November 2019 – DragonFly BSD Digest

2019/11/302019/11/29

In Other BSDs for 2019/11/30

End of year events are starting to get scheduled; watch for one near you.

Holiday Hardware Swap plus more at NYCBUG this Wednesday.
MeatBSD reservations are due today. If you will be near SEMIBUG’s Dec 17th event, respond now.
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report for 2019Q3.
Valuable News – 2019/11/25.
OPNsense 19.7.7 released.
p2k19 Hackathon Report: Stefan Sperling on iwm(4) wifi progress, more.
Writing a daemon using FreeBSD and Python, part 1 and part 2.
A Look at PureDarwin. (via)
How to use pkgsrc on Linux. (via)
FreeBSD Journal for September/October.
OpenBSD: General web deployment security best practice (httpd, doas, git).
[How-To] PostgreSQL ascii logo for FreeBSD boot loader.
unwind(8) gains “Happy Eyeballs”-like flexibility.
Some notes on userspace routing.
Debugging FFS Mount Failures.
samsung ativ book 9. Hardware review, OpenBSD install.

2019/11/292019/11/25

Circular cross-pollination

I sorta like seeing these things ricochet back and forth.

2019/11/28

BSD Now 326: Certified BSD

This Turkey Day (for U.S. readers) episode of BSD Now talks about the perennial idea of BSD admin certification, along with the usual roundup of recent news.

2019/11/272019/11/25

smbus, watchdog updates for AMD users

If you have newer AMD hardware, it’s a little better supported now.

2019/11/262019/11/26

Radeon improvements

Francois Tigeot has made a number of updates to the ttm and radeon code, bringing it line with the Linux 4.9 kernel version. If you have a radeon(4)-using video card, you may find this useful.

Also, evergreeen and radeonsi chipset users have acceleration disabled. You may not notice depending on your workload.

2019/11/25

A good time to update dports

There’s been a fresh binary build of dports – and then some more updates to cover a variety of security issues in some of those ports. Now is a good time for a ‘pkg upgrade’.

2019/11/242019/11/21

Lazy Reading for 2019/11/24

Small computers is the accidental theme this week.

Remembering the TRS-80.
80s Corporate Airbrush-High Tech. Eighties! (via)
My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be? You could have a website, not just a social media identity, and be much better off for it. (via)
Beaker Browser, a peer-to-peer browser. (via)
Good signoffs. (via)
Open Library book sponsorships. (via)
ASCIIdent. All-ASCII characters, open world game. (via)
are.na, a site I am repeatedly stumbling into. A sort of blogging platform/visual recorder? I have only just started to look, but it seems like a good place to record an aesthetic, sort of like ffffound was, once.
The Teletext Archaeologist – A visual and interactive teletext history. (via)
Pocket Popcorn Computer. (via)
Review of Pinebook Pro. The hardware notes are most relevant, not the Linux whateverness. (via)
Ditching Event Platforms for the IndieWeb. (via)
The Invention of Forth. (via)
Falsehoods CS Students (Still) Believe Upon Graduating.
Neovim and the state of text editor art in 2019. First explanation of “why NeoVim” that I’ve seen. (via)
Emacs: Fury Road. (via)

2019/11/232019/11/21

In Other BSDs for 2019/11/23

Read that last link, if only to make your convention-going safer in the future.

Maintaining port modifications in FreeBSD. (via)
The fading out of multi-‘architecture’ Unix environments.
Followup: In the old days, we didn’t use multiple Unixes by choice (mostly).
Valuable News – 2019/11/18.
OpenBSD on SPARC64 (6.0 to 6.5).
And the followup Running OpenBSD on SPARC64 (HTTPd, packages, patching, X11, …)
GEOM NOP.
p2k19 reports: Martin Pieuchot: The Unknown Plan,
Landry Breuil on unveil(2)-ing Mozilla, sqlite3 testing, Jeremy Evans on PostgreSQL and Ruby, krw@ adventures.
Creating new users dedicated to processes. Could work on any BSD except for doas.
Board of Directors and Officers elected. For NetBSD.
Support for Realtek RTL8125 2.5Gb Ethernet controller. For OpenBSD. 2.5Gb seems so arbitrary. (via)
Why is BSD>Linux?
Lessons Learned from Sendmail. Video. There’s lots of EuroBSDCon videos out there, but this is a good one cause this is one of the prototypical packages. (via)
BSD Link Roundup 11.18.
The Six Prequels to “FreeBSD Mastery: Jails”.
Proof I Am a Monster.

2019/11/222019/11/18

libc_r no longer in DragonFly

It hasn’t been updated or used for some time, but libc_r was 20+ years old. Now it’s gone. You know someone younger than this code, or maybe even younger than the last time I talked about it.

