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

2023/06/042023/06/02

Links for 2023/06/04

A short list this week. I’m heading into the final month(s) of an ERP replacement projects at one of my jobs, so it ain’t going to get better for a while.

Where does my computer get the time from? (via)
Software Modernization Failures. (follow the whole thread)
Bell Labs vs “East Coast” Management style of AT&T. There’s some tangential BSD history in there.
System Shock: The oral history of a forward-thinking PC classic. (via)
cooperative.computer. I am surprised this didn’t exist years ago. (via)
Ctrl-Zine. I like that you can print and fold your own. (via)
Macintosh Emulation and Printing using Mini VMac on a PocketCHIP. (via)
How design is governance. (via)

2023/06/02

Making smbios visible

For some reason smbios device support always gave me trouble on every laptop I worked on for the 2000s. So, this support for smbios identification on EFI-only boots is good news to me.

2023/05/282023/06/04

Links for 2023/05/28

Events and crazy things are the mini themes this week.

Mini Moog Model D. (via)
ChiBUG’s next meeting is May 30th.
NYCBUG has a double lightning talk on June 16th.
Also the July NYCBUG monthly meeting will be on the 12th instead of the 5th.
Internet Histories, Volume 7, Issue 2. “Let’s play something awful: a historical analysis of 14 years of threads” got me as a title. (via)
Hidden Door, roleplaying games via AI using existing genre writing. I don’t know how I feel about this. (via)
SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes. (via)
Niklaus Wirth and Donald Knuth, 1985 interview.
Just take a crowbar to it, glitches as storytelling techique.
Doom modding and assuming everything on the internet is probably fake.
What’s black, white, and red on 20 sides?
Hieroglyphic monkeys holding stuff.
BSDCan 2024 Reorganization. Michael W. Lucas is a fan of achievement/pain.
The Story Of Mel, the actual biography. I never thought this would be explored. (via)

Your unrelated music of the week: rekt.network. (via)

2023/05/26

EuroBSDCon papers due today

If you want to present a paper, or were thinking about presenting at EuroBSDCon, today’s the deadline for getting it in.

2023/05/212023/05/20

Links for 2023/05/21

Smushing BSD and Lazy Reading links together into one, again. Tell me if that’s good or bad from where you’re standing.

How To Survive, computing safely while on the road, from CCC 2019. (via)
Early Computer Art in the 50’s & 60’s. The sorts of images I love. (via)
degreeless.design. Some excellent, excellent books listed. (via)
My Top 10 Favorite D&D Monsters, part one and part two, and Magic Items, part one and part two.
Emulating the Casio Loopy with Phil Bennett. (via)
Rob Pike on the Origin of Unix Dot File Names. “Oops.” (via)
Stream your OpenBSD desktop audio to other devices.
Self-Hosted Bookmarks using DAV and httpd on OpenBSD.
cron(8) now supports random ranges with steps.
Exploring the CBSD virtual environment management framework – part 4: Jails (II).
Michael W Lucas on BSDNow.
Beepberry.
Hand 386 Delivers A “True 386 Processor” in a Handheld. (via)
Christopher Strachey and the Dawn of Interactive Text. Before program storage, even.

Your unrelated music of the week: DRASS – see it, say it, slaughtered. Another band name for Shardcore, which I have linked before. AI generated visuals if you can’t tell.

2023/05/15

SEMI-BUG and CARP tomorrow

SEMIBUG’s having a presentation on CARP tomorrow. It’s being given by Nick Holland who has a long presentation history. It’ll be online through Jitsi, so anyone can see it.

2023/05/142023/05/11

Links for 2023/05/14

Nostalgia / game styling is the inadvertent theme of the week.

1-bit pixel art of Hokusai’s ”The Great Wave off Kanagawa”. The layout of that site is fun. (via)
SpaceTraders: an API based game. (via)
From comments on the previous source: Text Elite.
The seven programming ur-languages. (via)
The Next Generation in Graphics, Part 2: Three Dimensions in Hardware.
The Chonky Pocket computer.
The Flexowriter which was I think the output from a version of the Whirlwind. (via)
Before UNIX daemons, there were gnomes.
AutoHotKey, which I always thought of as compensation for Windows not having a shell.

2023/05/072023/05/05

Links for 2023/05/07

I’m glomming all BSD and not-BSD into these roundup posts. I don’t think they need to be separate.

The Apple ][ Age, a new book. (via)
Let’s Make Sure Github Doesn’t Become the only Option. (via)
The Cocoa Press Chocolate 3D Printer.
Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop. (via)
Xterm: It’s better than you thought. (via and via)
A look at terminal emulators, part 1.
Sensenmann: Code Deletion at Scale. (via)
The NYCBUG presentation on GeFS from a few days ago is now online.
More NYCBUG in the future!
Ancient Myths and Open Source.
intpm(4), the smbus power control I didn’t know existed.
NetBSD AGM2023: Annual General Meeting, May 13. Nicely open.
The Museum of Screens. (via)
The Internet Isn’t Meant To Be So Small. (also via)
Drass: Shadow of Doubt. Cubism makes a comeback. (also also via)

2023/05/022023/04/18

NYCBUG tomorrow

Reminder: GEFS, NYCBUG, tomorrow.

2023/04/302023/04/29

Links for 2023/04/30

Back by popular demand.

50 Shades of Rust, or emerging Rust GUIs in a WASM world. Everything has its own name and language, and there’s 20 of them! Great! (via)
Review of Six Text Editors. Fun hot takes on old-school editors. (via)
Calculators, codes, and hidden messages. (via)
textart.sh. Copy/paste almost anywhere. (via)
The Modern WWW.
WizardKnighting Planescape.
How an 18th Century Sailing Battleship Works. Ostensibly for an upcoming movie, but I always think of the Aubrey/Maturin books.
Fun with Kermit and ZMODEM over SSH.
130 A History Of The World According To Getty Images. Public domain does not mean public. (via)
The 13 Levels of Complexity of Turntable Scratching.
Junk Drawer Phone as a Music Streaming Server. (via)
Of Sun Ray laptops, MIPS and getting root on them.
Set up your own CalDAV and CardDAV servers on OpenBSD.

2023/04/24

Link drip or weekend summary?

I’ve been posting in this new pattern for a while now. The content is mostly the same – DragonFly updates, BSD user meetings, oddball mostly history links – but I’m posting as I see them instead of doing a weekend summary. Which do you prefer? The summary or the drip?

2023/04/21

3d history, GPS history, music you never heard

Some links: The Next Generation in Graphics Part 1, talking about the colossal shift in gaming that was Doom/Quake, and different kinds of differential, explaining how GPS is corrected. And here’s something unusual: Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band tracks with single instruments separated out by AI. You can more easily hear how unique John French’s drumming was/is.