.
- ifconfig.co. Fetch that site for your plain text IP, plus other features. (via)
- How does Go know time.Now? (via)
- When Hackers Were Heroes. A worthwhile history read / book review. (via)
- Map ruler overlays in Cogmind. Linked for the quality demonstration animations.
- AFFINITIES, public domain images bound.
- Gossamer Network, an exploration of very specific data visualizations through a website. (via)
- Generative Unfoldings, computer art. (also via)
- 50 Years of Text Games: 1983: Suspended and 1984: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
- Even the footnotes have footnotes.
- research!rsc: Unix Viruses. Linked for the history. (via)
- Picking an operating based on feel.
In Other BSDs for 2021/04/10
I’m hitting all the unixes.
- Atari Heavy Sixer. Not BSD, System V, but also note the post date.
- Knuth is still working on TeX. (via)
- Managing Multiple PostgreSQL Instances on FreeBSD. (via)
- XScreenSaver 6.00 out now. Haven’t seen it in dports yet.
- I got the GNU Modula-2 compiler working on OpenBSD.
- ChiBUG will be meeting on April 13th at 6:30PM CST via Zoom. I’ll post a reminder, of course.
- The pubnix history project. (via–via)
- Teach yourself Plan9 via SDF boot camp! Also why not get a mug? (via)
- i386 on FreeBSD 13 will be Tier 2, a reminder and look back.
- FreeBSD’s ports migration to git and its impact on HardenedBSD.
- Apologising to wpa_supplicant and FreeBSD Wi-Fi.
- Steam on FreeBSD.
- Valuable News – 2021/04/05.
- Interview with Abhinav Upadhyay, NetBSD contributor and machine learning software developer. (via)
- The state of toolchains in NetBSD.
HTTPS default
I thought I had done this before, but apparently not: the site is switched to https by default. Tell me if you notice problems from that.
BSD Now 397: Fresh BSD 2021
This week’s BSD Now covers the usual mix of articles – I see some Gemini sneaking in! – and mentions something I should have; the revamp of FreshBSD.
HardenedBSD at NYCBUG, tonight
HardenedBSD 2021 “State of the Hardened Union”, presented by Shawn Webb, happening at NYCBUG at 6:45 tonight. See the announcement for how to get the invite.
zstd in DragonFly
zstd(1) is now in dsynth, in DragonFly as a library, multi-threaded when you specify, and available as a decompression method for reading files.
Lazy Reading for 2021/04/04
I lost the origin of some of these links this week; too many tabs open. Sorry!
- Moog System 55, so many analog controls! (via)
- Mike Beauchamp Projects. I like the clock. (via)
- Shrink, Reduce, and Implode: The Legacy Zip Compression Methods. (via)
- The complete guide for open sourcing video games.
- A Gemini (and Atom and RSS) feed reader.
- Golem and My Other Seven Computer-Generated Books in Print.
- Don’t End The Week With Nothing.
- Anarchism in Practice Is Often Radically Boring Democracy.
- Equa! by James Chip. Tabletop RPG as a set of equations. This will scratch someone’s very particular itch. (via)
- Recognizing and rectifying your mistakes as an engineering leader. If you aren’t too sick of talking heads.
- Designing calculator apps.
- Internet routing can now vary based on things you wouldn’t expect, or ports matter for routing, not just destination.
- Different views of what are basic and advanced Vim features. A questions for every time I link a Vim tutorial.
- Is the Psion 5 still usable in 2017? (video, via)
- Turn your iPhone into a 90s pocket organiser. (also via)
- Hacker Simulator.
Your unrelated music of the week: The Best Beat Tapes on Bandcamp: March 2021.
In Other BSDs for 2021/04/03
Well, I made up for last week’s short list.
- What tool you use to read IPMI sensor information can matter. Not directly BSD, but the tools described are in ports.
- The origin of POSIX. The name, not the standard. TWAIN has the best pseudo-origin. (via)
- Does the old Unix still exist, besides its descendants? Yes, and so does Theseus’s ship.
- Related: Plan 9 is now open source, along with Inferno. Technically a later version of Unix – plus Inferno can run on BSD. (via)
- NetBSD Bounties for xhci features scatter-gather, suspend/resume. (via)
- HardenedBSD March 2021 Status Report.
- GSoC Reports: Make system(3), popen(3) and popenve(3) use posix_spawn(3) internally (Final report).
- KDE on FreeBSD 2021o2.
