That’s one tip per subject, really. If you need to set up a ‘video’ group for xorg, here’s the one-liner to do so. If PulseAudio annoys you, which is not uncommon, ‘chmod -x /usr/local/bin/pulseaudio’ and it’ll go away.
It’s exactly what the title is: ipfw3 now does NAT in-kernel, without locking. I have no benchmarks to point at, unfortunately. The commit has usage examples.
This is a specialized use case, but Mono 4.x has some issues on DragonFly. Some minor testing has been done, but if you are already using it, please contribute.
Assembled hastily on Saturday, which is later than I’ve been in a long time.
- Don’t tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to.
- “Beautiful artwork plays the UNIX timestamp on cymbals“. A 32-bit art installation, judging from the year 2038 time limit.
- Every parallel ATA connection ever in one device, or close to it.
- The Forgotten Early History of Fanfiction. (via)
- The Secret Nuclear History of Cat Videos. Where diffserv levels came from, in a very thorough explanation. (also via)
- DevOps vs. SRE. (via)
- “NetBox is an IP address management (IPAM) and data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tool.” I really could have used this about 8 years ago. (also via)
- Mathematical term or Hollywood movie?
- Xerox Alto Restoration Part 3: drive ok and First boot attempt. (via)
- Sil, a roguelike that is as Tolkienish as possible. (via)
- Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful. (via)
- What to Consider When the Platforms Show Up with Money. This is why I still run the Digest as my own site, rather than through Facebook/Twitter/Medium/whatever. (via)
Unrelated link of the week: Heavy metal riff generator. (via) Related to unrelated: Heavy Metal and Natural Language Processing – Part 1. (via)
I was on the road all this week, so this doesn’t range as far as usual. I’ll be charging through my RSS feed backlog over the next few days.
- garbage[33]: Z-Wave of ze future. Missed linking to it on Friday because of driving. Lots of Vim conversation!
- The state of libreSSL in FreeBSD. (via)
- New 2016Q3 branch. (of FreeBSD ports)
- Core.9 is now in session.
- Defeating CryptoLocker Attacks with ZFS by Michael Dexter.
- Looking for awesome BSD DTrace materials.
- A request for BSD variants information.
- BSD podcast?
- The Design and Implementation of the Anykernel and Rump Kernels (second edition). (via)
- Lumina 1.0.0 sources frozen.
- OPNsense 16.7RC1 available.
- TrueNAS 9.10 out.
- BSD Graphics Stack for AMD.
Place Independent Executables are now supported on DragonFly, thanks to sumbitter ‘shamaz’.
The NYCBUG meeting happening tomorrow night, June 6th, is on the two different BSDs (RetroBSD and LiteBSD) that can run on the super-tiny PIC32 microcontroller. Go if you are near.
Half of this was done while trapped in day 3 of a 3-day planning and training meeting at work.
- Start multi-tasking with your virtual reality headset. (via)
- My condolences, you’re now the maintainer of a popular open source project. (via)
- The quick and simple editor for cron schedule expressions. (via)
- Here is why Emacs uses Meta key. (via)
- CP/M development environment setup. (via)
- Rm -rf / in Windows Subsystem for Linux reveals sharp set of teeth. Well, duh. (via)
- How an Archive of the Internet Could Change History. (via)
- Building your own ISP hardware.
- verifying copies – find, xargs, du, ls, md5sum, and diff, oh my! (via)
- The Moral Economy of Tech. “Machine learning is like money laundering for bias.” (via many places)
- Xerox Alto Restoration Part 2: Firing up the monitor. (via)
- “My God, it’s full of yaks!!” (via)
- Oh My God(s): Dwarf Fortress’s Creation Myths & Magic.
- Cryptographic Storage Cheat Sheet. (via)
- Related to last week: Tea Pi. (via)
- Tiny Unix Tools for Windows. (via)
- The Chronicles of George. (via I lost it, sorry)
- BREXIT(3).
Your unrelated video link of the week: Annecy International Animated Film Festival 2016. Scroll down for the videos, embedded and linked.
Lots of user group items this week.
- KnoxBUG has both July and August presentations planned – July 26th is the next, on cryptography and identity assurance.
- SemiBUG is looking for September+ presentations.
- NYCBUG’s RetroBSD and LiteBSD presentation is in 4 days, and there will be an instalfest on August 3rd.
- HOPE is July 22-24, and will have a BSD presence. (FreeBSD Foundation)
- “what are the disadvantages of using software like pfSense, vyos etc. over enterprise quality routers?“
- BSDs and Trim the SSD.
- DiscoverBSD for 2016/06/27.
- USENIX ATC 2016 Conference Recap.
- OPNSense 16.1.18 released, which I think is the last 16.1.* release.
- FreeBSD just in time.
- Samsung acquires Joyent. Joyent are big pkgsrc users. (via)
The system I had for running a go builder died. I am running out of extra hardware. Is there someone who is using Go and DragonFly and is willing to commit to running a semi-dedicated builder?
I’m actually linking to this week’s Garbage podcast on time. They have shirts coming in now!