2019/11/21

BSD Now 325: Cracking Rainbows

BSD New 325 has a bunch of release news this week, including FreeBSD 12.1, and as you can guess from the title, rainbow tables.

2019/11/202019/11/18

Defeat muscle memory in buildworld

If you are like me, you’ve typed “make buildworld && make buildkernel && make installkernel …” about a zillion times. Now, you can encapsulate that process in a shorter statement: ‘make build-all install-all‘. The real benefit is these new steps also run in parallel to match the number of CPUs present, and logs to file instead of the console, automatically.

2019/11/192019/11/18

Signal safety in DragonFly

Some of the larger application sets on DragonFly have had trouble building, and inconsistent problems with that build. i.e. rust would fail, but in different parts of the build process, every time. It looks to be a problem with signal interaction, and there’s now much safer ways to do that on DragonFly.

That is going to require a full buildworld/buildkernel if you are on DragonFly-master, 5.7. Release/5.6 users are unaffected.

2019/11/182019/11/15

sudo at SEMIBUG tomorrow

Michael W. Lucas is presenting on sudo, to match his recent book, at SeMiBUG, tomorrow night. I think it may be getting held at a different location than usual. Go, if you are near.

2019/11/172020/02/20

Lazy Reading for 2019/11/17

Happy birthday to my father, today.

ALL HAIL LORD ENKI. It’s like a giant version of Lazy Reading; I hope you have some reading time set aside. (via)
80×25.
Lesser Known Coding Fonts. (via)
Niche Museums. You may be happily surprised to find one of these near you. (via)
Sougwen Chung is a Chinese-born, Canadian-raised artist & (re)searcher based in New York. A casual look appears to show an antist that works in tandem with robots to produce art. (via)
Apple I Emulator as a Shader. How could I not link this? (via)
Terminal Phase: building a space shooter that runs in your terminal. (via)
Take Take Take: Rethinking How I Consume Free and Open Source Software. (via)
Tabs or spaces for indentation? Statistics on 3.8 million Perl files created in 24 years. (via)
Riana Pfefferkorn Uses This. Always interesting to see the personal computer setup for someone strongly focused on security.
FANGo. If you can’t not participate, you get to at least not conform.
Newstweek: note that this is from 2011.
three.js. 3 dimensions on the web. This would be sheer magic to 1998 me. (via)
200 word RPG challenge. Complete by the time you read this. (via)
80×25.
RSS-Bridge. Creates feeds from walled gardens. (via)
Today in Hoffman Lenses.
Formally modeling database migrations.
The Greatest OSR Blog Posts Known to Man.

Your unrelated music link of the week: The Wyrding Module: Typhonic Neural Tantra. (via multiple places)

2019/11/162019/11/15

In Other BSDs for 2019/11/16

Some commercial stuff this week, even.

A History of UNIX before Berkeley: UNIX Evolution: 1975-1984. PreBSD. (via)
HardenedBSD November 2019 Status Report. (via)
This probably applies to all BSDs on certain Intel CPUs. (FreeBSD-SA-19:26.mcu)
FreeNAS/TrueNAS 11.3 beta available. Also, the Mini E product.
rpki-client recycles some uid/gids on OpenBSD.
Any games that can be recommended that requires virtually no configuration/setup on OpenBSD? Again, possibly valid for every BSD.
OpenSSH U2F/FIDO support in base. I mentioned this before, sorta, but it’s important.
p2k19 Hackathon Report: Good vibes from Bucharest.
HEADS UP: ntpd changing. On OpenBSD.
DNSSEC enabled in default unbound(8) configuration.
OpenZFS Developer Summit 2019.
HardenedBSD Status Report. (via)
Valuable News – 2019/11/12.
LLDB Threading support now ready for mainline.
Modern BSD Computing for Fun on a VAX! NetBSD on VAX hardware at BSDCan 2019, in video. I feel like I was destined to type a sentence like that sooner or later.

2019/11/152019/11/14

Other msdosfs improvements

I link because they are good: 10% speedup. Or, because they made me laugh: “Basically, don’t use this.”

2019/11/14

BSD Now 324: Emergency Space Mode

BSD Now 324 is up, with the normal mix of content. It includes a heck of a awk statement for renaming files, and mention of a deployment management system for BSD I hadn’t heard about – Bastille.

2019/11/13

Cross-calendar pollination

I like seeing cross–BSD synthesis on any system element – calendar, in this case.

2019/11/12

dsynth defaults to xz

Remember how I said dsynth defaults to txz (tarred, XZipped) ? I was apparently wrong and it was using tgz (tarred, gnuzipped). Now it really truly defaults to txz, for space.

2019/11/112019/11/04

ChiBUG meeting tomorrow

ChiBUG meets tomorrow, at the usual place. Go, if you are near.