- Hitting donation milestone, financial report for 2020.
- How to split a file into small parts.
- UFS Boot Environments.
- What security does a default OpenBSD installation offer?
- Nginx as a TCP/UDP relay. On OpenBSD.
- pkgsrc-2021Q1 branch announcement.
- FVWM(3) and the quest for a comfortable NetBSD desktop. (via)
- Valuable News – 2021/03/29.
- OPNsense 21.1.4 released.
- Only Footnotes. But some of them are BSD footnotes!
Semi-BSD-related: One of my 3 workplaces needs a Software Team Lead. (scroll down) The main product is FreeBSD-based, though this team position does not directly work with it.
BSD Now 396: License to thrill
This week’s BSD Now is the usual roundup of news; FreeBSD-heavy, including some of the future planning for the project.
em/emx(4) updates
If you’re running an em(4)/emx(4) network card on DragonFly, Sepherosa Ziehau’s updated to the 7.7.8 release of the driver from Intel, and added a few more chipsets too.
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A reminder: updating pkg
I’ve mentioned it before but it came up again, so it’s worth repeating: your 5.8 install of DragonFly may need an update of the pkg tool.
Lazy Reading for 2021/03/28
No theme this week cause I really did touch all the themes.
- The Smallest Keyboard. to smol
- About Deformin’ In The Rain.
- Spaceship builder. (via)
- Saying goodbye to my Commodore 64. Linked cause of the hardware mods.
- 50 Years of Text Games: 1981: His Majesty’s Ship “Impetuous” and 1982: The Hobbit. I never encountered these games, but they are better than I would have expected for the time.
- Diagrams for Penrose Tiles. (via)
- When you have too much memory for SheepShaver.
- Cursed Keyboard Image.
- System Shock, a deep dive.
- Phonoptic Readers, pattern-based optical sounds.
- Souped-Up Gopher. (via)
- Dungeons and Directories. (via)
In Other BSDs for 2021/03/27
Quiet, this week.
- GNU really is a different animal.
- Paired links: Port of the week: diffoscope and Shamir’s secret sharing.
- Enable multi-factor authentication on OpenBSD.
- A working D compiler on OpenBSD.
- mport package manager.
- Valuable News – 2021/03/22.
- Easy text transmission from computer to smartphone. I didn’t know about KDE Connect.
- ohmyksh, for OpenBSD’s ksh.
BSD Now 395: Tracing ARM’s history
BSD Now has the usual roundup of news this week, and leads with an article about FreeBSD and ARM – useful for the BSD content, but also interesting cause it has a nice summary of how ARM designs came to be so important.
kmalloc_obj added to DragonFly
bnx updates in DragonFly
If you have a Broadcom BCM57785/BCM5718 series network card, supported by the bnx(4) driver, there’s some new models supported. There’s some fixes for other models, too.
Lazy Reading for 2021/03/21
Mini theme this week: sound.
- Leave it to the phone companies to make simple ideas complex.
- Mini weather station with e-ink display. A good use case.
- The Data Sonification Archive. Data represented by sound.
- BOTTLED AUTHORS: The predigital dream of the audiobook.
- The Pixel Vision 8, for 8-bit games.
- Loop Hero, a roguelike where you build the map too? (via)
- Kepler was once so wrong that he was right.
- List of split keyboards. (via)
- Resurrecting Fortran. (via)
- The first(?) negative leap second might come in 2031.
- The Emoji That Nearly Weren’t. (via)
- Remember optical disk caddies? Ugh.
- How to Think Bayes. This underpins what most people call “AI”.
- Rebuilding James Bond’s Apple IIc – A Software Forgery. (via)
- Newsreader, free font for longer-form reading. (via)
In Other BSDs for 2021/03/20
Solene is publishing faster than I can link!
- EuroBSDCon 2021 Call for Papers open.
- Porting OpenBSD to RISC-V Final Report. (PDF, via)
- FreeBSD 13.0: Full Desktop Experience. (via)
- Pine 64: March Update. Nominally BSD related. (via)
- Creating ports for BSD distributions. (via)
- Wayland on FreeBSD.
- Top 12 best opensource games available on OpenBSD.
- Using pkgsrc on OpenBSD.
- Port of the week[s]: catgirl irc client and pmenu.
- Valuable News – 2021/03/15.
BSD Now 394: FreeBSD on Mars
There’s BSD on Mars now, or that’s what the latest BSD Now tells me.