It rhymes if you say it out loud. Jason Tubnor will present at 7 PM tonight (Detroit local time) on installing and configuring Xfce and KDE on FreeBSD.
Lazy Reading for 2022/05/15
Still working on cleaning up RSS backlogs, so this was done early.
- Chonky Palmtop is a DIY portable Linux computer with a split keyboard and 7 inch display. I’ve linked to this before. (via)
- r/ErgoMobileComputers/, from comments at the previous link. The e-ink setups are interesting.
- Porting Zelda Classic to the Web. Interesting for the game and the method. (via)
- MVC — Xerox PARC 1978—79. (via)
- Emulating the Space Invaders look and feel. Recreating analog issues. (via)
- Gopher on the Palm Pilot and the pitfalls of PalmOS connectivity.
- Pendragon, an RPG I never ever encountered.
- Triple Entry Blogging.
- Increasing the surface area of blogging.
- VCF East XIII — David Walden — Remembering the BBN ARPANET Project. (Youtube, via)
- Signs of Life, art show and technology experiment.
- Korg MS-20. (via)
- The failure of the idea of X resources, and What goes into an X resource and its name.
- Termtris on a terminal.
Your unrelated noise music of the week: GROAR by Juanjosé Rivas. (via)
In Other BSDs for 2022/05/14
“BSD” is in almost every line as a title. Maybe not a surprise, but visually noticeable.
- Paying a visit to planet BSD. (via)
- Branching for NetBSD 10. (via)
- Brainstorming Entropy for NetBSD. (via)
- How to talk to a local IPMI under OpenBSD.
- compiling an openbsd kernel 50% faster.
- New FreeBSD How-To: Networking Basics: WiFi and Bluetooth.
- where’s all the code?
- May 17th 7 PM Detroit, MI time, Jason Tubnor will present on installing and configuring Xfce and KDE on FreeBSD.
- May 21: NetBSD Annual General Meeting. That’s 1 week from now.
- FreeBSD 13.1-RC6 available.
- Valuable News – 2022/05/10.
- How to contribute to the OpenBSD project.
- VM (VM ( … This is weird/dangerous.
BSD Now 454: Compiling 50% faster
I can’t help but think of this as the 1# episode of BSD Now; tell me if you get why. Anyway, there’s lots of OpenBSD in this week’s BSD Now.
CI feed on DragonFly site
Headlines from this here Digest show up on dragonflybsd.org, and have for a long time. They are now joined with reports from the continuous integration builds of DragonFly (i.e. Jenkins) DragonFly is automatically rebuilt to test recent commits, and there’s a report for each build on the build machine.
Lazy Reading for 2022/05/08
I have a nice weird mix going on today.
- Rotary cellphone, now purchasable.
- HUDs + GUIs. (via)
- Inform 7 open-source release.
- Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, updated and a sequel and a ripoff.
- A Web Around the World, Part 8: The Intergalactic Computer Network.
- And Part 9: A Network of Networks.
- Nineteenth century videos. Back to life. (via)
- The “50 Years” Book is coming…
- Dirt: The Permadeath Drive.
- Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly. (via)
- Learning Synths. (also via)
- The InterLisp Restoration Project. (via)
Your unrelated video of the week: Frank & Beans – Hugo [official video]. I’ve linked to other shardcore stuff before, and thought I had previously linked to this video’s predecessor, but I can’t find it. It’s very good though also very Uncanny Valley. (also via)
In Other BSDs for 2022/05/07
My BSD RSS feeds are overflowing.
- PiKVM using a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W. I keep reading that as “pikmin”.
- switchd(8) removed from OpenBSD.
- OpenBSD 7.1: fan noise and high temperature solution.
- vuls – Agent-less vulnerability scanner. (via)
- FreeBSD 13.1-RC5 available.
- HardenedBSD April 2022 Status Report.
- Missing Steam Deck Functions. (Terraria, OpenBSD, Steam)
- Minecraft 1.16.5(and more) with microsoft accounts on openbsd 7.1.
- Video guide to install OpenBSD 7.1 with the GNOME desktop.
- Writing my first OpenBSD game using Godot.
- Valuable News – 2022/05/02.
- syspatch71-001_wifi reissued. “May require manual intervention”
- Let’s Talk About [FreeBSD] Foundation Funding.
- I ported the new Hare compiler to OpenBSD.
BSD Now 453: TwinCat/BSD Hypervisor
This week’s BSD Now, which I almost missed, covered one of the rarely-mentioned BSD Variants, TwinCat.
Guessing future goals
I think I know what Aaron Li might want to work on for DragonFly…
(I am only guessing; I have not asked.)
Lazy Reading for 2022/05/01
Whee!
