November 2020 – DragonFly BSD Digest

I don't have to work today for the first time since I am not sure when. For that, you get links links links.

My Raspberry Pi Desktop. (via)
Text-only websites. There's a lot of links to follow there. (via)
The secrets of Monkey Island’s source code. (via)
Connection Interrupted, image data corruption in motion. (via)
The Benefits of Collecting.
How Mozart became a bad composer. There is so much in the public domain that I don't realize. (via)
Your computer isn't yours. Apple tracks what you run, when. (via)
Mini Arcade. (via)
Retro games – How I fixed the Atari 2600 awful music. (via)
Evaluating Precursor’s Hardware Security.
Booting from a vinyl record. (via)
Beepbox.co. (via)
epr — Terminal/CLI Epub reader. A few seconds of search doesn't show a BSD port, though. No, wait, I was wrong. (via)
Permissive IPs. That's Intellectual Property, and mentions a bunch of tabletop industry things I wasn't familiar with.
A few ways to make money in FOSS.
Improving on QBasic's Random Number Generator.
Pen plotter SVG Snowflake generator.
Fun with Crypto Ancienne: TLS for the Browsers of the Internet of Old Things.
A review of Envision glasses, a proper use of Google Glass technology. (via)

The first link here is the one that everyone should take advantage of.

For the Love of Troff, the next online NYCBUG meeting/presentation, December 2. Go, even if you aren't near.
Setting up WireGuard on OpenBSD and Linux. (via)
The Origin of the Shell. In Multics, before Unix. (via)
Unix doesn't normally do short write()s to files and no one expects it to. Network buffers have the same problem.
FreeBSD Commands Cheat Sheet. See source link comments for more.
OCR on FreeBSD – Tesseract It. (via)
ArisbluBSD: Why a new BSD? Strictly speaking, another FreeBSD desktop. (via)
OPNSense 20.7.5 released.
Tailscale on OpenBSD. (via)
HardenedBSD November 2020 Status Report.
Setting up a WireGuard® client with routing domains on OpenBSD. (via)
MidnightBSD 2.0 release status.
BSD Link Roundup 11.24.
Valuable News – 2020/11/23.

This week's BSD Now is a special treat: an interview with author Michael W. Lucas, author of a bunch of BSD and non-BSD books. If you're looking for presents, he's selling extra books originally intended for convention sales...

If you have a Realtek network card supported by the re(4) driver, Sepherosa Ziehau has a new driver for you to test.

Because of this commit that makes some changes to lib/stdio, you might get more reinstalls than you expect on your next pkg upgrade because of the __DragonFly_version change. This only applies to -current (5.9) users. (I might be wrong)

Literally most of the tabs I have open right now, in front of you.

The Definitive Guide to the Doctor Who Theme Music. (via, via)
Sinister Sounds of the Solar System. (also via)
Well There's Your Problem Podcast. Actually stills and audio about engineering disasters. (via)
Woodpecker dubstep.
Softbody Tetris, Fuzzy Edition.
A Visual History of Internet (IPv4) Address Allocations. (via)
The JavaScript Ecosystem.
Features of a Modern Terminal Emulator. (video, via)
Why I Teach vim. (via)
Vimcal. Not totally sure why Vim is in the name but what the heck. (via)
My Obsession with Chess. Incidentally, McCloud's Understanding Comics has an excellent explanation of closure that goes far beyond comics. (via)
Pinafore, for Mastodon instances.
What is a System-on-Chip (SoC), and Why Do We Care if They are Open Source?
The Backbone: Conclusion. Story of the Internet.

Right outta RSS.

Before the BSD Kernel starts: Part One on AMD64. (via)
hello: Let’s make a FreeBSD for “mere mortals”. (via)
Recommend me a small laptop/netbook for NetBSD?
Why I use OpenBSD.
FuguITA: OpenBSD live-cd.
BSD statistics for October 2020. Not a good place to post this; it'll get lost.(via)
How to Set Up and Install TrueNAS CORE.
Bluetooth Audio on OpenBSD with the Creative BT-W3.
Unbound DNS Blacklist. On BSD of course.
Valuable News – 2020/11/16.

I am posting it a bit late, but this week's BSD Now has a bunch of how-tos and history; a good mix.

If you want to build a kernel with no options, stripped down, here you go. I don't know how useful it would be...

Matthew Dillon has made significant changes to the callout API in DragonFly. Interesting to look at, but I think no changes from a user point of view.

Surely some of these are repeats?

CSVs: The good, the bad, and the ugly. (via)
This seems like a good form factor.
present: ‘a terminal-based presentation tool with colors and effects’. (via)
A book about books bound in human skin. (via)
Rare Alphonse Mucha illustrations. I saw some of his work close up recently.
20 double-edged potions for the ingenious adventurer.
Miscellany ? 89: 2020, year of the asterisk.
The Video Game Source Project. (via)
Exploding Whale, remastered in 4K. (via)
computecuter.com. Exactly what it sounds like.
Return to Plan 9. (via)
Computer Unit 1979. (via)
Text Editors III: Emacs.
Thinking out loud about Vim. Equal time.
Efficient text editing on a PDP-10. I link, others get into it: I'm so happy!

My BSD RSS feeds are strangely quiet this week.

The newest BSD Now is up with the usual suspects for topics: a FreeBSD release, a ZFS item, and something OpenBSD.

I've seen this multiple times over the years: if ifconfig suddenly stops working, especially after an upgrade. your kernel and world are out of sync. Rebuild and make sure you get both updated.

DragonFly has a new version of libressl, noting cause it has a newer TLS1.3 implementation - something that may be necessary for you.

There's some good reading/projects linked in here, so if you have free time, this can keep you busy.

Psion Series 3 palmtop EReader. That's 25 year old hardware?
BBC's In Our Time podcast on Alan Turing. (via)
808303.studio. Surely I've linked this already? (via)
The Museum of Obsolete Media. (thanks, swildner)
The 100 best fantasy books of all time. I thought it was another corny listicle, but on the other hand I've loved every book I've read on that list, and there's a lot more I didn't know about. (via)
15 Sci-Fi Books That Forever Shaped The Genre. Ditto. (also via)
The Web Key Directory, based on this. I need to use it. My source link for this works as a sort of how-to.
Unraveling the JPEG. (via)
New Nixie tube manufacturing.
dimensions.com - reference drawings for everything. (via)
Configuring Windows for key-based SSH access. For reference.
A curated non-violent games list.

Your unrelated music of the week: KUTMAH: Isolation Tapes v.006. There's a lot more good music from this person.

Virtual BUG meetings could be fun (see links); I'd like to attend even if it's not local. If I can put aside time...

I'm a bit late noting it, but BSD Now 375 is almost all virtualization topics.

If you've got a Zen 2 / Ryzen 4000 APU, the amdsmn(4)/amdtemp(4) drivers in DragonFly now support it.

There's a minor update to dhcpcd in DragonFly, which may be of specific interest if you're on an IPv4/IPv6 network - there's a Preferred option added for that.