Sepherosa Ziehau has added netblast, a tool originally from FreeBSD that, if I'm reading the commit right, flings packets of a given size at an IP/port of your choosing, for as long as you want.
It's possible to accidentally truncate your password when using DES encryption and 0x80 in UTF-8 encoding.  It's fixed.
BSDCan 2012 spawned a lot of interviews.  We all benefit from that.  For example, another BSDTalk interview, talking with Kris Moore of iXSystems about what's in the next version of PC-BSD.
Let's get right down to it:
  • Hey, Nmap 6 is out.  It's one of those always-useful tools, similar to wireshark.
  • Biculturalism, a fair assessment.  (via)  The generalizations are a little extreme (1 Unix-based author who Got Religion, vs. a diffused Windows developer stereotype) but still has value.
  • A Git Horror Story.  (via)  Not a true story, but useful for describing how git commits can be GPG-signed.
  • A recent Google Doodle, a playable Moog synthesizer, done for Bob Moog's birthday.  The Moog Music site has instructions.  I happened to notice they're using FreeBSD as the server - cool!  Maybe it's just the hosting org?  Anyway, I link to it because Bob Moog's cousin was for a while my father's employer.
  • "Google is transitive, whereas Facebook is reflexive."  (via)  This sums up the practical difference between Google and Facebook rather well.
  • I did not know this existed: OpenBSD Network Shell.  (via)  Interface like a Cisco-ish router, internals are OpenBSD.
  • There's been recent news articles about how programmers over 35 tend to not get hired.  Here's one of the reasons: younger programmers discount the value of their own time.  Anything where all the benefits (cheaper labor, more products) accrue to the company, and all the costs go to the employee (time lost, extra work) is not a good idea in the long run.
  • "Now I've met the other DragonFly BSD user, too."  That's two more than I expected for any given project, really.
  • Undeadly.org has an extensive interview/article about OpenSMTPd.  It's OpenBSD's implementation of a SMTP daemon, which is something I haven't heard much about before.  Compare with DragonFly's much-smaller-in-scope dma.
  • Van Jacobsen Saved the Internet.  Or just fixed a timing bug.  Depends on whether you listen to Wired or to him.  The interesting part is that he had to build the tools to troubleshoot the problem.
  • Here's something I don't think anyone's noticed yet: Microsoft is responsible for half of Google's DMCA notices last month.  My employer recently was audited by Microsoft (technically by Accenture contractors for Microsoft) for license compliance.  My Dell sales representative, when I asked him for a list of what Microsoft-licensed OEM devices we had bought, said many of his customers were asking for the same thing.  He joked that Microsoft was trying to improve its profitability numbers for the quarter.  Given that they are trying to push to Windows 8, that might just be true, and they are trying to enforce their way to it, not sell their way to it.
Your unrelated link of the week: MAD GOD, the film.
BSDTalk 215 is out, with several NetBSD folks being interviewed at BSDCan 2012 about NetBSD 6.
Thanks to Magliano Andrea Andrea Magliano, a new version of ACPI  has been added to DragonFly, acpica-unix 20110527.
If you are running bleeding-edge DragonFly, libpthread was broken for a short period.  If you built anything in the last ... 12 hours?  You may want to rebuild it.  If that doesn't describe you, it's a nonevent. It's funny that I'm reporting a short-term break in bleeding-edge operating system code as any sort of surprise.  It shows something about how stable DragonFly-master is most of the time.
John Marino posted a report of pkgsrc-currentbuilding on DragonFly i386.  The success rate for package building is so good that the "top" package break was security/libpreludedb, with only 9 dependencies.  Everything else was less than that.  I have never seen a pkgsrc build report before with only single-digit figures for dependent breakage; this is fantastic.
There's been so much activity this week in DragonFly that I'm having a hard time keeping up.  There's always time for Lazy Reading, though. Your unrelated link of the week: Captain Forever.  A game. Mentioned most recently on Verge, but read Rock, Paper, Shotgun for context.
As noted in a recent commit, it's possible to set up a HAMMER2 /usr/obj and survive a buildworld.  That's good progress. Note that this is basic work, so features like multi-master and deduplication are not present yet, and it's still work in progress, so don't try HAMMER2 unless you like losing data.  Watch the branch for changes, though. (I'm going with "HAMMER2" for the name.)
Takahiro Kambe is bringing PHP 5.4 into pkgsrc, probably as lang/php54.  Follow the whole thread for a discussion of version numbering.  As a side effect of this, PHP 5.2 will leave pkgsrc by the next quarterly pkgsrc release.  If you're using that older flavor, you'll want to upgrade.