- Snd: A library of free UX sounds. A nice interface too. (via)
- Vim Tada – a simple todo manager for vim. (via)
- Taskwarrior, a commandline todo app. (via comments on previous)
- Art Bits from HyperCard, meaning early Susan Kare art. (via)
- Area Ware, linked because they sell Susan Kare material.
- Patching an Embedded OS from 1996 with Ghidra. A synth! (via)
- Anonymous Animal. (via)
- Comptometer. What it actually does isn’t important.
- GUIdebook: Graphical User Interface gallery. (via)
- Roguelike Celebration returns for 2022.
- Lost Women of Science, a podcast. (via)
- You don’t have to clap.
In Other BSDs for 2022/04/30
How-to week rather than updates week.
- Let’s install OpenBSD/riscv64 on QEMU. (via)
- How to talk to a local IPMI under OpenBSD.
- iblock: block scanner TCP connections under OpenBSD. (via)
- I was able to build Overgrowth on NetBSD.
- KDE-FreeBSD CI.
- LibreSSL 3.5.2 released.
- Valuable News – 2022/04/25.
- OpenBSD is the Perfect OS post Nuclear Apocalypse. (via)
- Playing the game Bottomless on OpenBSD. (via)
- I ported the new Hare compiler to OpenBSD. (via)
- New Board Member Interview: Cat Allman. The last name should seem familiar.
- Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS with ZFS: Part 2: Tuning Your FreeBSD Configuration for Your NAS.
BSD Now 452: The unknown hackers
This week’s BSD Now starts off talking about recently-deceased and somewhat legendary Bill Jolitz. He is to me the source of the term “flat food person“.
ChiBUG meeting tomorrow
RSVP if you are near Chicago and can go.
DragonFly and bhyve
If you want to run DragonFly as a bhyve guest using UEFI, here’s the recipe.
Lazy Reading for 2022/04/24
Old-school week, at least more than normal.
- Principia Apocrypha: Principles of Old School RPGs.
- Now that computers have more than 4MB of memory, can we get seconds on the taskbar?
- Obsidian.md. (via)
- waxy.org turns 20.
- MNT Reform, an ARM laptop with open hardware. (via)
- Those HTML Attributes You Never Use. (via)
- Minskytron Refurbished.
- Inside the Apple-1’s shift-register memory. Photos!
- “Let’s go find out!“
- Dreamhold, an introduction to interactive fiction. (via)
- The Early History of Smalltalk (1993). The corporate shell of Xerox, where Smalltalk and PARC came from, is just a few miles from me. (via)
In Other BSDs for 2022/04/23
A bunch of releases this week.
- OpenBGPD 7.3 released.
- tcsh vi mode cursor shapes.
- sometimes the knote comes early.
- The Zephyrus G14 is not a MacBook Pro 14, and Sundry Observations and Insights…
- two and a half bad bits.
- OpenBSD Gaming Updates Q2 2022.
- Operating systems battle: OpenBSD vs NixOS.
- Valuable News – 2022/04/19.
- MidnightBSD 2.1.7 RELEASE. (via)
- FreeBSD 13.1-RC4 is out.
- OpenBSD 7.1 released.
- OpenBSD Webzine #9 is out.
- Interacting with FreeBSD: Fundamentals of the FreeBSD Shell. FreeBSD 14 is switching default root shell, apparently.
BSD Now 451: Tuning ZFS recordsize
It’s almost all ZFS tidbits this week for BSD Now.
Me, talking now
I’m on at SEMIBUG’s meeting right now.
I hope to have a recording to post later. Nnnnope! A lesson for you and me both; test recording before an actual event starts.
Me at SEMIBUG
I’m talking about DragonFly at SEMIBUG’s online meeting (using Jitsi) tomorrow.
UPDATE: https://meet.jit.si/SEMI-BUGDragonFlyBSD is the Jitsi link. It’ll be 7 PM Eastern time.
Lazy Reading for 2022/04/17
The music edge cases story is great.
- Revisiting the INMOS Transputer. (via)
- Replicate Filesystem with Rsync.
- Spammers in the Public Cloud, Protected by SPF.
- Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music. (via)
- Tonight we’re gonna log on like it’s 1979 (Telenet, Dialcom and The Source).
- Reverse-engineering a mysterious Univac computer board. Great photos.
- Six One Sentence Monsters and Six More One Sentence Monsters.
- A Web Around the World, Part 7: Computers On the Wire. I may have missed some recent parts of this.
- Puzzle dossiers and boxes, 2022.
- Old School Essentials, classic D&D revisited. (via)
- Tetrageddon. (via)
- Library of Short Stories. (also via)
- Storytelling. Early sequential art.