January 2021 – DragonFly BSD Digest

2021/01/312021/01/30

Lazy Reading for 2021/01/31

Accidental theme of UNIX-ish history this week.

Finally got my Emacs setup just how I like it, internationalization edition. But are they clacky?
mouSTer Is a Universal USB-Mouse Adapter for Retro Computers. (via)
Examining a technology sample kit: IBM components from 1948 to 1986.
Folklore Generator. (via)
Things I’ve learned about A/UX. I think not a BSD so it goes here.
XTerm does graphics! (sort of). (via)
50 Years of Text Games: 1974: Super Star Trek.
Also from 1974: Moon Rocket Landing, for a calculator.
The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is still developed and modern in 2021. Nostalgia for some readers. (via)
OpenVMS CDE Desktop Remote X session GUI. Linked cause it’s unexpected. (via)
Ben Zotto reconstructs a corrupted Apple II game he made in elementary school. Neat but multi-tweet stories on Twitter are just an easy way to lose information. (via)
The select command.
The Retro Mobile Gaming Database. (via)
The Subcreation Theory of J.R.R. Tolkien. (via)

Your unrelated music of the week: The Most Noble Adventures of Erebor’s Finest Son, In His Quest To Butcher Orcs And Save The World. “Metal, minus those boring verses, choruses and solos, thus leaving only the most metal of song components; riffs and slams.” It’s bebop in metal form, and if you understand that joke you are a music nerd and it’s wonderful. (via)

2021/01/302021/01/30

In Other BSDs for 2021/01/30

A FreeBSD-heavy week.

Remembering the work of David M. Tilbrook and the QED editor. Pre-BSD.
fzf, for BSD and other places. (via)
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report – Fourth Quarter 2020.
FreeBSD/i386 demoted to Tier 2 for FreeBSD 13.x
The strange case of the ching in the unix. (via)
Create FreeBSD pkg(8) Mirror Using BastilleBSD and Poudriere. (via)
GhostBSD Install and Review. (via)
Valuable News – 2021/01/25.
FOSSASIA, March 13-21, call for speakers. It’s virtual.
FreeBSD Desktop for PineBook Pro. (via)
cool-retro-term. This will give you flashbacks if applicable.
OPNsense 21.1 Marvelous Meerkat Released.
OpenBSD on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano (1st Gen). Maybe, maybe worth replacing this x220 with.
Mirage Online Classic, should play on any BSD.
Workaround for Bluetooth controllers on OpenBSD.
NetBSD on the EdgeRouter Lite.

2021/01/28

BSD Now 387: OpenBSD Broadcast Studio

This week’s BSD Now is mostly OpenBSD news items – media work, password keepers, and so on.

2021/01/27

nanosleep and POSIX

POSIX is a sort of standard for UNIX maintained by the IEEE. Most UNIX-ish systems implement it to some extent, though I am not sure to what degree. There’s an open source version of the standard, and Aaron LI made nanosleep match up.

2021/01/242021/01/21

Lazy Reading for 2021/01/24

Link text back to normal.

C++ Shanty. (via)
The theory and form of classic drum patterns. Interesting cause I’ve never seen drum patterns visualized before. (via)
Telehack, which I have linked to before, but not since 2011. Still super-complex. (reminded via)
50 Years of Text Games: 1972: Rocket and 1973: Hunt the Wumpus.
How Gumroad works. Similar to open source. (via)
Modern Retro Computer Terminals. No shape files? (via)
A Week With Plan 9. (via)
27th IOCCC winners are up. (via)
Evolution of the Scrollbar. (via)
control–panel. (also via)
A Few Words About the Telex. (via)
Digital VT100 (1978). (via)

2021/01/232021/01/21

In Other BSDs for 2021/01/23

It’s the week of Very Long and Excited Page Titles that Give Me Long Link Lines.

FreeBSD Xfce4 on VMware Installation Guide. (via)
HardenedBSD 2020/12 Status Report. (via)
Creating Comfy FreeBSD Jails Using Standard Tools. (via)
Just realized this… Dennis Ritchie is the true innovator! Posted for the single comment.
Unix time is in its fourth quarter.
BSD license violations. (read down)
Exploring Swap on FreeBSD. (via)
Tiny PDP11 – Intro. BSD 2.11, VT102, cutest ever. (via)
Heidi Stettner had a dog named Biff, and that’s why mail notification exists.
Star Wars PDP-11/45. Not sure if it’s BSD or not. (via)
Accented characters using a US keyboard layout on OpenBSD.
OpenRadiant (3D modeller) – Binary distribution advice.
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 22 – Configuration – Aero Snap Extended.
Block spammers/abusive IPs with Pf-badhost in OpenBSD.
At a look at helloSystem 0.3.0 – Full on Mac-a-licious!
Minecraft ? 1.13 working on OpenBSD.
Valuable News – 2021/01/18.

