DragonFly BSD Digest

Another cover-all-categories week.

• The Valley Girl of Oz, Bjork Bjork Bjork.
• Character by character TTY input in Unix, then and now.
• howto: create your own time zone.  (via)
• Guide to computing.  (via)
• Restoring an Apollo Guidance Computer, part 1, 2, 3, and 4.  There’s more than what I have linked.  (via)
• A book list for OS kernel developers and device driver writers (2006).  (via)
• git-secrets: Prevents you from committing secrets and credentials into git repositories.  (via)
• SpamAssassin is back.  (via)
• FreePizza.io – free pizza for usergroups, meetups, hackathons, talks.  (via)
• Redox – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in Rust.  (via)
• “As far as I’m concerned, email signing/encryption is dead.”  It’s all web pages now for encrypted traffic.  (via)
• What MUDs Are You Playing?
• Raw Tty Input: Then And Now.  (via)
• Managing Dotfiles with GNU Stow.  A GNU version of null mounts, sorta?  (via)
• How Many Computers Are In Your Computer?   (via)
• Vim in the Future.  (via)
• Related: Why Kakoune.
• Colin Raff animations.  (via)
• Modern day vacuum tube use.  More than just expensive amplifiers.
• mtime comparison considered harmful.  (via)

Your unrelated music link of the week: A Guide to Breakbeats on Bandcamp.

The movies link should keep you busy.

• 1,150 Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, etc.  It’s divided into sections, each one alphabetical, so if the first group doesn’t interest you, there’s more.  Be ready to scroll to find a section that’s all martial arts, or an interview of Benoit Mandelbrot, or the classic Heavy Metal Parking Lot.  (via)
• Learning When Values are Changed by Implicit Integer Casts.
• Metadata that you can’t commit into a VCS is a mistake (for file based websites).
• What Does It Take to Keep a Classic Mainframe Alive?  (via)
• Another look into The Psychotherapy of Racter.  Linked because Racter is a sort of anti-Eliza.
• Ten Great Adventure-Game Puzzles.
• “I do not understand your concern…“
• Goodness, Enumerated by Robots. Or, Handling Those Who Do Not Play Well With Greylisting.  From a BSD person but not BSD specific.
• David A. Wheeler’s 6502 Language Implementation Approaches.  i.e languages on an Apple ][ mostly.  There’s some really interesting links down at the end of that article.  (via)
• For example, Applesauce.
• Oddball epoch dates and also microfortnights.
• DKIM provides sender attribution (for both spam and not necessarily spam).
• Revisiting the Unix philosophy in 2018.  Maybe clickbaity a bit.  (via)
• I AM A COMPUTER.  (via)