DragonFly BSD Digest – A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD.

Infinite Mac, to go with previously linked Moof-A-Day. (via)

Best description of a temp directory ever.

Docker the company vs Docker the product.

If you absolutely, must shut up your console, kern.kprintf_logging=0.

Lots of links in the newest OpenBSD webzine issue.

Mathematically summarizing RPG combat. This is extremely niche but extremely interesting if you fit that niche.

A number of tips on unicode display and incidentally getting weather at the command line.

I like the idea of virtualized machines springing into existence just by trying to connect to them. This is OpenBSD-specific, but could probably be extrapolated to bhyve or NVMM.

Emily Pillmore of the Haskell Foundation is presenting at the next SEMIBUG meeting, tomorrow, at 7 PM.

"UTF-8 was designed, in front of my eyes, on a placemat in a New Jersey diner one night in September or so 1992." Also why Windows had poor UTF-8 support for so long.

Just seeing the screens gives me a nostalgic feeling: early Mac floppies on the Internet Archive. Collected by the same guy who did the Apple ][ cracks. (via)

This printer recommendation matches what I've been saying for about 2-3 years now. (via)

From “Run Your Own Mail Server” chapter 0:

"In 1978 Gary Thuerk, an employee of the Digital Equipment Corporation, emailed several hundred people he didn’t know an invitation to a demonstration of the new DEC packet-switching systems. (...) Five days after the message went out the chief of the US Air Force’s ARPAnet Management Branch, Major Raymond Czahor, called Thuerk’s boss to tell them to never do it again on pain of disconnection. This first advertising email sold twelve million dollars of computers."

Every Sample from Beastie Boys' "Paul's Boutique". Music that would be impossible to commercially produce now because of licensing changes. (via)

Cloud and back again talk by Brian Cantrill. Not BSD specific but he's been involved with other BSD work. (via)

Self-hosted email services on OpenBSD. Linked cause this is one self-hosting activity that has become more difficult, not less, in recent years.

helloSystem 0.8.1 released as a reaction to an 0.8.0 review. Which makes sense.

backlight, both the generic backlight driver and control tool, has been ported to DragonFly.

I have enough link buildup I'm dumping them all:

Special tcpdump filtering options for OpenBSD's pflog interface.
Zork III.
Michael W. Lucas in Jan/Feb 2023 FreeBSD Journal.
BSDCan 2023 Tutorial: OpenBSD Storage Management.
Some notes on OpenBSD 7.2 on a Thinkpad X201. What will I do when/if my x220 dies? It's the best laptop.
Taking a Better Photo of a CRT Screen with a Phone.
Portney's Earthshapes.

Finally a nice object system for Perl. (via)