2021/01/21

BSD Now 386: Aye, 386!

The number for this week’s BSD Now episode is a good one… Now we have to get to 8086! Lots of VLAN/VNET content.

2021/01/19

How to recover from a damaged fstab

If you edit /etc/fstab, and then later change something like the proc filesystem from OpenJDK, you might not boot normally. Antonio Olivares has a solution for you.

2021/01/18

Last minute sponsorships

Michael W. Lucas’s ebook sponsorships and print sponsorships for “TLS Mastery” will close in the next 24-48 hours; get in there if you want to participate.

2021/01/172021/01/14

Lazy Reading for 2021/01/17

I went analog for a number of things this week. Not unusual!

Working Off-Grid Efficiently. (via)
Ditherpunk — The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering. (also via)
reMarkable 2 – One Week Later. Thinking about buying one.
Adversarial.io, subverting image recognition.
Sampler patches that are patches. (via)
Related: Best Hardware Experimental Synthesizer Releases 2020. (via)
Kinda related: Vintage audio cassette recorders. (via)
The Best of 2020, for role playing games.
The History of Tea. (via)
The Default Router. Everyone has encountered a WRT54G eventually.
XTerm: It’s Better Than You Thought. Chances are XTerm can do almost everything you need, faster. (via)
Top 10 Most Read Pieces of 2020 for the Public Domain Review. The cover of Sketch-book of British Birds, found in “The Art of Book Covers (1820–1914)“, doesn’t look a century old.

Your unrelated music of the week: Xvious_exe by woob. (via)

2021/01/162021/01/14

In Other BSDs for 2021/01/16

Vermaden, who I link to on the regular, has been doing an excellent job of posting BSD links to lobste.rs.

So of course I lead with Valuable News – 2021/01/11.
I got to experience the march of storage technology today. (via)
Fostering a culture that values stability and reliability. Not directly BSD.
Hacking List of Installed Packages in FreeBSD. (via)
How to Run bhyve in Jail. (via)
usbkill the OpenBSD way. (via)
BastilleBSD Container Templates and Customization. (via)
Make Minimal chroot/jail Environment on FreeBSD with mkjail. (via)
Routing and Firewalling VLANS with FreeBSD. (via)
Setup FreeBSD 12 VNET Jail with ZFS. (via)
Preliminary OpenBSD Support Added to OBS Studio.
The terminal, the console and the shell – what are they? (via)

2021/01/15

Chat without servers

I always thought IRC was pretty decentralized, but I didn’t realize talk(1) was designed to work machine-to-machine. That means in theory that if you have a talk(1) binary on your machine, you could chat directly to anyone else with the same binary, even on a different platform. Since 4.3BSD! Anyway, I only realized this because of this recent bugfix thanks to Dan Cross.

2021/01/14

BSD Now 385: Wireguard VPN mesh

A very straightforward title in this week’s BSD Now; worth listening to for more information on Wireguard, the new hotness.

2021/01/13

TeX Live 2021 DragonFlyBSD

The short answer is: works great. The version in dports lags, cause it’s based on what’s in the FreeBSD package collection, and that’s not updated as quickly.

This is technically the prerelease, since the official one is a few months off. TeX Live binaries can be downloaded directly for DragonFly.

2021/01/12

Also, dpkg update

This happened a little bit ago but I wanted to be able to post a solution to the pkg upgrade issue (yesterday) before mentioning it: there’s a freshly built batch of packages for DragonFly, so now is a good time to upgrade with pkg.

2021/01/11

A fix for sudden Lua errors in pkg

If you upgrade pkg on your system, it may start erroring out. This is because the default config will confuse the newer version. To fix this, you can copy over a working config and the problem will go away. I expect this may only be a problem until the next release.

2021/01/102021/01/07

Lazy Reading for 2021/01/10

This is a good week for variety; I managed to get historical links, game links, music links, hardware… checking all the boxes except roguelikes, darnit.